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Michal Hocko 90daf3062f Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical" 
This reverts commit 0f6d24f878 ("mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning
if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical") because it causes false
positive warnings during OOM situations as noticed by Tetsuo Handa:

  Node 0 active_anon:3525940kB inactive_anon:8372kB active_file:216kB inactive_file:1872kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:2504kB dirty:52kB writeback:0kB shmem:8660kB shmem_thp: 0kB shmem_pmdmapped: 0kB anon_thp: 636928kB writeback_tmp:0kB unstable:0kB all_unreclaimable? yes
  Node 0 DMA free:14848kB min:284kB low:352kB high:420kB active_anon:992kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:15988kB managed:15904kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:24kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 2687 3645 3645
  Node 0 DMA32 free:53004kB min:49608kB low:62008kB high:74408kB active_anon:2712648kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB writepending:0kB present:3129216kB managed:2773132kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:96kB pagetables:5096kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:0kB local_pcp:0kB free_cma:0kB
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 958 958
  Node 0 Normal free:17140kB min:17684kB low:22104kB high:26524kB active_anon:812300kB inactive_anon:8372kB active_file:1228kB inactive_file:1868kB unevictable:0kB writepending:52kB present:1048576kB managed:981224kB mlocked:0kB kernel_stack:3520kB pagetables:8552kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:120kB local_pcp:120kB free_cma:0kB
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
  [...]
  Out of memory: Kill process 8459 (a.out) score 999 or sacrifice child
  Killed process 8459 (a.out) total-vm:4180kB, anon-rss:88kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  oom_reaper: reaped process 8459 (a.out), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
  vm direct limit must be set greater than background limit.

The problem is that both thresh and bg_thresh will be 0 if
available_memory is less than 4 pages when evaluating
global_dirtyable_memory.

While this might be worked around the whole point of the warning is
dubious at best.  We do rely on admins to do sensible things when
changing tunable knobs.  Dirty memory writeback knobs are not any
special in that regards so revert the warning rather than adding more
hacks to work this around.

Debugged by Yafang Shao.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127091939.tahb77nznytcxw55@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 0f6d24f878 ("mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
 		2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
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ABI platform-drivers-x86 for v4.15-1 2017-11-18 10:26:57 -08:00
EDID
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PCI
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RCU Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 12:18:10 -08:00
accounting
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acpi ACPI / LPIT: Add Low Power Idle Table (LPIT) support 2017-10-11 15:38:10 +02:00
admin-guide Trimmed second batch of KVM changes for Linux 4.15 2017-11-24 19:44:25 -10:00
aoe
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arm ARM: sunxi: add support for R40 SoC 2017-09-22 21:57:09 +02:00
arm64 arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
auxdisplay
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backlight
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blackfin
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block block, bfq: move debug blkio stats behind CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 2017-11-14 20:13:33 -07:00
blockdev SCSI misc on 20170907 2017-09-07 21:11:05 -07:00
bpf bpf: document answers to common questions about BPF 2017-11-01 21:01:47 +09:00
bus-devices
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cdrom documentation: Update ide-cd documentation to reflect CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE removal 2017-10-12 11:25:31 -06:00
cgroup-v1 mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
cma
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connector
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console
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core-api timer: Remove init_timer() interface 2017-11-21 15:57:09 -08:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: stats: Handle the case when trans_table goes beyond PAGE_SIZE 2017-11-08 23:41:25 +01:00
cpuidle
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cris
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crypto crypto: doc - adapt api sample to use async. op wait 2017-11-03 22:11:23 +08:00
dev-tools Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
device-mapper dm raid: fix incorrect status output at the end of a "recover" process 2017-10-05 16:21:30 -04:00
devicetree fixes/cleanups for rc1, non-desktop flags for VR 2017-11-23 21:04:56 -10:00
doc-guide Documentation: fix ref to sphinx/kerneldoc.py 2017-10-19 12:57:10 -06:00
driver-api This is the bulk of pin control changes for the v4.15 2017-11-16 10:57:11 -08:00
driver-model We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
early-userspace
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extcon
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fault-injection cpu/hotplug: Get rid of CPU hotplug notifier leftovers 2017-11-13 10:03:53 +01:00
fb documentation: fb: update list of available compiled-in fonts 2017-11-08 03:39:52 -07:00
features Documentation/features/KASAN: mark KASAN as supported only on 64-bit on x86 2017-10-03 14:40:22 -06:00
filesystems Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-17 16:56:17 -08:00
firmware_class
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fmc
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fpga
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frv
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gpio Merge branch 'gpio-irqchip-rework' of /home/linus/linux-gpio into devel 2017-11-09 09:38:42 +01:00
gpu amdgpu DC display code for Vega. 2017-11-17 14:34:42 -08:00
hid Documentation: fix input related doc refs 2017-10-12 11:14:06 -06:00
hwmon pmbus: Add driver for Maxim MAX31785 Intelligent Fan Controller 2017-11-05 06:06:33 -08:00
i2c i2c: i801: Add support for Intel Cedar Fork 2017-10-05 14:44:56 +02:00
ia64 kbuild: /bin/pwd -> pwd 2017-11-18 11:32:27 +09:00
ide
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iio iio: adc: New driver for Cirrus Logic EP93xx ADC 2017-07-25 19:56:23 +01:00
infiniband Documentation: Hardware tag matching 2017-08-29 08:30:21 -04:00
input Documentation: fix input related doc refs 2017-10-12 11:14:06 -06:00
ioctl
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isdn
