Based on the implementation in kernel/sysctl.c (the proc_do_cad_pid()
function), kernel/reboot.c, and include/linux/sched/signal.h.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200423183651.15365-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There are changes in the usage of PCI for the user:
- new kernel parameter
- modification of the way functions are enumerated
Let's document these.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs. This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.
On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Add the initrdmem option:
initrdmem=ss[KMG],nn[KMG]
which is used to specify the physical address of the initrd, almost
always an address in FLASH. Also add code for x86 to use the existing
phys_init_start and phys_init_size variables in the kernel.
This is useful in cases where a kernel and an initrd is placed in FLASH,
but there is no firmware file system structure in the FLASH.
One such situation occurs when unused FLASH space on UEFI systems has
been reclaimed by, e.g., taking it from the Management Engine. For
example, on many systems, the ME is given half the FLASH part; not only
is 2.75M of an 8M part unused; but 10.75M of a 16M part is unused. This
space can be used to contain an initrd, but need to tell Linux where it
is.
This space is "raw": due to, e.g., UEFI limitations: it can not be added
to UEFI firmware volumes without rebuilding UEFI from source or writing
a UEFI device driver. It can be referenced only as a physical address
and size.
At the same time, if a kernel can be "netbooted" or loaded from GRUB or
syslinux, the option of not using the physical address specification
should be available.
Then, it is easy to boot the kernel and provide an initrd; or boot the
the kernel and let it use the initrd in FLASH. In practice, this has
proven to be very helpful when integrating Linux into FLASH on x86.
Hence, the most flexible and convenient path is to enable the initrdmem
command line option in a way that it is the last choice tried.
For example, on the DigitalLoggers Atomic Pi, an image into FLASH can be
burnt in with a built-in command line which includes:
initrdmem=0xff968000,0x200000
which specifies a location and size.
[ bp: Massage commit message, make it passive. ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAP6exYLK11rhreX=6QPyDQmW7wPHsKNEFtXE47pjx41xS6O7-A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426011021.1cskg0AGd%akpm@linux-foundation.org
Here are a number of USB driver fixes for 5.7-rc3.
Nothing huge, just the usual collection of:
- xhci fixes
- gadget driver fixes
- syzkaller fuzzing fixes
- new device ids and DT bindings
- new quirks added for broken devices
A few of the gadget driver fixes show up twice here as they were applied
to my branch, and also by Felipe to his branch which I then pulled in as
we got out of sync a bit.
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'usb-5.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are a number of USB driver fixes for 5.7-rc3.
Nothing huge, just the usual collection of:
- xhci fixes
- gadget driver fixes
- syzkaller fuzzing fixes
- new device ids and DT bindings
- new quirks added for broken devices
A few of the gadget driver fixes show up twice here as they were
applied to my branch, and also by Felipe to his branch which I then
pulled in as we got out of sync a bit.
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'usb-5.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (33 commits)
USB: sisusbvga: Change port variable from signed to unsigned
usb-storage: Add unusual_devs entry for JMicron JMS566
USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")
USB: hub: Fix handling of connect changes during sleep
usb: typec: altmode: Fix typec_altmode_get_partner sometimes returning an invalid pointer
xhci: Don't clear hub TT buffer on ep0 protocol stall
xhci: prevent bus suspend if a roothub port detected a over-current condition
xhci: Fix handling halted endpoint even if endpoint ring appears empty
usb: raw-gadget: Fix copy_to/from_user() checks
usb: raw-gadget: fix raw_event_queue_fetch locking
usb: gadget: udc: atmel: Fix vbus disconnect handling
usb: dwc3: gadget: Fix request completion check
USB: Add USB_QUIRK_DELAY_CTRL_MSG and USB_QUIRK_DELAY_INIT for Corsair K70 RGB RAPIDFIRE
phy: tegra: Select USB_COMMON for usb_get_maximum_speed()
usb: typec: tcpm: Ignore CC and vbus changes in PORT_RESET change
usb: f_fs: Clear OS Extended descriptor counts to zero in ffs_data_reset()
cdc-acm: introduce a cool down
cdc-acm: close race betrween suspend() and acm_softint
UAS: fix deadlock in error handling and PM flushing work
UAS: no use logging any details in case of ENODEV
...
Commit bd0e6c9614 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for
high speed devices") changed the way the hub driver enumerates
high-speed devices. Instead of using the "new" enumeration scheme
first and switching to the "old" scheme if that doesn't work, we start
with the "old" scheme. In theory this is better because the "old"
scheme is slightly faster -- it involves resetting the device only
once instead of twice.
However, for a long time Windows used only the "new" scheme. Zeng Tao
said that Windows 8 and later use the "old" scheme for high-speed
devices, but apparently there are some devices that don't like it.
William Bader reports that the Ricoh webcam built into his Sony Vaio
laptop not only doesn't enumerate under the "old" scheme, it gets hung
up so badly that it won't then enumerate under the "new" scheme! Only
a cold reset will fix it.
Therefore we will revert the commit and go back to trying the "new"
scheme first for high-speed devices.
