Move sound (OSS & ALSA) kernel parameters to their own files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Add dump_id libata.force parameter. If specified, libata dumps full
IDENTIFY data during device configuration. This is to aid debugging.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Larry Baker <baker@usgs.gov>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Move the limited watchdog driver help from kernel-parameters.txt
to Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt and add info to it
for all watchdog drivers except the ones that have driver-specific
files already.
Correct minor comments and MODULE_PARM_DESC() text in 2 places.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
This patch adds the capability to use the usb debug port with the
kernel debugger. It is also still possible to use this functionality
with or without the earlyprintk=dbgpX. It is possible to use the
kgdbwait boot argument to debug very early in the kernel start up code.
There are two ways to use this driver extension with a kernel boot argument.
1) kgdbdbgp=# -- Where # is the number of the usb debug controller
You must use sysrq-g to break into the kernel debugger on another
connection type other than the dbgp.
2) kgdbdbgp=#debugControlNum#,#Seconds#
In this mode, the usb debug port is polled every #Seconds# for
character input. It is possible to use gdb or press control-c to
break into the kernel debugger.
From the implementation perspective there are 3 high level changes.
1) Allow variable retries for the the hardware via dbgp_bulk_read().
The amount of retries for the dbgp_bulk_read() needed to be
variable instead of fixed. We do not want to poll at all when the
kernel is operating in interrupt driven mode. The polling only
occurs if the kernel was booted when specifying some number of
seconds via the kgdbdbgp boot argument (IE kgdbdbgp=0,1). In this
case the loop count is reduced to 1 so as introduce the smallest
amount of latency as possible.
2) Save the bulk IN endpoint address for use by the kgdb code.
3) The addition of the kgdb interface code.
This consisted of adding in a character read function for the dbgp
as well as a polling thread to allow the dbgp to interrupt the
kernel execution. The rest is the typical kgdb I/O api.
CC: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as
soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available,
instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available.
CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Update the kgdb docs to reflect the new directory structure and API.
Merge in the kdb shell information.
[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>: grammatical corrections]
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
This patch adds in the kdb PS/2 keyboard driver. This was mostly a
direct port from the original kdb where I cleaned up the code against
checkpatch.pl and added the glue to stitch it into kgdb.
This patch also enables early kdb debug via kgdbwait and the keyboard.
All the access to configure kdb using either a serial console or the
keyboard is done via kgdboc.
If you want to use only the keyboard and want to break in early you
would add to your kernel command arguments:
kgdboc=kbd kgdbwait
If you wanted serial and or the keyboard access you could use:
kgdboc=kbd,ttyS0
You can also configure kgdboc as a kernel module or at run time with
the sysfs where you can activate and deactivate kgdb.
Turn it on:
echo kbd,ttyS0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc
Turn it off:
echo "" > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (22 commits)
ACPI: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64
ACPICA: Update version to 20100428.
ACPICA: Update/clarify some parameter names associated with acpi_handle
ACPICA: Rename acpi_ex_system_do_suspend->acpi_ex_system_do_sleep
ACPICA: Prevent possible allocation overrun during object copy
ACPICA: Split large file, evgpeblk
ACPICA: Add GPE support for dynamically loaded ACPI tables
ACPICA: Clarify/rename some root table descriptor fields
ACPICA: Update version to 20100331.
ACPICA: Minimize the differences between linux GPE code and ACPICA code base
ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT
ACPICA: Update DSDT copy/detection.
ACPICA: Add subsystem option to force copy of DSDT to local memory
ACPICA: Add detection of corrupted/replaced DSDT
ACPICA: Add write support for DataTable operation regions
ACPICA: Fix for acpi_reallocate_root_table for incorrect root table copy
ACPICA: Update comments/headers, no functional change
ACPICA: Update version to 20100304
ACPICA: Fix for possible fault in acpi_ex_release_mutex
ACPICA: Standardize integer output for ACPICA warnings/errors
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (61 commits)
KEYS: Return more accurate error codes
LSM: Add __init to fixup function.
TOMOYO: Add pathname grouping support.
ima: remove ACPI dependency
TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal
security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup
TOMOYO: Use stack memory for pending entry.
Revert "ima: remove ACPI dependency"
Revert "TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal"
KEYS: Do preallocation for __key_link()
TOMOYO: Use mutex_lock_interruptible.
KEYS: Better handling of errors from construct_alloc_key()
KEYS: keyring_serialise_link_sem is only needed for keyring->keyring links
TOMOYO: Use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL.
ima: remove ACPI dependency
TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal
selinux: generalize disabling of execmem for plt-in-heap archs
LSM Audit: rename LSM_AUDIT_NO_AUDIT to LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE
CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock
SMACK: Don't #include Ext2 headers
...
ERST is a way provided by APEI to save and retrieve hardware error
record to and from some simple persistent storage (such as flash).
