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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-11 09:16:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-11 09:16:39 -0700
commit89af571ca633ada14d17746519a179553a732d31 (patch)
tree7d5486cc43b4ce4c258cb2fcfc449e6a94cdc33d /Documentation
parent1b195b170da6d75abafa290deeb8863dc8a4d79b (diff)
parent59e36927ee08f3bf06d8d14597e57389bf1b41dc (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (54 commits) [S390] tape: Use pr_xxx instead of dev_xxx in shared driver code [S390] Wire up page fault events for software perf counters. [S390] Remove smp_cpu_not_running. [S390] Get rid of cpuid.h header file. [S390] Limit cpu detection to 256 physical cpus. [S390] tape: Fix device online messages [S390] Enable guest page hinting by default. [S390] use generic scatterlist.h [S390] s390dbf: Add description for usage of "%s" in sprintf events [S390] Initialize __LC_THREAD_INFO early. [S390] fix recursive locking on page_table_lock [S390] kvm: use console_initcall() to initialize s390 virtio console [S390] tape: reversed order of labels [S390] hypfs: Use "%u" instead of "%d" for unsigned ints in snprintf [S390] kernel: Print an error message if kernel NSS cannot be defined [S390] zcrypt: Free ap_device if dev_set_name fails. [S390] zcrypt: Use spin_lock_bh in suspend callback [S390] xpram: Remove checksum validation for suspend/resume [S390] vmur: Invalid allocation sequence for vmur class [S390] hypfs: remove useless variable qname ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt16
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
index 2d10053dd97..ae66f9b90a2 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt
@@ -495,6 +495,13 @@ and for each vararg a long value. So e.g. for a debug entry with a format
string plus two varargs one would need to allocate a (3 * sizeof(long))
byte data area in the debug_register() function.
+IMPORTANT: Using "%s" in sprintf event functions is dangerous. You can only
+use "%s" in the sprintf event functions, if the memory for the passed string is
+available as long as the debug feature exists. The reason behind this is that
+due to performance considerations only a pointer to the string is stored in
+the debug feature. If you log a string that is freed afterwards, you will get
+an OOPS when inspecting the debug feature, because then the debug feature will
+access the already freed memory.
NOTE: If using the sprintf view do NOT use other event/exception functions
than the sprintf-event and -exception functions.
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 322a00bb99d..2dbff53369d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration)
show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- acpi_video_flags
- acct
+- callhome [ S390 only ]
- auto_msgmni
- core_pattern
- core_uses_pid
@@ -91,6 +92,21 @@ valid for 30 seconds.
==============================================================
+callhome:
+
+Controls the kernel's callhome behavior in case of a kernel panic.
+
+The s390 hardware allows an operating system to send a notification
+to a service organization (callhome) in case of an operating system panic.
+
+When the value in this file is 0 (which is the default behavior)
+nothing happens in case of a kernel panic. If this value is set to "1"
+the complete kernel oops message is send to the IBM customer service
+organization in case the mainframe the Linux operating system is running
+on has a service contract with IBM.
+
+==============================================================
+
core_pattern:
core_pattern is used to specify a core dumpfile pattern name.