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Paul E. McKenney c234ee4b82 rcutorture: Use nr_cpus rather than maxcpus to limit test size
The maxcpus= kernel boot parameter limits the number of CPUs brought
online at boot time, but it does nothing to prevent additional CPUs
from being brought up later.  Placing a hard cap on the total number
of CPUs is instead the job of the nr_cpus= boot parameter.  This commit
therefore switches the configfrag_boot_cpus() shell function from maxcpus=
to nr_cpus=.  This commit also adds a nr_cpus=43 kernel parameter to RCU's
TREE01 test scenario, but retains the maxcpus=8 kernel parameter in order
to test the ability of RCU expedited grace periods to handle new CPUs
coming online for the first time during grace-period initialization.
Finally, this commit makes the torture scheduling allow maxcpus= to
override other means of specifying the number of CPUs to allow for.
This last works because the torture kernel modules size their workloads
based on the number of CPUs present at the start of the test, not the
ultimate number of CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-24 16:04:16 -07:00
Documentation TTY/Serial fixes for 4.13-rc2 2017-07-22 09:00:24 -07:00
arch xen/x86: fix cpu hotplug 2017-07-23 08:13:11 +02:00
block bfq: dispatch request to prevent queue stalling after the request completion 2017-07-12 08:32:04 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-14 22:49:50 -07:00
drivers xen/balloon: don't online new memory initially 2017-07-23 08:13:18 +02:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
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init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
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net NFS client bugfixes for 4.13 2017-07-21 16:26:01 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts Properly alphabetize MAINTAINERS file 2017-07-23 16:06:21 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-14 12:44:00 -07:00
tools rcutorture: Use nr_cpus rather than maxcpus to limit test size 2017-07-24 16:04:16 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Second batch of KVM updates for v4.13 2017-07-15 10:18:16 -07:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.