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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt index 3b0876c77355..588d97366a46 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt @@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ Symposium on Distributed Computing} 'It's entirely possible that the current user could be replaced by RCU and/or seqlocks, and we could get rid of brlocks entirely.' . - Steve Hemminger responds by replacing them with RCU. + Stephen Hemminger responds by replacing them with RCU. } } diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index 1132796a8d96..d6e3f67953a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ For example one can add to the command line following parameter: where the final item represents CPUs 100,101,125,126,150,151,... +The value "N" can be used to represent the numerically last CPU on the system, +i.e "foo_cpus=16-N" would be equivalent to "16-31" on a 32 core system. + +Keep in mind that "N" is dynamic, so if system changes cause the bitmap width +to change, such as less cores in the CPU list, then N and any ranges using N +will also change. Use the same on a small 4 core system, and "16-N" becomes +"16-3" and now the same boot input will be flagged as invalid (start > end). This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 04545725f187..bcf9e59a08b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4068,9 +4068,7 @@ see CONFIG_RAS_CEC help text. rcu_nocbs= [KNL] - The argument is a cpu list, as described above, - except that the string "all" can be used to - specify every CPU on the system. + The argument is a cpu list, as described above. In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs. @@ -4259,6 +4257,18 @@ rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test= [KNL] Set to measure performance of kfree_rcu() flooding. + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double= [KNL] + Test the double-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). + If this parameter has the same value as + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single, both the single- + and double-argument variants are tested. + + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_single= [KNL] + Test the single-argument variant of kfree_rcu(). + If this parameter has the same value as + rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test_double, both the single- + and double-argument variants are tested. + rcuscale.kfree_nthreads= [KNL] The number of threads running loops of kfree_rcu(). |