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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2016-03-21 17:08:52 +0000
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2016-03-21 17:08:52 +0000
commit5c1af2f870ab94f94f9dff231c6f18845e5a800a (patch)
tree9cebefa529103691eab8561449c00d43d6420b34 /Documentation
parentc35983d487b56c023b70d6727ad002b19f935827 (diff)
parent917a9133a6b3c6cc2b6b5649d28c617a4ccac3e6 (diff)
Merge branch 'linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4' into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4-rtlsk-v4.4-16.03-rt
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt3
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
index 9f4e5136e568..12af302bca6a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/omap.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Optional properties:
during suspend.
- ti,no-reset-on-init: When present, the module should not be reset at init
- ti,no-idle-on-init: When present, the module should not be idled at init
+- ti,no-idle: When present, the module is never allowed to idle.
Example:
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index bcaf28e3b15f..a93a27a969eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3418,6 +3418,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot
+ rodata= [KNL]
+ on Mark read-only kernel memory as read-only (default).
+ off Leave read-only kernel memory writable for debugging.
+
root= [KNL] Root filesystem
See name_to_dev_t comment in init/do_mounts.c.
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
index 3a4d681c3e98..b653641d4261 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ In the first case there are two additional complications:
- if CR4.SMEP is enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page,
the kernel may now execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx.
If we get a user fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and
- spte.nx=gpte.nx back.
+ spte.nx=gpte.nx back. For this to work, KVM forces EFER.NX to 1 when
+ shadow paging is in use.
- if CR4.SMAP is disabled: since the page has been changed to a kernel
page, it can not be reused when CR4.SMAP is enabled. We set
CR4.SMAP && !CR0.WP into shadow page's role to avoid this case. Note,