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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-03-30 12:45:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-03-30 12:45:23 -0700
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parentabcb1e021ae5a36374c635eeaba5cec733169b78 (diff)
Merge tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This has been a busy cycle for documentation work. Highlights include: - Lots of RST conversion work by Mauro, Daniel ALmeida, and others. Maybe someday we'll get to the end of this stuff...maybe... - Some organizational work to bring some order to the core-api manual. - Various new docs and additions to the existing documentation. - Typo fixes, warning fixes, ..." * tag 'docs-5.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (123 commits) Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT MAINTAINERS: adjust to filesystem doc ReST conversion docs: deprecated.rst: Add BUG()-family doc: zh_CN: add translation for virtiofs doc: zh_CN: index files in filesystems subdirectory docs: locking: Drop :c:func: throughout docs: locking: Add 'need' to hardirq section docs: conf.py: avoid thousands of duplicate label warning on Sphinx docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst docs: fix pointers to io-mapping.rst and io_ordering.rst files Documentation: Better document the softlockup_panic sysctl docs: hw-vuln: tsx_async_abort.rst: get rid of an unused ref docs: perf: imx-ddr.rst: get rid of a warning docs: filesystems: fuse.rst: supress a Sphinx warning docs: translations: it: avoid duplicate refs at programming-language.rst docs: driver.rst: supress two ReSt warnings docs: trace: events.rst: convert some new stuff to ReST format Documentation: Add io_ordering.rst to driver-api manual Documentation: Add io-mapping.rst to driver-api manual ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index c07815d230bc..d7da466fd5c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1099,6 +1099,12 @@
A valid base address must be provided, and the serial
port must already be setup and configured.
+ ec_imx21,<addr>
+ ec_imx6q,<addr>
+ Start an early, polled-mode, output-only console on the
+ Freescale i.MX UART at the specified address. The UART
+ must already be setup and configured.
+
ar3700_uart,<addr>
Start an early, polled-mode console on the
Armada 3700 serial port at the specified
@@ -1779,7 +1785,7 @@
provided by tboot because it makes the system
vulnerable to DMA attacks.
nobounce [Default off]
- Disable bounce buffer for unstrusted devices such as
+ Disable bounce buffer for untrusted devices such as
the Thunderbolt devices. This will treat the untrusted
devices as the trusted ones, hence might expose security
risks of DMA attacks.
@@ -1883,7 +1889,7 @@
No delay
ip= [IP_PNP]
- See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
ipcmni_extend [KNL] Extend the maximum number of unique System V
IPC identifiers from 32,768 to 16,777,216.
@@ -2795,7 +2801,7 @@
<name>,<region-number>[,<base>,<size>,<buswidth>,<altbuswidth>]
mtdparts= [MTD]
- See drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c.
+ See drivers/mtd/parsers/cmdlinepart.c
multitce=off [PPC] This parameter disables the use of the pSeries
firmware feature for updating multiple TCE entries
@@ -2853,13 +2859,13 @@
Default value is 0.
nfsaddrs= [NFS] Deprecated. Use ip= instead.
- See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes.
- See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
nfsrootdebug [NFS] enable nfsroot debugging messages.
- See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst.
nfs.callback_nr_threads=
[NFSv4] set the total number of threads that the
@@ -4514,10 +4520,10 @@
Format: <integer>
A nonzero value instructs the soft-lockup detector
- to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. This
- is also controlled by CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
- which is the respective build-time switch to that
- functionality.
+ to panic the machine when a soft-lockup occurs. It is
+ also controlled by the kernel.softlockup_panic sysctl
+ and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC, which is the
+ respective build-time switch to that functionality.
softlockup_all_cpu_backtrace=
[KNL] Should the soft-lockup detector generate