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kbuild DeviceTree for 4.15: 2017-11-14 18:25:40 -08:00
kdump kexec/kdump: minor Documentation updates for arm64 and Image 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
kernel-hacking
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laptops Documentation: fix admin-guide doc refs 2017-10-12 11:13:28 -06:00
leds Documentation: leds: Update 00-INDEX file 2017-10-23 20:17:03 +02:00
lightnvm
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livepatch livepatch: add (un)patch callbacks 2017-10-19 10:08:56 +02:00
locking Documentation: fix locking rt-mutex doc refs 2017-10-19 12:56:44 -06:00
m68k
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md md-cluster: update document for raid10 2017-11-01 21:32:25 -07:00
media media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
memory-devices
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metag
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mic
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mips
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misc-devices
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mmc
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mn10300
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mtd
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namespaces
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netlabel
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networking Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-11-15 11:56:19 -08:00
nfc
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nios2
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nvdimm
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nvmem NVMEM documentation fix: A minor typo 2017-08-24 13:31:58 -06:00
openrisc Documentation: openrisc: Updates to README 2017-10-30 21:37:53 +09:00
parisc
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pcmcia
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perf Documentation: perf: hisi: Documentation for HiSilicon SoC PMU driver 2017-10-19 17:06:34 +01:00
phy
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platform
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power PM / runtime: Drop children check from __pm_runtime_set_status() 2017-11-16 22:51:22 +01:00
powerpc powerpc updates for 4.13 2017-07-07 13:55:45 -07:00
pps drivers/pps: aesthetic tweaks to PPS-related content 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
process A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait. There's 2017-11-23 21:01:32 -10:00
pti
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ptp
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rapidio
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s390
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scheduler sched/deadline: Fix the description of runtime accounting in the documentation 2017-11-16 09:00:35 +01:00
scsi scsi: smartpqi: correct spelling error in documentation 2017-10-23 04:15:17 -04:00
security KEYS: fix in-kernel documentation for keyctl_read() 2017-11-15 16:38:44 +00:00
serial
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sh
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sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
sparc
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sphinx Documentation/sphinx: fix kernel-doc decode for non-utf-8 locale 2017-08-31 13:36:28 -06:00
sphinx-static docs RTD theme: code-block with line nos - lines and line numbers don't line up. 2017-07-17 13:48:45 -06:00
spi
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sysctl Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical" 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
target
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thermal
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timers docs: highres: fix broken urls 2017-09-26 14:58:23 -06:00
trace Char/Misc patches for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 09:10:59 -08:00
translations A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait. There's 2017-11-23 21:01:32 -10:00
usb Documentation: fix usb related doc refs 2017-10-12 11:15:48 -06:00
userspace-api seccomp: Implement SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS action 2017-08-14 13:46:50 -07:00
virtual GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM for v4.15 2017-11-17 13:20:01 +01:00
vm mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
w1 add w1_ds28e17 driver for the DS28E17 Onewire to I2C master bridge 2017-10-04 10:29:22 +02:00
watchdog Documentation: fix selftests related file refs 2017-10-19 12:58:21 -06:00
wimax
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x86 x86/pkeys: Update documentation about availability 2017-11-21 09:34:52 +01:00
xtensa
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00-INDEX linux-kselftest-4.13-rc1-update 2017-07-07 14:04:47 -07:00
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CodingStyle
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DMA-API-HOWTO.txt DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:32 -06:00
DMA-API.txt dma-coherent: remove the DMA_MEMORY_MAP and DMA_MEMORY_IO flags 2017-09-01 11:59:17 +02:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt DMA-ISA-LPC.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:33 -06:00
DMA-attributes.txt DMA-attributes.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:33 -06:00
IPMI.txt ipmi: Make IPMI panic strings always available 2017-09-27 16:03:45 -05:00
IRQ-affinity.txt IRQ-affinity.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:41 -06:00
IRQ-domain.txt IRQ-domain.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:41 -06:00
IRQ.txt IRQ.txt: add a markup for its title 2017-07-14 13:51:42 -06:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt Intel-IOMMU.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
Makefile Documentation: add script and build target to check for broken file references 2017-10-12 11:07:42 -06:00
SAK.txt SAK.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:04 -06:00
SM501.txt SM501.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:06 -06:00
SubmittingPatches
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atomic_bitops.txt Documentation/locking/atomic: Add documents for new atomic_t APIs 2017-08-10 12:29:00 +02:00
atomic_t.txt Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document... 2017-08-25 11:06:33 +02:00
bcache.txt bcache.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
bt8xxgpio.txt bt8xxgpio.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
btmrvl.txt btmrvl.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:27 -06:00
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:28 -06:00
cachetlb.txt cachetlb.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:28 -06:00
cgroup-v2.txt cgroup, sched: Move basic cpu stats from cgroup.stat to cpu.stat 2017-10-26 10:56:33 -07:00
