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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 | 56 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst | 22 |
5 files changed, 75 insertions, 16 deletions
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 21e2d8863705..986e44387dad 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -106,6 +106,16 @@ use by PCI Format: <irq>,<irq>... + acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI] + Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered + by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in + GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by + the GPE dispatcher. + This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled + GPE floodings. + Format: <int> + Support masking of GPEs numbered from 0x00 to 0x7f. + acpi_no_auto_serialize [HW,ACPI] Disable auto-serialization of AML methods AML control methods that contain the opcodes to create @@ -539,15 +549,6 @@ loops can be debugged more effectively on production systems. - clocksource.arm_arch_timer.fsl-a008585= - [ARM64] - Format: <bool> - Enable/disable the workaround of Freescale/NXP - erratum A-008585. This can be useful for KVM - guests, if the guest device tree doesn't show the - erratum. If unspecified, the workaround is - enabled based on the device tree. - clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86] Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h for the valid bit @@ -956,6 +957,12 @@ 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 @@ -969,9 +976,10 @@ 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]] @@ -1006,6 +1014,8 @@ 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 @@ -1191,6 +1201,10 @@ 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 @@ -3268,6 +3282,13 @@ Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can prove do nothing more than free memory. + rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads= [KNL] + Cause the grace-period kthread to get an extra + wake_up() if it sleeps three times longer than + it should at force-quiescent-state time. + This wake_up() will be accompanied by a + WARN_ONCE() splat and an ftrace_dump(). + rcuperf.gp_exp= [KNL] Measure performance of expedited synchronous grace-period primitives. @@ -3553,6 +3574,10 @@ rhash_entries= [KNL,NET] Set number of hash buckets for route cache + ring3mwait=disable + [KNL] Disable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT feature on supported + CPUs. + ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot rodata= [KNL] @@ -3669,6 +3694,14 @@ 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 @@ -3811,10 +3844,11 @@ it if 0 is given (See Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt) swiotlb= [ARM,IA-64,PPC,MIPS,X86] - Format: { <int> | force } + Format: { <int> | force | noforce } <int> -- Number of I/O TLB slabs force -- force using of bounce buffers even if they wouldn't be automatically used by the kernel + noforce -- Never use bounce buffers (for debugging) switches= [HW,M68k] 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 d71340e86c27..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 @@ -438,11 +438,13 @@ A typical EDAC system has the following structure under │ │ ├── ce_count │ │ ├── ce_noinfo_count │ │ ├── dimm0 + │ │ │ ├── dimm_ce_count │ │ │ ├── dimm_dev_type │ │ │ ├── dimm_edac_mode │ │ │ ├── dimm_label │ │ │ ├── dimm_location │ │ │ ├── dimm_mem_type + │ │ │ ├── dimm_ue_count │ │ │ ├── size │ │ │ └── uevent │ │ ├── max_location @@ -457,11 +459,13 @@ A typical EDAC system has the following structure under │ │ ├── ce_count │ │ ├── ce_noinfo_count │ │ ├── dimm0 + │ │ │ ├── dimm_ce_count │ │ │ ├── dimm_dev_type │ │ │ ├── dimm_edac_mode │ │ │ ├── dimm_label │ │ │ ├── dimm_location │ │ │ ├── dimm_mem_type + │ │ │ ├── dimm_ue_count │ │ │ ├── size │ │ │ └── uevent │ │ ├── max_location @@ -483,6 +487,22 @@ this ``X`` memory module: This attribute file displays, in count of megabytes, the memory that this csrow contains. +- ``dimm_ue_count`` - Uncorrectable Errors count attribute file + + This attribute file displays the total count of uncorrectable + errors that have occurred on this DIMM. If panic_on_ue is set + this counter will not have a chance to increment, since EDAC + will panic the system. + +- ``dimm_ce_count`` - Correctable Errors count attribute file + + This attribute file displays the total count of correctable + errors that have occurred on this DIMM. This count is very + important to examine. CEs provide early indications that a + DIMM is beginning to fail. This count field should be + monitored for non-zero values and report such information + to the system administrator. + - ``dimm_dev_type`` - Device type attribute file This attribute file will display what type of DRAM device is |