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Alan Stern
d4f373e57d USB: usb-storage: add "quirks=" module parameter
This patch (as1163b) adds a "quirks=" module parameter to usb-storage.
This will allow people to make short-term changes to their
unusual_devs list without rebuilding the entire driver.  Testing will
become much easier, and less-sophisticated users will be able to
access their buggy devices after a simple config-file change instead
of having to wait for a new kernel release.

The patch also adds a documentation entry for usb-storage's
"delay_use" parameter, which has been around for years but but was
never listed among the kernel parameters.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-07 09:59:53 -08:00
Hidehiro Kawai
4cb0e11b15 coredump_filter: permit changing of the default filter
Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'.  Setting a value to
this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be
changed.

It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole
system at boot time.  Without this parameter, users have to change
coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:29 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
ecb08d8131 doc: reformat some long lines in kernel-parameters.txt
Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
7c4be253d3 docs: add more early params to kernel-parameters.txt
Add some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
07983f0e36 documentation: update header file paths
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
2ff9f9d962 Merge branch 'topic/kmemtrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace 2008-12-29 15:16:24 +01:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
b9ce08c010 kmemtrace: Core implementation.
kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as kmalloc,
kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected data is then fed
to the userspace application in order to analyse allocation hotspots,
internal fragmentation and so on, making it possible to see how well an
allocator performs, as well as debug and profile kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29 15:34:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1db2a5c11e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (85 commits)
  [S390] provide documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter.
  [S390] convert ctcm printks to dev_xxx and pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert zfcp printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert vmlogrdr printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert zfcp dumper printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert cpu related printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert qeth printks to dev_xxx and pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert sclp printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert iucv printks to dev_xxx and pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert ap_bus printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert dcssblk and extmem printks messages to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert monwriter printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert s390 debug feature printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert monreader printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert appldata printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert setup printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert hypfs printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert time printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert cpacf printks to pr_xxx macros.
  [S390] convert cio printks to pr_xxx macros.
  ...
2008-12-28 12:33:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
be9c5ae4ee Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits)
  x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
  x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new()
  x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code
  x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
  x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
  x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
  x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
  x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
  x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration
  x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static
  x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
  x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
  x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32
  x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32
  x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency
  x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used
  x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
  x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3
  x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3
  x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3
  ...
2008-12-28 12:07:57 -08:00
Hendrik Brueckner
cef7125def [S390] provide documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-25 13:39:27 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
2b1a61f0a8 [S390] cpu topology: introduce kernel parameter
Introduce a topology=[on|off] kernel parameter which allows to switch
cpu topology on/off. Default will be off, since it looks like that for
some workloards this doesn't behave very well (on s390).

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-12-25 13:39:14 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
79a66b96c3 Merge branches 'x86/pat2' and 'x86/fpu'; commit 'v2.6.28' into x86/core 2008-12-25 11:50:41 +01:00
James Morris
cbacc2c7f0 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-12-25 11:40:09 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
db8862eafe Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing 2008-12-24 21:08:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
fa623d1b02 Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core 2008-12-23 16:27:23 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
ada9cfdd15 doc: fix kernel-parameters.txt formatting
Spell out "wrt".  I suspect plenty of people won't know
what that means.

Fix a '}' that should be a ']'.

Reformat long lines into shorter lines.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 15:57:56 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
ba84ed9546 ACPI hibernate: Introduce new kernel parameter acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs
On some machines it may be necessary to disable the saving/restoring
of the ACPI NVS memory region during hibernation/resume.  For this
purpose, introduce new ACPI kernel command line option
acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs.

Based on a patch by Zhang Rui.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:40:35 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
e76f427611 ACPI: fix 2.6.28 acpi.debug_level regression
acpi_early_init() was changed to over-write the cmdline param,
making it really inconvenient to set debug flags at boot-time.

Also,
This sets the default level to "info", which is what all the ACPI
drivers use.  So to enable messages from drivers, you only have to
supply the "layer" (a.k.a. "component").  For non-"info" ACPI core
and ACPI interpreter messages, you have to supply both level and
layer masks, as before.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:38:32 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
f38f1d2aa5 trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
Impact: enhancement to stack tracer

The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)

This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.

A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 12:56:24 +01:00
James Morris
ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
a0a70c735e Merge branches 'tracing/profiling', 'tracing/options' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-23 09:10:32 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
4f7dbc7ff4 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: more general identifier for Phoenix BIOS
  AMD IOMMU: check for next_bit also in unmapped area
  AMD IOMMU: fix fullflush comparison length
  AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default
  AMD IOMMU: add parameter to disable device isolation
  x86, PEBS/DS: fix code flow in ds_request()
  x86: add rdtsc barrier to TSC sync check
  xen: fix scrub_page()
  x86: fix es7000 compiling
  x86, bts: fix unlock problem in ds.c
  x86, voyager: fix smp generic helper voyager breakage
  x86: move iomap.h to the new include location
2008-11-19 18:51:56 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
1c207f952a Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: add min_addr, fix max_addr
Add "min_addr" documentation.
For "max_addr", add nn before [KMG] since a number is needed and this
is consistent with other uses of [KMG].

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
9676e73a9e Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c

[ We conflicted here because we backported a few fixes to
  tracing/urgent - which has different internal APIs. ]
2008-11-19 10:04:25 +01:00
Joerg Roedel
3ce1f93c6d AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default
Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU

Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2008-11-18 15:44:31 +01:00
Joerg Roedel
e5e1f606ec AMD IOMMU: add parameter to disable device isolation
Impact: add a new AMD IOMMU kernel command line parameter

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2008-11-18 15:43:23 +01:00
James Morris
f3a5c54701 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/cifs/misc.c

Merge to resolve above, per the patch below.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --cc fs/cifs/misc.c
index ec36410,addd1dc..0000000
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@@ -347,13 -338,13 +338,13 @@@ header_assemble(struct smb_hdr *buffer
  		/*  BB Add support for establishing new tCon and SMB Session  */
  		/*      with userid/password pairs found on the smb session   */
  		/*	for other target tcp/ip addresses 		BB    */
 -				if (current->fsuid != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
 +				if (current_fsuid() != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
  					cFYI(1, ("Multiuser mode and UID "
  						 "did not match tcon uid"));
- 					read_lock(&GlobalSMBSeslock);
- 					list_for_each(temp_item, &GlobalSMBSessionList) {
- 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, cifsSessionList);
+ 					read_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+ 					list_for_each(temp_item, &treeCon->ses->server->smb_ses_list) {
+ 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, smb_ses_list);
 -						if (ses->linux_uid == current->fsuid) {
 +						if (ses->linux_uid == current_fsuid()) {
  							if (ses->server == treeCon->ses->server) {
  								cFYI(1, ("found matching uid substitute right smb_uid"));
  								buffer->Uid = ses->Suid;
2008-11-18 18:52:37 +11:00
Randy Dunlap
31c00fc15e Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
James Morris
2b82892565 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	security/keys/internal.h
	security/keys/process_keys.c
	security/keys/request_key.c

Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
Len Brown
f398778aa3 Merge branch 'video' into release
Conflicts:
	Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-11 21:15:50 -05:00
Len Brown
3e0fe36483 Merge branch 'misc' into release 2008-11-11 21:14:11 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
e0cb4ebcd9 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace.c
2008-11-11 09:40:18 +01:00
Thomas Renninger
c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas
a0d84a92df ACPI: update debug parameter documentation
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.

Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 21:45:29 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
a15a82f42c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"
  x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo
  AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path
  x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR
  x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle
  x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu
  x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit
  x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS
  x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
  x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed
  x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage
  AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
2008-11-06 15:57:24 -08:00
Li Zefan
b225d44e27 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update 'isolcpus' kernel option
cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
Serge E. Hallyn
1f29fae297 file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v4)
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are
compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y).

This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities
compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and
trust) them.

When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes
a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be
used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets.

This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will
not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities
compiled out - in particular a task with  CAP_SETPCAP will not
have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which
isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed
altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead
be able to put new capabilities in its pI.  However since fI
will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the
task nothing.

We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and
dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set.

The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler,
setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked.  That will
be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid
while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid
tries to change settings for the more privileged task.

Changelog:
	Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\
		with-clear-caps patch
	Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are
		not compiled in as it isn't used.
		Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-06 07:14:51 +08:00
Mark McLoughlin
e4ab1b3cbb x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
Impact: documentation fix

irqbalance was removed by:

  commit 8b8e8c1bf7
  Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
  Date:   Tue Aug 19 20:50:23 2008 -0700

Remove the associated documentation for noirqbalance.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 14:50:34 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
5b9a0e14eb x86: nmi - nmi_watchdog boot param docs cleanup
Impact: documentation update

1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
   move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.

2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
   position otherwise it will not be recognized.

3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 09:17:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
d9e540762f ftrace: ftrace_dump_on_oops=[tracer]
Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option

In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer
on the kernel boot line.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 09:12:39 +01:00
Alok Kataria
395628ef4e x86: Skip verification by the watchdog for TSC clocksource.
Impact: Changes timekeeping on Vmware (or with tsc=reliable).

This is achieved by resetting the CLOCKSOURCE_MUST_VERIFY flag.

We add a tsc=reliable commandline option to enable this.
This enables legacy hardware without HPET, LAPIC, or ACPI timers
to enter high-resolution timer mode.

Along with that have extended this to be used in virtualization environement
too. Now we also set this flag if the X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE bit is set.

This is important since there is a wrap-around problem with the acpi_pm timer.
The acpi_pm counter is just 24bits and this can overflow in ~4 seconds. With
the NO_HZ kernels in virtualized environment, there can be situations when
the guest is descheduled for longer duration, as a result we may miss the wrap
of the acpi counter. When TSC is used as a clocksource and acpi_pm timer is
being used as the watchdog clocksource this error in acpi_pm results in TSC
being marked as unstable, and essentially results in time dropping in chunks
of 4 seconds whenever this wrap is missed. Since the virtualized TSC is
reliable on VMware, we should always use the TSCs clocksource on VMware, so
we skip the verfication at runtime, by checking for the feature bit.

Since we reset the flag for mgeode systems too, i have combined
the mgeode case with the feature bit check.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <jhansen@cardaccess-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-11-01 18:59:03 -07:00
Uwe Hermann
71cced6eb0 doc/x86: fix doc subdirs
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 16:36:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7a9787e1eb Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks 2008-10-28 16:26:12 +01:00
Len Brown
057316cc6a Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
	drivers/acpi/Kconfig
	drivers/pnp/Makefile
	drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-23 00:11:07 -04:00
Len Brown
4dff4e7f6c Merge branch 'pnp-debug' into test 2008-10-22 23:28:43 -04:00
Len Brown
5f50ef453d Merge branch 'misc' into test 2008-10-22 23:28:38 -04:00
Zhao Yakui
f5adfaa372 ACPI: Add "acpi.power_nocheck=1" to disable power state check in power transition
Maybe the incorrect power state is returned on the bogus bios, which
is different with the real power state. For example: the bios returns D0
state and the real power state is D3. OS expects to set the device to D0
state. In  such case if OS uses the power state returned by the BIOS and
checks the device power state very strictly in power transition, the device
can't be transited to the correct power state.

   So the boot option of "acpi.power_nocheck=1" is added to avoid checking
the device power in the course of device power transition.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8049
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22 17:59:57 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
36eec5e29c ACPI: Add expand acpi.debug_layer in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22 17:56:04 -04:00
Chuck Ebbert
e5665a45fa PCI: document the pcie_aspm kernel parameter
It can be handy so make sure people know about it.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-20 11:01:49 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c01156061b PCI: Document that most pci options are shared between i386 and x86-64
Since the code is shared pretty much most of the pci= options are shared,
but kernel-parameters.txt marked most of them as i386 only.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-20 10:53:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ed402af3c2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (112 commits)
  sh: Move SH-4 CPU headers down one more level.
  sh: Only build in gpio.o when CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO is selected.
  sh: Migrate common board headers to mach-common/.
  sh: Move the CPU definition headers from asm/ to cpu/.
  serial: sh-sci: Add support SCIF of SH7723
  video: add sh_mobile_lcdc platform flags
  video: remove unused sh_mobile_lcdc platform data
  sh: remove consistent alloc cruft
  sh: add dynamic crash base address support
  sh: reduce Migo-R smc91x overruns
  sh: Fix up some merge damage.
  Fix debugfs_create_file's error checking method for arch/sh/mm/
  Fix debugfs_create_dir's error checking method for arch/sh/kernel/
  sh: ap325rxa: Add support RTC RX-8564LC in AP325RXA board
  sh: Use sh7720 GPIO on magicpanelr2 board
  sh: Add sh7720 pinmux code
  sh: Use sh7203 GPIO on rsk7203 board
  sh: Add sh7203 pinmux code
  sh: Use sh7723 GPIO on AP325RXA board
  sh: Add sh7723 pinmux code
  ...
2008-10-20 09:13:34 -07:00
Simon Horman
e515a0d600 kdump: update elfcorehdr documentation to reflect supported architectures
IA64, PPC and SH also support the elfcorehdr command line.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:40 -07:00
Paul Mundt
4cb40f795a Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
	arch/sh/include/asm/elf.h
2008-10-20 11:17:52 +09:00
Jaroslav Kysela
fd7c519dd4 USB: hub.c: Add initial_descriptor_timeout module parameter for usbcore
This patch adds initial_descriptor_timeout module parameter for usbcore.ko
to allow modify initial 64-byte USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR timeout for
non-standard devices.

