* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits)
ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework
ACPI: fix resource check message
ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume
ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable
ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it
ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes
ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device()
ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck
ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power()
Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources
ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed
ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early
ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently
ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization
ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power()
ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources
ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources
ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes
ACPICA: Update version to 20101209
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
KVM: Initialize fpu state in preemptible context
KVM: VMX: when entering real mode align segment base to 16 bytes
KVM: MMU: handle 'map_writable' in set_spte() function
KVM: MMU: audit: allow audit more guests at the same time
KVM: Fetch guest cr3 from hardware on demand
KVM: Replace reads of vcpu->arch.cr3 by an accessor
KVM: MMU: only write protect mappings at pagetable level
KVM: VMX: Correct asm constraint in vmcs_load()/vmcs_clear()
KVM: MMU: Initialize base_role for tdp mmus
KVM: VMX: Optimize atomic EFER load
KVM: VMX: Add definitions for more vm entry/exit control bits
KVM: SVM: copy instruction bytes from VMCB
KVM: SVM: implement enhanced INVLPG intercept
KVM: SVM: enhance mov DR intercept handler
KVM: SVM: enhance MOV CR intercept handler
KVM: SVM: add new SVM feature bit names
KVM: cleanup emulate_instruction
KVM: move complete_insn_gp() into x86.c
KVM: x86: fix CR8 handling
KVM guest: Fix kvm clock initialization when it's configured out
...
Enable async PF in a guest if async PF capability is discovered.
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (72 commits)
powerpc/pseries: Fix build of topology stuff without CONFIG_NUMA
powerpc/pseries: Fix VPHN build errors on non-SMP systems
powerpc/83xx: add mpc8308_p1m DMA controller device-tree node
powerpc/83xx: add DMA controller to mpc8308 device-tree node
powerpc/512x: try to free dma descriptors in case of allocation failure
powerpc/512x: add MPC8308 dma support
powerpc/512x: fix the hanged dma transfer issue
powerpc/512x: scatter/gather dma fix
powerpc/powermac: Make auto-loading of therm_pm72 possible
of/address: Use propper endianess in get_flags
powerpc/pci: Use printf extension %pR for struct resource
powerpc: Remove unnecessary casts of void ptr
powerpc: Disable VPHN polling during a suspend operation
powerpc/pseries: Poll VPA for topology changes and update NUMA maps
powerpc: iommu: Add device name to iommu error printks
powerpc: Record vma->phys_addr in ioremap()
powerpc: Update compat_arch_ptrace
powerpc: Fix PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG on PPC_BOOK3S
powerpc/time: printk time stamp init not correct
powerpc: Minor cleanups for machdep.h
...
i8042 controller present in Dell Vostro V13 errorneously signals spurious
timeouts.
Introduce i8042.notimeout parameter for ignoring i8042-signalled timeouts
and apply this quirk automatically for Dell Vostro V13, based on DMI match.
In addition to that, this machine also needs to be added to nomux blacklist.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* 'x86-tsc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Check tsc available/disabled in the delayed init function
x86: Improve TSC calibration using a delayed workqueue
x86: Make tsc=reliable override boot time stability checks
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long
sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak
sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory
sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef
sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight
sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick()
printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending
sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant
sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group()
sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task()
mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug
cpu: Remove incorrect BUG_ON
cpu: Remove unused variable
sched: Fix UP build breakage
sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm
sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write
sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load
sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load()
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re:
commit e9d376f0fa
Author: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Feb 5 11:51:38 2009 -0500
dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
Above commit obsoleted the kernel parameter, and even removed its
entry in kernel-parameters.txt, but got reinsterted through
0cb55ad2ad ("docs: alphabetize entries in kernel-parameters.txt")
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'
does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the
watchdog. It also currently prints the error value as a
pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().
Fix that.
Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel
parameter to associate it with this message.
Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37.x and later
LKML-Reference: <1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the ACPI video output switching control as it never works.
With the patch applied,
ACPI video driver still catches the video output notification,
but it does nothing but raises the notification to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Originally adapted from Huang Ying's patch which moved the
unknown_nmi_panic to the traps.c file. Because the old nmi
watchdog was deleted before this change happened, the
unknown_nmi_panic sysctl was lost. This re-adds it.
Also, the nmi_watchdog sysctl was re-implemented and its
documentation updated accordingly.
Patch-inspired-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity. This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups. Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.
Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group. When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped. Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount. When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.
At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.
Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:
cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup
Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.
echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup
Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.
