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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-14 15:36:46 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-14 15:36:46 -0500
commit75b08038ceb62f3bd8935346679920f97c3cf9f6 (patch)
tree66cbc62bb569996c90877bbf010285828f669c9a /Documentation
parentfb1beb29b5c531b12485d7c32174a77120590481 (diff)
parent70fe440718d9f42bf963c2cffe12008eb5556165 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, mce: Clean up thermal init by introducing intel_thermal_supported() x86, mce: Thermal monitoring depends on APIC being enabled x86: Gart: fix breakage due to IOMMU initialization cleanup x86: Move swiotlb initialization before dma32_free_bootmem x86: Fix build warning in arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c x86: Remove usedac in feature-removal-schedule.txt x86: Fix duplicated UV BAU interrupt vector nvram: Fix write beyond end condition; prove to gcc copy is safe mm: Adjust do_pages_stat() so gcc can see copy_from_user() is safe x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages x86: Remove enabling x2apic message for every CPU doc: Add documentation for bootloader_{type,version} x86, msr: Add support for non-contiguous cpumasks x86: Use find_e820() instead of hard coded trampoline address x86, AMD: Fix stale cpuid4_info shared_map data in shared_cpu_map cpumasks Trivial percpu-naming-introduced conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt31
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 2a4d77946c7d..eb2c138c277c 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -291,13 +291,6 @@ Who: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
291 291
292--------------------------- 292---------------------------
293 293
294What: usedac i386 kernel parameter
295When: 2.6.27
296Why: replaced by allowdac and no dac combination
297Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
298
299---------------------------
300
301What: print_fn_descriptor_symbol() 294What: print_fn_descriptor_symbol()
302When: October 2009 295When: October 2009
303Why: The %pF vsprintf format provides the same functionality in a 296Why: The %pF vsprintf format provides the same functionality in a
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 8f7a0e73ef44..3894eaa23486 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration)
19show up in /proc/sys/kernel: 19show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
20- acpi_video_flags 20- acpi_video_flags
21- acct 21- acct
22- bootloader_type [ X86 only ]
23- bootloader_version [ X86 only ]
22- callhome [ S390 only ] 24- callhome [ S390 only ]
23- auto_msgmni 25- auto_msgmni
24- core_pattern 26- core_pattern
@@ -93,6 +95,35 @@ valid for 30 seconds.
93 95
94============================================================== 96==============================================================
95 97
98bootloader_type:
99
100x86 bootloader identification
101
102This gives the bootloader type number as indicated by the bootloader,
103shifted left by 4, and OR'd with the low four bits of the bootloader
104version. The reason for this encoding is that this used to match the
105type_of_loader field in the kernel header; the encoding is kept for
106backwards compatibility. That is, if the full bootloader type number
107is 0x15 and the full version number is 0x234, this file will contain
108the value 340 = 0x154.
109
110See the type_of_loader and ext_loader_type fields in
111Documentation/x86/boot.txt for additional information.
112
113==============================================================
114
115bootloader_version:
116
117x86 bootloader version
118
119The complete bootloader version number. In the example above, this
120file will contain the value 564 = 0x234.
121
122See the type_of_loader and ext_loader_ver fields in
123Documentation/x86/boot.txt for additional information.
124
125==============================================================
126
96callhome: 127callhome:
97 128
98Controls the kernel's callhome behavior in case of a kernel panic. 129Controls the kernel's callhome behavior in case of a kernel panic.