Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kdump: describe jumping to dump-capture kernel

Hi, On 02/13/18 at 04:22pm, Gioh Kim wrote: > Jumping between the system kernel and the dump-capture kernel > has been supported for long time but there is no description > how to use it. This patch adds the description how to use kexec tool > to jump to the dump-capture kernel and jump back to

Re: [patch 1/2] mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:55:11 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes wrote: > > > > Is this fine-grained enough? We've had percentage-based tunables in > > the past, and 10 years later when systems are vastly larger, 1% is too > > much. > > > > They still have the (current) ability

Re: [patch -mm] mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent fix

On 02/13/2018 05:00 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > Specify that movablecore= can use a percent value. > > Remove comment about hugetlb pages not being movable per Mike. > > Cc: Mike Kravetz > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Thanks! FWIW, Reviewed-by:

[patch -mm] mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent fix

Specify that movablecore= can use a percent value. Remove comment about hugetlb pages not being movable per Mike. Cc: Mike Kravetz Signed-off-by: David Rientjes --- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 22 +-- 1 file

Re: [patch 1/2] mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Mike Kravetz wrote: > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > > b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt > > @@ -1825,30

Re: [patch 1/2] mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent

On 02/12/2018 04:24 PM, David Rientjes wrote: > Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be used to define the amount of > ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE on a system, respectively. This requires > the system memory capacity to be known when specifying the command line, > however. > > This introduces

Re: [patch 1/2] mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be used to define the amount of > > ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE on a system, respectively. This requires > > the system memory capacity to be known when specifying the command line, > > however. > > > > This

Re: [patch 1/2] mm, page_alloc: extend kernelcore and movablecore for percent

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 16:24:25 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes wrote: > Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be used to define the amount of > ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE on a system, respectively. This requires > the system memory capacity to be known when specifying the

[PATCH] admin-guide: Fix list formatting in tained-kernels.html

Without this patch, the points 1-9 in the list are rendered as an HTML blockquote containing a list, causing them to be indented further than the rest of the list. While at it, also fix the quotation marks around G and P. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer ---

[PATCH] Documentation/process/howto: Remove outdated info about bugzilla mailing lists

The mailing list archives[1,2] show no activity since September 2011. [1]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-new/ [2]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-janitors/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer --- Documentation/process/howto.rst | 8

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Restructure kernel-doc.rst

On 02/13/2018 01:18 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:03:18PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> As long as the examples don't dictate style... >> E.g., Matthew likes to use: >> >> + * @gfp: Memory allocation flags. >> >> a. Capitalize the first word after @param: >> b. end with a

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Restructure kernel-doc.rst

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:15:32 -0800 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Jon asked me to redo the Context: patch on top of his current docs tree. > Unfortunately, I was on a plane at the time, so I started fixing some > other small things, and before I knew it, I'd completely restructured

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Restructure kernel-doc.rst

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:03:18PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 02/13/2018 12:59 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > I think this makes sense to do, but I really would like to see an intro > > comment on the split-man.pl script itself. Somebody wandering through > > the scripts directory should be

[PATCH v2 4/5] Fix whitespace in example

From: Matthew Wilcox Line up the second line in the way that the example purports to be showing. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox --- Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git

[PATCH v2 3/5] Add scripts/split-man.pl

From: Matthew Wilcox Instead of asking the user to copy and paste a small perl script from the documentation, just distribute the perl script in the scripts directory. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox --- Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 30

[PATCH v2 5/5] Restructure kernel-doc.rst

From: Matthew Wilcox I found the layout confusing with multiple introductions to what kernel-doc is and how to use it. I made the following changes: - Moved the 'Including kernel-doc comments' section to the end of the document -- we should explain what it *is*

[PATCH v2 2/5] Minor fixes to kernel-doc.rst

From: Matthew Wilcox The author clearly meant to use the word 'which' here. Also replace some tabs with spaces which fixes the syntax highlighting in my editor. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox --- Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst | 16

[PATCH v2 0/5] Restructure kernel-doc.rst

From: Matthew Wilcox Jon asked me to redo the Context: patch on top of his current docs tree. Unfortunately, I was on a plane at the time, so I started fixing some other small things, and before I knew it, I'd completely restructured the entire doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst

[PATCH v2 1/5] Add documentation for Context section

From: Matthew Wilcox This section is mentioned in scripts/kernel-doc, so we should mention it in doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst. There are close to 500 comments using the Context section already, and almost 300 using a Locking section which fulfills much the same purpose (and

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: Co-developed-by instead of Co-Developed-by

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 13:55:15 +0100 Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Up to now, all commit messages have used the "d" in lower case. Applied, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix incorrect file name

On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:14:24 +0800 Xiongwei Song wrote: > There is no file named 'enabled' in the directory tracing/events. It should > be the file 'enable'. Makes sense, applied to the docs tree, thanks. jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Restructure kernel-doc.rst

On 02/13/2018 12:59 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 06:45:07 -0800 > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >> Jon asked me to redo the Context: patch on top of his current docs tree. >> Unfortunately, I was on a plane at the time, so I started fixing some >> other small

Re: [PATCH 0/6] Restructure kernel-doc.rst

On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 06:45:07 -0800 Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Jon asked me to redo the Context: patch on top of his current docs tree. > Unfortunately, I was on a plane at the time, so I started fixing some > other small things, and before I knew it, I'd completely restructured

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kdump: describe jumping to dump-capture kernel

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Gioh Kim wrote: > Jumping between the system kernel and the dump-capture kernel > has been supported for long time but there is no description > how to use it. This patch adds the description how to use kexec tool > to jump to the

[PATCH 1/2] Documentation/locking/lockdep: update info about states

Commit d92a8cfcb37e ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation") removed reclaim_fs lockdep STATE. Reflect the change in documentation. While we are at it, also clarify formula to calculate number of state bits. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli Cc: Peter Zijlstra

[RFC PATCH 2/2] Documentation/locking/lockdep: Add section about available annotations

Add section about annotations that can be used to perform additional runtime checking of locking correctness: assert that certain locks are held and prevent accidental unlocking. Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar

[PATCH 0/2] Update lockdep doc and add section about annotations

Hi, a couple of patches to lockdep docs. First one is a small fix for that fact that Peter made documentation stale (as usual :P). Second one is an RFC. I thought that adding some info about lockdep asserts might help spread adoption even wider (mostly regarding lockdep_pin_lock stuff, which is

RE: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Add nonxstack=on|off kernel parameter

> > > From: James Hogan [jho...@kernel.org] > Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 12:55 PM > > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 11:33:47AM +, Miodrag Dinic wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 05:50:52PM +, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > What

[PATCH] Documentation: kdump: describe jumping to dump-capture kernel

Jumping between the system kernel and the dump-capture kernel has been supported for long time but there is no description how to use it. This patch adds the description how to use kexec tool to jump to the dump-capture kernel and jump back to the system kernel. Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim

[PATCH] scripts: kernel_doc: fixup reporting of function identifiers

When function description includes brackets after the function name as suggested by Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc, the kernel-doc script omits the function name from "Scanning doc for" report. Extending match for identifier name with optional brackets fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: Mike

Re: [PATCH 5/8] docs: kernel-doc: Move STATE_BODY processing to a separate function

On Fri, 09 Feb 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 1:32 AM, Jani Nikula > wrote: >>> + # miguel-style comment kludge, look for blank lines after >>> + # @parameter line to signify start of description >> >> The