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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst | 2 |
6 files changed, 25 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst index 7a864131e5ea..59cd902e3549 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Here is what the fields mean: - ``name`` is an identifier string. A new /proc file will be created with this - ``name below /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc``; cannot contain slashes ``/`` for + name below ``/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc``; cannot contain slashes ``/`` for obvious reasons. - ``type`` is the type of recognition. Give ``M`` for magic and ``E`` for extension. @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Here is what the fields mean: ``F`` - fix binary The usual behaviour of binfmt_misc is to spawn the binary lazily when the misc format file is invoked. However, - this doesn``t work very well in the face of mount namespaces and + this doesn't work very well in the face of mount namespaces and changeroots, so the ``F`` mode opens the binary as soon as the emulation is installed and uses the opened image to spawn the emulator, meaning it is always available once installed, diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst index 9b90efcc3a35..452b7dcd7f6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ 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 as long as the boot loader passes the correct initrd file size. If by any chance, the boot -loader passes a longer size, the kernel feils to find the bootconfig data. +loader passes a longer size, the kernel fails to find the bootconfig data. To do this operation, Linux kernel provides "bootconfig" command under tools/bootconfig, which allows admin to apply or delete the config file diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst index 4e6f504474ac..2cc5488acbd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst @@ -177,14 +177,20 @@ bitmap_flush_interval:number The bitmap flush interval in milliseconds. The metadata buffers are synchronized when this interval expires. +allow_discards + Allow block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) for the integrity device. + Discards are only allowed to devices using internal hash. + fix_padding Use a smaller padding of the tag area that is more space-efficient. If this option is not present, large padding is used - that is for compatibility with older kernels. -allow_discards - Allow block discard requests (a.k.a. TRIM) for the integrity device. - Discards are only allowed to devices using internal hash. +legacy_recalculate + Allow recalculating of volumes with HMAC keys. This is disabled by + default for security reasons - an attacker could modify the volume, + set recalc_sector to zero, and the kernel would not detect the + modification. The journal mode (D/J), buffer_sectors, journal_watermark, commit_time and allow_discards can be changed when reloading the target (load an inactive diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst index 06fb1b4aa849..682ab28b5c94 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ The kernel's command-line parameters ==================================== -The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as -implemented by the __setup(), core_param() and module_param() macros +The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implemented +by the __setup(), early_param(), core_param() and module_param() macros and sorted into English Dictionary order (defined as ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a case insensitive manner), and with descriptions where known. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index c722ec19cd00..a10b545c2070 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ ftrace_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the functions traced by the function - tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma separated + tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated list of functions. This list can be changed at run time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs tracing directory. @@ -1399,13 +1399,13 @@ ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced by the function graph tracer at boot up. - function-list is a comma separated list of functions + function-list is a comma-separated list of functions that can be changed at run time by the set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in - function-list. This list is a comma separated list of + function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of functions that can be changed at run time by the set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. @@ -2421,7 +2421,7 @@ when set. Format: <int> - libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma + libata.force= [LIBATA] Force configurations. The format is comma- separated list of "[ID:]VAL" where ID is PORT[.DEVICE]. PORT and DEVICE are decimal numbers matching port, link or device. Basically, it matches @@ -5145,7 +5145,7 @@ stacktrace_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the functions that the stack tracer - will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma separated + will trace at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated list of functions. This list can be changed at run time by the stack_trace_filter file in the debugfs tracing directory. Note, this enables stack tracing @@ -5348,7 +5348,7 @@ trace_event=[event-list] [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a - comma separated list of trace events to enable. See + comma-separated list of trace events to enable. See also Documentation/trace/events.rst trace_options=[option-list] @@ -5972,6 +5972,10 @@ This option is obsoleted by the "nopv" option, which has equivalent effect for XEN platform. + xen_no_vector_callback + [KNL,X86,XEN] Disable the vector callback for Xen + event channel interrupts. + xen_scrub_pages= [XEN] Boolean option to control scrubbing pages before giving them back to Xen, for use by other domains. Can be also changed at runtime diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst index fa0974fbeae7..b966fcff993b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ pages either asynchronously or synchronously, depending on the state of the system. When the system is not loaded, most of the memory is free and allocation requests will be satisfied immediately from the free pages supply. As the load increases, the amount of the free pages goes -down and when it reaches a certain threshold (high watermark), an +down and when it reaches a certain threshold (low watermark), an allocation request will awaken the ``kswapd`` daemon. It will asynchronously scan memory pages and either just free them if the data they contain is available elsewhere, or evict to the backing storage |