circular-buffers.txt circular-buffers.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:29 -06:00
clearing-warn-once.txt kernel debug: support resetting WARN*_ONCE 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
clk.txt clk.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:29 -06:00
conf.py docs-rst: don't require adjustbox anymore 2017-09-08 10:02:55 -06:00
cpu-load.txt cpu-load: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
cputopology.txt cputopology.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
crc32.txt crc32.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:30 -06:00
dcdbas.txt dcdbas.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:31 -06:00
debugging-modules.txt
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debugging-via-ohci1394.txt debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
dell_rbu.txt dell_rbu.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:12 -06:00
digsig.txt digsig.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:31 -06:00
docutils.conf
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dontdiff Remove gperf usage from toolchain 2017-08-19 11:02:53 -07:00
efi-stub.txt efi-stub.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
eisa.txt eisa.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:34 -06:00
errseq.rst Documentation: add some docs for errseq_t 2017-07-29 09:01:02 -04:00
flexible-arrays.txt flexible-arrays.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:35 -06:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt futex-requeue-pi.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:35 -06:00
gcc-plugins.txt gcc-plugins.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:36 -06:00
highuid.txt highuid.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:36 -06:00
hw_random.txt hw_random.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:37 -06:00
hwspinlock.txt hwspinlock.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:37 -06:00
index.rst
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intel_txt.txt intel_txt.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
io-mapping.txt io-mapping.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:38 -06:00
io_ordering.txt io_ordering.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:39 -06:00
iostats.txt iostats.txt: update it to cover recent Kernels 2017-07-14 13:51:40 -06:00
irqflags-tracing.txt irqflags-tracing.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:42 -06:00
isa.txt isa.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
isapnp.txt isapnp.txt: promote title level 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
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kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:43 -06:00
kobject.txt kobject.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:44 -06:00
kprobes.txt kprobes/docs: Remove jprobes related documents 2017-10-20 11:02:55 +02:00
kref.txt kref.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:45 -06:00
ldm.txt ldm.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:45 -06:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt lockup-watchdogs.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:46 -06:00
logo.gif
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logo.txt
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lsm.txt
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lzo.txt lzo.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:46 -06:00
mailbox.txt mailbox.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:51:47 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-11-13 12:38:26 -08:00
memory-hotplug.txt memory-hotplug.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:53 -06:00
men-chameleon-bus.txt men-chameleon-bus.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:54 -06:00
nommu-mmap.txt nommu-mmap.txt: don't use all upper case on titles 2017-07-14 13:57:55 -06:00
ntb.txt This series converts a number of top-level documents to the RST format 2017-07-15 12:58:58 -07:00
numastat.txt numastat.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:56 -06:00
padata.txt padata.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:56 -06:00
parport-lowlevel.txt parport-lowlevel.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:57 -06:00
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt percpu-rw-semaphore.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:58 -06:00
phy.txt phy.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:58 -06:00
pi-futex.txt Documentation: fix locking rt-mutex doc refs 2017-10-19 12:56:44 -06:00
pnp.txt pnp.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:57:59 -06:00
preempt-locking.txt preempt-locking.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:00 -06:00
printk-formats.txt printk-formats.txt: Add examples for %pF and %pS usage 2017-08-24 18:49:52 +02:00
pwm.txt
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rbtree.txt rbtree: cache leftmost node internally 2017-09-08 18:26:48 -07:00
remoteproc.txt remoteproc.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:02 -06:00
rfkill.txt rfkill.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:02 -06:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt robust-futex-ABI.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:03 -06:00
robust-futexes.txt robust-futexes.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:03 -06:00
rpmsg.txt rpmsg.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:04 -06:00
rtc.txt rtc: add generic nvmem support 2017-07-07 13:14:14 +02:00
sgi-ioc4.txt sgi-ioc4.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:05 -06:00
siphash.txt siphash.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:06 -06:00
smsc_ece1099.txt smsc_ece1099.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:07 -06:00
static-keys.txt jump_label: Provide hotplug context variants 2017-08-10 12:28:59 +02:00
svga.txt documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file 2017-11-20 10:45:50 -07:00
switchtec.txt NTB: switchtec_ntb: Update switchtec documentation with notes for NTB 2017-11-18 20:37:13 -05:00
sync_file.txt
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tee.txt tee.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:14 -06:00
this_cpu_ops.txt this_cpu_ops.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:08 -06:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt unaligned-memory-access.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:09 -06:00
vfio-mediated-device.txt vfio-mediated-device.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:10 -06:00
vfio.txt vfio.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:10 -06:00
video-output.txt
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xillybus.txt xillybus.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:11 -06:00
xz.txt xz.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:11 -06:00
zorro.txt zorro.txt: standardize document format 2017-07-14 13:58:12 -06:00