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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index cbbd3e06994..5f3bedaf8e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -94,28 +94,37 @@ What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/physical_block_size Date: May 2009 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Description: - This is the smallest unit the storage device can write - without resorting to read-modify-write operation. It is - usually the same as the logical block size but may be - bigger. One example is SATA drives with 4KB sectors - that expose a 512-byte logical block size to the - operating system. + This is the smallest unit a physical storage device can + write atomically. It is usually the same as the logical + block size but may be bigger. One example is SATA + drives with 4KB sectors that expose a 512-byte logical + block size to the operating system. For stacked block + devices the physical_block_size variable contains the + maximum physical_block_size of the component devices. What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/minimum_io_size Date: April 2009 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Description: - Storage devices may report a preferred minimum I/O size, - which is the smallest request the device can perform - without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. For disk - drives this is often the physical block size. For RAID - arrays it is often the stripe chunk size. + Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred + minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the + device can perform without incurring a performance + penalty. For disk drives this is often the physical + block size. For RAID arrays it is often the stripe + chunk size. A properly aligned multiple of + minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for + workloads where a high number of I/O operations is + desired. What: /sys/block/<disk>/queue/optimal_io_size Date: April 2009 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Description: Storage devices may report an optimal I/O size, which is - the device's preferred unit of receiving I/O. This is - rarely reported for disk drives. For RAID devices it is - usually the stripe width or the internal block size. + the device's preferred unit for sustained I/O. This is + rarely reported for disk drives. For RAID arrays it is + usually the stripe width or the internal track size. A + properly aligned multiple of optimal_io_size is the + preferred request size for workloads where sustained + throughput is desired. If no optimal I/O size is + reported this file contains 0. diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl index a50d6cd5857..992e67e6be7 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl @@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ printk(KERN_INFO "i = %u\n", i); </para> <programlisting> -__u32 ipaddress; -printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %d.%d.%d.%d\n", NIPQUAD(ipaddress)); +__be32 ipaddress; +printk(KERN_INFO "my ip: %pI4\n", &ipaddress); </programlisting> <para> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl index e3698666357..f3f37f141db 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl @@ -184,8 +184,6 @@ usage should require reading the full document. !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_get !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_ctstoself_duration !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_generic_frame_duration -!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_get_hdrlen_from_skb -!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_hdrlen !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queue !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_stop_queue !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_wake_queues diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt index 93cb28d05dc..18f9651ff23 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt @@ -83,11 +83,12 @@ not detect it missed following items in original chain. obj = kmem_cache_alloc(...); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; -atomic_inc(&obj->refcnt); /* * we need to make sure obj->key is updated before obj->next + * or obj->refcnt */ smp_wmb(); +atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); hlist_add_head_rcu(&obj->obj_node, list); unlock_chain(); // typically a spin_unlock() @@ -159,6 +160,10 @@ out: obj = kmem_cache_alloc(cachep); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; +/* + * changes to obj->key must be visible before refcnt one + */ +smp_wmb(); atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); /* * insert obj in RCU way (readers might be traversing chain) diff --git a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt index 43cb1004d35..9d58c7c5edd 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ ffff8000 ffffffff copy_user_page / clear_user_page use. For SA11xx and Xscale, this is used to setup a minicache mapping. +ffff4000 ffffffff cache aliasing on ARMv6 and later CPUs. + ffff1000 ffff7fff Reserved. Platforms must not use this address range. diff --git a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt index e8ca040ba2c..2d735b0ae38 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ encouraged them to allow separation of the data and integrity metadata scatter-gather lists. The controller will interleave the buffers on write and split them on -read. This means that the Linux can DMA the data buffers to and from +read. This means that Linux can DMA the data buffers to and from host memory without changes to the page cache. Also, the 16-bit CRC checksum mandated by both the SCSI and SATA specs @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ software RAID5). The IP checksum is weaker