The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:
echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled
... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This introduces a pair of kernel parameters that can be used to disable
the MULTITCE and BULK_REMOVE h-calls.
By default, those hcalls are enabled, active, and good for throughput
and performance. The ability to disable them will be useful for some of
the PREEMPT_RT related investigation and work occurring on Power.
Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Swap accounting can be configured by CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
configuration option and then it is turned on by default. There is a boot
option (noswapaccount) which can disable this feature.
This makes it hard for distributors to enable the configuration option as
this feature leads to a bigger memory consumption and this is a no-go for
general purpose distribution kernel. On the other hand swap accounting
may be very usuful for some workloads.
This patch adds a new configuration option which controls the default
behavior (CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED). If the option is selected
then the feature is turned on by default.
It also adds a new boot parameter swapaccount[=1|0] which enhances the
original noswapaccount parameter semantic by means of enable/disable logic
(defaults to 1 if no value is provided to be still consistent with
noswapaccount).
The default behavior is unchanged (if CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is
enabled then CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED is enabled as well)
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove anticipatory block I/O scheduler info from Documentation/
since the code has been deleted.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (27 commits)
x86: allocate space within a region top-down
x86: update iomem_resource end based on CPU physical address capabilities
x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning
PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down
resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down
resources: handle overflow when aligning start of available area
resources: ensure callback doesn't allocate outside available space
resources: factor out resource_clip() to simplify find_resource()
resources: add a default alignf to simplify find_resource()
x86/PCI: MMCONFIG: fix region end calculation
PCI: Add support for polling PME state on suspended legacy PCI devices
PCI: Export some PCI PM functionality
PCI: fix message typo
PCI: log vendor/device ID always
PCI: update Intel chipset names and defines
PCI: use new ccflags variable in Makefile
PCI: add PCI_MSIX_TABLE/PBA defines
PCI: add PCI vendor id for STmicroelectronics
x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
PCI: OLPC: Only enable PCI configuration type override on XO-1
...
Allocate space from the top of a region first, then work downward,
if an architecture desires this.
When we allocate space from a resource, we look for gaps between children
of the resource. Previously, we always looked at gaps from the bottom up.
For example, given this:
[mem 0xbff00000-0xf7ffffff] PCI Bus 0000:00
[mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap -- available
[mem 0xc0000000-0xdfffffff] PCI Bus 0000:02
[mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap -- available
we attempted to allocate from the [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap first,
then the [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap.
With this patch an architecture can choose to allocate from the top gap
[mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] first.
We can't do this across the board because iomem_resource.end is initialized
to 0xffffffff_ffffffff on 64-bit architectures, and most machines can't
address the entire 64-bit physical address space. Therefore, we only
allocate top-down if the arch requests it by clearing
"resource_alloc_from_bottom".
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits)
SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred
nfs: fix unchecked value
Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe
Revalidate caches on lock
SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve
NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir
NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent
NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid
NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr
NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer
NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code
NFS: Readdir plus in v4
NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function
NFS: check xdr_decode for errors
NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors
NFS: readdir with vmapped pages
NFS: remove page size checking code
NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream
SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
NFS: remove readdir plus limit
...
Switch default value of the kernel parameter 'topology' from off to on.
Various performance measurements have finally shown that there are no
(known) regressions anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (321 commits)
KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages
KVM: Fix signature of kvm_iommu_map_pages stub
KVM: MCE: Send SRAR SIGBUS directly
KVM: MCE: Add MCG_SER_P into KVM_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED
KVM: fix typo in copyright notice
KVM: Disable interrupts around get_kernel_ns()
KVM: MMU: Avoid sign extension in mmu_alloc_direct_roots() pae root address
KVM: MMU: move access code parsing to FNAME(walk_addr) function
KVM: MMU: audit: check whether have unsync sps after root sync
KVM: MMU: audit: introduce audit_printk to cleanup audit code
KVM: MMU: audit: unregister audit tracepoints before module unloaded
KVM: MMU: audit: fix vcpu's spte walking
KVM: MMU: set access bit for direct mapping
KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest page table
KVM: MMU: update 'root_hpa' out of loop in PAE shadow path
KVM: x86 emulator: Eliminate compilation warning in x86_decode_insn()
KVM: x86: Fix constant type in kvm_get_time_scale
KVM: VMX: Add AX to list of registers clobbered by guest switch
KVM guest: Move a printk that's using the clock before it's ready
KVM: x86: TSC catchup mode
...
The default state of 'kvm-amd.nested' is enabled now, so fix the documentation
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
no-kvmclock kernel parameter is missing its explanation in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Add it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (31 commits)
driver core: Display error codes when class suspend fails
Driver core: Add section count to memory_block struct
Driver core: Add mutex for adding/removing memory blocks
Driver core: Move find_memory_block routine
hpilo: Despecificate driver from iLO generation
driver core: Convert link_mem_sections to use find_memory_block_hinted.
driver core: Introduce find_memory_block_hinted which utilizes kset_find_obj_hinted.
kobject: Introduce kset_find_obj_hinted.
driver core: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
driver-core: base: change to new flag variable
sysfs: only access bin file vm_ops with the active lock
sysfs: Fail bin file mmap if vma close is implemented.
FW_LOADER: fix kconfig dependency warning on HOTPLUG
uio: Statically allocate uio_class and use class .dev_attrs.
uio: Support 2^MINOR_BITS minors
uio: Cleanup irq handling.
uio: Don't clear driver data
uio: Fix lack of locking in init_uio_class
SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 but keep it for block devices
...
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.
This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.
The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.
Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.
v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dynamic debug lacks the ability to enable debug messages at boot time.
One could patch initramfs or service startup scripts to write to
/sys/../dynamic_debug/control, but this sucks.
This patch makes it possible to pass a query in the same format one can
write to /sys/../dynamic_debug/control via boot param.
When dynamic debug gets initialized, this query will automatically be
applied.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: jbaron@redhat.com
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, paravirt: Remove alloc_pmd_clone hook, only used by VMI
x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support
Fix up trivial #include conflict in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
* 'x86-bios-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, bios: Make the x86 early memory reservation a kernel option
x86, bios: By default, reserve the low 64K for all BIOSes
This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it
when TSC is enabled.
This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet.
Following patches use it for different purposes.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Compress hibernation image with LZO in order to save on I/O and
therefore time to hibernate/thaw.
[rjw: Added hibernate=nocompress command line option instead of just
nocompress which would be confusing, fixed a couple of compiler
warnings, fixed kerneldoc comments, minor cleanups.]
Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
As a convenience, introduce a kernel command line option to enable
NFSROOT debugging messages.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: bus speed strings should be const
PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
Add a kernel command-line option so the x86 early memory reservation
size can be adjusted at runtime instead of only at compile time.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <tip-d0cd7425fab774a480cce17c2f649984312d0b55@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
After commit 852972acff (ACPI: Disable
ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe) control of
the PCIe Capability Structure is unconditionally requested by
acpi_pci_root_add(), which in principle may cause problems to
happen in two ways. First, the BIOS may refuse to give control of
the PCIe Capability Structure if it is not asked for any of the
_OSC features depending on it at the same time. Second, the BIOS may
assume that control of the _OSC features depending on the PCIe
Capability Structure will be requested in the future and may behave
incorrectly if that doesn't happen. For this reason, control of
the PCIe Capability Structure should always be requested along with
control of any other _OSC features that may depend on it (ie. PCIe
native PME, PCIe native hot-plug, PCIe AER).
Rework the PCIe port driver so that (1) it checks which native PCIe
port services can be enabled, according to the BIOS, and (2) it
requests control of all these services simultaneously. In
particular, this causes pcie_portdrv_probe() to fail if the BIOS
refuses to grant control of the PCIe Capability Structure, which
means that no native PCIe port services can be enabled for the PCIe
Root Complex the given port belongs to. If that happens, ASPM is
disabled to avoid problems with mishandling it by the part of the
PCIe hierarchy for which control of the PCIe Capability Structure
has not been received.
Make it possible to override this behavior using 'pcie_ports=native'
(use the PCIe native services regardless of the BIOS response to the
control request), or 'pcie_ports=compat' (do not use the PCIe native
services at all).
Accordingly, rework the existing PCIe port service drivers so that
they don't request control of the services directly.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Introduce kernel command line switch pcie_ports= allowing one to
disable all of the native PCIe port services, so that PCIe ports
are treated like PCI-to-PCI bridges.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
feature from the hypervisor.
Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
still work fine on VMware's platform.
Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.
For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html
This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
It is not immediately clear what this option causes to become
ignored. The actual meaning is that it is not necessary to unplug the
emulated devices to safely use the PV ones, even if the platform does
not support the unplug protocol. (pressumably the user will only add
this option if they have ensured that their domain configuration is
safe).
I think xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary better captures this.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
this allows the user to disable pvhvm and revert to emulated devices
in case of a system misconfiguration (e.g. initramfs with only
emulated drivers in it).
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Linus Torvalds