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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt21
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst2
4 files changed, 24 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 73b0c0d8df31..a5c845338d6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -177,6 +177,15 @@ cgroup v2 currently supports the following mount options.
ignored on non-init namespace mounts. Please refer to the
Delegation section for details.
+ memory_localevents
+
+ Only populate memory.events with data for the current cgroup,
+ and not any subtrees. This is legacy behaviour, the default
+ behaviour without this option is to include subtree counts.
+ This option is system wide and can only be set on mount or
+ modified through remount from the init namespace. The mount
+ option is ignored on non-init namespace mounts.
+
Organizing Processes and Threads
--------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index da0e84ecee32..74d28efa1c40 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
others).
ccw_timeout_log [S390]
- See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
+ See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@
/selinux/checkreqprot.
cio_ignore= [S390]
- See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
+ See Documentation/s390/common_io.rst for details.
clk_ignore_unused
[CLK]
Prevents the clock framework from automatically gating
@@ -3752,6 +3752,12 @@
the propagation of recent CPU-hotplug changes up
the rcu_node combining tree.
+ rcutree.use_softirq= [KNL]
+ If set to zero, move all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing to
+ per-CPU rcuc kthreads. Defaults to a non-zero
+ value, meaning that RCU_SOFTIRQ is used by default.
+ Specify rcutree.use_softirq=0 to use rcuc kthreads.
+
rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= [KNL]
Disable autobalancing of the rcu_node combining
tree. This is used by rcutorture, and might
@@ -5100,13 +5106,12 @@
targets for exploits that can control RIP.
emulate [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
- emulated reasonably safely.
+ emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
+ page is readable.
- native Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
- This is a little bit faster than trapping
- and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
- better than they would in emulation mode.
- It also makes exploits much easier to write.
+ xonly Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
+ emulated reasonably safely. The vsyscall
+ page is not readable.
none Vsyscalls don't work at all. This makes
them quite hard to use for exploits but
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
index 8edb35f11317..ddf8d8d33377 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ the Linux memory management.
ksm
memory-hotplug
numa_memory_policy
+ numaperf
pagemap
soft-dirty
transhuge
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst
index b79f70c04397..c067ed145158 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ characteristics. Some memory may share the same node as a CPU, and others
are provided as memory only nodes. While memory only nodes do not provide
CPUs, they may still be local to one or more compute nodes relative to
other nodes. The following diagram shows one such example of two compute
-nodes with local memory and a memory only node for each of compute node:
+nodes with local memory and a memory only node for each of compute node::
+------------------+ +------------------+
| Compute Node 0 +-----+ Compute Node 1 |