The Linux kernel support implementation is quite simple and workable
in NMI context. So it can be used to save hardware error record into
flash in hardware error exception or NMI handler, where other more
complex persistent storage such as disk is not usable. After saving
hardware error records via ERST in hardware error exception or NMI
handler, the error records can be retrieved and logged into disk or
network after a clean reboot.
For more information about ERST, please refer to ACPI Specification
version 4.0, section 17.4.
This patch incorporate fixes from Jin Dongming.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
CC: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add document for APEI, including kernel parameters and EINJ debug file
sytem interface.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning.
tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header
tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option
ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE
tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines
tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling
tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling
tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff
ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events
ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.
tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions
tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer
tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very
similar in structure to the softlockup detector. Using Ingo's
suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file:
kernel/watchdog.c.
Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup
detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every
60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups.
To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I
implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event
overflow event. If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is
most likely in trouble.
To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the
previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires.
If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the
warning is printed to the console.
I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths
work.
V2:
- cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination
- surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI
- seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem
- re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space
- added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases
- removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events
V3:
- comment cleanups
- drop support for older softlockup code
- per_cpu cleanups
- completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector
- use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection
- #ifdef cleanups
- rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR
- documentation additions
V4:
- documentation fixes
- convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var
- powerpc compile fixes
V5:
- split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups
TODO:
- figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call
(if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period
[fweisbec: merged conflict patch]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch adds a command line option to tell the AMD IOMMU
driver to not initialize any IOMMU it finds.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
According to libata-core correctly around line 6572:
/* parse id */
p = strchr(id, '.');
...
the optional device is separated from the port in the libata.force ID
by a point or dot instead of by a colon.
Fix documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.
It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.
Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.
This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.
Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.
v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Some BIOS on Toshiba machines corrupt the DSDT, so add a new
boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to workaround it.
Add warning message to ask users to use this option if corrupt DSDT detected.
Also build a DMI blacklist to check it and automatically copy DSDT.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Support for the share and fullflush parameters was removed.
Remove the documentation about them too.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Add a workaround for TPM's which fail to flush last written
PCR values in a TPM_SaveState, in preparation for suspend.
Signed-off-by: David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Now that we check for physically present processors before blindly
evaluating _PDC, we no longer need to maintain a DMI opt-in table
nor a kernel param.
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was
universally deployed and enabled by default in
the major Linux distributions.
At that time, there were a fair number of people who
or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off,
yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading.
Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht"
are accidental, and thus is it possible that it
is doing more harm than good.
In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht.
In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
x86: Fix out of order of gsi
x86: apic: Fix mismerge, add arch_probe_nr_irqs() again
x86, irq: Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq
xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions.
smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early
x86, irq: Remove arch_probe_nr_irqs
sparseirq: Use radix_tree instead of ptrs array
sparseirq: Change irq_desc_ptrs to static
init: Move radix_tree_init() early
irq: Remove unnecessary bootmem code
x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table
x86: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert nmi_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert ioapic_lock and vector_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix()
x86: Fix SCI on IOAPIC != 0
x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mapping
x86, irq: Move __setup_vector_irq() before the first irq enable in cpu online path
x86, irq: Update the vector domain for legacy irqs handled by io-apic
x86, irq: Don't block IRQ0_VECTOR..IRQ15_VECTOR's on all cpu's
...
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mm: Unify kernel_physical_mapping_init() API
x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time
x86: Do not reserve brk for DMI if it's not going to be used
x86: Convert tlbstate_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Use the generic page_is_ram()
x86: Remove BIOS data range from e820
Move page_is_ram() declaration to mm.h
Generic page_is_ram: use __weak
resources: introduce generic page_is_ram()
* 'core-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
plist: Fix grammar mistake, and c-style mistake
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86_64: Print modules like i386 does
* 'x86-doc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parameters
* 'x86-gpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64: Allow fbdev primary video code
* 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Use helpers for rlimits
Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to
enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem
enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which
have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not
really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the
price of the additional mapping operations.
Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but
no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system
time used from 59.737s to 55.9s.
With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated:
Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914)
User Time 515.983 (5.85019)
System Time 59.737 (1.26727)
Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796)
Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64)
Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307)
With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated:
Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968)
User Time 515.659 (6.07012)
System Time 55.9 (1.07799)
Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266)
Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13)
Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039)
This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in
highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the
status-quo as the default.
It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which
allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently
large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful
experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold
at 16G of total RAM.
Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE
pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration,
meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using
lowmem PTEs.
Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required
lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which
reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT
pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that
even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for
highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound
of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in
practice 64G is still supported).
It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM
you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <1266403090-20162-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Moorestown platform does not have PIT or HPET platform timers. Instead it
has a bank of eight APB timers. The number of available timers to the os
is exposed via SFI mtmr tables. All APB timer interrupts are routed via
ioapic rtes and delivered as MSI.
