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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 20:50:02 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 20:50:02 -0800 |
commit | e34bac726d27056081d0250c0e173e4b155aa340 (patch) | |
tree | 85607d0b3b185380fb3267866020c6a4372b9298 /Documentation | |
parent | fe6bce8d30a86c693bf7cfbf4759cbafd121289f (diff) | |
parent | 39a0e975c37dee93fa1b8ea5f7eacd1c4c8a586e (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- most of MM (quite a lot of MM material is awaiting the merge of
linux-next dependencies)
- kasan
- printk updates
- procfs updates
- MAINTAINERS
- /lib updates
- checkpatch updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (123 commits)
init: reduce rootwait polling interval time to 5ms
binfmt_elf: use vmalloc() for allocation of vma_filesz
checkpatch: don't emit unified-diff error for rename-only patches
checkpatch: don't check c99 types like uint8_t under tools
checkpatch: avoid multiple line dereferences
checkpatch: don't check .pl files, improve absolute path commit log test
scripts/checkpatch.pl: fix spelling
checkpatch: don't try to get maintained status when --no-tree is given
lib/ida: document locking requirements a bit better
lib/rbtree.c: fix typo in comment of ____rb_erase_color
lib/Kconfig.debug: make CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM depend on CONFIG_DEVMEM
MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 irc channels
MAINTAINERS: add "C:" for URI for chat where developers hang out
MAINTAINERS: add drm and drm/i915 bug filing info
MAINTAINERS: add "B:" for URI where to file bugs
get_maintainer: look for arbitrary letter prefixes in sections
printk: add Kconfig option to set default console loglevel
printk/sound: handle more message headers
printk/btrfs: handle more message headers
printk/kdb: handle more message headers
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 5 |
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt index 3f1437fbca6b..280d283304bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/booting-without-of.txt @@ -974,6 +974,13 @@ compatibility. 4Gb. Some vendors prefer splitting those ranges into smaller segments, but the kernel doesn't care. + Additional properties: + + - hotpluggable : The presence of this property provides an explicit + hint to the operating system that this memory may potentially be + removed later. The kernel can take this into consideration when + doing nonmovable allocations and when laying out memory zones. + e) The /chosen node This node is a bit "special". Normally, that's where Open Firmware diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 74329fd0add2..c03f2f91c6ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status: CapPrm: 0000000000000000 CapEff: 0000000000000000 CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff + NoNewPrivs: 0 Seccomp: 0 voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0 nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 1 @@ -262,6 +263,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 4.1) CapPrm bitmap of permitted capabilities CapEff bitmap of effective capabilities CapBnd bitmap of capabilities bounding set + NoNewPrivs no_new_privs, like prctl(PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIV, ...) Seccomp seccomp mode, like prctl(PR_GET_SECCOMP, ...) Cpus_allowed mask of CPUs on which this process may run Cpus_allowed_list Same as previous, but in "list format" diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index c5f1546a440f..6c6141c76eaa 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2397,7 +2397,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations is not too small. - movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects + movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details. MTD_Partition= [MTD] diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index 2ec6adb5a4ce..c4171e4519c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ or enable it back by writing 1: echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page +Some userspace (such as a test program, or an optimized memory allocation +library) may want to know the size (in bytes) of a transparent hugepage: + +cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size + khugepaged will be automatically started when transparent_hugepage/enabled is set to "always" or "madvise, and it'll be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never". |