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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt | 33 |
4 files changed, 35 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index b959659c5df4..b3f35e5f9c95 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -603,3 +603,19 @@ Why: The adm9240, w83792d and w83793 hardware monitoring drivers have Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> ---------------------------- + +What: noswapaccount kernel command line parameter +When: 2.6.40 +Why: The original implementation of memsw feature enabled by + CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP could be disabled by the noswapaccount + kernel parameter (introduced in 2.6.29-rc1). Later on, this decision + turned out to be not ideal because we cannot have the feature compiled + in and disabled by default and let only interested to enable it + (e.g. general distribution kernels might need it). Therefore we have + added swapaccount[=0|1] parameter (introduced in 2.6.37) which provides + the both possibilities. If we remove noswapaccount we will have + less command line parameters with the same functionality and we + can also cleanup the parameter handling a bit (). +Who: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> + +---------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 6ef8cf3bc9a3..933bc66ccff1 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. 2.1.30: - Fix writev() (it kept writing the first segment over and over again instead of moving onto subsequent segments). + - Fix crash in ntfs_mft_record_alloc() when mapping the new extent mft + record failed. 2.1.29: - Fix a deadlock when mounting read-write. 2.1.28: diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b72e071a3e5b..89835a4766a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ parameter is applicable: AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled. + DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. + DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. - DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. - DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime FB The frame buffer device is enabled. GCOV GCOV profiling is enabled. HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt index 01e69404ee5e..1cd5d51bc761 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +Version 15 of schedstats dropped counters for some sched_yield: +yld_exp_empty, yld_act_empty and yld_both_empty. Otherwise, it is +identical to version 14. + Version 14 of schedstats includes support for sched_domains, which hit the mainline kernel in 2.6.20 although it is identical to the stats from version 12 which was in the kernel from 2.6.13-2.6.19 (version 13 never saw a kernel @@ -28,32 +32,25 @@ to write their own scripts, the fields are described here. CPU statistics -------------- -cpu<N> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 - -NOTE: In the sched_yield() statistics, the active queue is considered empty - if it has only one process in it, since obviously the process calling - sched_yield() is that process. +cpu<N> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 -First four fields are sched_yield() statistics: - 1) # of times both the active and the expired queue were empty - 2) # of times just the active queue was empty - 3) # of times just the expired queue was empty - 4) # of times sched_yield() was called +First field is a sched_yield() statistic: + 1) # of times sched_yield() was called Next three are schedule() statistics: - 5) # of times we switched to the expired queue and reused it - 6) # of times schedule() was called - 7) # of times schedule() left the processor idle + 2) # of times we switched to the expired queue and reused it + 3) # of times schedule() was called + 4) # of times schedule() left the processor idle Next two are try_to_wake_up() statistics: - 8) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called - 9) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called to wake up the local cpu + 5) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called + 6) # of times try_to_wake_up() was called to wake up the local cpu Next three are statistics describing scheduling latency: - 10) sum of all time spent running by tasks on this processor (in jiffies) - 11) sum of all time spent waiting to run by tasks on this processor (in + 7) sum of all time spent running by tasks on this processor (in jiffies) + 8) sum of all time spent waiting to run by tasks on this processor (in jiffies) - 12) # of timeslices run on this cpu + 9) # of timeslices run on this cpu Domain statistics |