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authorSteven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2014-07-09 08:39:51 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2014-07-09 08:39:51 -0400
commit04bea4b9a4e410a540843933243be26de1592135 (patch)
tree8731f2550254fa7e5be8eff9233a6d0a69edb44b /Documentation
parente198cf1ad2f9ccedd005789a740d0eb5b3942447 (diff)
parent8097be3bc58315b14498000585299e3c06fb13ce (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.12.24' into v3.12-rt
This is the 3.12.24 stable release Conflicts: include/linux/irqdesc.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4f7c57cb6022..789b8941a0c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
no further checks are performed.
+ acpi_no_memhotplug [ACPI] Disable memory hotplug. Useful for kdump
+ kernels.
+
add_efi_memmap [EFI; X86] Include EFI memory map in
kernel's map of available physical RAM.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
index 550068466605..6ae89a9edf2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ PR_MCE_KILL
PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY: Early kill
PR_MCE_KILL_LATE: Late kill
PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT: Use system global default
+ Note that if you want to have a dedicated thread which handles
+ the SIGBUS(BUS_MCEERR_AO) on behalf of the process, you should
+ call prctl(PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY) on the designated thread. Otherwise,
+ the SIGBUS is sent to the main thread.
+
PR_MCE_KILL_GET
return current mode