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author | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-02-23 21:16:27 -0500 |
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committer | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-02-23 21:16:27 -0500 |
commit | 7b0386921db20add25afd8678ed34a9253e512fc (patch) | |
tree | 8c6b888b76211e38e6c1c3006553dc4b2b24c75e /Documentation | |
parent | c5580a7ecb859c6821dd761c95fa150ec7695ae1 (diff) | |
parent | 22fe472cb430ce45c4fb9b6d13060dd724d6dbc8 (diff) |
Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 21 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/v9fs.txt | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 10 |
5 files changed, 48 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index e71bc6cbbc5e..57a09f99ecb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | |||
@@ -46,10 +46,12 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using | |||
46 | maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the | 46 | maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the |
47 | other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info. | 47 | other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info. |
48 | 48 | ||
49 | additional_cpus=n [x86_64, s390 only] use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. | 49 | additional_cpus*=n Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets |
50 | This option sets | ||
51 | cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus | 50 | cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus |
52 | 51 | ||
52 | (*) Option valid only for following architectures | ||
53 | - x86_64, ia64, s390 | ||
54 | |||
53 | ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT | 55 | ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT |
54 | to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation | 56 | to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation |
55 | should only rely on this to count the #of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the | 57 | should only rely on this to count the #of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the |
@@ -57,6 +59,9 @@ apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesnt | |||
57 | mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could use this | 59 | mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could use this |
58 | parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the cpu_possible_map. | 60 | parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the cpu_possible_map. |
59 | 61 | ||
62 | s390 uses the number of cpus it detects at IPL time to also the number of bits | ||
63 | in cpu_possible_map. If it is desired to add additional cpus at a later time | ||
64 | the number should be specified using this option or the possible_cpus option. | ||
60 | 65 | ||
61 | possible_cpus=n [s390 only] use this to set hotpluggable cpus. | 66 | possible_cpus=n [s390 only] use this to set hotpluggable cpus. |
62 | This option sets possible_cpus bits in | 67 | This option sets possible_cpus bits in |
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 | |||
178 | probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see | 178 | probing is also known to cause trouble in at least one case (see |
179 | bug #5889.) | 179 | bug #5889.) |
180 | Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 180 | Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> |
181 | |||
182 | --------------------------- | ||
183 | |||
184 | What: mount/umount uevents | ||
185 | When: February 2007 | ||
186 | Why: These events are not correct, and do not properly let userspace know | ||
187 | when a file system has been mounted or unmounted. Userspace should | ||
188 | poll the /proc/mounts file instead to detect this properly. | ||
189 | Who: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | ||
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index dbe4d87d2615..8a155418c705 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | |||
@@ -79,15 +79,18 @@ that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it. | |||
79 | 79 | ||
80 | 80 | ||
81 | tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for | 81 | tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for |
82 | all files in that instance: | 82 | all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be |
83 | mpol=interleave prefers to allocate memory from each node in turn | 83 | adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' |
84 | mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node | ||
85 | mpol=bind prefers to allocate from mpol_nodelist | ||
86 | mpol=preferred prefers to allocate from first node in mpol_nodelist | ||
87 | 84 | ||
88 | The following mount option is used in conjunction with mpol=interleave, | 85 | mpol=default prefers to allocate memory from the local node |
89 | mpol=bind or mpol=preferred: | 86 | mpol=prefer:Node prefers to allocate memory from the given Node |
90 | mpol_nodelist: nodelist suitable for parsing with nodelist_parse. | 87 | mpol=bind:NodeList allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList |
88 | mpol=interleave prefers to allocate from each node in turn | ||
89 | mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn | ||
90 | |||
91 | NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges, | ||
92 | a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and | ||
93 | largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15 | ||
91 | 94 | ||
92 | 95 | ||
93 | To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount | 96 | To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount |
@@ -109,4 +112,4 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. | |||
109 | Author: | 112 | Author: |
110 | Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01 | 113 | Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01 |
111 | Updated: | 114 | Updated: |
112 | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 13 March 2005 | 115 | 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 | |||
57 | 57 | ||
58 | port=n port to connect to on the remote server | 58 | port=n port to connect to on the remote server |
59 | 59 | ||
60 | timeout=n request timeouts (in ms) (default 60000ms) | ||
61 | |||
62 | noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics) | 60 | noextend force legacy mode (no 9P2000.u semantics) |
63 | 61 | ||
64 | uid attempt to mount as a particular uid | 62 | uid attempt to mount as a particular uid |
@@ -74,10 +72,16 @@ OPTIONS | |||
74 | RESOURCES | 72 | RESOURCES |
75 | ========= | 73 | ========= |
76 | 74 | ||
77 | The Linux version of the 9P server, along with some client-side utilities | 75 | The Linux version of the 9P server is now maintained under the npfs project |
78 | can be found at http://v9fs.sf.net (along with a CVS repository of the | 76 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). |
79 | development branch of this module). There are user and developer mailing | 77 | |
80 | lists here, as well as a bug-tracker. | 78 | There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project |
79 | on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). | ||
80 | |||
81 | News and other information is maintained on SWiK (http://swik.net/v9fs). | ||
82 | |||
83 | Bug reports may be issued through the kernel.org bugzilla | ||
84 | (http://bugzilla.kernel.org) | ||
81 | 85 | ||
82 | For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out | 86 | For more information on the Plan 9 Operating System check out |
83 | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 | 87 | http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9 |
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. | |||
16 | 16 | ||
17 | Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration) | 17 | Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration) |
18 | show up in /proc/sys/kernel: | 18 | show up in /proc/sys/kernel: |
19 | - acpi_video_flags | ||
19 | - acct | 20 | - acct |
20 | - core_pattern | 21 | - core_pattern |
21 | - core_uses_pid | 22 | - core_uses_pid |
@@ -57,6 +58,15 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: | |||
57 | 58 | ||
58 | ============================================================== | 59 | ============================================================== |
59 | 60 | ||
61 | acpi_video_flags: | ||
62 | |||
63 | flags | ||
64 | |||
65 | See Doc*/kernel/power/video.txt, it allows mode of video boot to be | ||
66 | set during run time. | ||
67 | |||
68 | ============================================================== | ||
69 | |||
60 | acct: | 70 | acct: |
61 | 71 | ||
62 | highwater lowwater frequency | 72 | highwater lowwater frequency |