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Don Zickus
bda6263398 x86, NMI: Add knob to disable using NMI IPIs to stop cpus
Some machines may exhibit problems using the NMI to stop other
cpus. This knob just allows one to revert back to the original
behaviour to help diagnose the problem.

V2:
  make function static

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: mjg@redhat.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: gong.chen@intel.com
Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-05 12:00:23 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
094803e0aa Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)
Quoth Andrew:

 - Most of MM.  Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
   butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

 - alpha

 - vfs bits

 - drivers/misc

 - a few core kerenl tweaks

 - printk() features

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - backlight merge

 - leds merge

 - various lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

* akpm: (127 commits)
  epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
  checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
  kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
  llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
  wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
  fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
  lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
  lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
  lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
  lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
  lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
  leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
  leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
  drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
  ...
2011-10-31 17:46:07 -07:00
Yanmin Zhang
134620f7a8 printk: add console_suspend module parameter
We are enabling some power features on medfield.  To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently.

Add a module parameter, so users could change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend

Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:53 -07:00
Yanmin Zhang
0eca6b7c78 printk: add module parameter ignore_loglevel to control ignore_loglevel
We are enabling some power features on medfield.  To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off ignore_loglevel frequently without
rebooting.

Add a module parameter, so users can change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel

Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
32087d4eec Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (54 commits)
  [S390] Remove error checking from copy_oldmem_page()
  [S390] qdio: prevent dsci access without adapter interrupts
  [S390] irqstats: split IPI interrupt accounting
  [S390] add missing __tlb_flush_global() for !CONFIG_SMP
  [S390] sparse: fix sparse symbol shadow warning
  [S390] sparse: fix sparse NULL pointer warnings
  [S390] sparse: fix sparse warnings with __user pointers
  [S390] sparse: fix sparse warnings in math-emu
  [S390] sparse: fix sparse warnings about missing prototypes
  [S390] sparse: fix sparse ANSI-C warnings
  [S390] sparse: fix sparse static warnings
  [S390] sparse: fix access past end of array warnings
  [S390] dasd: prevent path verification before resume
  [S390] qdio: remove multicast polling
  [S390] qdio: reset outbound SBAL error states
  [S390] qdio: EQBS retry after CCQ 96
  [S390] qdio: add timestamp for last queue scan time
  [S390] Introduce get_clock_fast()
  [S390] kvm: Handle diagnose 0x10 (release pages)
  [S390] take mmap_sem when walking guest page table
  ...
2011-10-31 16:14:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1bc87b0055 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: (75 commits)
  KVM: SVM: Keep intercepting task switching with NPT enabled
  KVM: s390: implement sigp external call
  KVM: s390: fix register setting
  KVM: s390: fix return value of kvm_arch_init_vm
  KVM: s390: check cpu_id prior to using it
  KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for guest
  x86: TSC deadline definitions
  KVM: Fix simultaneous NMIs
  KVM: x86 emulator: convert push %sreg/pop %sreg to direct decode
  KVM: x86 emulator: switch lds/les/lss/lfs/lgs to direct decode
  KVM: x86 emulator: streamline decode of segment registers
  KVM: x86 emulator: simplify OpMem64 decode
  KVM: x86 emulator: switch src decode to decode_operand()
  KVM: x86 emulator: qualify OpReg inhibit_byte_regs hack
  KVM: x86 emulator: switch OpImmUByte decode to decode_imm()
  KVM: x86 emulator: free up some flag bits near src, dst
  KVM: x86 emulator: switch src2 to generic decode_operand()
  KVM: x86 emulator: expand decode flags to 64 bits
  KVM: x86 emulator: split dst decode to a generic decode_operand()
  KVM: x86 emulator: move memop, memopp into emulation context
  ...
2011-10-30 15:36:45 -07:00
Michael Holzheu
d3bf37955d [S390] kdump: Add size to elfcorehdr kernel parameter
Currently only the address of the pre-allocated ELF header is passed with
the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter. In order to reserve memory for the header
in the 2nd kernel also the size is required. Current kdump architecture
backends use different methods to do that, e.g. x86 uses the memmap= kernel
parameter. On s390 there is no easy way to transfer this information.
Therefore the elfcorehdr kernel parameter is extended to also pass the size.
This now can also be used as standard mechanism by all future kdump
architecture backends.

