From 429aa0fca0df702fc9c81d799175a7d920398827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:02:51 -0700 Subject: doc: hashdist defaults on for 64bit kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 90b3924071b..52f5ce4ca8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file hashdist= [KNL,NUMA] Large hashes allocated during boot are distributed across NUMA nodes. Defaults on - for IA-64, off otherwise. + for 64bit NUMA, off otherwise. Format: 0 | 1 (for off | on) hcl= [IA-64] SGI's Hardware Graph compatibility layer -- cgit v1.2.3 From ca1eda2d75b855f434b1d5458534332ffad92d65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 16:02:58 -0700 Subject: doc: small kernel-parameters updates Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Christopher Sylvain Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 52f5ce4ca8b..e87bdbfbcc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ are specified on the kernel command line with the module name plus usbcore.blinkenlights=1 +Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so + log_buf_len=1M print-fatal-signals=1 +can also be entered as + log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1 + + This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command "modinfo -p ${modulename}" shows a current list of all parameters of a loadable module. Loadable modules, after being loaded into the running kernel, also @@ -345,7 +351,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have APC and your system crashes randomly. - apic= [APIC,i386] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller + apic= [APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Change the output verbosity whilst booting Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug } Change the amount of debugging information output @@ -702,7 +708,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB entry later. This parameter enables that. - enable_timer_pin_1 [i386,x86-64] + enable_timer_pin_1 [X86] Enable PIN 1 of APIC timer Can be useful to work around chipset bugs (in particular on some ATI chipsets). -- cgit v1.2.3 From 441ee4cb874622bc9a11c7b022a38919b04c105f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henrik Austad Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:42:38 -0700 Subject: Doc/sysfs-rules: Swap the order of the words so the sentence makes more sense Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt b/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt index 6049a2a84dd..5d8bc2cd250 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ versions of the sysfs interface. "devices" directory at /sys/subsystem//devices. If /sys/subsystem exists, /sys/bus, /sys/class and /sys/block can be - ignored. If it does not exist, you have always to scan all three + ignored. If it does not exist, you always have to scan all three places, as the kernel is free to move a subsystem from one place to the other, as long as the devices are still reachable by the same subsystem name. -- cgit v1.2.3 From cd17cbfda004fe5f406c01b318c6378d9895896f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:32:24 +0200 Subject: Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" This reverts commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af. Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API forever. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 28 ---------------------------- 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index b716d33912d..c302ddf629a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -39,8 +39,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - nr_hugepages - nr_overcommit_hugepages - nr_pdflush_threads -- nr_pdflush_threads_min -- nr_pdflush_threads_max - nr_trim_pages (only if CONFIG_MMU=n) - numa_zonelist_order - oom_dump_tasks @@ -469,32 +467,6 @@ The default value is 0. ============================================================== -nr_pdflush_threads_min - -This value controls the minimum number of pdflush threads. - -At boot time, the kernel will create and maintain 'nr_pdflush_threads_min' -threads for the kernel's lifetime. - -The default value is 2. The minimum value you can specify is 1, and -the maximum value is the current setting of 'nr_pdflush_threads_max'. - -See 'nr_pdflush_threads_max' below for more information. - -============================================================== - -nr_pdflush_threads_max - -This value controls the maximum number of pdflush threads that can be -created. The pdflush algorithm will create a new pdflush thread (up to -this maximum) if no pdflush threads have been available for >= 1 second. - -The default value is 8. The minimum value you can specify is the -current value of 'nr_pdflush_threads_min' and the -maximum is 1000. - -============================================================== - overcommit_memory: This value contains a flag that enables memory overcommitment. -- cgit v1.2.3 From d34a792da969a00b0f653c512414411760f55a20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frank Rowand Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 07:56:25 -0500 Subject: kgdb: gdb documentation fix gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel --- Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl index 372dec20c8d..5cff41a5fa7 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kgdb.tmpl @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ seriously wrong while debugging, it will most often be the case that you want to enable gdb to be verbose about its target communications. You do this prior to issuing the target - remote command by typing in: set remote debug 1 + remote command by typing in: set debug remote 1 -- cgit v1.2.3