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author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2017-05-02 11:02:41 +0200 |
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committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2017-05-02 11:02:41 +0200 |
commit | 4d6ca227c768b50b05cf183974b40abe444e9d0c (patch) | |
tree | bf953d8e895281053548b9967a2c4b58d641df00 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | 800f3eef8ebc1264e9c135bfa892c8ae41fa4792 (diff) | |
parent | af22a610bc38508d5ea760507d31be6b6983dfa8 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-4.12/asus' into for-linus
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 32 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index 1b6dfb2b3adb..697a00ccec25 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ What is Linux? loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6. - It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the + It is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details. On what hardware does it run? @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Configuring the kernel - Having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can under some circumstances lead to problems: probing for a - nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers + nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers. - A kernel with math-emulation compiled in will still use the coprocessor if one is present: the math emulation will just diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst index 88adcfdf5b2b..12278a926370 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst @@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ Command Language Reference At the lexical level, a command comprises a sequence of words separated by spaces or tabs. So these are all equivalent:: - nullarbor:~ # echo -c 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > + nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control - nullarbor:~ # echo -c ' file svcsock.c line 1603 +p ' > + nullarbor:~ # echo -n ' file svcsock.c line 1603 +p ' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 14ffef04113c..0464a41cbf3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -653,6 +653,9 @@ cpuidle.off=1 [CPU_IDLE] disable the cpuidle sub-system + cpufreq.off=1 [CPU_FREQ] + disable the cpufreq sub-system + cpu_init_udelay=N [X86] Delay for N microsec between assert and de-assert of APIC INIT to start processors. This delay occurs @@ -957,6 +960,12 @@ serial port must already be setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. + lantiq,<addr> + Start an early, polled-mode console on a lantiq serial + (lqasc) port at the specified address. The serial port + must already be setup and configured. Options are not + yet supported. + lpuart,<addr> lpuart32,<addr> Use early console provided by Freescale LP UART driver @@ -970,9 +979,10 @@ address. The serial port must already be setup and configured. Options are not yet supported. - earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k] + earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN,ARM,M68k,S390] earlyprintk=vga earlyprintk=efi + earlyprintk=sclp earlyprintk=xen earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] earlyprintk=serial[,0x...[,baudrate]] @@ -1007,6 +1017,8 @@ The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. + The sclp output can only be used on s390. + edac_report= [HW,EDAC] Control how to report EDAC event Format: {"on" | "off" | "force"} on: enable EDAC to report H/W event. May be overridden @@ -1174,6 +1186,12 @@ functions that can be changed at run time by the set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. + ftrace_graph_max_depth=<uint> + [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is + the max depth it will trace into a function. This value + can be changed at run time by the max_graph_depth file + in the tracefs tracing directory. default: 0 (no limit) + gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) @@ -1192,6 +1210,10 @@ When zero, profiling data is discarded and associated debugfs files are removed at module unload time. + goldfish [X86] Enable the goldfish android emulator platform. + Don't use this when you are not running on the + android emulator + gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. If the primary GPT is corrupted, it enables the backup/alternate @@ -3681,6 +3703,14 @@ last alloc / free. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt. + slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] + Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for + memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. + The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. + Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug + directories and files being created under + /sys/kernel/slub. + slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst index e449fb5f277c..1e61bf50595c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst @@ -725,3 +725,8 @@ These currently include: to 1. Setting this to 0 disables bypass accounting and requires preread stripes to wait until all full-width stripe- writes are complete. Valid values are 0 to stripe_cache_size. + + journal_mode (currently raid5 only) + The cache mode for raid5. raid5 could include an extra disk for + caching. The mode can be "write-throuth" and "write-back". The + default is "write-through". diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst index 9939348bd4a3..1b90c6f00a92 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ That defines some categories of errors: still run, eventually replacing the affected hardware by a hot spare, if available. - Also, when an error happens on an userspace process, it is also possible to + Also, when an error happens on a userspace process, it is also possible to kill such process and let userspace restart it. The mechanism for handling non-fatal errors is usually complex and may |