than the CRC in terms of detecting bit errors. However, the strength is really in the separation of the data -buffers and the integrity metadata. These two distinct buffers much +buffers and the integrity metadata. These two distinct buffers must match up for an I/O to complete. The separation of the data and integrity metadata buffers as well as diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index f9ca389dddf..1d7e9784439 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -777,6 +777,18 @@ in cpuset directories: # /bin/echo 1-4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4 # /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4 +To add a CPU to a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs including the +CPU to be added. To add 6 to the above cpuset: + +# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6 + +Similarly to remove a CPU from a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs +without the CPU to be removed. + +To remove all the CPUs: + +# /bin/echo "" > cpus -> clear cpus list + 2.3 Setting flags ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c index f688eba8770..6a5be5d5c8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * cn_test.c * - * 2004-2005 Copyright (c) Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> + * 2004+ Copyright (c) Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> * All rights reserved. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -194,5 +194,5 @@ module_init(cn_test_init); module_exit(cn_test_fini); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); -MODULE_AUTHOR("Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>"); +MODULE_AUTHOR("Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Connector's test module"); diff --git a/Documentation/connector/ucon.c b/Documentation/connector/ucon.c index d738cde2a8d..c5092ad0ce4 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/ucon.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/ucon.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* * ucon.c * - * Copyright (c) 2004+ Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> + * Copyright (c) 2004+ Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> * * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt index 82132169d47..60120fb3b96 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/driver.txt @@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ Attributes ~~~~~~~~~~ struct driver_attribute { struct attribute attr; - ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *, char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); - ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t off); + ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *driver, char *buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf, size_t count); }; Device drivers can export attributes via their sysfs directories. diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware b/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware index a52adfc9a57..3d1b0ab70c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware +++ b/Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use IO::Handle; "tda10046lifeview", "av7110", "dec2000t", "dec2540t", "dec3000s", "vp7041", "dibusb", "nxt2002", "nxt2004", "or51211", "or51132_qam", "or51132_vsb", "bluebird", - "opera1", "cx231xx", "cx18", "cx23885", "pvrusb2" ); + "opera1", "cx231xx", "cx18", "cx23885", "pvrusb2", "mpc718" ); # Check args syntax() if (scalar(@ARGV) != 1); @@ -381,6 +381,57 @@ sub cx18 { $allfiles; } +sub mpc718 { + my $archive = 'Yuan MPC718 TV Tuner Card 2.13.10.1016.zip'; + my $url = "ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/desktop/aspire_idea510/vista/Drivers/$archive"; + my $fwfile = "dvb-cx18-mpc718-mt352.fw"; + my $tmpdir = tempdir(DIR => "/tmp", CLEANUP => 1); + + checkstandard(); + wgetfile($archive, $url); + unzip($archive, $tmpdir); + + my $sourcefile = "$tmpdir/Yuan MPC718 TV Tuner Card 2.13.10.1016/mpc718_32bit/yuanrap.sys"; + my $found = 0; + + open IN, '<', $sourcefile or die "Couldn't open $sourcefile to extract $fwfile data\n"; + binmode IN; + open OUT, '>', $fwfile; + binmode OUT; + { + # Block scope because we change the line terminator variable $/ + my $prevlen = 0; + my $currlen; + + # Buried in the data segment are 3 runs of almost identical + # register-value pairs that end in 0x5d 0x01 which is a "TUNER GO" + # command for the MT352. + # Pull out the middle run (because it's easy) of register-value + # pairs to make the "firmware" file. + + local $/ = "\x5d\x01"; # MT352 "TUNER GO" + + while (<IN>) { + $currlen = length($_); + if ($prevlen == $currlen && $currlen <= 64) { + chop; chop; # Get rid of "TUNER GO" + s/^\0\0//; # get rid of leading 00 00 if it's there + printf OUT "$_"; + $found = 1; + last; + } + $prevlen = $currlen; + } + } + close OUT; + close IN; + if (!$found) { + unlink $fwfile; + die "Couldn't find valid register-value sequence in $sourcefile for $fwfile\n"; + } + $fwfile; +} + sub cx23885 { my $url = "http://linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/"; diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index f8cd450be9a..09e031c5588 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -458,3 +458,13 @@ Why: Remove the old legacy 32bit machine check code. This has been but the old version has been kept around for easier testing. Note this doesn't impact the old P5 and WinChip machine check handlers. Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be + exported interface anymore. +When: 2.6.33 +Why: cpu_policy_rwsem has a new cleaner definition making it local to + cpufreq core and contained inside cpufreq.c. Other dependent + drivers should not use it in order to safely avoid lockdep issues. +Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f50f26ce6cd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ + +The NFS client +============== + +The NFS version 2 protocol was first documented in RFC1094 (March 1989). +Since then two more major releases of NFS have been published, with NFSv3 +being documented in RFC1813 (June 1995), and NFSv4 in RFC3530 (April +2003). + +The Linux NFS client currently supports all the above published versions, +and work is in progress on adding support for minor version 1 of the NFSv4 +protocol. + +The purpose of this document is to provide information on some of the +upcall interfaces that are used in order to provide the NFS client with +some of the information that it requires in order to fully comply with +the NFS spec. + +The DNS resolver +================ + +NFSv4 allows for one server to refer the NFS client to data that has been +migrated onto another server by means of the special "fs_locations" +attribute. See + http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3530#section-6 +and + http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nfsv4-referrals-00 + +The fs_locations information can take the form of either an ip address and +a path, or a DNS hostname and a path. The latter requires the NFS client to +do a DNS lookup in order to mount the new volume, and hence the need for an +upcall to allow userland to provide this service. + +Assuming that the user has the 'rpc_pipefs' filesystem mounted in the usual +/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, the upcall consists of the following steps: + + (1) The process checks the dns_resolve cache to see if it contains a + valid entry. If so, it returns that entry and exits. + + (2) If no valid entry exists, the helper script '/sbin/nfs_cache_getent' + (may be changed using the 'nfs.cache_getent' kernel boot parameter) + is run, with two arguments: + - the cache name, "dns_resolve" + - the hostname to resolve + + (3) After looking up the corresponding ip address, the helper script + writes the result into the rpc_pipefs pseudo-file + '/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/cache/dns_resolve/channel' + in the following (text) format: + + "<ip address> <hostname> <ttl>\n" + + Where <ip address> is in the usual IPv4 (123.456.78.90) or IPv6 + (ffee:ddcc:bbaa:9988:7766:5544:3322:1100, ffee::1100, ...) format. + <hostname> is identical to the second argument of the helper + script, and <ttl> is the 'time to live' of this cache entry (in + units of seconds). + + Note: If <ip address> is invalid, say the string "0", then a negative + entry is created, which will cause the kernel to treat the hostname + as having no valid DNS translation. + + + + +A basic sample /sbin/nfs_cache_getent +===================================== + +#!/bin/bash +# +ttl=600 +# +cut=/usr/bin/cut +getent=/usr/bin/getent +rpc_pipefs=/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs +# +die() +{ + echo "Usage: $0 cache_name entry_name" + exit 1 +} + +[ $# -lt 2 ] && die +cachename="$1" +cache_path=${rpc_pipefs}/cache/${cachename}/channel + +case "${cachename}" in + dns_resolve) + name="$2" + result="$(${getent} hosts ${name} | ${cut} -f1 -d\ )" + [ -z "${result}" ] && result="0" + ;; + *) + die + ;; +esac +echo "${result} ${name} ${ttl}" >${cache_path} + diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 7e81e37c0b1..b245d524d56 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ interface. Using sysfs ~~~~~~~~~~~ -sysfs is always compiled in. You can access it by doing: +sysfs is always compiled in if CONFIG_SYSFS is defined. You can access +it by doing: mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys diff --git a/Documentation/gcov.txt b/Documentation/gcov.txt index e716aadb3a3..40ec6335276 100644 --- a/Documentation/gcov.txt +++ b/Documentation/gcov.txt @@ -188,13 +188,18 @@ Solution: Exclude affected source files from profiling by specifying GCOV_PROFILE := n or GCOV_PROFILE_basename.o := n in the corresponding Makefile. +Problem: Files copied from sysfs appear empty or incomplete. +Cause: Due to the way seq_file works, some tools such as cp or tar + may not correctly copy files from sysfs. +Solution: Use 'cat' to read .gcda files and 'cp -d' to copy links. + Alternatively use the mechanism shown in Appendix B. + Appendix A: gather_on_build.sh ============================== Sample script to gather coverage meta files on the build machine (see 6a): - #!/bin/bash KSRC=$1 @@ -226,7 +231,7 @@ Appendix B: gather_on_test.sh Sample script to gather coverage data files on the test machine (see 6b): -#!/bin/bash +#!/bin/bash -e DEST=$1 GCDA=/sys/kernel/debug/gcov @@ -236,11 +241,13 @@ if [ -z "$DEST" ] ; then exit 1 fi -find $GCDA -name '*.gcno' -o -name '*.gcda' | tar cfz $DEST -T - +TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d) +echo Collecting data.. +find $GCDA -type d -exec mkdir -p $TEMPDIR/\{\} \; +find $GCDA -name '*.gcda' -exec sh -c 'cat < $0 > '$TEMPDIR'/$0' {} \; +find $GCDA -name '*.gcno' -exec sh -c 'cp -d $0 '$TEMPDIR'/$0' {} \; +tar czf $DEST -C $TEMPDIR sys +rm -rf $TEMPDIR -if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then - echo "$DEST successfully created, copy to build system and unpack with:" - echo " tar xfz $DEST" -else - echo "Could not create file $DEST" -fi +echo "$DEST successfully created, copy to build system and unpack with:" +echo " tar xfz $DEST" diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt index 7bb0d934b6d..dbea4f95fc8 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments 'm' all linux/synclink.h conflict! 'm' 00-1F net/irda/irmod.h conflict! 'n' 00-7F linux/ncp_fs.h +'n' 80-8F linux/nilfs2_fs.h NILFS2 'n' E0-FF video/matrox.h matroxfb 'o' 00-1F fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_fs.h OCFS2 'o' 00-03 include/mtd/ubi-user.h conflict! (OCFS2 and UBI overlaps) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index d08759aa090..ce885375581 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1115,6 +1115,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file libata.dma=4 Compact Flash DMA only Combinations also work, so libata.dma=3 enables DMA for disks and CDROMs, but not CFs. + + libata.ignore_hpa= [LIBATA] Ignore HPA limit + libata.ignore_hpa=0 keep BIOS limits (default) + libata.ignore_hpa=1 ignore limits, using full disk libata.noacpi [LIBATA] Disables use of ACPI in libata suspend/resume when set. @@ -1499,6 +1503,14 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file [NFS] set the TCP port on which the NFSv4 callback channel should listen. + nfs.cache_getent= + [NFS] sets the pathname to the program which is used + to update the NFS client cache entries. + + nfs.cache_getent_timeout= + [NFS] sets the timeout after which an attempt to + update a cache entry is deemed to have failed. + nfs.idmap_cache_timeout= [NFS] set the maximum lifetime for idmapper cache entries. @@ -1720,8 +1732,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file oprofile.cpu_type= Force an oprofile cpu type This might be useful if you have an older oprofile userland or if you want common events. - Format: { archperfmon } - archperfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural + Format: { arch_perfmon } + arch_perfmon: [X86] Force use of architectural perfmon on Intel CPUs instead of the CPU specific event set. @@ -1915,6 +1927,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Format: { 0 | 1 } See arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_chassis.c + percpu_alloc= [X86] Select which percpu first chunk allocator to use. + Allowed values are one of "lpage", "embed" and "4k". + See comments in arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c for + details on each allocator. This parameter is primarily + for debugging and performance comparison. + pf. [PARIDE] See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt. @@ -2385,6 +2403,18 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file stifb= [HW] Format: bpp:<bpp1>[:<bpp2>[:<bpp3>...]] + sunrpc.min_resvport= + sunrpc.max_resvport= + [NFS,SUNRPC] + SunRPC servers often require that client requests + originate from a privileged port (i.e. a port in the + range 0 < portnr < 1024). + An administrator who wishes to reserve some of these + ports for other uses may adjust the range that the + kernel's sunrpc client considers to be privileged + using these two parameters to set the minimum and + maximum port values. + sunrpc.pool_mode= [NFS] Control how the NFS server code allocates CPUs to @@ -2401,6 +2431,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file pernode one pool for each NUMA node (equivalent to global on non-NUMA machines) + sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries= + sunrpc.udp_slot_table_entries= + [NFS,SUNRPC] + Sets the upper limit on the number of simultaneous + RPC calls that can be sent from the client to a + server. Increasing these values may allow you to + improve throughput, but will also increase the + amount of memory reserved for use by the client. + swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs switches= [HW,M68k] @@ -2467,7 +2506,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file tp720= [HW,PS2] - trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] [ftrace] will set tracing buffer size. + trace_buf_size=nn[KMG] + [FTRACE] will set tracing buffer size. trix= [HW,OSS] MediaTrix AudioTrix Pro Format: diff --git a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt index 0112da3b9ab..89068030b01 100644 --- a/Documentation/kmemleak.txt +++ b/Documentation/kmemleak.txt @@ -16,13 +16,17 @@ Usage ----- CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK in "Kernel hacking" has to be enabled. A kernel -thread scans the memory every 10 minutes (by default) and prints any new -unreferenced objects found. To trigger an intermediate scan and display -all the possible memory leaks: +thread scans the memory every 10 minutes (by default) and prints the +number of new unreferenced objects found. To display the details of all +the possible memory leaks: # mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug/ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak +To trigger an intermediate memory scan: + + # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak + Note that the orphan objects are listed in the order they were allocated and one object at the beginning of the list may cause other subsequent objects to be reported as orphan. @@ -31,16 +35,21 @@ Memory scanning parameters can be modified at run-time by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. The following parameters are supported: off - disable kmemleak (irreversible) - stack=on - enable the task stacks scanning + stack=on - enable the task stacks scanning (default) stack=off - disable the tasks stacks scanning - scan=on - start the automatic memory scanning thread + scan=on - start the automatic memory scanning thread (default) scan=off - stop the automatic memory scanning thread - scan=<secs> - set the automatic memory scanning period in seconds (0 - to disable it) + scan=<secs> - set the automatic memory scanning period in seconds + (default 600, 0 to stop the automatic scanning) + scan - trigger a memory scan Kmemleak can also be disabled at boot-time by passing "kmemleak=off" on the kernel command line. +Memory may be allocated or freed before kmemleak is initialised and +these actions are stored in an early log buffer. The size of this buffer +is configured via the CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_EARLY_LOG_SIZE option. + Basic Algorithm --------------- diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index f2296ecedb8..e2ddcdeb61b 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/ |