Reported-and-tested-by: William Bader <williambader@hotmail.com>
Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207219
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Fixes: bd0e6c9614 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")
CC: Zeng Tao <prime.zeng@hisilicon.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004221611230.11262-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel + tools/perf:
Alexey Budankov:
- Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space.
callchains:
Adrian Hunter:
- Allow using Intel PT to synthesize callchains for regular events.
Kan Liang:
- Stitch LBR records from multiple samples to get deeper backtraces,
there are caveats, see the csets for details.
perf script:
Andreas Gerstmayr:
- Add flamegraph.py script
BPF:
Jiri Olsa:
- Synthesize bpf_trampoline/dispatcher ksymbol events.
perf stat:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Honour --timeout for forked workloads.
Stephane Eranian:
- Force error in fallback on :k events, to avoid counting nothing when
the user asks for kernel events but is not allowed to.
perf bench:
Ian Rogers:
- Add event synthesis benchmark.
tools api fs:
Stephane Eranian:
- Make xxx__mountpoint() more scalable
libtraceevent:
He Zhe:
- Handle return value of asprintf.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-5.8-20200420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core fixes and improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
kernel + tools/perf:
Alexey Budankov:
- Introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space.
callchains:
Adrian Hunter:
- Allow using Intel PT to synthesize callchains for regular events.
Kan Liang:
- Stitch LBR records from multiple samples to get deeper backtraces,
there are caveats, see the csets for details.
perf script:
Andreas Gerstmayr:
- Add flamegraph.py script
BPF:
Jiri Olsa:
- Synthesize bpf_trampoline/dispatcher ksymbol events.
perf stat:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Honour --timeout for forked workloads.
Stephane Eranian:
- Force error in fallback on :k events, to avoid counting nothing when
the user asks for kernel events but is not allowed to.
perf bench:
Ian Rogers:
- Add event synthesis benchmark.
tools api fs:
Stephane Eranian:
- Make xxx__mountpoint() more scalable
libtraceevent:
He Zhe:
- Handle return value of asprintf.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In order to better organize the main admin-guide index,
place the driver-specific indexes on separate files.
This ensures a more consistent numbering at the main index.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Separate the generic documentation from the driver-specific
parts, and use a better title for the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The old cards.rst file doesn't exist anymore. Also, it is not
the right reference there, as it should be pointing to the
bttv-specific cardlist.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
While test drivers is probably something that normal users
won't bother, it doesn't hurt to add them to the card list.
This way, all drivers, except for the ones under staging,
would be listed there.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The SPI cards are also under the concept of "platform" drivers
as defined at the section introduction.
So, add a SPI card list there.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Having a table with a list of all USB drivers seems worth,
and it comes almost for free, as we can just use Kconfig
descriptions (with some adjustments).
So, add a table for that.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Instead of listing "other" PCI card list, just add a list with
the existing drivers (not including sub-drivers).
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The frontend drivers list is incomplete. Update it from
what's there at the Kernel Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The DVB cards.rst file is old and outdated. It also contains
data that are contained on other cardlists. Remove the
duplicated information and split frontends and PCI cards on
separate files.
As all USB cards already have their own card lists, just drop
the old USB data there.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
There are several other USB cards. Most of them support just
one device. The only exception is the "pwc" driver. But, as
updates to it are not frequent, let's just place everything
manually into a single file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The siano driver looks like em28xx, except that its cards
are split on 3 drivers.
Add a card list for it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The cardlist section is important for some boards, because they
may require extra modprobe parameters.
Improve the docs to mention that.
Thanks-to: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> # for providing me some PCI IDs
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Several of the existing documents under the media admin-guide
contain build procedures.
Add an specific chapter describing it. This document was
partially inspired on the modifications I made to the bttv.rst
file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The media's admin guide is currently just a group of
not-connected docs.
Add an introduction chapter for it to start making sense
to a random reader.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
It is interesting to have a card list also for cx231xx
driver, as it currently supports 27 different boards.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Improve the documentation by providing examples on how to test camera
capture on imx6q-sabresd via v4l2-ctl and Gstreamer.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Longerbeam<slongerbeam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
In order to improve the documentation, provide the OV5640 MIPI module
part number that is used on the imx6q-sabresd board.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The current example for imx6q-sabresd is for a direct conversion pipeline.
Provide an extra example using unprocessed video capture for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Longerbeam <slongerbeam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
The current instructions for imx6q-sabresd do not lead to functional
capture on OV5640 MIPI CSI-2.
The reason for this, as explained by Steve Longerbeam, is that OV5640 by
default transmits on virtual channel 0, not channel 1 as is given in the
instructions.
Adapt the instructions to use virtual channel 0 so that a working
camera setup can be achieved on imx6q-sabresd.
Also, since we are using an IC direct conversion pipeline, improve
the example by demonstrating colorspace and scaling.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Longerbeam<slongerbeam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Changes to make the text more formal and organized. The reasons are now cited and described at the same time.
Minor grammatical problems have also been fixed.
