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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck | 14 |
4 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 5fbe077..fb80e9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1882,7 +1882,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file usbhid.mousepoll= [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. - vdso= [IA-32,SH] + vdso= [IA-32,SH,x86-64] vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO) vdso=1: enable VDSO (default) vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping diff --git a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt index af1a282..04dc1cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt @@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ Suppose, however, that the firmware file is located on a filesystem accessible only through another device that hasn't been resumed yet. In that case, request_firmware() will fail regardless of whether or not the freezing of tasks is used. Consequently, the problem is not really related to the freezing of -tasks, since it generally exists anyway. [The solution to this particular -problem is to keep the firmware in memory after it's loaded for the first time -and upload if from memory to the device whenever necessary.] +tasks, since it generally exists anyway. + +A driver must have all firmwares it may need in RAM before suspend() is called. +If keeping them is not practical, for example due to their size, they must be +requested early enough using the suspend notifier API described in notifiers.txt. diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 6177d88..9453118 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -14,9 +14,11 @@ Machine check mce=nobootlog Disable boot machine check logging. mce=tolerancelevel (number) - 0: always panic, 1: panic if deadlock possible, - 2: try to avoid panic, 3: never panic or exit (for testing) - default is 1 + 0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only) + Default is 1 Can be also set using sysfs which is preferable. nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off @@ -134,12 +136,6 @@ Non Executable Mappings SMP - nosmp Only use a single CPU - - maxcpus=NUMBER only use upto NUMBER CPUs - - cpumask=MASK only use cpus with bits set in mask - additional_cpus=NUM Allow NUM more CPUs for hotplug (defaults are specified by the BIOS, see Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec) diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck b/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck index feaeaf6..a05e58e 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck @@ -49,12 +49,14 @@ tolerant Since machine check exceptions can happen any time it is sometimes risky for the kernel to kill a process because it defies normal kernel locking rules. The tolerance level configures - how hard the kernel tries to recover even at some risk of deadlock. - - 0: always panic, - 1: panic if deadlock possible, - 2: try to avoid panic, - 3: never panic or exit (for testing only) + how hard the kernel tries to recover even at some risk of + deadlock. Higher tolerant values trade potentially better uptime + with the risk of a crash or even corruption (for tolerant >= 3). + + 0: always panic on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 1: panic or SIGBUS on uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 2: SIGBUS or log uncorrected errors, log corrected errors + 3: never panic or SIGBUS, log all errors (for testing only) Default: 1 |