Currently, we use timer 0 and 1 for per cpu clockevent devices, timer 2
for clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A318D2D2@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The main benefit of using ACPI host bridge window information is that
we can do better resource allocation in systems with multiple host bridges,
e.g., http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14183
Sometimes we need _CRS information even if we only have one host bridge,
e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/341681
Most of these systems are relatively new, so this patch turns on
"pci=use_crs" only on machines with a BIOS date of 2008 or newer.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Apparently, some machines may have problems with PCI run-time power
management if MSIs are used for the native PCIe PME signaling. In
particular, on the MSI Wind U-100 PCIe PME interrupts are not
generated by a PCIe root port after a resume from suspend to RAM, if
the system wake-up was triggered by a PME from the device attached to
this port. [It doesn't help to free the interrupt on suspend and
request it back on resume, even if that is done along with disabling
the MSI and re-enabling it, respectively.] However, if INTx
interrupts are used for this purpose on the same machine, everything
works just fine.
For this reason, add a kernel command line switch allowing one to
request that MSIs be not used for the native PCIe PME signaling,
introduce a DMI table allowing us to blacklist machines that need
this switch to be set by default and put the MSI Wind U-100 into this
table.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
PCIe native PME detection mechanism is based on interrupts generated
by root ports or event collectors every time a PCIe device sends a
PME message upstream.
Once a PME message has been sent by an endpoint device and received
by its root port (or event collector in the case of root complex
integrated endpoints), the Requester ID from the message header is
registered in the root port's Root Status register. At the same
time, the PME Status bit of the Root Status register is set to
indicate that there's a PME to handle. If PCIe PME interrupt is
enabled for the root port, it generates an interrupt once the PME
Status has been set. After receiving the interrupt, the kernel can
identify the PCIe device that generated the PME using the Requester
ID from the root port's Root Status register. [For details, see PCI
Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0.]
Implement a driver for the PCIe PME root port service working in
accordance with the above description.
Based on a patch from Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in
their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during
boot. This can prevent systems booting properly.
There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired
default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be
booted.
So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via
the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka
CONFIG_NR_CPUS.
Add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus <=8 are installed on
normal config.
-v2: accordging to Christoph, acpi_numa_init should use nr_cpu_ids in stead of
NR_CPUS.
-v3: add doc in kernel-parameters.txt according to Andrew.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-34-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Update documentation to describe IPv6 parameters.
Reported by <greg@enjellic.com>.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Allow platforms not listed in DMI table
to opt-in and evaluate _PDC early.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable
some laptop requires SCI_EN being set directly on resume,
or else they hung somewhere in the resume code path.
We already have a blacklist for these laptops but we still need
this option, especially when debugging some suspend/resume problems,
in case there are systems that need this workaround and are not yet
in the blacklist.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (42 commits)
nfsd: remove pointless paths in file headers
nfsd: move most of nfsfh.h to fs/nfsd
nfsd: remove unused field rq_reffh
nfsd: enable V4ROOT exports
nfsd: make V4ROOT exports read-only
nfsd: restrict filehandles accepted in V4ROOT case
nfsd: allow exports of symlinks
nfsd: filter readdir results in V4ROOT case
nfsd: filter lookup results in V4ROOT case
nfsd4: don't continue "under" mounts in V4ROOT case
nfsd: introduce export flag for v4 pseudoroot
nfsd: let "insecure" flag vary by pseudoflavor
nfsd: new interface to advertise export features
nfsd: Move private headers to source directory
vfs: nfsctl.c un-used nfsd #includes
lockd: Remove un-used nfsd headers #includes
s390: remove un-used nfsd #includes
sparc: remove un-used nfsd #includes
parsic: remove un-used nfsd #includes
compat.c: Remove dependence on nfsd private headers
...
For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying
and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor
shape.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'omap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: (75 commits)
omap3: Fix OMAP35XX_REV macros
omap: serial: fix non-empty uart fifo read abort
omap3: Zoom2/3: Update hsmmc board config params
omap3 : Enable TWL4030 Keypad for Zoom2 and Zoom3 boards
omap3: id code detection 3525 vs 3515
omap3: rx51: Use wl1251 in SPI mode 3
omap3: zoom2/3: make MMC slot work again
omap1: htcherald: Update defconfig to include mux support
omap1: LCD_DMA: Use some define rather than a hexadecimal
omap: header: remove unused data-type
omap: arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c - sort alphabetically
omap: Correcting GPMC_CONFIG1_DEVICETYPE_NAND
OMAP3: serial - allow platforms specify which UARTs to initialize
omap3: cm-t35: add mux initialization
OMAP4: Sync up omap4430 defconfig
OMAP4: Remove the secondary wait loop
OMAP4: AuxCoreBoot registers only accessible in secure mode
OMAP4: Fix SRAM base and size
OMAP4: Fix cpu detection
omap3: pandora: board file updates for .33
...
