Index: head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
===================================================================
--- head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
+++ head/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)sysctl.3	8.4 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 10, 2015
+.Dd October 22, 2017
 .Dt SYSCTL 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -741,6 +741,7 @@
 .It Dv VM_V_FREE_TARGET Ta integer Ta yes
 .It Dv VM_V_INACTIVE_TARGET Ta integer Ta yes
 .It Dv VM_V_PAGEOUT_FREE_MIN Ta integer Ta yes
+.It Dv VM_OVERCOMMIT Ta integer Ta yes
 .El
 .Bl -tag -width 6n
 .It Li VM_LOADAVG
@@ -773,6 +774,9 @@
 .It Li VM_V_PAGEOUT_FREE_MIN
 If the amount of free and cache memory falls below this value, the
 pageout daemon will enter "memory conserving mode" to avoid deadlock.
+.It Li VM_OVERCOMMIT
+Overcommit behaviour, as described in
+.Xr tuning 7 .
 .El
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 .Rv -std
Index: head/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
===================================================================
--- head/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
+++ head/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 SYSCTL_QUAD(_vm, OID_AUTO, swap_reserved, CTLFLAG_RD, &swap_reserved, 0,
     "Amount of swap storage needed to back all allocated anonymous memory.");
 static int overcommit = 0;
-SYSCTL_INT(_vm, OID_AUTO, overcommit, CTLFLAG_RW, &overcommit, 0,
+SYSCTL_INT(_vm, VM_OVERCOMMIT, overcommit, CTLFLAG_RW, &overcommit, 0,
     "Configure virtual memory overcommit behavior. See tuning(7) "
     "for details.");
 static unsigned long swzone;
Index: head/sys/vm/vm_param.h
===================================================================
--- head/sys/vm/vm_param.h
+++ head/sys/vm/vm_param.h
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@
 #define VM_V_PAGEOUT_FREE_MIN	9	/* vm_cnt.v_pageout_free_min */
 #define	VM_OBSOLETE_10		10	/* pageout algorithm */
 #define VM_SWAPPING_ENABLED	11	/* swapping enabled */
-#define	VM_MAXID		12	/* number of valid vm ids */
+#define VM_OVERCOMMIT		12	/* vm.overcommit */
+#define	VM_MAXID		13	/* number of valid vm ids */
 
 /*
  * Structure for swap device statistics