Signed-off-by: Cristian Souza <cristianmsbr@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200411010201.GA22706@darkstar
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Based on the implementation in kernel/bpf/syscall.c,
kernel/bpf/trampoline.c, include/linux/filter.h, and the documentation
in bpftool-prog.rst.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200315122648.20558-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Several parts of this document define literals: ioctl names,
function calls, directory patches, etc. Mark those as literal
blocks, in order to improve its readability (both at text mode
and after parsed by Sphinx.
This fixes those two warnings:
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst:139: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst:139: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
produced during documentation build.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2ae061761baf8fe00cdf8a7e6dae293756849a05.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Sphinx produce some warnings due to a bad table format:
Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst:358: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst:358: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst:363: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/admin-guide/ras.rst:363: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Rearrange the things there in order to supress the warnings
while being precise at the Sphinx output about how ranks are
mapped into csrows.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9e1bb44d6dbedb5b6f049d081b47da1f9620de16.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Merge tag 'v5.7-rc2' into patchwork
Linux 5.7-rc2
* tag 'v5.7-rc2': (331 commits)
Linux 5.7-rc2
mm: Fix MREMAP_DONTUNMAP accounting on VMA merge
xattr.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
uapi: linux: fiemap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
uapi: linux: dlm_device.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
tpm_eventlog.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
ti_wilink_st.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
swap.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
skbuff.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
sched: topology.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
rslib.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
rio.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
posix_acl.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
platform_data: wilco-ec.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
memcontrol.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
list_lru.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
lib: cpu_rmap: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
irq.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
ihex.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
igmp.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member
...
SRBDS is an MDS-like speculative side channel that can leak bits from the
random number generator (RNG) across cores and threads. New microcode
serializes the processor access during the execution of RDRAND and
RDSEED. This ensures that the shared buffer is overwritten before it is
released for reuse.
While it is present on all affected CPU models, the microcode mitigation
is not needed on models that enumerate ARCH_CAPABILITIES[MDS_NO] in the
cases where TSX is not supported or has been disabled with TSX_CTRL.
The mitigation is activated by default on affected processors and it
increases latency for RDRAND and RDSEED instructions. Among other
effects this will reduce throughput from /dev/urandom.
* Enable administrator to configure the mitigation off when desired using
either mitigations=off or srbds=off.
* Export vulnerability status via sysfs
* Rename file-scoped macros to apply for non-whitelist table initializations.
[ bp: Massage,
- s/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPING/VULNBL_INTEL_STEPPINGS/g,
- do not read arch cap MSR a second time in tsx_fused_off() - just pass it in,
- flip check in cpu_set_bug_bits() to save an indentation level,
- reflow comments.
jpoimboe: s/Mitigated/Mitigation/ in user-visible strings
tglx: Dropped the fused off magic for now
]
Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Neelima Krishnan <neelima.krishnan@intel.com>
After recent changes allowing scale-invariant utilization to be
used on x86, the schedutil governor on top of intel_pstate in the
passive mode should be on par with (or better than) the active mode
"powersave" algorithm of intel_pstate on systems in which
hardware-managed P-states (HWP) are not used, so it should not be
necessary to use the internal scaling algorithm in those cases.
Accordingly, modify intel_pstate to start in the passive mode by
default if the processor at hand does not support HWP of if the driver
is requested to avoid using HWP through the kernel command line.
Among other things, that will allow utilization clamps and the
support for RT/DL tasks in the schedutil governor to be utilized on
systems in which intel_pstate is used.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Update the kernel.rst documentation file with the information related to
usage of CAP_PERFMON capability to secure performance monitoring and
observability operations in system.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/84c32383-14a2-fa35-16b6-f9e59bd37240@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Update perf-security.rst documentation file with the information
related to usage of CAP_PERFMON capability to secure performance
monitoring and observability operations in system.
Committer notes:
While testing 'perf top' under cap_perfmon I noticed that it needs
some more capability and Alexey pointed out cap_ipc_lock, as needed by
this kernel chunk:
kernel/events/core.c: 6101
if ((locked > lock_limit) && perf_is_paranoid() &&
!capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) {
ret = -EPERM;
goto unlock;
}
So I added it to the documentation, and also mentioned that if the
libcap version doesn't yet supports 'cap_perfmon', its numeric value can
be used instead, i.e. if:
# setcap "cap_perfmon,cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" perf
Fails, try:
# setcap "38,cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_ptrace,cap_syslog=ep" perf
I also added a paragraph stating that using an unpatched libcap will
fail the check for CAP_PERFMON, as it checks the cap number against a
maximum to see if it is valid, which makes it use as the default the
'cycles:u' event, even tho a cap_perfmon capable perf binary can get
kernel samples, to workaround that just use, e.g.:
# perf top -e cycles
# perf record -e cycles
And it will sample kernel and user modes.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/17278551-9399-9ebe-d665-8827016a217d@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Documentation for the kernel.modprobe sysctl was added both by
commit 0317c5371e ("docs: merge debugging-modules.txt into
sysctl/kernel.rst") and by commit 6e71582506 ("docs: admin-guide:
document the kernel.modprobe sysctl"), resulting in the same sysctl
being documented in two places. Merge these into one place.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200414172430.230293-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In order to make easier for people to navigate between the
three media guides, add cross-references between them
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