The syntax of the kernel parameter is extended as follows:

elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG]

This change is backward compatible because elfcorehdr=size is still allowed.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30 15:16:41 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8e6d539e0f Merge branch 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled
  x86, random: Architectural inlines to get random integers with RDRAND
  random: Add support for architectural random hooks

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/char/random.c: the architectural
random hooks touched "get_random_int()" that was simplified to use MD5
and not do the keyptr thing any more (see commit 6e5714eaf7: "net:
Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5").
2011-10-28 05:29:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e34eb39c1c Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, amd: Include linux/elf.h since we use stuff from asm/elf.h
  x86: cache_info: Update calculation of AMD L3 cache indices
  x86: cache_info: Kill the atomic allocation in amd_init_l3_cache()
  x86: cache_info: Kill the moronic shadow struct
  x86: cache_info: Remove bogus free of amd_l3_cache data
  x86, amd: Include elf.h explicitly, prepare the code for the module.h split
  x86-32, amd: Move va_align definition to unbreak 32-bit build
  x86, amd: Move BSP code to cpu_dev helper
  x86: Add a BSP cpu_dev helper
  x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
2011-10-28 05:03:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
982653009b Merge branch 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, ioapic: Consolidate the explicit EOI code
  x86, ioapic: Restore the mask bit correctly in eoi_ioapic_irq()
  x86, kdump, ioapic: Reset remote-IRR in clear_IO_APIC
  iommu: Rename the DMAR and INTR_REMAP config options
  x86, ioapic: Define irq_remap_modify_chip_defaults()
  x86, msi, intr-remap: Use the ioapic set affinity routine
  iommu: Cleanup ifdefs in detect_intel_iommu()
  iommu: No need to set dmar_disabled in check_zero_address()
  iommu: Move IOMMU specific code to intel-iommu.c
  intr_remap: Call dmar_dev_scope_init() explicitly
  x86, x2apic: Enable the bios request for x2apic optout
2011-10-26 16:11:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7e0bb71e75 Merge branch 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
  PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
  PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
  ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
  ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
  PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
  PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
  PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
  PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
  MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
  PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
  PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
  PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
  PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
  PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
  PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
  PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
  ...
2011-10-25 15:18:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
59e5253417 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers
  linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers
  Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
  parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
  Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
  cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
  microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
  h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
  MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers
  tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
  ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
  Fix file references in Kconfig files
  aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
  Fix file references in drivers/ide/
  thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
  bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
  btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
  doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
  CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it.
  treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
  ...
2011-10-25 12:11:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
36b8d186e6 Merge branch 'next' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security
* 'next' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security: (95 commits)
  TOMOYO: Fix incomplete read after seek.
  Smack: allow to access /smack/access as normal user
  TOMOYO: Fix unused kernel config option.
  Smack: fix: invalid length set for the result of /smack/access
  Smack: compilation fix
  Smack: fix for /smack/access output, use string instead of byte
  Smack: domain transition protections (v3)
  Smack: Provide information for UDS getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED)
  Smack: Clean up comments
  Smack: Repair processing of fcntl
  Smack: Rule list lookup performance
  Smack: check permissions from user space (v2)
  TOMOYO: Fix quota and garbage collector.
  TOMOYO: Remove redundant tasklist_lock.
  TOMOYO: Fix domain transition failure warning.
  TOMOYO: Remove tomoyo_policy_memory_lock spinlock.
  TOMOYO: Simplify garbage collector.
  TOMOYO: Fix make namespacecheck warnings.
  target: check hex2bin result
  encrypted-keys: check hex2bin result
  ...
2011-10-25 09:45:31 +02:00
Barry Song
f126f7334f PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
Patch "PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like
devices as resume file" added the resumewait kernel command line
option.  The present patch adds resumedelay so that
resumewait/delay were analogous to rootwait/delay.

[rjw: Modified the subject and changelog slightly.]

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <baohua.song@csr.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-10-16 23:30:37 +02:00
Barry Song
6f8d7022a8 PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
Some devices like MMC are async detected very slow. For example,
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c launches a 200ms delayed work to detect
MMC partitions then add disk.

We have wait_for_device_probe() and scsi_complete_async_scans()
before calling swsusp_check(), but it is not enough to wait for MMC.

This patch adds resumewait kernel param just like rootwait so
that we have enough time to wait until MMC is ready. The difference is
that we wait for resume partition whereas rootwait waits for rootfs
partition (which may be on a different device).

