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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-07 00:34:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-07 00:34:51 -0700 |
| commit | a48b0872e69428d3d02994dcfad3519f01def7fa (patch) | |
| tree | 20617cba7bbb16d36faf79204ca69abc214d6c38 /Documentation | |
| parent | 05da1f643f00ae9aabb8318709e40579789b7c64 (diff) | |
| parent | baf2f90ba416cd887d7f54cc877d8764f6775de2 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
"This is everything else from -mm for this merge window.
90 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub),
alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat,
checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov,
panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc,
drivers/char, and spelling"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (90 commits)
mm: fix typos in comments
mm: fix typos in comments
treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft
ipc/sem.c: spelling fix
fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values
kernel/sys.c: fix typo
kernel/up.c: fix typo
kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos
kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes
include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes
mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -> "desired"
scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw"
scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo
scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow"
arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers
mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite()
mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr()
drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
mm: fix some typos and code style problems
ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt index ef41f77cb979..9c2be821c225 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ 1 char Memory devices 1 = /dev/mem Physical memory access - 2 = /dev/kmem Kernel virtual memory access + 2 = /dev/kmem OBSOLETE - replaced by /proc/kcore 3 = /dev/null Null device 4 = /dev/port I/O port access 5 = /dev/zero Null byte source diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 5bcc229d31e2..a816935d23d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1835,6 +1835,18 @@ initcall functions. Useful for debugging built-in modules and initcalls. + initramfs_async= [KNL] + Format: <bool> + Default: 1 + This parameter controls whether the initramfs + image is unpacked asynchronously, concurrently + with devices being probed and + initialized. This should normally just work, + but as a debugging aid, one can get the + historical behaviour of the initramfs + unpacking being completed before device_ and + late_ initcalls. + initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk initrdmem= [KNL] Specify a physical address and size from which to diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst index 4756f6b3a04e..8e0f1fe8d17a 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Examples of using the Linux-provided gdb helpers [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved .... -- Examine fields of the current task struct:: +- Examine fields of the current task struct(supported by x86 and arm64 only):: (gdb) p $lx_current().pid $1 = 4998 |