* '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
* '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.
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
...
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>
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>
- 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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
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>
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>
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>
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=10340https://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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
The ACPI 1.0 specification wants us to put devices into low power
states after executing the _PTS global control method, while ACPI
2.0 and later want us to do that in the reverse order. The current
suspend code follows ACPI 2.0 in that respect which causes some
ACPI 1.0x systems to hang during suspend (ref.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528).
Make the suspend code execute _PTS before putting devices into low
power states (ie. in accordance with ACPI 1.0x) and provide a command
line option to override the default if need be.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The new "mfgptfix" boot command line option may be usd to fix MFGPT
timers on AMD Geode platforms when the BIOS has incorrectly applied
a workaround. TinyBIOS version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99
fixes the problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
when MTRRs are not covering the whole e820 table, we need to trim the
RAM and need to update e820.
reuse some code on 64-bit as well.
here need to add early_get_cap and use it in early_cpu_detect, and move
mtrr_bp_init early.
The code successfully trimmed the memory map on Justin's system:
from:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000022c000000 (usable)
to:
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000100000000 - 0000000228000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000228000000 - 000000022c000000 (reserved)
According to Justin it makes quite a difference:
| When I boot the box without any trimming it acts like a 286 or 386,
| takes about 10 minutes to boot (using raptor disks).
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add a generic option to clear any cpuid bit. I added it because it was
very easy to add with the new generic cpuid disable bitmap and perhaps
it will be useful in the future.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To disable CLFLUSH usage, especially in change_page_attr().
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to cover all
available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs) of memory will be
marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate from high memory addresses
first, this causes the machine to be unusably slow as soon as the kernel
starts really using memory (i.e. right around init time).
This patch works around the problem by scanning the MTRRs at boot and
figuring out whether the current end_pfn value (setup by early e820 code)
goes beyond the highest WB MTRR range, and if so, trimming it to match. A
fairly obnoxious KERN_WARNING is printed too, letting the user know that
not all of their memory is available due to a likely BIOS bug.
Something similar could be done on i386 if needed, but the boot ordering
would be slightly different, since the MTRR code on i386 depends on the
boot_cpu_data structure being setup.
This patch fixes a bug in the last patch that caused the code to run on
non-Intel machines (AMD machines apparently don't need it and it's untested
on other non-Intel machines, so best keep it off).
Further enhancements and fixes from:
Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than
4G RAM installed.
when try to use kexec second kernel, and the first doesn't include
gart_shutdown. the second kernel could have different aper position than
the first kernel. and second kernel could use that hole as RAM that is
still used by GART set by the first kernel. esp. when try to kexec
2.6.24 with sparse mem enable from previous kernel (from RHEL 5 or SLES
10). the new kernel will use aper by GART (set by first kernel) for
vmemmap. and after new kernel setting one new GART. the position will be
real RAM. the _mapcount set is lost.
Bad page state in process 'swapper'
page:ffffe2000e600020 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7-smp-gcdf71a10-dirty #13
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8026401f>] bad_page+0x63/0x8d
[<ffffffff80264169>] __free_pages_ok+0x7c/0x2a5
[<ffffffff80ba75d1>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xd0/0x198
[<ffffffff80ba3a42>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x3b/0x76
[<ffffffff80ba3461>] mem_init+0x3b/0x152
[<ffffffff80b959d3>] start_kernel+0x236/0x2c2
[<ffffffff80b9511a>] _sinittext+0x11a/0x121
and
[ffffe2000e600000-ffffe2000e7fffff] PMD ->ffff81001c200000 on node 0
phys addr is : 0x1c200000
RHEL 5.1 kernel -53 said:
PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 1c000000 size 65536 KB
new kernel said:
Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 3c000000
So could try to disable that GART if possible.
According to Ingo
> hm, i'm wondering, instead of modifying the GART, why dont we simply
> _detect_ whatever GART settings we have inherited, and propagate that
> into our e820 maps? I.e. if there's inconsistency, then punch that out
> from the memory maps and just dont use that memory.
>
> that way it would not matter whether the GART settings came from a [old
> or crashing] Linux kernel that has not called gart_iommu_shutdown(), or
> whether it's a BIOS that has set up an aperture hole inconsistent with
> the memory map it passed. (or the memory map we _think_ i tried to pass
> us)
>
> it would also be more robust to only read and do a memory map quirk
> based on that, than actively trying to change the GART so early in the
> bootup. Later on we have to re-enable the GART _anyway_ and have to
> punch a hole for it.