This patch will make hibernation support many embedded products
without SCSI devices, but with devices like MMC.

[rjw: Modified the changelog slightly.]

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-10-16 23:30:36 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
2b666859ec x86: Default to vsyscall=native for now
This UML breakage:

  linux-2.6.30.1[3800] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb9c498 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
  linux-2.6.30.1[3856] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb13168 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790

Is caused by commit 3ae36655 ("x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add
vsyscall= parameter") - the vsyscall emulation code is not fully cooked
yet as UML relies on some rather fragile SIGSEGV semantics.

Linus suggested in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/9/376 to default
to vsyscall=native for now, this patch implements that.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111005214047.GE14406@localhost.pp.htv.fi
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-10-11 08:23:34 +02:00
Paul Bolle
395cf9691d doc: fix broken references
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.

Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
Sasha Levin
e1a72ae287 KVM: nVMX: Document 'nested' parameter
Add documentation of the new 'nested' parameter to
'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt'.

Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-09-25 19:18:02 +03:00
Suresh Siddha
41750d31fc x86, x2apic: Enable the bios request for x2apic optout
On the platforms which are x2apic and interrupt-remapping
capable, Linux kernel is enabling x2apic even if the BIOS
doesn't. This is to take advantage of the features that x2apic
brings in.

Some of the OEM platforms are running into issues because of
this, as their bios is not x2apic aware. For example, this was
resulting in interrupt migration issues on one of the platforms.
Also if the BIOS SMI handling uses APIC interface to send SMI's,
then the BIOS need to be aware of x2apic mode that OS has
enabled.

On some of these platforms, BIOS doesn't have a HW mechanism to
turnoff the x2apic feature to prevent OS from enabling it.

To resolve this mess, recent changes to the VT-d2 specification:

 http://download.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/Intel(r)_VT_for_Direct_IO.pdf

includes a mechanism that provides BIOS a way to request system
software to opt out of enabling x2apic mode.

Look at the x2apic optout flag in the DMAR tables before
enabling the x2apic mode in the platform. Also print a warning
that we have disabled x2apic based on the BIOS request.

Kernel boot parameter "intremap=no_x2apic_optout" can be used to
override the BIOS x2apic optout request.

Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824001456.171766616@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-21 10:21:50 +02:00
Len Brown
38c0a0c9ae Merge branches 'apei', 'bz-13195' and 'doc' into acpi 2011-09-12 20:00:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5ccc38740a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
  Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
  block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
  block: improve rq_affinity placement
  blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
  Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
  allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
  xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
  cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
  block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
  block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
  block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
  bsg-lib: add module.h include
  cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
  blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
  loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
  loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
  loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
  loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
  ...
2011-08-19 10:47:07 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1629024668 Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt cleanups
General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
 - add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
 - alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
 - spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
 - remove trailing whitespace
 - use hyphen in 32-bit etc.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-13 18:34:02 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
ac1667db05 Documentation: add ARM user_debug to kernel-parameters.txt
Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-13 18:34:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
06e727d2a5 Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
  x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
  x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
  x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
  x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
  x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
  x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
  x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
  x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
  x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
2011-08-12 20:46:24 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
96242116d4 PNP: update pnp.debug usage (needs value on command line)
Commit cdefba03e4 changed pnp.debug from a boot param to a module param,
which means it needs a value when used on the command line.

CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-11 15:39:14 -04:00
Andy Lutomirski
3ae36655b9 x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
There are three choices:

vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.

vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path.  The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX.  This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.

vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-10 19:26:46 -05:00
James Morris
5a2f3a02ae Merge branch 'next-evm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/ima-2.6 into next
Conflicts:
	fs/attr.c

Resolve conflict manually.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-08-09 10:31:03 +10:00
Borislav Petkov
dfb09f9b7a x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
This patch provides performance tuning for the "Bulldozer" CPU. With its
shared instruction cache there is a chance of generating an excessive
number of cache cross-invalidates when running specific workloads on the
cores of a compute module.

This excessive amount of cross-invalidations can be observed if cache
lines backed by shared physical memory alias in bits [14:12] of their
virtual addresses, as those bits are used for the index generation.

