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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-11-23 08:21:37 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-11-23 08:21:37 +0100
commit03c1136af504bbc2cabda76af6b27fd5f7cf8a7d (patch)
tree6c53a0f635b4339571050006191a950e3f5db93c /Documentation/admin-guide
parent0d79a48440f559ac939d1be2089757c5e4ab16c7 (diff)
parent418baf2c28f3473039f2f7377760bd8f6897ae18 (diff)
Merge 5.10-rc5 into staging-testing
We want the staging/IIO fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst1
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst
index 17996c9070e2..0ec34863c674 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/SafeSetID.rst
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ for a UID/GID will prevent that UID/GID from obtaining auxiliary setid
privileges, such as allowing a user to set up user namespace UID/GID mappings.
Note on GID policies and setgroups()
-==================
+====================================
In v5.9 we are adding support for limiting CAP_SETGID privileges as was done
previously for CAP_SETUID. However, for compatibility with common sandboxing
related code conventions in userspace, we currently allow arbitrary
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 526d65d8573a..44fde25bb221 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2858,6 +2858,8 @@
mds=off [X86]
tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
+ no_entry_flush [PPC]
+ no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
Exceptions:
This does not have any effect on
@@ -3186,6 +3188,8 @@
noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
+ no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
+
noexec [IA-64]
noexec [X86]
@@ -3235,6 +3239,9 @@
nospec_store_bypass_disable
[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
+ no_uaccess_flush
+ [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
+
noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
index 37940a0584ec..10fde58d0869 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ order to ask the hardware to enter that state. Also, for each
statistics of the given idle state. That information is exposed by the kernel
via ``sysfs``.
-For each CPU in the system, there is a :file:`/sys/devices/system/cpu<N>/cpuidle/`
+For each CPU in the system, there is a :file:`/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<N>/cpuidle/`
directory in ``sysfs``, where the number ``<N>`` is assigned to the given
CPU at the initialization time. That directory contains a set of subdirectories
called :file:`state0`, :file:`state1` and so on, up to the number of idle state
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ object corresponding to it, as follows:
residency.
``below``
- Total number of times this idle state had been asked for, but cerainly
+ Total number of times this idle state had been asked for, but certainly
a deeper idle state would have been a better match for the observed idle
duration.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
index 57fd6ce68fe0..f2ab8a5b6a4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst
@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ Note:
0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
RSS hash key:
84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8:43:e3:c9:0c:fd:17:55:c2:3a:4d:69:ed:f1:42:89
+
netdev_tstamp_prequeue
----------------------