For example, the SATA8000 device from DATAST0R Technology Corp
requires about 10 seconds to send reply (probably it waits until
inserted disk is ready for operation).

Also, this patch adds missing usbcore parameters to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-17 14:41:04 -07:00
Zhang Rui
22a94d79a3 ACPI: Allow overriding to higher critical trip point.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9129

lenb: Note that overriding a critical trip point
may simply fool the user into thinking that they
have control that they do not actually have.
For it is EC firmware that decides when the EC
sends Linux temperature change events, and the
EC may or may not decide to send Linux these events
anywhere in the neighborhood of the fake
override trip points.  Beware.

note also that thermal.nocrt is already available
to disable crtical trip point actios,
and thermal.crt=-1 is already available to
disabled critical trip points entirely.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-17 02:42:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
c813b4e16e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits)
  UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory
  UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support
  UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv
  UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem
  Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function
  NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name
  kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
  platform: add new device registration helper
  sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()
  PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes
  Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust
  usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN
  debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()
  debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function
  sysfs: fix deadlock
  device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check
  Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
  Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
  ...
2008-10-16 12:40:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
36ac1d2f32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (32 commits)
  Input: wm97xx - update email address for Liam Girdwood
  Input: i8042 - add Thinkpad R31 to nomux list
  Input: move map_to_7segment.h to include/linux
  Input: ads7846 - fix cache line sharing issue
  Input: cm109 - add missing newlines to messages
  Input: document i8042.debug in kernel-parameters.txt
  Input: keyboard - fix potential out of bound access to key_map
  Input: psmouse - add OLPC touchpad driver
  Input: psmouse - tweak PSMOUSE_DEFINE_ATTR to support raw set callbacks
  Input: psmouse - add psmouse_queue_work() for ps/2 extension to make use of
  Input: psmouse - export psmouse_set_state for ps/2 extensions to use
  Input: ads7846 - introduce .gpio_pendown to get pendown state
  Input: ALPS - add signature for DualPoint found in Dell Latitude E6500
  Input: serio_raw - allow attaching to translated (SERIO_I8042XL) ports
  Input: cm109 - don't use obsolete logging macros
  Input: atkbd - expand Latitude's force release quirk to other Dells
  Input: bf54x-keys - add power management support
  Input: atmel_tsadcc - improve accuracy
  Input: convert drivers to use strict_strtoul()
  Input: appletouch - handle geyser 3/4 status bits
  ...
2008-10-16 11:52:08 -07:00
Jason Baron
346e15beb5 driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:47 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
4c0e799a9a Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-10-15 23:29:12 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
8daf14cf56 Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2 2008-10-12 15:50:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a9b9e81c91 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/memory-corruption-check 2008-10-12 15:05:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ead9d23d80 Merge phase #4 (X2APIC, APIC unification, CPU identification unification) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (186 commits)
  x86, debug: print more information about unknown CPUs
  x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
  x86: cpuid, fix typo
  x86: move transmeta cap read to early_init_transmeta()
  x86: identify_cpu_without_cpuid v2
  x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86: move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
  x86: centaur_64.c remove duplicated setting of CONSTANT_TSC
  x86: intel.c put workaround for old cpus together
  x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
  x86: make intel_64.c the same as intel.c
  x86: make intel.c have 64-bit support code
  x86: little clean up of intel.c/intel_64.c
  x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
  x86: make amd_64 have 32 bit code
  x86: make amd.c have 64bit support code
  x86: merge header in amd_64.c
  x86: add srat_detect_node for amd64
  x86: remove duplicated force_mwait
  x86: cpu make amd.c more like amd_64.c v2
  ...
2008-10-11 11:51:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
d84705969f Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-11 20:17:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bf6f51e3a4 Merge phase #3 (IOMMU) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index
  x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices
  x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART
  x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool
  x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean
  x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization
  x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
  revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings"
  x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent
  iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
  x86: remove set_bit_string()
  iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function
  AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
  add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file
  AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer
  AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function
  AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code
  AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order
  AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages
  ...
2008-10-11 11:03:12 -07:00
Florian Fainelli
9bed90c6a4 Documentation: Document the RB532 specific kmac tag
The Routerboard 532 bootloader passes the korina ethernet
MAC adapter address to the kernel on the command line.
Document this in the kernel-parameters file.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:47 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas
97ef062bbe PNP: add CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES and pnp_dbg()
This adds the core function pnp_dbg() and a new config option to
enable it.

The PNP core debugging messages can be enabled at boot-time with the
"pnp.debug" kernel parameter.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-10 23:33:53 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
725c25819e Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10 19:47:12 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
36d9573928 Input: document i8042.debug in kernel-parameters.txt
i8042.debug parameter was missing in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Add it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-10-08 23:46:13 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
afa9fdc2f5 iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
This patch against tip/x86/iommu virtually reverts
2842e5bf31. But just reverting the
commit breaks AMD IOMMU so this patch also includes some fixes.

The above commit adds new two options to x86 IOMMU generic kernel boot
options, fullflush and nofullflush. But such change that affects all
the IOMMUs needs more discussion (all IOMMU parties need the chance to
discuss it):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/106

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 20:43:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0b88641f1b Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debug 2008-09-22 13:08:57 +02:00
Paul Mundt
6902aa84f5 doc: Add remaining SH parameters to kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-09-21 17:14:42 +09:00
Joerg Roedel
2842e5bf31 x86: move GART TLB flushing options to generic code
The GART currently implements the iommu=[no]fullflush command line
parameters which influence its IO/TLB flushing strategy. This patch
makes these parameters generic so that they can be used by the AMD IOMMU
too.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19 12:59:06 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9f077871ce x86: clean up memory corruption check and add more kernel parameters
The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime.

This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption
check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07 17:40:01 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
5394f80f92 x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption
Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k.  This
change:
 - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to
   prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel.  Things
   like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however.
 - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it.
 - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on
   memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero.  Currently it's called in the
   x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07 17:39:59 +02:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
1befdefcf4 x86: remove 8254 timer texts from Documentation
Commit ecd29476ae removed the
"disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel parameters from
the kernel but did not remove the references to them from two
files in the Documentation directory: kernel-parameters.txt and
x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.

This change completes the removal.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 18:20:14 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
b05f78f5c7 x86_64: printout msr -v2
commandline show_msr=1 for bsp, show_msr=32 for all 32 cpus.