>
> and as a bonus, we would have shored up our defenses against crappy
> BIOSes as well.
add e820 modification for gart inconsistent setting.
gart_fix_e820=off could be used to disable e820 fix.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line
for the code even before the trapping instrution (and the start of the
trapping instruction is then denoted with a <>). Unfortunately, the 64 bit
x86 tree does not yet have this feature, making diagnosing backtraces harder
than needed.
This patch adds this feature in the same was as the 32 bit tree has
(including the same kernel boot parameter), and including a bugfix
to make the code use probe_kernel_address() rarther than a buggy (deadlocking)
__get_user.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
support according to fixes of x86_64 support.
- Delete efi_rt_lock because it is used during system early boot,
before SMP is initialized.
- Change local_flush_tlb() to __flush_tlb_all() to flush global page
mapping.
- Clean up includes.
- Revise Kconfig description.
- Enable noefi kernel parameter on i386.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This makes x86_64's ia32 emulation support share the sources used in the
32-bit kernel for the 32-bit vDSO and much of its setup code.
The 32-bit vDSO mapping now behaves the same on x86_64 as on native 32-bit.
The abi.syscall32 sysctl on x86_64 now takes the same values that
vm.vdso_enabled takes on the 32-bit kernel. That is, 1 means a randomized
vDSO location, 2 means the fixed old address. The CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
option is now available to make this the default setting, the same meaning
it has for the 32-bit kernel. (This does not affect the 64-bit vDSO.)
The argument vdso32=[012] can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels to
set this paramter at boot time. The vdso=[012] argument still does this
same thing on the 32-bit kernel.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details:
- add the io_delay=none method
- make each method selectable from the kernel config
- simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call
- add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl
- change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed
- make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay
writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate
diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these.
David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a
proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine,
with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger.
Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the
2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with
help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has
two problems.
First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while
some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically
problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly
well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and
based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which
would sort of work, but...
Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has.
It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly
or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence
that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus
locking outb.
Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such,
this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more
invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover
only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems
to fit that situation.
This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override
the DMI based choice again:
io_delay=<standard|alternate>
where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate"
port 0xed.
This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and
command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well.
This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using
the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem
as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the
udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also
fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI
based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot
code be.
The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already
and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the
problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z.
This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and
David P. Reed.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Information about a ccw device will be dumped in
case of a ccw timeout. This can be enabled with
the kernel parameter ccw_timeout_log.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (200 commits)
[SCSI] usbstorage: use last_sector_bug flag universally
[SCSI] libsas: abstract STP task status into a function
[SCSI] ultrastor: clean up inline asm warnings
[SCSI] aic7xxx: fix firmware build
[SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls
[SCSI] ch: remove forward declarations
[SCSI] ch: fix device minor number management bug
[SCSI] ch: handle class_device_create failure properly
[SCSI] NCR5380: fix section mismatch
[SCSI] sg: fix /proc/scsi/sg/devices when no SCSI devices
[SCSI] IB/iSER: add logical unit reset support
[SCSI] don't use __GFP_DMA for sense buffers if not required
[SCSI] use dynamically allocated sense buffer
[SCSI] scsi.h: add macro for enclosure bit of inquiry data
[SCSI] sd: add fix for devices with last sector access problems
[SCSI] fix pcmcia compile problem
[SCSI] aacraid: add Voodoo Lite class of cards.
[SCSI] aacraid: add new driver features flags
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Issue correct MBC_INITIALIZE_FIRMWARE command.
...
Change the NMI handler to use the die notifier chain to signal anyone
who cares. Add a simple "nmi debugger" which hooks into this chain and
that may dump registers, task state, etc. when it happens.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
This adds the hugepagesz boot-time parameter for ppc64. It lets one
pick the size for huge pages. The choices available are 64K and 16M
when the base page size is 4k. It defaults to 16M (previously the
only only choice) if nothing or an invalid choice is specified.
Tested 64K huge pages successfully with the libhugetlbfs 1.2.
Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Minor corrections and additions to 'scsi_logging_level', as pointed out
by Chuck Ebbert.
Also point out the IBM S390-tools 'scsi_logging_level' script.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode. Fix the documentation on
the default value, so that we can explain behaviour that otherwise
causes bug-reports like this:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9319
Also add the needed "vt." prefix, so that the boot-time config options
to switch back to the legacy 8-bit mode is actually documented
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Start in POLL mode, and if we receive confirmation GPE,
switch to INT mode.
If confirmations are not sent, switch back to POLL.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
profile=sleep only works if CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is set. This patch notes
the limitation in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and prints a
warning at boot-time if profile=sleep is used without CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a quirk from LinuxBIOS to force enable HPET on
the nVidia CK804 (nForce 4) chipset.
This quirk can very likely support more than just nForce 4
(LinuxBIOS use the same code for nForce 5), and possibly nForce 3,
but I don't have those chipsets, so cannot add and test them.
Tested on an Abit KN9 (CK804).
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <cathectic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +-
arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Actual intel IOMMU driver. Hardware spec can be found at:
http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization
This driver sets X86_64 'dma_ops', so hook into standard DMA APIs. In this
way, PCI driver will get virtual DMA address. This change is transparent to
PCI drivers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded cast]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: fix duplicate CONFIG_DMAR Makefile line]
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (74 commits)
fix do_sys_open() prototype
sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake
Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.
Typo: depricated -> deprecated
Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
fix typo about TBI in e1000 comment
proc.txt: Add /proc/stat field
small documentation fixes
Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt
docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation
documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
include/asm-*/system.h: remove unused set_rmb(), set_wmb() macros
trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up
Fix typo in arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
file link fix for Pegasus USB net driver help
remove unused return within void return function
Typo fixes retrun -> return
x86 hpet.h: remove broken links
...
Whilst looking up what profile=sleep did, I noticed that we missed
adding docs for the most recent addition to the profiler.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
* ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86: (33 commits)
x86: convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array
x86: introduce frame_pointer() and stack_pointer()
x86 & generic: change to __builtin_prefetch()
i386: do not BUG_ON() when MSR is unknown
x86: acpi use cpu_physical_id
x86: convert cpu_llc_id to be a per cpu variable
x86: convert cpu_to_apicid to be a per cpu variable
i386: introduce "used_vectors" bitmap which can be used to reserve vectors.
x86: use raw locks during oopses
x86: honor _PAGE_PSE bit on page walks
i386: do cpuid_device_create() in CPU_UP_PREPARE instead of CPU_ONLINE.
x86: implement missing x86_64 function smp_call_function_mask()
x86: use descriptor's functions instead of inline assembly
i386: consolidate show_regs and show_registers for i386
i386: make callgraph use dump_trace() on i386/x86_64
x86: enable iommu_merge by default
i386: i386 add AMD64 Barcelona PMU MSR definitions to msr.h
x86: Unify i386 and x86-64 early quirks
x86: enable HPET on ICH3 and ICH4
x86: force enable HPET on VT8235/8237 chipsets
...
Manually fix trivial conflict with task pid container helper changes in
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
given the following:
$ grep -rw sg_def_reserved_size *
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: sg_def_reserved_size= [SCSI]
$
that kernel parameter looks exceedingly dead.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
>From commit cd8c93a4e0:
"Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line
before. Now it is on all the time."
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Since the OSS-related "sb" kernel parameter doesn't seem to be
supported, drop its reference from the kernel-parameters.txt file.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
add force_hpet boot option.
(this will be useful to make the forced-enable quirks depend on.)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop
the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes
to sleep. This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related
things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be
incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC). There are plenty of times that we
want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial
console to be suspended.
This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel
boot parameter (no_console_suspend). By default, the serial console will
be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing
'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain
alive during suspend.
For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be
applied to make this work for things like netconsole.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move the = into the __setup line.
Document the option in kernel-parameters.txt by adding a pointer
to the x86-64 specific documentation.
[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]
Pointed out by Robert Day
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security
module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the
overall security architecture.
Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API
abuse.
Parameters for the capability and root_plug modules are now specified
at boot.
The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed.
In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM. The modular interface
is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure. It is used only by out-of-tree
modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of the API and
dangerous, e.g. silently re-vectoring SELinux.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: USB Kconfig fix]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix LSM kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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>
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated
since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add logo.nologo kernel boot option to disable the logo in order to provide
more screen space for kernel messages; especially useful when debugging and
screen space is more critical.
newport_con driver changes are untested.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Optionally add a boot delay after each kernel printk() call, crudely
measured in milliseconds, with a maximum delay of 10 seconds per printk.
Enable CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y and then add (e.g.):
"lpj=loops_per_jiffy boot_delay=100"
to the kernel command line.
It has been useful in cases like "during boot, my machine just reboots or the
screen goes black" by slowing down printk, (and adding initcall_debug), we can
usually see the last thing that happened before the lights went out which is
usually a valuable clue.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: not all architectures implement CONFIG_HZ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix lots of stuff]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/printk.c: make 2 variables static]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix slow down printk on boot compile error]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (40 commits)
Input: use full RCU API
Input: remove tsdev interface
Input: add support for Blackfin BF54x Keypad controller
Input: appletouch - another fix for idle reset logic
HWMON: hdaps - switch to using input-polldev
Input: add support for SEGA Dreamcast keyboard
Input: omap-keyboard - don't pretend we support changing keymap
Input: lifebook - fix X and Y axis range
Input: usbtouchscreen - add support for GeneralTouch devices
Input: fix open count handling in input interfaces
Input: keyboard - add CapsShift lock
Input: adbhid - produce all CapsLock key events
Input: ALPS - add signature for ThinkPad R61
Input: jornada720_kbd - send MSC_SCAN events
Input: add support for the HP Jornada 7xx (710/720/728) touchscreen
Input: add support for HP Jornada 7xx onboard keyboard
Input: add support for HP Jornada onboard keyboard (HP6XX)
Input: ucb1400_ts - use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible
Input: xpad - fix dependancy on LEDS class
Input: auto-select INPUT for MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN option
...
Resolved conflicts manually in drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c: converting from
a class device to a device and converting to use input-polldev created a
few apparently trivial clashes..
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (131 commits)
NFSv4: Fix a typo in nfs_inode_reclaim_delegation
NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers
NFS: nfs_refresh_inode should clear cache_validity flags on success
NFS: Fix a connectathon regression in NFSv3 and NFSv4
NFS: Use nfs_refresh_inode() in ops that aren't expected to change the inode
SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release in call refresh
SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release() if call_allocate fails
SUNRPC: Fix buggy UDP transmission
[23/37] Clean up duplicate includes in
[2.6 patch] net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c: make struct rpcb_program static
SUNRPC: Use correct type in buffer length calculations
SUNRPC: Fix default hostname created in rpc_create()
nfs: add server port to rpc_pipe info file
NFS: Get rid of some obsolete macros
NFS: Simplify filehandle revalidation
NFS: Ensure that nfs_link() returns a hashed dentry
NFS: Be strict about dentry revalidation when doing exclusive create
NFS: Don't zap the readdir caches upon error
NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_reval_fsid()
NFSv3: Always use directory post-op attributes in nfs3_proc_lookup
...
Fix up trivial conflict due to sock_owned_by_user() cleanup manually in
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
* 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (119 commits)
[libata] struct pci_dev related cleanups
libata: use ata_exec_internal() for PMP register access
libata: implement ATA_PFLAG_RESETTING
libata: add @timeout to ata_exec_internal[_sg]()
ahci: fix notification handling
ahci: clean up PORT_IRQ_BAD_PMP enabling
ahci: kill leftover from enabling NCQ over PMP
libata: wrap schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() in loop
libata: skip suppress reporting if ATA_EHI_QUIET
libata: clear ehi description after initial host report
pata_jmicron: match vendor and class code only
libata: add ST9160821AS / 3.ALD to NCQ blacklist
pata_acpi: ACPI driver support
libata-core: Expose gtm methods for driver use
libata: add HDT722516DLA380 to NCQ blacklist
libata: blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS
[libata] Turn on ACPI by default
libata_scsi: Fix ATAPI transfer lengths
libata: correct handling of SRST reset sequences
libata: Integrate ACPI-based PATA/SATA hotplug - version 5
...
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (37 commits)
PCI: merge almost all of pci_32.h and pci_64.h together
PCI: X86: Introduce and enable PCI domain support
PCI: Add 'nodomains' boot option, and pci_domains_supported global
PCI: modify PCI bridge control ISA flag for clarity
PCI: use _CRS for PCI resource allocation
PCI: avoid P2P prefetch window for expansion ROMs
PCI: skip ISA ioresource alignment on some systems
PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing
pci: write file size to inode on proc bus file write
pci: use size stored in proc_dir_entry for proc bus files
pci: implement "pci=noaer"
PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources
MSI: Use correct data offset for 32-bit MSI in read_msi_msg()
PCI: Fix incorrect argument order to list_add_tail() in PCI dynamic ID code
PCI: i386: Compaq EVO N800c needs PCI bus renumbering
PCI: Remove no longer correct documentation regarding MSI vector assignment
PCI: re-enable onboard sound on "MSI K8T Neo2-FIR"
PCI: quirk_vt82c586_acpi: Omit reading PCI revision ID
PCI: quirk amd_8131_mmrbc: Omit reading pci revision ID
cpqphp: Use PCI_CLASS_REVISION instead of PCI_REVISION_ID for read
...
