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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 4 |
8 files changed, 87 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 08c5d04f3086..57a09f99ecb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> ia64/x86_64: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> + s390: + Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Authors: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Lots of feedback: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@austin.ibm.com>, @@ -44,9 +46,28 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info. -additional_cpus=n [x86_64 only] use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. - This option sets - cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus +additional_cpus*=n Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets + cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus + +(*) Option valid only for following architectures +- x86_64, ia64, s390 + +ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT +to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation +should only rely on this to count the #of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the +apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesnt +mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could use this +parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the cpu_possible_map. + +s390 uses the number of cpus it detects at IPL time to also the number of bits +in cpu_possible_map. If it is desired to add additional cpus at a later time +the number should be specified using this option or the possible_cpus option. + +possible_cpus=n [s390 only] use this to set hotpluggable cpus. + This option sets possible_cpus bits in + cpu_possible_map. Thus keeping the numbers of bits set + constant even if the machine gets rebooted. + This option overrides additional_cpus. CPU maps and such ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 79f0ed9f60de..975e14e150ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -178,3 +178,12 @@ Why: The ISA interface is faster and should be always available. The I2C probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see bug #5889.) Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +--------------------------- + +What: mount/umount uevents +When: February 2007 +Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know + when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should + poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly. +Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 614de3124901..251168587899 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -457,6 +457,12 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.26: + - Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximum + supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes). + - Enhance support for NTFS volumes which were supported by Windows but + not by Linux due to invalid attribute list attribute flags. + - A few minor updates and bug fixes. 2.1.25: - Write support is now extended with write(2) being able to both overwrite existing file data and to extend files. Also, if a write diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index dbe4d87d2615..1773106976a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -79,15 +79,27 @@ that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it. tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for -all files in that instance: -mpol=interleave prefers to allocate memory from each node in turn -mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node -mpol=bind prefers to allocate from mpol_nodelist -mpol=preferred prefers to allocate from first node in mpol_nodelist +all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be +adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' -The following mount option is used in conjunction with mpol=interleave, -mpol=bind or mpol=preferred: -mpol_nodelist: nodelist suitable for parsing with nodelist_parse. +mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node +mpol=prefer:Node prefers to allocate memory from the given Node +mpol=bind:NodeList allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList +mpol=interleave prefers to allocate from each node in turn +mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn + +NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges, +a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and +largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15 + +Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the +running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist +specifies a node >= MAX_NUMNODES. If your system relies on that tmpfs +being mounted, but from time to time runs a kernel built without NUMA +capability (perhaps a safe recovery kernel), or configured to support +fewer nodes, then it is advisable to omit the mpol option from automatic +mount options. It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted +on MountPoint, by 'mount -o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'. To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount @@ -109,4 +121,4 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. Author: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01 Updated: - Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 13 March 2005 + Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 19 February 2006 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt index 4e92feb6b507..24c7a9c41f0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt @@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ OPTIONS port=n port to connect to on the remote server - timeout=n request timeouts (in ms) (default 60000ms) - noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics) uid attempt to mount as a particular uid @@ -74,10 +72,16 @@ OPTIONS RESOURCES ========= -The Linux version of the 9P server, along with some client-side utilities -can be found at http://v9fs.sf.net (along with a CVS repository of the -development branch of this module). There are user and developer mailing -lists here, as well as a bug-tracker. +The Linux version of the 9P server is now maintained under the npfs project +on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). + +There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project +on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). + +News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs). + +Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla +(http://bugzilla.kernel.org) For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ac75b57edf2e..b874771385cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1638,6 +1638,9 @@ running once the system is up. Format: <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]] + norandmaps Don't use address space randomization + Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space + ______________________________________________________________________ Changelog: diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 9f11d36a8c10..b0c7ab93dcb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ before actually making adjustments. Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration) show up in /proc/sys/kernel: +- acpi_video_flags - acct - core_pattern - core_uses_pid @@ -57,6 +58,15 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: ============================================================== +acpi_video_flags: + +flags + +See Doc*/kernel/power/video.txt, it allows mode of video boot to be +set during run time. + +============================================================== + acct: highwater lowwater frequency diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 153740f460a6..1921353259ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ APICs apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally broken. + disable_8254_timer / enable_8254_timer + Enable interrupt 0 timer routing over the 8254 in addition to over + the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default. + Early Console syntax: earlyprintk=vga |