[ mingo@elte.hu: added documentation ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 10:43:21 +02:00
Tejun Heo
05944bdf6f libata: implement no[hs]rst force params
Implement force params nohrst, nosrst and norst.  This is to work
around reset related problems and ease debugging.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-08-22 02:07:43 -04:00
Andreas Herrmann
35fc908dc0 documentation: describe bootmem_debug kernel parameter
"bootmem_debug" is not mentioned in kernel-parameters.txt. Recently I
had to use that kernel option and I think it should be documented.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
6dec3a10a7 Merge branch 'x86/x2apic' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/i8259.h
	include/asm-x86/msidef.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 16:29:23 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
5c05917e7f x86: usb debug port early console, v4
based on work from Eric, and add some timeout so don't dead loop when debug
device is not installed

v2: fix checkpatch warning
v3: move ehci struct def to linux/usrb/ehci_def.h from host/ehci.h
    also add CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP to disable it by default
v4: address comments from Ingo, seperate ehci reg def moving to another patch
    also add auto detect port that connect to debug device for Nvidia
    southbridge

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 16:18:41 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
f557d0996a remove some more tipar bits
Some bits were missed when the tipar driver was removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
10a010f695 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts:

	drivers/pci/dmar.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-25 13:08:16 +02:00
Shaohua Li
bdfe6b7c68 pm: acpi hibernation: utilize hardware signature
ACPI defines a hardware signature.  BIOS calculates the signature according to
hardware configure and if hardware changes while hibernated, the signature
will change.  In that case, S4 resume should fail.

Still, there may be systems on which this mechanism does not work correctly,
so it is better to provide a workaround for them.  For this reason, add a new
switch to the acpi_sleep= command line argument allowing one to disable
hardware signature checking.

[shaohua.li@intel.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:24 -07:00
David Brownell
77437fd4e6 pm: boot time suspend selftest
Boot-time test for system suspend states (STR or standby).  The generic
RTC framework triggers wakeup alarms, which are used to exit those states.

  - Measures some aspects of suspend time ... this uses "jiffies" until
    someone converts it to use a timebase that works properly even while
    timer IRQs are disabled.

  - Triggered by a command line parameter.  By default nothing even
    vaguely troublesome will happen, but "test_suspend=mem" will give
    you a brief STR test during system boot.  (Or you may need to use
    "test_suspend=standby" instead, if your hardware needs that.)

This isn't without problems.  It fires early enough during boot that for
example both PCMCIA and MMC stacks have misbehaved.  The workaround in
those cases was to boot without such media cards inserted.

[matthltc@us.ibm.com: fix compile failure in boot time suspend selftest]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:22 -07:00
Jon Tollefson
0d9ea75443 powerpc: support multiple hugepage sizes
Instead of using the variable mmu_huge_psize to keep track of the huge
page size we use an array of MMU_PAGE_* values.  For each supported huge
page size we need to know the hugepte_shift value and have a
pgtable_cache.  The hstate or an mmu_huge_psizes index is passed to
functions so that they know which huge page size they should use.

The hugepage sizes 16M and 64K are setup(if available on the hardware) so
that they don't have to be set on the boot cmd line in order to use them.
The number of 16G pages have to be specified at boot-time though (e.g.
hugepagesz=16G hugepages=5).

Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
Nick Piggin
e11bfbfcb0 hugetlb: override default huge page size
Allow configurations with the default huge page size which is different to
the traditional HPAGE_SIZE size.  The default huge page size is the one
represented in the legacy /proc ABIs, SHM, and which is defaulted to when
mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.

This is implemented with a new kernel option default_hugepagesz=, which
defaults to HPAGE_SIZE if not specified.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
Andi Kleen
b4718e628d x86: add hugepagesz option on 64-bit
Add an hugepagesz=...  option similar to IA64, PPC etc.  to x86-64.

This finally allows to select GB pages for hugetlbfs in x86 now that all
the infrastructure is in place.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
Mel Gorman
6b74ab97bc mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisation
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering.  While significant
amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
received from the architecture layer.  This is a mistake, and has resulted in
a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.

This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation.  It
also introduces a few basic defensive measures.  The validation code can be
explicitly disabled for embedded systems.

This patch:

Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.

Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
command-line parameter.

The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c.  Ideally other mm
initialisation code will be moved here over time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d7b6de14a0 Merge branch 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic
  softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
  softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
  softlockup: show irqtrace
  softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
  softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
  softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds
  softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix
  softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime
  softlockup: allow panic on lockup
2008-07-23 18:34:13 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
76c3bb15d6 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic 2008-07-22 09:06:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e89970aa93 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_sctp: fix sparse warnings
  netfilter: nf_nat_sip: c= is optional for session
  netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: collapse tcpmss_reverse_mtu{4,6} into one function
  netfilter: nfnetlink_log: send complete hardware header
  netfilter: xt_time: fix time's time_mt()'s use of do_div()
  netfilter: accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters (v4)
  netlink: add NLA_PUT_BE64 macro
  netfilter: nf_nat_core: eliminate useless find_appropriate_src for IP_NAT_RANGE_PROTO_RANDOM
  hdlcdrv: Fix CRC calculation.
  Revert "pkt_sched: Make default qdisc nonshared-multiqueue safe."
  net: In __netif_schedule() use WARN_ON instead of BUG_ON
  net: Improve simple_tx_hash().
  pkt_sched: Remove unused variable skb in dev_deactivate_queue function.
  sunhme: Remove stop/wake TX queue calls in set-multicast-list handler.
  ucc_geth: do not touch net queue in adjust_link phylib callback
  gianfar: do not touch net queue in adjust_link phylib callback
  atl1: Do not wake queue before queue has been started.
2008-07-21 11:29:52 -07:00
Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki
584015727a netfilter: accounting rework: ct_extend + 64bit counters (v4)
Initially netfilter has had 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, but
it was changed in 2.6.14 to save memory. Unfortunately in-kernel 64bit counters are
still required, for example for "connbytes" extension. However, 64bit counters
waste a lot of memory and it was not possible to enable/disable it runtime.

This patch:
 - reimplements accounting with respect to the extension infrastructure,
 - makes one global version of seq_print_acct() instead of two seq_print_counters(),
 - makes it possible to enable it at boot time (for CONFIG_SYSCTL/CONFIG_SYSFS=n),
 - makes it possible to enable/disable it at runtime by sysctl or sysfs,
 - extends counters from 32bit to 64bit,
 - renames ip_conntrack_counter -> nf_conn_counter,
 - enables accounting code unconditionally (no longer depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT),
 - set initial accounting enable state based on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT
 - removes buggy IPCT_COUNTER_FILLING event handling.

