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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
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
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a594eeb1a1 IDE: remove ide=reverse IDE core
This option is obsolete and can be removed safely.

It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the
PCI core.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-04-18 00:46:20 +02:00
Jason Wessel
6cdf6e06d7 kgdb: document parameters
document the kgdboc module/boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 20:05:38 +02:00
Tony Luck
f4df39cbdd Pull nptcg into release branch
Conflicts:

	arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c
2008-04-17 10:13:57 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
c64df70793 x86: memtest bootparam
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:21 +02:00
Pavel Machek
b552da8740 x86 iommu: add more documentation
Fix coding style in pci-dma_64.c and add stubs for documentation. I
hope someone fills the rest, I understand maybe off and soft...

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:40:59 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
ac7c5353b1 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-04-14 21:11:02 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
14897e35fd Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
  Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt
  Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
  Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
  Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
  Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc
  Fix a typo in highres.txt
  Fixes to the seq_file document
  Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
  Add the seq_file documentation
2008-04-11 13:24:16 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
6ded55da6b Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious
place for this file.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
Paul Menage
8bab8dded6 cgroups: add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time
The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:

- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy
- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem

As a result there will only ever be one call to foo->create(), at init time;
all processes will stay in this group, and the group will never be mounted on
a visible hierarchy.  Any additional effects (e.g.  not allocating metadata)
are up to the foo subsystem.

This doesn't handle early_init subsystems (their "disabled" bit isn't set be,
but it could easily be extended to do so if any of the early_init systems
wanted it - I think it would just involve some nastier parameter processing
since it would occur before the command-line argument parser had been run.

Hugh said:

  Ballpark figures, I'm trying to get this question out rather than
  processing the exact numbers: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR adds 15% overhead
  to the affected paths, booting with cgroup_disable=memory cuts that back to
  1% overhead (due to slightly bigger struct page).

  I'm no expert on distros, they may have no interest whatever in
  CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y; and the rest of us can easily build with or
  without it, or apply the cgroup_disable=memory patches.

Unix bench's execl test result on x86_64 was

== just after boot without mounting any cgroup fs.==
mem_cgorup=off : Execl Throughput       43.0     3150.1      732.6
mem_cgroup=on  : Execl Throughput       43.0     2932.6      682.0
==

[lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: fix boot option parsing]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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>
2008-04-04 14:46:26 -07:00
Fenghua Yu
a6c75b86ce [IA64] Kernel parameter for max number of concurrent global TLB purges
The patch defines kernel parameter "nptcg=". The parameter overrides max number
of concurrent global TLB purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
SAL PALO.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-04-04 11:06:38 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
7731ce63d9 ACPI PM: Restore the 2.6.24 suspend ordering
Some time ago it turned out that our suspend code ordering broke some
NVidia-based systems that hung if _PTS was executed with one of the PCI
devices, specifically a USB controller, in a low power state.

Then, it was noticed that the suspend code ordering was not compliant
with ACPI 1.0, although it was compliant with ACPI 2.0 (and later), and
it was argued that the code had to be changed for that reason (ref.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528).

So we did, but evidently we did wrong, because it's now turning out that
some systems have been broken by this change. Refs:
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340
	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217#c16

[ I said at that time that something like this might happend, but the
  majority of people involved thought that it was improbable due to the
  necessity to preserve the compliance of hardware with ACPI 1.0. ]

This actually is a quite serious regression from 2.6.24.

Moreover, the ACPI 1.0 ordering of suspend code introduced another issue
that I have only noticed recently.  Namely, if the suspend of one of
devices fails, the already suspended devices will be resumed without
executing _WAK before, which leads to problems on some systems (for
example, in such situations thermal management is broken on my HP
nx6325).  Consequently, it also breaks suspend debugging on the affected
systems.

Note also, that the requirement to execute _PTS before suspending
devices does not really make sense, because the device in question may
be put into a low power state at run time for a reason unrelated to a
system-wide suspend.

For the reasons outlined above, the change of the suspend ordering
should be reverted, which is done by the patch below.