Initially only for 34xx. This code allows us to:
- Make the code more generic as the omap internal signal
names can stay the same across omap generations for some
devices
- Map mux registers to GPIO registers that is needed for
dynamic muxing of pins during off-idle
- Override bootloader mux values via kernel cmdline using
omap_mux=some.signa1=0x1234,some.signal2=0x1234
- View and set the mux registers via debugfs if
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled
Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
This patch (as1311) fixes a problem in usb-storage: Some devices are
pretty broken when it comes to reporting sense data. The information
they send back indicates that they have more than 18 bytes of sense
data available, but when the system asks for more than 18 they fail or
hang. The symptom is that probing fails with multiple resets.
The patch adds a new BAD_SENSE flag to indicate that usb-storage
should never ask for more than 18 bytes of sense data. The flag can
be set in an unusual_devs entry or via the "quirks=" module parameter,
and it is set automatically whenever a REQUEST SENSE command for more
than 18 bytes fails or times out.
An unusual_devs entry is added for the Agfa photo frame, which uses a
Prolific chip having this bug.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Daniel Kukula <daniel.kuku@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
vgacon: Add support for setting the default cursor state
vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs
x86, setup: Store the boot cursor state
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits)
mac80211: fix reorder buffer release
iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter
iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter
iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response
iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table
iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log
iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code
b43: fix two warnings
ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded
cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces
iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update
mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
airo: Fix integer overflow warning
rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices.
WE: Fix set events not propagated
b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume
b43: avoid PPC fault during resume
tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race
...
Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and
CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in
kernel/sysctl_check.c
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
net/ipv6/addrconf.c
net/sctp/sysctl.c
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
x86, apic: Enable lapic nmi watchdog on AMD Family 11h
x86: Remove unnecessary mdelay() from cpu_disable_common()
x86, ioapic: Document another case when level irq is seen as an edge
x86, ioapic: Fix the EOI register detection mechanism
x86, io-apic: Move the effort of clearing remoteIRR explicitly before migrating the irq
x86: SGI UV: Map low MMR ranges
x86: apic: Print out SRAT table APIC id in hex
x86: Re-get cfg_new in case reuse/move irq_desc
x86: apic: Remove not needed #ifdef
x86: io-apic: IO-APIC MMIO should not fail on resource insertion
x86: Remove asm/apicnum.h
x86: apic: Do not use stacked physid_mask_t
x86, apic: Get rid of apicid_to_cpu_present assign on 64-bit
x86, ioapic: Use snrpintf while set names for IO-APIC resourses
x86, apic: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of numbers
x86: Remove local_irq_enable()/local_irq_disable() in fixup_irqs()
x86: Use EOI register in io-apic on intel platforms
x86: Force irq complete move during cpu offline
x86: Remove move_cleanup_count from irq_cfg
x86, intr-remap: Avoid irq_chip mask/unmask in fixup_irqs() for intr-remapping
...
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits)
tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities
tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage
ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19
tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used
ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used
tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations
tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute
compiler: Introduce __always_unused
tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl
...
Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible
cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so,
unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate
queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application
from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b].
It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals,
but in general application writers do not expect this
outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app
failures under very high load.
This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit
and if print_fatal_signals is enabled:
task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal
If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly,
you can run following command to lift the limit:
# ulimit -i unlimited
With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>.
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com>
[ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We're adding enough nfs documentation that it may as well have its own
subdirectory.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Remove the root_plug example LSM code. It's unmaintained and
increasingly broken in various ways.
Made at the 2009 Kernel Summit in Tokyo!
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Add a command line parameter to allow limiting the function graphs
that are traced on boot up from the given top-level callers , when
ftrace=function_graph is specified.
This patch adds the following command line option:
ftrace_graph_filter=function-list
Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: picked the documentation changes from the v2 patch]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD2DEB9.2@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
UDP_HTABLE_SIZE was initialy defined to 128, which is a bit small for
several setups.
4000 active UDP sockets -> 32 sockets per chain in average. An
incoming frame has to lookup all sockets to find best match, so long
chains hurt latency.
Instead of a fixed size hash table that cant be perfect for every
needs, let UDP stack choose its table size at boot time like tcp/ip
route, using alloc_large_system_hash() helper
Add an optional boot parameter, uhash_entries=x so that an admin can
force a size between 256 and 65536 if needed, like thash_entries and
rhash_entries.
dmesg logs two new lines :
[ 0.647039] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.647099] UDP Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Maximal size on 64bit arches would be 65536 slots, ie 1 MBytes for non
debugging spinlocks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit c953094 ("early_printk: Allow more than one early console")
introduced a regression in the parsing of the earlyprintk= kernel
arguments.
If you specify "earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200" as a kernel
argument, the "serial,ttyS" should be parsed as a single argument
and not as "serial" and then "ttyS".
Also update the documentation to reflect you can specify the ttyS
directly without the "serial" argument.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4ABB7D5E.6000301@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug
controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other
than the first one in the system.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (262 commits)
sh: mach-ecovec24: Add user debug switch support
sh: Kill off unused se_skipped in alignment trap notification code.
sh: Wire up HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS.
video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: use both register sets for display panning
video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: implement display panning
sh: Fix up sh7705 flush_dcache_page() build.
sh: kfr2r09: document the PLL/FLL <-> RF relationship.
sh: mach-ecovec24: need asm/clock.h.
sh: mach-ecovec24: deassert usb irq on boot.
sh: Add KEYSC support for EcoVec24
sh: add kycr2_delay for sh_keysc
sh: cpufreq: Include CPU id in info messages.
sh: multi-evt support for SH-X3 proto CPU.
sh: clkfwk: remove bogus set_bus_parent() from SH7709.
sh: Fix the indication point of the liquid crystal of AP-325RXA(AP3300)
sh: Add EcoVec24 romImage defconfig
sh: USB disable process is needed if romImage boot for EcoVec24
sh: EcoVec24: add HIZA setting for LED
sh: EcoVec24: write MAC address in boot
sh: Add romImage support for EcoVec24
...
The difference between some loongson-based machines is very small, so, if
there is no necessary to add new kernel config options to cope with this
difference, it will be better to share the same kernel image file between
them, benefit from this, the linux distribution developers only have a need
to compile the kernel one time.
This machtype kernel command line argument will be used later to share the
same kernel image file between two different machines(menglong & yeeloong)
made by lemote.
Thanks very much to Zhang Le for cleaning up the machtype implementation.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
percpu: add chunk->base_addr
percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
percpu: improve boot messages
percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
...
Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
KVM: correct error-handling code
KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
KVM: Add missing #include
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
netxen: update copyright
netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
netxen: fix file firmware leak
netxen: improve pci memory access
netxen: change firmware write size
tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
netxen: build fix for INET=n
cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts:
- arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h
converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic
header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.
- drivers/net/tun.c
fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.
Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (87 commits)
NFSv4: Disallow 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=2' and 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=3'
NFS: Allow the "nfs" file system type to support NFSv4
NFS: Move details of nfs4_get_sb() to a helper
NFS: Refactor NFSv4 text-based mount option validation
NFS: Mount option parser should detect missing "port="
NFS: out of date comment regarding O_EXCL above nfs3_proc_create()
NFS: Handle a zero-length auth flavor list
SUNRPC: Ensure that sunrpc gets initialised before nfs, lockd, etc...
nfs: fix compile error in rpc_pipefs.h
nfs: Remove reference to generic_osync_inode from a comment
SUNRPC: cache must take a reference to the cache detail's module on open()
NFS: Use the DNS resolver in the mount code.
NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migration
SUNRPC: Fix a typo in cache_pipefs_files
nfs: nfs4xdr: optimize low level decoding
nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of READ_BUF
nfs: nfs4xdr: simplify decode_exchange_id by reusing decode_opaque_inline
nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of COPYMEM
nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_sessionid helper
nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_verifier helper
...
This implements support for NMI debugging that was shamelessly copied
from the avr32 port. A bit of special magic is needed in the interrupt
exception path given that the NMI exception handler is stubbed in to the
regular exception handling table despite being reported in INTEVT. So we
mangle the lookup and kick off an EXPEVT-style exception dispatch from
the INTEVT path for exceptions that do_IRQ() has no chance of handling.
As a result, we also drop the evt2irq() conversion from the do_IRQ() path
and just do it in assembly.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
This patch makes the tsc=reliable option disable the boot time
stability checks. Currently the option only disables the runtime
watchdog checks. This change allows folks who want to override the
boot time TSC stability checks and use the TSC when the system would
otherwise disqualify it.
There still are some situations that the TSC will be disqualified,
such as cpufreq scaling. But these are situations where the box will
hang if allowed.
Patch also includes a fix for an issue found by Thomas Gleixner, where
the TSC disqualification message wouldn't be printed after a call to
unsynchronized_tsc().
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250552447.7212.92.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client
from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and
replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to
convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC
client.
We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with
rpc_pipefs.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
With x86 converted to embedding allocator, lpage doesn't have any user
left. Kill it along with cpa handling code.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Now that all first chunk allocators are in mm/percpu.c, it makes sense
to make generalize percpu_alloc kernel parameter. Define PCPU_FC_*
and set pcpu_chosen_fc using early_param() in mm/percpu.c. Arch code
can use the set value to determine which first chunk allocator to use.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Page size isn't always 4k depending on arch and configuration. Rename
4k first chunk allocator to page.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
By default the kernel honors the HPA (host protected area) of hard
drives. Using libata's ignore_hpa module option it's possible to
change this behaviour.
Document usage and options of libata.ignore_hpa in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Parameters like the minimum reserved port, and the number of slot entries
should really be module parameters rather than sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
dma-debug: Fix the overlap() function to be correct and readable
oprofile: reset bt_lost_no_mapping with other stats
x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmon
signals: declare sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo in syscalls.h
rcu: Mark Hierarchical RCU no longer experimental
dma-debug: Put all hash-chain locks into the same lock class
dma-debug: fix off-by-one error in overlap function
The short name of the achitecture is 'arch_perfmon'. This patch
changes the kernel parameter to use this name.
