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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt7
3 files changed, 30 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst
index bb5032a99234..6fdb495ac466 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bcache.rst
@@ -508,9 +508,6 @@ cache_miss_collisions
cache miss, but raced with a write and data was already present (usually 0
since the synchronization for cache misses was rewritten)
-cache_readaheads
- Count of times readahead occurred.
-
Sysfs - cache set
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index e592a9364473..c63358c38a1d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -2022,31 +2022,33 @@ that attribute:
no-change
Do not modify the I/O priority class.
- none-to-rt
- For requests that do not have an I/O priority class (NONE),
- change the I/O priority class into RT. Do not modify
- the I/O priority class of other requests.
+ promote-to-rt
+ For requests that have a non-RT I/O priority class, change it into RT.
+ Also change the priority level of these requests to 4. Do not modify
+ the I/O priority of requests that have priority class RT.
restrict-to-be
For requests that do not have an I/O priority class or that have I/O
- priority class RT, change it into BE. Do not modify the I/O priority
- class of requests that have priority class IDLE.
+ priority class RT, change it into BE. Also change the priority level
+ of these requests to 0. Do not modify the I/O priority class of
+ requests that have priority class IDLE.
idle
Change the I/O priority class of all requests into IDLE, the lowest
I/O priority class.
+ none-to-rt
+ Deprecated. Just an alias for promote-to-rt.
+
The following numerical values are associated with the I/O priority policies:
-+-------------+---+
-| no-change | 0 |
-+-------------+---+
-| none-to-rt | 1 |
-+-------------+---+
-| rt-to-be | 2 |
-+-------------+---+
-| all-to-idle | 3 |
-+-------------+---+
++----------------+---+
+| no-change | 0 |
++----------------+---+
+| rt-to-be | 2 |
++----------------+---+
+| all-to-idle | 3 |
++----------------+---+
The numerical value that corresponds to each I/O priority class is as follows:
@@ -2062,9 +2064,13 @@ The numerical value that corresponds to each I/O priority class is as follows:
The algorithm to set the I/O priority class for a request is as follows:
-- Translate the I/O priority class policy into a number.
-- Change the request I/O priority class into the maximum of the I/O priority
- class policy number and the numerical I/O priority class.
+- If I/O priority class policy is promote-to-rt, change the request I/O
+ priority class to IOPRIO_CLASS_RT and change the request I/O priority
+ level to 4.
+- If I/O priorityt class is not promote-to-rt, translate the I/O priority
+ class policy into a number, then change the request I/O priority class
+ into the maximum of the I/O priority class policy number and the numerical
+ I/O priority class.
PID
---
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9e5bab29685f..911c54829c7c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -5452,7 +5452,12 @@
port and the regular usb controller gets disabled.
root= [KNL] Root filesystem
- See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
+ Usually this a a block device specifier of some kind,
+ see the early_lookup_bdev comment in
+ block/early-lookup.c for details.
+ Alternatively this can be "ram" for the legacy initial
+ ramdisk, "nfs" and "cifs" for root on a network file
+ system, or "mtd" and "ubi" for mounting from raw flash.
rootdelay= [KNL] Delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting to
mount the root filesystem