If accounting is enabled newly created connections get additional acct extend.
Old connections are not changed as it is not possible to add a ct_extend area
to confirmed conntrack. Accounting is performed for all connections with
acct extend regardless of a current state of "net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct".

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-21 10:10:58 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
acee709cab Merge branches 'x86/urgent', 'x86/amd-iommu', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/core', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/gart', 'x86/kprobes', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/modules', 'x86/nmi', 'x86/pat', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup', 'x86/step', 'x86/unify-pci', 'x86/uv', 'x86/xen' and 'xen-64bit' into x86/for-linus 2008-07-21 16:37:17 +02:00
Simon Arlott
e3a61b0a8c x86: add unknown_nmi_panic kernel parameter
It's not possible to enable the unknown_nmi_panic sysctl option
until init is run. It's useful to be able to panic the kernel
during boot too, this adds a parameter to enable this option.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 10:10:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a208f37a46 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic 2008-07-18 22:50:34 +02:00
Stefan Assmann
41b9eb264c x86, pci: introduce config option for pci reroute quirks (was: [PATCH 0/3] Boot IRQ quirks for Broadcom and AMD/ATI)
This is against linux-2.6-tip, branch pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks.

From: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de>
Subject: Introduce config option for pci reroute quirks

The config option X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS is introduced to
enable (or disable) the redirection of the interrupt handler to the boot
interrupt line by default. Depending on the existence of interrupt
masking / threaded interrupt handling in the kernel (vanilla, rt, ...)
and the maturity of the rerouting patch, users can enable or disable the
redirection by default.

This means that the reroute quirk can be applied to any kernel without
changing it.

Interrupt sharing could be increased if this option is enabled. However this
option is vital for threaded interrupt handling, as done by the RT kernel.
It should simplify the consolidation with the RT kernel.

The option can be overridden by either pci=ioapicreroute or
pci=noioapicreroute.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Olaf Dabrunz <od@suse.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Ihno Krumreich <ihno@suse.de>
Cc: Sven Dietrich <sdietrich@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Gollub <dgollub@suse.de>
Cc: Felix Foerster <ffoerster@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 19:31:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3e370b29d3 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks
Conflicts:

	drivers/pci/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 19:31:12 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
caadbdce24 x86: enable memory tester support on 32-bit
only supports memory below max_low_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:11:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
dc7c65db28 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
  Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
  PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
  x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
  PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
  PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
  x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
  Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
  PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
  PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
  PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
  ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
  PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
  PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
  PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
  PCI: handle pci_name() being const
  PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
  PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
  PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.
2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
Zhao Yakui
da5e09a1b3 ACPI : Create "idle=nomwait" bootparam
"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.

When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.

This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-07-16 23:27:05 +02:00
Zhao Yakui
c1e3b377ad ACPI: Create "idle=halt" bootparam
"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction.  No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.

If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-07-16 23:27:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1e09481365 Merge branch 'linus' into core/softlockup
Conflicts:

	kernel/softlockup.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15 23:12:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
98339cbd36 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (80 commits)
  ide-floppy: fix unfortunate function naming
  ide-tape: unify idetape_create_read/write_cmd
  ide: add ide_pc_intr() helper
  ide-{floppy,scsi}: read Status Register before stopping DMA engine
  ide-scsi: add more debugging to idescsi_pc_intr()
  ide-scsi: use pc->callback
  ide-floppy: add more debugging to idefloppy_pc_intr()
  ide-tape: always log debug info in idetape_pc_intr() if debugging is enabled
  ide-tape: add ide_tape_io_buffers() helper
  ide-tape: factor out DSC handling from idetape_pc_intr()
  ide-{floppy,tape}: move checking of ->failed_pc to ->callback
  ide: add ide_issue_pc() helper
  ide: add PC_FLAG_DRQ_INTERRUPT pc flag
  ide-scsi: move idescsi_map_sg() call out from idescsi_issue_pc()
  ide: add ide_transfer_pc() helper
  ide-scsi: set drive->scsi flag for devices handled by the driver
  ide-{cd,floppy,tape}: remove checking for drive->scsi
  ide: add PC_FLAG_ZIP_DRIVE pc flag
  ide-tape: factor out waiting for good ireason from idetape_transfer_pc()
  ide-tape: set PC_FLAG_DMA_IN_PROGRESS flag in idetape_transfer_pc()
  ...
2008-07-15 11:15:36 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
232595eaff ide: remove obsoleted "hdx=" kernel parameters
* Remove obsoleted "hdx=" kernel parameters.

* Remove no longer used stridx() and match_parm().

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-15 21:21:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
da6e88f496 Merge branch 'timers/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: add PCI ID for 6300ESB force hpet
  x86: add another PCI ID for ICH6 force-hpet
  kernel-paramaters: document pmtmr= command line option
  acpi_pm clccksource: fix printk format warning
  nohz: don't stop idle tick if softirqs are pending.
  pmtmr: allow command line override of ioport
  nohz: reduce jiffies polling overhead
  hrtimer: Remove unused variables in ktime_divns()
  hrtimer: remove warning in hres_timers_resume
  posix-timers: print RT watchdog message
2008-07-15 10:39:57 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
d3af01f18b Documentation: document debugpat commandline option
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-07-15 15:30:29 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
85082fd7cb Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (241 commits)
  [ARM] 5171/1: ep93xx: fix compilation of modules using clocks
  [ARM] 5133/2: at91sam9g20 defconfig file
  [ARM] 5130/4: Support for the at91sam9g20
  [ARM] 5160/1: IOP3XX: gpio/gpiolib support
  [ARM] at91: Fix NAND FLASH timings for at91sam9x evaluation kits.
  [ARM] 5084/1: zylonite: Register AC97 device
  [ARM] 5085/2: PXA: Move AC97 over to the new central device declaration model
  [ARM] 5120/1: pxa: correct platform driver names for PXA25x and PXA27x UDC drivers
  [ARM] 5147/1: pxaficp_ir: drop pxa_gpio_mode calls, as pin setting
  [ARM] 5145/1: PXA2xx: provide api to control IrDA pins state
  [ARM] 5144/1: pxaficp_ir: cleanup includes
  [ARM] pxa: remove pxa_set_cken()
  [ARM] pxa: allow clk aliases
  [ARM] Feroceon: don't disable BPU on boot
  [ARM] Orion: LED support for HP mv2120
  [ARM] Orion: add RD88F5181L-FXO support
  [ARM] Orion: add RD88F5181L-GE support
  [ARM] Orion: add Netgear WNR854T support
  [ARM] s3c2410_defconfig: update for current build
  [ARM] Acer n30: Minor style and indentation fixes.
  ...
2008-07-14 16:06:58 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
7dc9719682 Merge commit '900cfa46191a7d87cf1891924cb90499287fd235'; branches 'timers/nohz', 'timers/clocksource' and 'timers/posixtimers' into timers/for-linus 2008-07-14 18:09:05 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
af9d13887f x2apic: kernel-parameter documentation for "x2apic_phys"
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-12 08:45:11 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
6e1cb38a2a x64, x2apic/intr-remap: add x2apic support, including enabling interrupt-remapping
x2apic support.  Interrupt-remapping must be enabled before enabling x2apic,
this is needed to ensure that IO interrupts continue to work properly after the
cpu mode is changed to x2apic(which uses 32bit extended physical/cluster
apic id).