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some PHYs require longer timeouts for carrier detection, and
auto-negotiation process may take indefinite amount of time.
It may be inconvenient to force longer timeouts for sane PHYs,
so let's introduce a kernel command line option.
Since we're using module_param(), the option also can be
changed in runtime.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier
x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h>
x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h>
x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned
x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization
x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit
x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch()
x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space
x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter
x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it
x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias()
x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix
x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage
x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path
percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing
x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ftrace: Fix the output of profile
ring-buffer: Make it generally available
ftrace: Remove duplicate newline
tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option
ftrace: Fix t_hash_start()
ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start()
ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start()
tracing: Reset iterator in t_start()
trace_stat: Don't increment @pos in seq start()
tracing_bprintk: Don't increment @pos in t_start()
tracing/events: Don't increment @pos in s_start()
This reverts commit 9e9f46c44e.
Quoting from the commit message:
"At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's
try using it by default. It's an easy revert if it ends up causing
trouble."
And guess what? The _CRS code causes trouble.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size
boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/iommu-2.6.31:
intel-iommu: Fix one last ia64 build problem in Pass Through Support
VT-d: support the device IOTLB
VT-d: cleanup iommu_flush_iotlb_psi and flush_unmaps
VT-d: add device IOTLB invalidation support
VT-d: parse ATSR in DMA Remapping Reporting Structure
PCI: handle Virtual Function ATS enabling
PCI: support the ATS capability
intel-iommu: dmar_set_interrupt return error value
intel-iommu: Tidy up iommu->gcmd handling
intel-iommu: Fix tiny theoretical race in write-buffer flush.
intel-iommu: Clean up handling of "caching mode" vs. IOTLB flushing.
intel-iommu: Clean up handling of "caching mode" vs. context flushing.
VT-d: fix invalid domain id for KVM context flush
Fix !CONFIG_DMAR build failure introduced by Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support
Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/pci/{intel-iommu.c,intr_remapping.c}
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (63 commits)
mtd: OneNAND: Allow setting of boundary information when built as module
jffs2: leaking jffs2_summary in function jffs2_scan_medium
mtd: nand: Fix memory leak on txx9ndfmc probe failure.
mtd: orion_nand: use burst reads with double word accesses
mtd/nand: s3c6400 support for s3c2410 driver
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Use DIV_ROUND_UP
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Deal with unaligned lengths in S3C2440 buffer read/write
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Allow the machine code to get the BBT table from NAND
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Added a kerneldoc for s3c2410_nand_set
mtd: physmap_of: Add multiple regions and concatenation support
mtd: nand: max_retries off by one in mxc_nand
mtd: nand: s3c2410_nand_setrate(): use correct macros for 2412/2440
mtd: onenand: add bbt_wait & unlock_all as replaceable for some platform
mtd: Flex-OneNAND support
mtd: nand: add OMAP2/OMAP3 NAND driver
mtd: maps: Blackfin async: fix memory leaks in probe/remove funcs
mtd: uclinux: mark local stuff static
mtd: uclinux: do not allow to be built as a module
mtd: uclinux: allow systems to override map addr/size
mtd: blackfin NFC: fix hang when using NAND on BF527-EZKITs
...
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (49 commits)
[ARM] idle: clean up pm_idle calling, obey hlt_counter
[ARM] S3C: Fix gpio-config off-by-one bug
[ARM] S3C64XX: add to_irq() support for EINT() GPIO
[ARM] S3C64XX: clock.c: fix typo in usb-host clock ctrlbit
[ARM] S3C64XX: fix HCLK gate defines
[ARM] Update mach-types
[ARM] wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open
OMAP2 clock/powerdomain: off by 1 error in loop timeout comparisons
OMAP3 SDRC: set FIXEDDELAY when disabling SDRC DLL
OMAP3: Add support for DPLL3 divisor values higher than 2
OMAP3 SRAM: convert SRAM code to use macros rather than magic numbers
OMAP3 SRAM: add more comments on the SRAM code
OMAP3 clock/SDRC: program SDRC_MR register during SDRC clock change
OMAP3 clock: add a short delay when lowering CORE clk rate
OMAP3 clock: initialize SDRC timings at kernel start
OMAP3 clock: remove wait for DPLL3 M2 clock to stabilize
[ARM] Add old Feroceon support to compressed/head.S
[ARM] 5559/1: Limit the stack unwinding caused by a kthread exit
[ARM] 5558/1: Add extra checks to ARM unwinder to avoid tracing corrupt stacks
[ARM] 5557/1: Discard some ARM.ex*.*exit.text sections when !HOTPLUG or !HOTPLUG_CPU
...
