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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/fan_performance_states.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/phy.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/index.rst | 1 |
11 files changed, 71 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/fan_performance_states.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/fan_performance_states.rst index 21d233ca50d8..98fe5c333121 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/fan_performance_states.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/fan_performance_states.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ may look as follows:: $ ls -l /sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3404:00/ total 0 -... + ... -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 13 20:38 state0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 13 20:38 state1 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 13 20:38 state10 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ where each of the "state*" files represents one performance state of the fan and contains a colon-separated list of 5 integer numbers (fields) with the following interpretation:: -control_percent:trip_point_index:speed_rpm:noise_level_mdb:power_mw + control_percent:trip_point_index:speed_rpm:noise_level_mdb:power_mw * ``control_percent``: The percent value to be used to set the fan speed to a specific level using the _FSL object (0-100). diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst index b342a6796392..cf2edcd09183 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst @@ -62,6 +62,30 @@ Or more shorter, written as following:: In both styles, same key words are automatically merged when parsing it at boot time. So you can append similar trees or key-values. +Same-key Values +--------------- + +It is prohibited that two or more values or arrays share a same-key. +For example,:: + + foo = bar, baz + foo = qux # !ERROR! we can not re-define same key + +If you want to append the value to existing key as an array member, +you can use ``+=`` operator. For example:: + + foo = bar, baz + foo += qux + +In this case, the key ``foo`` has ``bar``, ``baz`` and ``qux``. + +However, a sub-key and a value can not co-exist under a parent key. +For example, following config is NOT allowed.:: + + foo = value1 + foo.bar = value2 # !ERROR! subkey "bar" and value "value1" can NOT co-exist + + Comments -------- @@ -102,9 +126,13 @@ Boot Kernel With a Boot Config ============================== Since the boot configuration file is loaded with initrd, it will be added -to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file. The Linux kernel decodes -the last part of the initrd image in memory to get the boot configuration -data. +to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with size, checksum and +12-byte magic word as below. + +[initrd][bootconfig][size(u32)][checksum(u32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n] + +The Linux kernel decodes the last part of the initrd image in memory to +get the boot configuration data. Because of this "piggyback" method, there is no need to change or update the boot loader and the kernel image itself. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index dbc22d684627..c07815d230bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ dynamic table installation which will install SSDT tables to /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/dynamic. + acpi_no_watchdog [HW,ACPI,WDT] + Ignore the ACPI-based watchdog interface (WDAT) and let + a native driver control the watchdog device instead. + acpi_rsdp= [ACPI,EFI,KEXEC] Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst index 7cd56a1993b1..607758a66a99 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst @@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ options to your ``.config``: Once the kernel is built and installed, a simple .. code-block:: bash + modprobe example-test ...will run the tests. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst index e5953e7e4bf4..2104830a99ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst @@ -151,8 +151,8 @@ The details of these operations are: Note that callbacks will always be invoked from the DMA engines tasklet, never from interrupt context. -Optional: per descriptor metadata ---------------------------------- + **Optional: per descriptor metadata** + DMAengine provides two ways for metadata support. DESC_METADATA_CLIENT @@ -199,12 +199,15 @@ Optional: per descriptor metadata DESC_METADATA_CLIENT - DMA_MEM_TO_DEV / DEV_MEM_TO_MEM: + 1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*) construct the metadata in the client's buffer 2. use dmaengine_desc_attach_metadata() to attach the buffer to the descriptor 3. submit the transfer + - DMA_DEV_TO_MEM: + 1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*) 2. use dmaengine_desc_attach_metadata() to attach the buffer to the descriptor @@ -215,6 +218,7 @@ Optional: per descriptor