On systems where apicid's are > 255, BIOS can handover the control to OS in
x2apic mode. Or if the OS handover was in legacy xapic mode, check
if it is capable of x2apic mode. And if we succeed in enabling
Interrupt-remapping, then we can enable x2apic mode in the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org
Cc: steiner@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-12 08:45:06 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
de32a2434f kernel-paramaters: document pmtmr= command line option
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-07-12 05:33:30 +02:00
Stefan Assmann
9197979b51 x86, pci: introduce pci=ioapicreroute kernel cmdline option
Introduce pci=ioapicreroute kernel cmdline option to enable rerouting of boot
interrupts to the primary io-apic.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Olaf Dabrunz <od@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 17:50:51 +02:00
Stefan Assmann
a9322f6488 x86, pci: introduce pci=noioapicquirk kernel cmdline option
Introduce pci=noioapicquirk kernel cmdline option to disable all boot
interrupt quirks

Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Olaf Dabrunz <od@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 17:50:49 +02:00
Paul Jackson
200001eb14 x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap if add_efi_memmap flag
Applies on top of the previous patch:
  x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel

Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:

    add_efi_memmap

is specified.

Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in
the first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries
to replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
entirely on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:10:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3de352bbd8 Merge branch 'x86/mpparse' into x86/devel
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
	arch/x86/mm/init_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 11:14:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
896395c290 Merge branch 'linus' into tmp.x86.mpparse.new 2008-07-08 10:32:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
58cf35228f Merge branches 'x86/mmio', 'x86/delay', 'x86/idle', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/debug', 'x86/ptrace' and 'x86/amd-iommu' into x86/devel 2008-07-08 09:46:15 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
8b7fd21511 x86: clean up amd_iommu documentation
amd_iommu=off was replaced with a common parameter, iommu=off.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: bhavna.sarathy@amd.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-07 09:43:33 +02:00
Paul Jackson
46b6d94eb0 doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument
Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 10:40:10 -07:00
Pavel Machek
71f77055de Doc*/kernel-parameters.txt: fix stale references
Fix stale references to source files in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 10:40:06 -07:00
Ben Dooks
9db829f485 [ARM] JIVE: Initial machine support for Logitech Jive
This is the base machine support for the Logitech Jive
machine.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
2008-07-03 16:51:24 +01:00
Joerg Roedel
54b4cbd269 x86, AMD IOMMU: add documentation for kernel parameters
Add documentation for the kernel parameters introduced with this driver.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: bhavna.sarathy@amd.com
Cc: Sebastian.Biemueller@amd.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-27 10:12:22 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
d8f3de0d24 Suspend-related patches for 2.6.27
ACPI PM: Add possibility to change suspend sequence

There are some systems out there that don't work correctly with
our current suspend/hibernation code ordering.  Provide a workaround
for these systems allowing them to pass 'acpi_sleep=old_ordering' in
the kernel command line so that it will use the pre-ACPI 2.0 ("old")
suspend code ordering.

Unfortunately, this requires us to add a platform hook to the
resuming of devices for recovering the platform in case one of the
device drivers' .suspend() routines returns error code.  Namely,
ACPI 1.0 specifies that _PTS should be called before suspending
devices, but _WAK still should be called before resuming them in
order to undo the changes made by _PTS.  However, if there is an
error during suspending devices, they are automatically resumed
without returning control to the PM core, so the _WAK has to be
called from within device_resume() in that cases.

The patch also reorders and refactors the ACPI suspend/hibernation
code to avoid duplication as far as reasonably possible.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-06-12 14:25:09 -07:00
Gary Hade
bb71ad8802 PCI: boot parameter to avoid expansion ROM memory allocation
Contention for scarce PCI memory resources has been growing
due to an increasing number of PCI slots in large multi-node
systems.  The kernel currently attempts by default to
allocate memory for all PCI expansion ROMs so there has
also been an increasing number of PCI memory allocation
failures seen on these systems.  This occurs because the
BIOS either (1) provides insufficient PCI memory resource
for all the expansion ROMs or (2) provides adequate PCI
memory resource for expansion ROMs but provides the
space in kernel unexpected BIOS assigned P2P non-prefetch
windows.

The resulting PCI memory allocation failures may be benign
when related to memory requests for expansion ROMs themselves
but in some cases they can occur when attempting to allocate
space for more critical BARs.  This can happen when a successful
expansion ROM allocation request consumes memory resource
that was intended for a non-ROM BAR.  We have seen this
happen during PCI hotplug of an adapter that contains a
P2P bridge where successful memory allocation for an
expansion ROM BAR on device behind the bridge consumed
memory that was intended for a non-ROM BAR on the P2P bridge.
In all cases the allocation failure messages can be very
confusing for users.

This patch provides a new 'pci=norom' kernel boot parameter
that can be used to disable the default PCI expansion ROM memory
resource allocation.  This provides a way to avoid the above
described issues on systems that do not contain PCI devices
for which drivers or user-level applications depend on the
default PCI expansion ROM memory resource allocation behavior.

Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-06-10 10:59:50 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
12031a624a x86: mtrr cleanup for converting continuous to discrete - auto detect v4
Loop through mtrr chunk_size and gran_size from 1M to 2G to find out
the optimal value so user does not need to add mtrr_chunk_size and
mtrr_gran_size to the kernel command line.

If optimal value is not found, print out all list to help select less
optimal value.

