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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 3 |
5 files changed, 31 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c index c6a06b71594d..f40578026a04 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c +++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c @@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) break; case 'm': strncpy(cpumask, optarg, sizeof(cpumask)); + cpumask[sizeof(cpumask) - 1] = '\0'; maskset = 1; printf("cpumask %s maskset %d\n", cpumask, maskset); break; diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 884904975d0b..c1b9aa8c5a52 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3130,6 +3130,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate panics. Format: <integer> + softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace= + [KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate + backtraces on all cpus. + Format: <integer> + sonypi.*= [HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt index f304edb8fbe7..45134dc23854 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt @@ -209,15 +209,12 @@ If memory device is found, memory hotplug code will be called. 4.2 Notify memory hot-add event by hand ------------ -On powerpc, the firmware does not notify a memory hotplug event to the kernel. -Therefore, "probe" interface is supported to notify the event to the kernel. -This interface depends on CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE. - -CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE is supported on powerpc only. On x86, this config -option is disabled by default since ACPI notifies a memory hotplug event to -the kernel, which performs its hotplug operation as the result. Please -enable this option if you need the "probe" interface for testing purposes -on x86. +On some architectures, the firmware may not notify the kernel of a memory +hotplug event. Therefore, the memory "probe" interface is supported to +explicitly notify the kernel. This interface depends on +CONFIG_ARCH_MEMORY_PROBE and can be configured on powerpc, sh, and x86 +if hotplug is supported, although for x86 this should be handled by ACPI +notification. Probe interface is located at /sys/devices/system/memory/probe diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 708bb7f1b7e0..c14374e71775 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - shmall - shmmax [ sysv ipc ] - shmmni +- softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace - stop-a [ SPARC only ] - sysrq ==> Documentation/sysrq.txt - sysctl_writes_strict @@ -783,6 +784,22 @@ via the /proc/sys interface: ============================================================== +softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace: + +This value controls the soft lockup detector thread's behavior +when a soft lockup condition is detected as to whether or not +to gather further debug information. If enabled, each cpu will +be issued an NMI and instructed to capture stack trace. + +This feature is only applicable for architectures which support +NMI. + +0: do nothing. This is the default behavior. + +1: on detection capture more debug information. + +============================================================== + tainted: Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index bd4b34c03738..4415aa915681 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -702,7 +702,8 @@ The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result. It is set to pcp->high/4. The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8) The initial value is zero. Kernel does not use this value at boot time to set -the high water marks for each per cpu page list. +the high water marks for each per cpu page list. If the user writes '0' to this +sysctl, it will revert to this default behavior. ============================================================== |
