The patch titled
Subject: vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix
tweak documentation
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 12 ++++++------
fs/proc/Kconfig | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt~vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2875,12 +2875,12 @@
novmcoredd [KNL,KDUMP]
Disable device dump. Device dump allows drivers to
append dump data to vmcore so you can collect driver
- specified debug info. The drivers could append the
- data without any limit, and the data is stored in
- memory, this may bring a significant memory stress.
- Disable device dump can help save memory but driver
- debug data will be no longer available.
- Only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
+ specified debug info. Drivers can append the data
+ without any limit and this data is stored in memory,
+ so this may cause significant memory stress. Disabling
+ device dump can help save memory but the driver debug
+ data will be no longer available. This parameter
+ is only available when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
is set.
noaliencache [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
--- a/fs/proc/Kconfig~vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix
+++ a/fs/proc/Kconfig
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ config PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
snapshot.
If you say Y here, the collected device dumps will be added
- as ELF notes to /proc/vmcore. You can still disabled device
- dump by command line option 'novmcoredd'.
+ as ELF notes to /proc/vmcore. You can still disable device
+ dump using the kernel command line option 'novmcoredd'.
config PROC_SYSCTL
bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EXPERT
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-vmallocc-fix-typo-in-comment.patch
mm-mmu_gather-remove-__tlb_reset_range-for-force-flush-checkpatch-fixes.patch
prctl_set_mm-refactor-checks-from-validate_prctl_map-checkpatch-fixes.patch
prctl_set_mm-downgrade-mmap_sem-to-read-lock-checkpatch-fixes.patch
proc-report-eip-and-esp-for-all-threads-when-coredumping-fix.patch
scripts-spellingtxt-drop-sepc-from-the-misspelling-list-fix.patch
ocfs2-clear-zero-in-unaligned-direct-io-checkpatch-fixes.patch
mm.patch
include-linux-pfn_th-remove-pfn_t_to_virt.patch
mm-swap-use-rbtree-for-swap_extent-fix.patch
mm-add-probe_user_read-fix.patch
vmcore-add-a-kernel-parameter-novmcoredd-fix.patch
byteorder-sanity-check-toolchain-vs-kernel-endianess-checkpatch-fixes.patch
selftests-ptrace-add-a-test-case-for-ptrace_get_syscall_info-checkpatch-fixes.patch
linux-next-rejects.patch
kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch