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (75 commits)
PM: merge device power-management source files
sysfs: add copyrights
kobject: update the copyrights
kset: add some kerneldoc to help describe what these strange things are
Driver core: rename ktype_edd and ktype_efivar
Driver core: rename ktype_driver
Driver core: rename ktype_device
Driver core: rename ktype_class
driver core: remove subsystem_init()
sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_dirent
sysfs: implement sysfs_open_dirent
sysfs: move sysfs_dirent->s_children into sysfs_dirent->s_dir
sysfs: make sysfs_root a regular directory dirent
sysfs: open code sysfs_attach_dentry()
sysfs: make s_elem an anonymous union
sysfs: make bin attr open get active reference of parent too
sysfs: kill unnecessary NULL pointer check in sysfs_release()
sysfs: kill unnecessary sysfs_get() in open paths
sysfs: reposition sysfs_dirent->s_mode.
sysfs: kill sysfs_update_file()
...
* Introduce pci_domains_supported global, hardcoded to zero if
!CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS.
* Introduce 'nodomains' boot option, which clears pci_domains_supported
on platforms that enable it by default (x86, x86-64, and others when
they are converted to use this).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Use _CRS for PCI resource allocation
This patch resolves an issue where incorrect PCI memory and i/o ranges
are being assigned to hotplugged PCI devices on some IBM systems. The
resource mis-allocation not only makes the PCI device unuseable but
often makes the entire system unuseable due to resulting machine checks.
The hotplug capable PCI slots on the affected systems are not located
under a standard P2P bridge but are instead located under PCI root
bridges or subtractive decode P2P bridges. For example, the IBM x3850
contains 2 hotplug capable PCI-X slots and 4 hotplug capable PCIe slots
with the PCI-X slots each located under a PCI root bridge and the PCIe
slots each located under a subtractive decode P2P bridge.
The current i386/x86_64 PCI resource allocation code does not use _CRS
returned resource information. No other resource information source is
available for slots that are not below a standard P2P bridge so
incorrect ranges are being allocated from e820 hole causing the bad
result.
This patch causes the kernel to use _CRS returned resource info. It is
roughly based on a change provided by Matthew Wilcox for the ia64 kernel
in 2005. Due to possible buggy BIOS factor and possible yet to be
discovered kernel issues the function is disabled by default and can be
enabled with pci=use_crs.
Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <gary.hade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
For cases in which CONFIG_PCIEAER=y (such as distro kernels), allow users
to disable PCIE Advanced Error Reporting by using "pci=noaer" on the
kernel command line.
This can be used to work around hardware or (kernel) software problems.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add support for an MFGPT clock event device; this allows us to use MFGPTs as
the basis for high-resolution timers.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This adds support for Multi-Function General Purpose Timers. It detects the
available timers during southbridge init, and provides an API for allocating
and setting the timers. They're higher resolution than the standard PIT, so
the MFGPTs come in handy for quite a few things.
Note that we never clobber the timers that the BIOS might have opted to use;
we just check for unused timers.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This boot parameter will allow legacy 32-bit applications which call stat()
to continue to function even if the NFSv3/v4 server uses 64-bit inode
numbers.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Since this boot-time option was removed in commit
9ab7e323af, delete the reference to it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Since this boot-time option was removed in commit
9ab7e323af, delete the reference to it.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
In MPS mode, "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" boot a UP kernel with IOAPIC disabled.
However, in ACPI mode, these parameters didn't completely disable
the IO APIC initialization code and boot failed.
init/main.c:
Disable the IO_APIC if "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
undefine disable_ioapic_setup() when it doesn't apply.
i386:
delete ioapic_setup(), it was a duplicate of parse_noapic()
delete undefinition of disable_ioapic_setup()
x86_64:
rename disable_ioapic_setup() to parse_noapic() to match i386
define disable_ioapic_setup() in header to match i386
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Some hardware will malfunction at a temperature below
the BIOS provided critical shutdown threshold.
This hook allows moving the critical trip points down
to a temperature which provokes a graceful shutdown
before the hardware malfunction.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8884
WARNING: A trip-point override will not get noticed
until the system delivers a temperature change event,
or unless thermal zone polling is enabled.
eg. "thermal.tzp=10"
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
thermal.act=-1 disables all active trip points
in all ACPI thermal zones.
thermal.act=C, where C > 0, overrides all lowest temperature
active trip points in all thermal zones to C degrees Celsius.
Raising this trip-point may allow you to keep your system silent
up to a higher temperature. However, it will not allow you to
raise the lowest temperature trip point above the next higher
trip point (if there is one). Lowering this trip point may
kick in the fan sooner.
Note that overriding this trip-point will disable any BIOS attempts
to implement hysteresis around the lowest temperature trip point.
This may result in the fan starting and stopping frequently
if temperature frequently crosses C.
WARNING: raising trip points above the manufacturer's defaults
may cause the system to run at higher temperature and shorten
its life.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
thermal.nocrt=1 disables actions on _CRT and _HOT
ACPI thermal zone trip-points. They will be marked
as <disabled> in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points.
There are two cases where this option is used:
1. Debugging a hot system crossing valid trip point.
If your system fan is spinning at full speed,
be sure that the vent is not clogged with dust.
Many laptops have very fine thermal fins that are easily blocked.
Check that the processor fan-sink is properly seated,
has the proper thermal grease, and is really spinning.
Check for fan related options in BIOS SETUP.
Sometimes there is a performance vs quiet option.
Defaults are generally the most conservative.
If your fan is not spinning, yet /proc/acpi/fan/
has files in it, please file a Linux/ACPI bug.
WARNING: you risk shortening the lifetime of your
hardware if you use this parameter on a hot system.
Note that this refers to all system components,
including the disk drive.
2. Working around a cool system crossing critical
trip point due to erroneous temperature reading.
Try again with CONFIG_HWMON=n
There is known potential for conflict between the
the hwmon sub-system and the ACPI BIOS.
If this fixes it, notify lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
and linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Otherwise, file a Linux/ACPI bug, or notify
just linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
"thermal.psv=-1" disables passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.
"thermal.psv=C", where 'C' is degrees Celsius,
overrides all existing passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.
thermal.psv is checked at module load time,
and in response to trip-point change events.
Note that if the system does not deliver thermal zone
temperature change events near the new trip-point,
then it will not be noticed. To force your custom
trip point to be noticed, you may need to enable polling:
eg. thermal.tzp=3000 invokes polling every 5 minutes.
Note that once passive thermal throttling is invoked,
it has its own internal Thermal Sampling Period (_TSP),
that is unrelated to _TZP.
WARNING: disabling or raising a thermal trip point
may result in increased running temperature and
shorter hardware lifetime on some systems.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thermal Zone Polling frequency (_TZP) is an optional ACPI object
recommending the rate that the OS should poll the associated thermal zone.
If _TZP is 0, no polling should be used.
If _TZP is non-zero, then the platform recommends that
the OS poll the thermal zone at the specified rate.
The minimum period is 30 seconds.
The maximum period is 5 minutes.
(note _TZP and thermal.tzp units are in deci-seconds,
so _TZP = 300 corresponds to 30 seconds)
If _TZP is not present, ACPI 3.0b recommends that the
thermal zone be polled at an "OS provided default frequency".
However, common industry practice is:
1. The BIOS never specifies any _TZP
2. High volume OS's from this century never poll any thermal zones
Ie. The OS depends on the platform's ability to
provoke thermal events when necessary, and
the "OS provided default frequency" is "never":-)
There is a proposal that ACPI 4.0 be updated to reflect
common industry practice -- ie. no _TZP, no polling.
The Linux kernel already follows this practice --
thermal zones are not polled unless _TZP is present and non-zero.
But thermal zone polling is useful as a workaround for systems
which have ACPI thermal control, but have an issue preventing
thermal events. Indeed, some Linux distributions still
set a non-zero thermal polling frequency for this reason.
But rather than ask the user to write a polling frequency
into all the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/polling_frequency
files, here we simply document and expose the already
existing module parameter to do the same at system level,
to simplify debugging those broken platforms.
Note that thermal.tzp is a module-load time parameter only.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
"thermal.off=1" disables all ACPI thermal support at boot time.
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=n can do this at build time.
"# rmmod thermal" can do this at run time,
as long as thermal is built as a module.
WARNING: On some systems, disabling ACPI thermal support
will cause the system to run hotter and reduce the
lifetime of the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