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (74 commits)
PCI: make msi_free_irqs() to use msix_mask_irq() instead of open coded write
PCI: Fix the NIU MSI-X problem in a better way
PCI ASPM: remove get_root_port_link
PCI ASPM: cleanup pcie_aspm_sanity_check
PCI ASPM: remove has_switch field
PCI ASPM: cleanup calc_Lx_latency
PCI ASPM: cleanup pcie_aspm_get_cap_device
PCI ASPM: cleanup clkpm checks
PCI ASPM: cleanup __pcie_aspm_check_state_one
PCI ASPM: cleanup initialization
PCI ASPM: cleanup change input argument of aspm functions
PCI ASPM: cleanup misc in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: cleanup clkpm state in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: cleanup latency field in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: cleanup aspm state field in struct pcie_link_state
PCI ASPM: fix typo in struct pcie_link_state
PCI: drivers/pci/slot.c should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS
PCI: remove redundant __msi_set_enable()
PCI PM: consistently use type bool for wake enable variable
x86/ACPI: Correct maximum allowed _CRS returned resources and warn if exceeded
...
According to Andi, it isn't clear whether lpage allocator is worth the
trouble as there are many processors where PMD TLB is far scarcer than
PTE TLB. The advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the actual
size of percpu area and specific processor. As performance
degradation due to TLB pressure tends to be highly workload specific
and subtle, it is difficult to decide which way to go without more
data.
This patch implements percpu_alloc kernel parameter to allow selecting
which first chunk allocator to use to ease debugging and testing.
While at it, make sure all the failure paths report why something
failed to help determining why certain allocator isn't working. Also,
kill the "Great future plan" comment which had already been realized
quite some time ago.
[ Impact: allow explicit percpu first chunk allocator selection ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel. gcov may be useful for:
* debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
* test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
* minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
associated code is never run?)
The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:
* change kbuild to include profiling flags
* provide functions needed by profiling code
* present profiling data as files in debugfs
Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.
For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which
might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the
console again. Especially during development, disabling the screen saver
can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or
other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at
runtime from userspace.
This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows
users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0.
The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl
call - this just allows to conditionally change the default.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Also explains why the touchscreen support is not present,
and were to find a working one...
Signed-off-by: Michel Pollet <buserror@gmail.com>
[ben-linux@fluff.org: Fix header description]
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (103 commits)
powerpc: Fix bug in move of altivec code to vector.S
powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit
powerpc/spufs: Remove unused error path
powerpc: Fix warning when printing a resource_size_t
powerpc/xmon: Remove unused variable in xmon.c
powerpc/pseries: Fix warnings when printing resource_size_t
powerpc: Shield code specific to 64-bit server processors
powerpc: Separate PACA fields for server CPUs
powerpc: Split exception handling out of head_64.S
powerpc: Introduce CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
powerpc: Move VMX and VSX asm code to vector.S
powerpc: Set init_bootmem_done on NUMA platforms as well
powerpc/mm: Fix a AB->BA deadlock scenario with nohash MMU context lock
powerpc/mm: Fix some SMP issues with MMU context handling
powerpc: Add PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK support
fbdev: Add PLB support and cleanup DCR in xilinxfb driver.
powerpc/virtex: Add ml510 reference design device tree
powerpc/virtex: Add Xilinx ML510 reference design support
powerpc/virtex: refactor intc driver and add support for i8259 cascading
powerpc/virtex: Add support for Xilinx PCI host bridge
...
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits)
ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two()
ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode()
ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops
ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2)
sl82c105: add printk() logging facility
ide-tape: fix proc warning
ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag
ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers
hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list
hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c
ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile()
ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update()
icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method
ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses
ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically
pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method
pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout
pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq()
ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2)
...
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
kmemleak: Add modules support
kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Add the base support
Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
drivers/char/vt.c
init/main.c
mm/slab.c
Adds support for PCI Express transaction layer end-to-end CRC checking
(ECRC). This patch will enable/disable ECRC checking by setting/clearing
the ECRC Check Enable and/or ECRC Generation Enable bits for devices that
support ECRC.
The ECRC setting is controlled by the "pci=ecrc=<policy>" command-line
option. If this option is not set or is set to 'bios", the enable and
generation bits are left in whatever state that firmware/BIOS set them to.
The "off" setting turns them off, and the "on" option turns them on (if the
device supports it).
Turning ECRC on or off can be a data integrity versus performance
tradeoff. In theory, turning it on will catch more data errors, turning
it off means possibly better performance since CRC does not need to be
calculated by the PCIe hardware and packet sizes are reduced.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's try using it by default. It's an easy revert if it ends up causing trouble.
Reviewed-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This patch adds the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file with some
information about how kmemleak works.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
tracing: add protection around module events unload
tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
tracing: fix the block trace points print size
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
...
* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type
oprofile: add support for Core i7 and Atom
oprofile: remove undocumented oprofile.p4force option
oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
* 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
amd-iommu: remove unnecessary "AMD IOMMU: " prefix
amd-iommu: detach device explicitly before attaching it to a new domain
amd-iommu: remove BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER handling
dma-debug: simplify logic in driver_filter()
dma-debug: disable/enable irqs only once in device_dma_allocations
dma-debug: use pr_* instead of printk(KERN_* ...)
dma-debug: code style fixes
dma-debug: comment style fixes
dma-debug: change hash_bucket_find from first-fit to best-fit
x86: enable GART-IOMMU only after setting up protection methods
amd_iommu: fix lock imbalance
dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter
dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line
dma-debug: add debugfs file for driver filter
dma-debug: add variables and checks for driver filter
dma-debug: fix debug_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu and debug_dma_sync_sg_for_device
dma-debug: use sg_dma_len accessor
dma-debug: use sg_dma_address accessor instead of using dma_address directly
amd-iommu: don't free dma adresses below 512MB with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
amd-iommu: don't preallocate page tables with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
...
From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host
Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and
risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools.
Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally
disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time
when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the
BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives.
Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using
HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if
any partitions overlapping HPA are detected. Additionally HPA can also
be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0"
to disable HPA on /dev/hda).
v2:
Fix ->resume HPA support.
While at it:
- remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
[patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop]
Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30
to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure
the combination works fine.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add support for Samsung Flex-OneNAND devices.
Flex-OneNAND combines SLC and MLC technologies into a single device.
SLC area provides increased reliability and speed, suitable for storing
code such as bootloader, kernel and root file system. MLC area
provides high density and is suitable for storing user data.
SLC and MLC regions can be configured through kernel parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export flexoand_region and onenand_addr]
Signed-off-by: Rohit Hagargundgi <h.rohit@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Vishak G <vishak.g@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions
on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called.
This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands.
ftrace_notrace=function-list
ftrace_filter=function-list
Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included
in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions
listed.
These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and
debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively.
The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also
be used by the command line interface.
ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin*
Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has
the word spin in it.
Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering
set by the command lines.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Conflicts:
arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c
arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c
Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The kmemtrace.enable kernel parameter no longer works. To enable
kmemtrace at boot-time, you must pass "ftrace=kmemtrace" instead.
[ Impact: remove obsolete kernel parameter documentation ]
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor
capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues.
[ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The IMA TCB policy is dangerous. A normal use can use all of a system's
memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of
executables. The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root
often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the
measurements meaningless.
There is no good fix for this in the kernel. A full TCB policy would need to
be loaded in userspace using LSM rule matching to get both a protected and
useful system. But, if too little is measured before userspace can load a real
policy one again ends up with a meaningless set of measurements. One option
would be to put the policy load inside the initrd in order to get it early
enough in the boot sequence to be useful, but this runs into trouble with the
LSM. For IMA to measure the LSM policy and the LSM policy loading mechanism
it needs rules to do so, but we already talked about problems with defaulting
to such broad rules....
IMA also depends on the files being measured to be on an FS which implements
and supports i_version. Since the only FS with this support (ext4) doesn't
even use it by default it seems silly to have any IMA rules by default.
This should reduce the performance overhead of IMA to near 0 while still
letting users who choose to configure their machine as such to inclue the
ima_tcb kernel paramenter and get measurements during boot before they can
load a customized, reasonable policy in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Adds support for the "unused" page hint which can be used in shared
memory partitions to flag pages not in use, which will then be stolen
before active pages by the hypervisor when memory needs to be moved to
LPARs in need of additional memory. Failure to mark pages as 'unused'
makes the LPAR slower to give up unused memory to other partitions.
This adds the kernel parameter 'cmo_free_hint' to disable this
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch removes module_param oprofile.force_arch_perfmon and
introduces oprofile.cpu_type=archperfmon instead. This new parameter
can be reused for other models and architectures.
Currently only archperfmon is supported.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This re-adds the force_arch_perfmon option that was in the original
arch perfmon patchkit. Originally this was rejected in favour
of a generalized perfmon=name option, but it turned out implementing
the later in a reliable way is hard (and it would have been easy
to crash the kernel if a user gets it wrong)
But now Atom and Core i7 support being readded a user would
need to update their oprofile userland to beyond 0.9.4 to use oprofile again
on Atom or Core i7.
To avoid this problem readd the force_arch_perfmon option.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file.
Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the
rest of the file.
Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names,
with examples.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch adds kernel parameter intel_iommu=pt to set up pass through
mode in context mapping entry. This disables DMAR in linux kernel; but
KVM still runs on VT-d and interrupt remapping still works.
In this mode, kernel uses swiotlb for DMA API functions but other VT-d
functionalities are enabled for KVM. KVM always uses multi level
translation page table in VT-d. By default, pass though mode is disabled
in kernel.
This is useful when people don't want to enable VT-d DMAR in kernel but
still want to use KVM and interrupt remapping for reasons like DMAR
performance concern or debug purpose.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Weidong Han <weidong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when
entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early
parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt.
[ Impact: add boot parameter description ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally
deleted in commit 0cb55ad2.
Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap