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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2021-02-01 10:03:45 +0100
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2021-02-01 10:03:45 +0100
commit0b9112a58836ad6a7e84eebec06a2de9778b7573 (patch)
treec90d11ef9591f9a9e4cb9c1dc748cc0f311b3ff2 /Documentation/admin-guide
parentf0ddb4e9911665b9ad68fe94e0faaaff5953902e (diff)
parent1048ba83fb1c00cd24172e23e8263972f6b5d9ac (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.11-rc6' into patchwork
Linux 5.11-rc6 * tag 'v5.11-rc6': (1466 commits) Linux 5.11-rc6 leds: rt8515: Add Richtek RT8515 LED driver dt-bindings: leds: Add DT binding for Richtek RT8515 leds: trigger: fix potential deadlock with libata leds: leds-ariel: convert comma to semicolon leds: leds-lm3533: convert comma to semicolon dt-bindings: Cleanup standard unit properties soc: litex: Properly depend on HAS_IOMEM tty: avoid using vfs_iocb_iter_write() for redirected console writes null_blk: cleanup zoned mode initialization cifs: fix dfs domain referrals drm/nouveau/kms/gk104-gp1xx: Fix > 64x64 cursors drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: Report max cursor size to userspace drivers/nouveau/kms/nv50-: Reject format modifiers for cursor planes drm/nouveau/svm: fail NOUVEAU_SVM_INIT ioctl on unsupported devices drm/nouveau/dispnv50: Restore pushing of all data. io_uring: reinforce cancel on flush during exit cifs: returning mount parm processing errors correctly rxrpc: Fix memory leak in rxrpc_lookup_local mlxsw: spectrum_span: Do not overwrite policer configuration ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst2
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