Add mtrr_spare_reg_nr= so user could set 2 instead of 1, if the card
need more entries.

v2: find the one with more spare entries
v3: fix hole_basek offset
v4: tight the compare between range and range_new
    loop stop with 4g

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Mika Fischer <mika.fischer@zoopnet.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-25 10:55:10 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
95ffa2438d x86: mtrr cleanup for converting continuous to discrete layout, v8
some BIOS like to use continus MTRR layout, and X driver can not add
WB entries for graphical cards when 4g or more RAM installed.

the patch will change MTRR to discrete.

mtrr_chunk_size= could be used to have smaller continuous block to hold holes.
default is 256m, could be set according to size of graphics card memory.

mtrr_gran_size= could be used to send smallest mtrr block to avoid run out of MTRRs

v2: fix -1 for UC checking
v3: default to disable, and need use enable_mtrr_cleanup to enable this feature
    skip the var state change warning.
    remove next_basek in range_to_mtrr()
v4: correct warning mask.
v5: CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER
v6: fix 1g, 2g, 512 aligment with extra hole
v7: gran_sizek to prevent running out of MTRRs.
v8: fix hole_basek caculation caused when removing next_basek
    gran_sizek using when basek is 0.

need to apply
	[PATCH] x86: fix trimming e820 with MTRR holes.
right after this one.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25 10:55:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9c44bc03ff softlockup: allow panic on lockup
allow users to configure the softlockup detector to generate a panic
instead of a warning message.

high-availability systems might opt for this strict method (combined
with panic_timeout= boot option/sysctl), instead of generating
softlockup warnings ad infinitum.

also, automated tests work better if the system reboots reliably (into
a safe kernel) in case of a lockup.

The full spectrum of configurability is supported: boot option, sysctl
option and Kconfig option.

it's default-disabled.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25 06:34:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7371fd11a6 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] fix personality(PER_LINUX32) performance issue
  [IA64] Properly unregister legacy interrupts
  [IA64] Remove NULL pointer check for argument never passed as NULL.
  [IA64] trivial cleanup for perfmon.c
  [IA64] trivial cleanup for entry.S
  [IA64] fix interrupt masking for pending works on kernel leave
  [IA64] allow user to force_pal_cache_flush
  [IA64] Don't reserve crashkernel memory > 4 GB
  [IA64] machvec support for SGI UV platform
  [IA64] Add header files for SGI UV platform
2008-05-15 13:56:42 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
e0a45ee0b9 [S390] Remove last traces of cio_msg=.
cio_msg= is gone, also remove it from kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-15 16:52:38 +02:00
Alex Chiang
f13ae30e13 [IA64] allow user to force_pal_cache_flush
The sequence executed in check_sal_cache_flush:

	- pend a timer interrupt
	- call SAL_CACHE_FLUSH
	- see if interrupt is still pending

can hang HP machines with buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations.

Provide a kernel command-line argument to allow users skip this
check if desired. Using this parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush
to call ia64_pal_cache_flush() instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-05-14 15:42:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
108c196184 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  x86 PCI: call dmi_check_pciprobe()
  x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines.
  x86/pci: remove flag in pci_cfg_space_size_ext
  x86: fix section mismatch in pci_scan_bus
2008-05-05 12:39:10 -07:00
Finn Thain
b6d9d267f0 m68k: remove old mac_esp cruft
Remove the rest of the old mac_esp driver. Also ditch the rest of the
machw mechanism, it needs to be replaced by a fake openfirmware tree.

Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-05 12:38:50 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
13a6ddb08e x86/pci: add pci=skip_isa_align command lines.
so we don't align the io port start address for pci cards.

also move out dmi check out acpi.c, because it has nothing to do with acpi.
it could spare some calling when we have several peer root buses.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-05-05 09:22:08 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
3ac7fe5a4a infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:

1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects

Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore.  One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.

While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause.  This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.

The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.

Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.

The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash.  Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.

Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.

The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.

The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list

Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation.  When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.

The list of operations can be extended if the need arises.  For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).

The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets.  The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree.  Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.

The debug code can be compiled in without being active.  The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives.  A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.

Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Samuel Thibault
f7511d5f66 Basic braille screen reader support
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support.  This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g.  on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:52 -07:00
Tim Gardner
8c4dd60682 edd: add default mode CONFIG_EDD_OFF=n, override with edd={on,off}
Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services.  CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel.  Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:23 -07:00
Andres Salomon
3ef0e1f8ca x86: olpc: add One Laptop Per Child architecture support
This adds support for OLPC XO hardware.  Open Firmware on XOs don't contain
the VSA, so it is necessary to emulate the PCI BARs in the kernel.  This also
adds functionality for running EC commands, and a CONFIG_OLPC.

A number of OLPC drivers depend upon CONFIG_OLPC.

olpc_ec_timeout is a hack to work around Embedded Controller bugs.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: geode_has_vsa build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: olpc_register_battery_callback doesn't exist]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
ef87f8d096 ide: remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parameters
* Remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parameters.

* Make probe_* and cmd640_vlb variables static.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-27 15:38:24 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bda0c0afa7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (42 commits)
  PCI: Change PCI subsystem MAINTAINER
  PCI: pci-iommu-iotlb-flushing-speedup
  PCI: pci_setup_bridge() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_bus_size_cardbus() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_scan_device() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: pci_alloc_child_bus() mustn't be __devinit
  PCI: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
  PCI: Hotplug: fakephp: Return success, not ENODEV, when bus rescan is triggered
  PCI: Hotplug: Fix leaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver - ibmphp_init_devno()
  PCI: clean up resource alignment management
  PCI: aerdrv_acpi.c: remove unneeded NULL check
  PCI: Update VIA CX700 quirk
  PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs
  PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing
  PCI: simplify quirk debug output
  PCI: iova RB tree setup tweak
  PCI: parisc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: ppc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: powerpc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  PCI: ia64: use generic pci_enable_resources()
  ...
2008-04-21 15:58:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9a64388d83 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (202 commits)
  [POWERPC] Fix compile breakage for 64-bit UP configs
  [POWERPC] Define copy_siginfo_from_user32
  [POWERPC] Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
  [POWERPC] i2c: Fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers
  [POWERPC] Optimize fls64() on 64-bit processors
  [POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc
  [POWERPC] Stacktrace support for lockdep
  [POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common header
  [POWERPC] Fix device-tree locking vs. interrupts
  [POWERPC] Make pci_bus_to_host()'s struct pci_bus * argument const
  [POWERPC] Remove unused __max_memory variable
  [POWERPC] Simplify xics direct/lpar irq_host setup
  [POWERPC] Use pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ()
  [POWERPC] Turn xics_setup_8259_cascade() into a generic pseries_setup_i8259_cascade()
  [POWERPC] Move xics_setup_8259_cascade() into platforms/pseries/setup.c
  [POWERPC] Use asm-generic/bitops/find.h in bitops.h
  [POWERPC] 83xx: mpc8315 - fix USB UTMI Host setup
  [POWERPC] 85xx: Fix the size of qe muram for MPC8568E
  [POWERPC] 86xx: mpc86xx_hpcn - Temporarily accept old dts node identifier.
  [POWERPC] 86xx: mark functions static, other minor cleanups
  ...
2008-04-21 15:50:49 -07:00
mark gross
5e0d2a6fc0 PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing
This patch is for batching up the flushing of the IOTLB for the DMAR
implementation found in the Intel VT-d hardware.  It works by building a list
of to be flushed IOTLB entries and a bitmap list of which DMAR engine they are
from.