[ Felix Möller: "I am the reporter from the original Novell Bug:

	https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217

  I just tried current git head (two hours ago) with the patch (the one
  from the beginning of this thread) from Rafael and without it.  With
  the patch my MacBook does suspend without it does not." ]

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Felix Möller <felix@derklecks.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-01 11:21:08 -07:00
Robert Brose
a78bfbfcfa [POWERPC] Add kernel parameter to set l3cr for MPC745x
Old-world powermacs don't set L2CR or L3CR on processor upgrade cards.
This simple patch allows the setting of L3CR via a kernel parameter
(like the existing kernel parameter to set L2CR).

Signed-off-by: Robert Brose <bob@qbjnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-04-01 20:43:09 +11:00
Pavel Machek
1312848e92 kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option better
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and
non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fb00f7629b 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:
  Input: ALPS - fix forward/back buttons reversed on Acer 5520-5290
  Input: ALPS - put secondary device in proper place in sysfs
  Input: wacom - add support for Bamboo1, BambooFun, and Cintiq 12WX
  Input: document i8042.noloop
  Input: add keyboard notifier documentation
  Input: ads7846 - fix uninitialized var warning
  Input: i8042 - add SNI RM support
  Input: i8042 - add Lenovo 3000 N100 to nomux blacklist
  Input: i8042 - fix warning on non-x86 builds
  Input: cobalt_btns - assorted fixes
2008-03-18 07:46:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9a9e0d6855 ACPI: Remove ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD option
This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9ad
("ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override support"), because the code simply
isn't ready.

It did ugly things to the init sequence to populate the rootfs image
early, but that just ended up showing other problems with the whole
approach.  The fact is, the VFS layer simply isn't initialized this
early, and the relevant ACPI code should either run much later, or this
shouldn't be done at all.

For 2.6.25, we'll just pick the latter option.  We can revisit this
concept later if necessary.

Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@gaugusch.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-15 11:58:04 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
75d08c7893 Input: document i8042.noloop
Document 'noloop' kernel parameter of i8042 controller driver.
Pointed out in #10236.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-03-14 11:54:25 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
53471121a8 documentation: Move power-related files to Documentation/power/
Move 00-INDEX entries to power/00-INDEX (and add entry for
pm_qos_interface.txt).

Update references to moved filenames.

Fix some trailing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12 18:10:51 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
1c10e93828 ide: update references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt (v2)
Fix all references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Add/update ide/00-INDEX file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-07 21:53:50 +01:00
Tejun Heo
3326732570 libata: implement libata.force module parameter
This patch implements libata.force module parameter which can
selectively override ATA port, link and device configurations
including cable type, SATA PHY SPD limit, transfer mode and NCQ.

For example, you can say "use 1.5Gbps for all fan-out ports attached
to the second port but allow 3.0Gbps for the PMP device itself, oh,
the device attached to the third fan-out port chokes on NCQ and
shouldn't go over UDMA4" by the following.

 libata.force=2:1.5g,2.15:3.0g,2.03:noncq,udma4

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-02-20 12:12:28 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
08cd93f9e1 remove mca-pentium
This patch removes the mca-pentium boot option that was a noop.

besides the source code cleanup factor, this saves some text as well:

   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.o:
      text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
       651      77       4     732     2dc bugs.o.before
       631      53       4     688     2b0 bugs.o.after

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-19 16:18:28 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
a36219ac93 The scheduled 'time' option removal
The scheduled removal of the 'time' option.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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>
2008-02-08 09:22:36 -08:00
Len Brown
81e242d0ef Merge branches 'release' and 'dsdt-override' into release 2008-02-07 04:01:53 -05:00
Éric Piel
9cbc796028 ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameter
The acpi_no_initrd_override parameter permits to disable the load of an ACPI
table from the initramfs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07 04:00:24 -05:00
Pavel Machek
23b168d425 PM: documentation cleanups
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07 01:27:17 -05:00
Denis Cheng
594765a731 ide-pci-generic: kill the unused ifdef/endif/MODULE code
with module_param macro, the __setup code can be killed now:
	const __setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on);

and the module name "generic.ko" is not descriptive to its functionality,
can be changed in Makefile, the "ide-pci-generic.ko" is better.

the ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide parameter also documented
in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-02-06 02:57:49 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day
3239c49cf1 Documentation: Remove references to dead "st0x" and "tmc8xx" parms.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:23:00 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
24aaef8d7f Documentation: Update to refer to correct "rcupdate" module name
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:20:26 +02:00