metadata DESC_METADATA_ENGINE - DMA_MEM_TO_DEV / DEV_MEM_TO_MEM: + 1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*) 2. use dmaengine_desc_get_metadata_ptr() to get the pointer to the engine's metadata area @@ -222,7 +226,9 @@ Optional: per descriptor metadata 4. use dmaengine_desc_set_metadata_len() to tell the DMA engine the amount of data the client has placed into the metadata buffer 5. submit the transfer + - DMA_DEV_TO_MEM: + 1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*) 2. submit the transfer 3. on transfer completion, use dmaengine_desc_get_metadata_ptr() to get @@ -278,8 +284,8 @@ Optional: per descriptor metadata void dma_async_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan); -Further APIs: -------------- +Further APIs +------------ 1. Terminate APIs diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst index 0e0eb2c8da7d..6bc126a14b3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst @@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ is not sufficient this sometimes needs to be explicit. Example:: #arch/x86/boot/Makefile - subdir- := compressed/ + subdir- := compressed The above assignment instructs kbuild to descend down in the directory compressed/ when "make clean" is executed. @@ -1379,9 +1379,6 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file. in arch/$(ARCH)/include/(uapi/)/asm, Kbuild will automatically generate a wrapper of the asm-generic one. - The convention is to list one subdir per line and - preferably in alphabetic order. - 8 Kbuild Variables ================== diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phy.rst b/Documentation/networking/phy.rst index 1e4735cc0553..256106054c8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/phy.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/phy.rst @@ -487,8 +487,9 @@ phy_register_fixup_for_id():: The stubs set one of the two matching criteria, and set the other one to match anything. -When phy_register_fixup() or \*_for_uid()/\*_for_id() is called at module, -unregister fixup and free allocate memory are required. +When phy_register_fixup() or \*_for_uid()/\*_for_id() is called at module load +time, the module needs to unregister the fixup and free allocated memory when +it's unloaded. Call one of following function before unloading module:: diff --git a/Documentation/power/index.rst b/Documentation/power/index.rst index 002e42745263..ced8a8007434 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/power/index.rst @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Power Management drivers-testing energy-model freezing-of-tasks - interface opp pci pm_qos_interface diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh b/Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh index 7daf5133bdd3..e54c44ce117d 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh @@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ if [ -n "$parallel" ] ; then parallel="-j$parallel" fi -exec "$sphinx" "$parallel" "$@" +exec "$sphinx" $parallel "$@" diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 97a72a53fa4b..ebd383fba939 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -4611,35 +4611,38 @@ unpins the VPA pages and releases all the device pages that are used to track the secure pages by hypervisor. 4.122 KVM_S390_NORMAL_RESET +--------------------------- -Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_VCPU_RESETS -Architectures: s390 -Type: vcpu ioctl -Parameters: none -Returns: 0 +:Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_VCPU_RESETS +:Architectures: s390 +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: none +:Returns: 0 This ioctl resets VCPU registers and control structures according to the cpu reset definition in the POP (Principles Of Operation). 4.123 KVM_S390_INITIAL_RESET +---------------------------- -Capability: none -Architectures: s390 -Type: vcpu ioctl -Parameters: none -Returns: 0 +:Capability: none +:Architectures: s390 +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: none +:Returns: 0 This ioctl resets VCPU registers and control structures according to the initial cpu reset definition in the POP. However, the cpu is not put into ESA mode. This reset is a superset of the normal reset. 4.124 KVM_S390_CLEAR_RESET +-------------------------- -Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_VCPU_RESETS -Architectures: s390 -Type: vcpu ioctl -Parameters: none -Returns: 0 +:Capability: KVM_CAP_S390_VCPU_RESETS +:Architectures: s390 +:Type: vcpu ioctl +:Parameters: none +:Returns: 0 This ioctl resets VCPU registers and control structures according to the clear cpu reset definition in the POP. However, the cpu is not put diff --git a/Documentation/x86/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/index.rst index a8de2fbc1caa..265d9e9a093b 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/x86/index.rst @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ x86-specific Documentation tlb mtrr pat - intel_mpx intel-iommu intel_txt amd-memory-encryption |