After either a high water mark (250 accessible via debugfs) or 10ms the list
of iova's will be reclaimed and the DMAR engines associated are IOTLB-flushed.

This approach recovers 15 to 20% of the performance lost when using the IOMMU
for my netperf udp stream benchmark with small packets.  It can be disabled
with a kernel boot parameter "intel_iommu=strict".

Its use does weaken the IOMMU protections a bit.

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-20 21:47:07 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1ba6ab11d8 PCI: remove initial bios sort of PCI devices on x86
We currently keep 2 lists of PCI devices in the system, one in the
driver core, and one all on its own.  This second list is sorted at boot
time, in "BIOS" order, to try to remain compatible with older kernels
(2.2 and earlier days).  There was also a "nosort" option to turn this
sorting off, to remain compatible with even older kernel versions, but
that just ends up being what we have been doing from 2.5 days...

Unfortunately, the second list of devices is not really ever used to 
determine the probing order of PCI devices or drivers[1].  That is done
using the driver core list instead.  This change happened back in the
early 2.5 days.

Relying on BIOS ording for the binding of drivers to specific device
names is problematic for many reasons, and userspace tools like udev
exist to properly name devices in a persistant manner if that is needed,
no reliance on the BIOS is needed.

Matt Domsch and others at Dell noticed this back in 2006, and added a
boot option to sort the PCI device lists (both of them) in a
breadth-first manner to help remain compatible with the 2.4 order, if
needed for any reason.  This option is not going away, as some systems
rely on them.

This patch removes the sorting of the internal PCI device list in "BIOS"
mode, as it's not needed at all anymore, and hasn't for many years.
I've also removed the PCI flags for this from some other arches that for
some reason defined them, but never used them.

This should not change the ordering of any drivers or device probing.

[1] The old-style pci_get_device and pci_find_device() still used this
sorting order, but there are very few drivers that use these functions,
as they are deprecated for use in this manner.  If for some reason, a
driver rely on the order and uses these functions, the breadth-first
boot option will resolve any problem.

Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-20 21:46:58 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
f5a1b191b3 x86: fix exec mappings comments
- noexec32 is on by default for years already
- add noexec32 to kernel-parameters and fix noexec typo in there

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-19 19:19:55 +02:00
Ahmed S. Darwish
076c54c5bc Security: Introduce security= boot parameter
Add the security= boot parameter. This is done to avoid LSM
registration clashes in case of more than one bult-in module.

User can choose a security module to enable at boot. If no
security= boot parameter is specified, only the first LSM
asking for registration will be loaded. An invalid security
module name will be treated as if no module has been chosen.

LSM modules must check now if they are allowed to register
by calling security_module_enable(ops) first. Modify SELinux
and SMACK to do so.

Do not let SMACK register smackfs if it was not chosen on
boot. Smackfs assumes that smack hooks are registered and
the initial task security setup (swapper->security) is done.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-04-19 10:00:51 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
4786b4ee22 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (27 commits)
  [IA64] kdump: Add crash_save_vmcoreinfo for INIT
  [IA64] Fix NUMA configuration issue
  [IA64] Itanium Spec updates
  [IA64] Untangle sync_icache_dcache() page size determination
  [IA64] arch/ia64/kernel/: use time_* macros
  [IA64] remove redundant display of free swap space in show_mem()
  [IA64] make IOMMU respect the segment boundary limits
  [IA64] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64
  [IA64] fix getpid and set_tid_address fast system calls for pid namespaces
  [IA64] Replace explicit jiffies tests with time_* macros.
  [IA64] use goto to jump out do/while_each_thread
  [IA64] Fix unlock ordering in smp_callin
  [IA64] pgd_offset() constfication.
  [IA64] kdump: crash.c coding style fix
  [IA64] kdump: add kdump_on_fatal_mca
  [IA64] Minimize per_cpu reservations.
  [IA64] Correct pernodesize calculation.
  [IA64] Kernel parameter for max number of concurrent global TLB purges
  [IA64] Multiple outstanding ptc.g instruction support
  [IA64] Implement smp_call_function_mask for ia64
  ...
2008-04-18 09:44:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
188da98800 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (58 commits)
  ide: remove ide_init_default_irq() macro
  ide: move default IDE ports setup to ide_generic host driver
  ide: remove obsoleted "idex=noprobe" kernel parameter (take 2)
  ide: remove needless hwif->irq check from ide_hwif_configure()
  ide: init hwif->{io_ports,irq} explicitly in legacy VLB host drivers
  ide: limit legacy VLB host drivers to alpha, x86 and mips
  cmd640: init hwif->{io_ports,irq} explicitly
  cmd640: cleanup setup_device_ptrs()
  ide: add ide-4drives host driver (take 3)
  ide: remove ppc ifdef from init_ide_data()
  ide: remove ide_default_io_ctl() macro
  ide: remove CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT
  ide: add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS (take 2)
  ppc/pmac: remove no longer needed IDE quirk
  ppc: don't include <linux/ide.h>
  ppc: remove ppc_ide_md
  ppc/pplus: remove ppc_ide_md.ide_init_hwif hook
  ppc/sandpoint: remove ppc_ide_md hooks
  ppc/lopec: remove ppc_ide_md hooks
  ppc/mpc8xx: remove ppc_ide_md hooks
  ...
2008-04-18 08:39:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9732b61123 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb:
  kgdb: always use icache flush for sw breakpoints
  kgdb: fix SMP NMI kgdb_handle_exception exit race
  kgdb: documentation fixes
  kgdb: allow static kgdbts boot configuration
  kgdb: add documentation
  kgdb: Kconfig fix
  kgdb: add kgdb internal test suite
  kgdb: fix several kgdb regressions
  kgdb: kgdboc pl011 I/O module
  kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_*
  kgdb: add x86 HW breakpoints
  kgdb: print breakpoint removed on exception
  kgdb: clocksource watchdog
  kgdb: fix NMI hangs
  kgdb: fix kgdboc dynamic module configuration
  kgdb: document parameters
  x86: kgdb support
  consoles: polling support, kgdboc
  kgdb: core
  uaccess: add probe_kernel_write()
2008-04-18 08:37:01 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
f01674e459 ide: remove obsoleted "idex=noprobe" kernel parameter (take 2)
* Remove obsoleted "idex=noprobe" kernel parameter.

* Remove no longer needed hwif->noprobe quirk from ide_hwif_configure()
  and hwif->noprobe checking from cmd640.c.

v2:
* "ide?=noprobe" -> "ide?=ata66" in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-18 00:46:35 +02:00