This patch addresses the issue by clearing all the bits in the [14:12]
slice of the file mapping's virtual address at generation time, thus
forcing those bits the same for all mappings of a single shared library
across processes and, in doing so, avoids instruction cache aliases.

It also adds the command line option "align_va_addr=(32|64|on|off)" with
which virtual address alignment can be enabled for 32-bit or 64-bit x86
individually, or both, or be completely disabled.

This change leaves virtual region address allocation on other families
and/or vendors unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312550110-24160-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-08-05 12:26:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
35e51fe82d Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
  x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
  cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle
  cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
  mrst_pmu: driver for Intel Moorestown Power Management Unit
2011-08-03 21:54:15 -10:00
Will Drewry
f2d34fd943 Documentation: add pointer to name_to_dev_t for root= values
Update kernel-parameters.txt to point users to the authoritative comment
for name_to_dev_t.  In addition, updates other places where some
name_to_dev_t behavior was discussed.  All other references to root=
appear to be for explicit sample usage or just side comments when
discussing other kernel parameters.

Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:21 -10:00
Len Brown
62027aea23 cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
useful for disabling cpuidle to fall back
to architecture-default idle loop

cpuidle drivers and governors will fail to register.
on x86 they'll say so:

intel_idle: intel_idle yielding to (null)
ACPI: acpi_idle yielding to (null)

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-03 19:06:36 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
c299eba3c5 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (28 commits)
  ACPI:  delete stale reference in kernel-parameters.txt
  ACPI: add missing _OSI strings
  ACPI: remove NID_INVAL
  thermal: make THERMAL_HWMON implementation fully internal
  thermal: split hwmon lookup to a separate function
  thermal: hide CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
  ACPI print OSI(Linux) warning only once
  ACPI: DMI workaround for Asus A8N-SLI Premium and Asus A8N-SLI DELUX
  ACPI / Battery: propagate sysfs error in acpi_battery_add()
  ACPI / Battery: avoid acpi_battery_add() use-after-free
  ACPI: introduce "acpi_rsdp=" parameter for kdump
  ACPI: constify ops structs
  ACPI: fix CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
  ACPI: fix 80 char overflow
  ACPI / Battery: Resolve the race condition in the sysfs_remove_battery()
  ACPI / Battery: Add the check before refresh sysfs in the battery_notify()
  ACPI / Battery: Add the hibernation process in the battery_notify()
  ACPI / Battery: Rename acpi_battery_quirks2 with acpi_battery_quirks
  ACPI / Battery: Change 16-bit signed negative battery current into correct value
  ACPI / Battery: Add the power unit macro
  ...
2011-08-02 21:17:02 -10:00
Linus Torvalds
a2d7730235 Merge branch 'pstore-efi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'pstore-efi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES
  efivars: Use string functions in pstore_write
  efivars: introduce utf16_strncmp
  efivars: String functions
  efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend
  pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend
  pstore: Make "part" unsigned
  pstore: Add extra context for writes and erases
  pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backends
2011-08-01 13:40:51 -10:00
H. Peter Anvin
49d859d78c x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled
If the CPU declares that RDRAND is available, go through a guranteed
reseed sequence, and make sure that it is actually working (producing
data.)   If it does not, disable the CPU feature flag.

Allow RDRAND to be disabled on the command line (as opposed to at
compile time) for a user who has special requirements with regards to
random numbers.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-07-31 14:02:19 -07:00
Kay Sievers
d134b00b9a loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop
devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services,
even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0
loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic
/dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free
devices.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-31 22:08:04 +02:00
Hugh Dickins
4302fbc8ec panic: panic=-1 for immediate reboot
When a kernel BUG or oops occurs, ChromeOS intends to panic and
immediately reboot, with stacktrace and other messages preserved in RAM
across reboot.

But the longer we delay, the more likely the user is to poweroff and
lose the info.

panic_timeout (seconds before rebooting) is set by panic= boot option or
sysctl or /proc/sys/kernel/panic; but 0 means wait forever, so at
present we have to delay at least 1 second.

Let a negative number mean reboot immediately (with the small cosmetic
benefit of suppressing that newline-less "Rebooting in %d seconds.."
message).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f549953c15 Merge branch 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (115 commits)
  EHCI: fix direction handling for interrupt data toggles
  USB: serial: add IDs for WinChipHead USB->RS232 adapter
  USB: OHCI: fix another regression for NVIDIA controllers
  usb: gadget: m66592-udc: add pullup function
  usb: gadget: m66592-udc: add function for external controller
  usb: gadget: r8a66597-udc: add pullup function
  usb: renesas_usbhs: support multi driver
  usb: renesas_usbhs: inaccessible pipe is not an error
  usb: renesas_usbhs: care buff alignment when dma handler
  USB: PL2303: correctly handle baudrates above 115200
  usb: r8a66597-hcd: fixup USB_PORT_STAT_C_SUSPEND shift
  usb: renesas_usbhs: compile/config are rescued
  usb: renesas_usbhs: fixup comment-out
  usb: update email address in ohci-sh and r8a66597-hcd
  usb: r8a66597-hcd: add function for external controller
  EHCI: only power off port if over-current is active
  USB: mon: Allow to use usbmon without debugfs
  USB: EHCI: go back to using the system clock for QH unlinks
  ehci: add pci quirk for Ordissimo and RM Slate 100 too
  ehci: refactor pci quirk to use standard dmi_check_system method
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2011-07-25 23:08:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
184475029a Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (99 commits)
  drivers/virt: add missing linux/interrupt.h to fsl_hypervisor.c
  powerpc/85xx: fix mpic configuration in CAMP mode
  powerpc: Copy back TIF flags on return from softirq stack
  powerpc/64: Make server perfmon only built on ppc64 server devices
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvc_vio.c build due to recent changes
  powerpc: Exporting boot_cpuid_phys
  powerpc: Add CFAR to oops output
  hvc_console: Add kdb support
  powerpc/pseries: Fix hvterm_raw_get_chars to accept < 16 chars, fixing xmon
  powerpc/irq: Quieten irq mapping printks
  powerpc: Enable lockup and hung task detectors in pseries and ppc64 defeconfigs
  powerpc: Add mpt2sas driver to pseries and ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Disable IRQs off tracer in ppc64 defconfig
  powerpc: Sync pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
  powerpc/pseries/hvconsole: Fix dropped console output
  hvc_console: Improve tty/console put_chars handling
  powerpc/kdump: Fix timeout in crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/mm: Fix output of total_ram.
  powerpc/cpufreq: Add cpufreq driver for Momentum Maple boards
  powerpc: Correct annotations of pmu registration functions
  ...

Fix up trivial Kconfig/Makefile conflicts in arch/powerpc, drivers, and
drivers/cpufreq
2011-07-25 22:59:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5fabc487c9 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/3.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (143 commits)
  KVM: IOMMU: Disable device assignment without interrupt remapping
  KVM: MMU: trace mmio page fault
  KVM: MMU: mmio page fault support
  KVM: MMU: reorganize struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator
  KVM: MMU: lockless walking shadow page table
  KVM: MMU: do not need atomicly to set/clear spte
  KVM: MMU: introduce the rules to modify shadow page table
  KVM: MMU: abstract some functions to handle fault pfn
  KVM: MMU: filter out the mmio pfn from the fault pfn
  KVM: MMU: remove bypass_guest_pf
  KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page
  KVM: MMU: count used shadow pages on prepareing path
  KVM: MMU: rename 'pt_write' to 'emulate'
  KVM: MMU: cleanup for FNAME(fetch)
  KVM: MMU: optimize to handle dirty bit
  KVM: MMU: cache mmio info on page fault path
  KVM: x86: introduce vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa to cleanup the code
  KVM: MMU: do not update slot bitmap if spte is nonpresent
  KVM: MMU: fix walking shadow page table
  KVM guest: KVM Steal time registration
  ...
2011-07-24 09:07:03 -07:00
Xiao Guangrong
c37079586f KVM: MMU: remove bypass_guest_pf
The idea is from Avi:
| Maybe it's time to kill off bypass_guest_pf=1.  It's not as effective as
| it used to be, since unsync pages always use shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte,
| and since we convert between the two nonpresent_ptes during sync and unsync.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-07-24 11:50:33 +03:00
Glauber Costa
d910f5c106 KVM guest: KVM Steal time registration
This patch implements the kvm bits of the steal time infrastructure.
The most important part of it, is the steal time clock. It is an
continuous clock that shows the accumulated amount of steal time
since vcpu creation. It is supposed to survive cpu offlining/onlining.

[marcelo: fix build with CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=n]

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
CC: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-07-24 11:49:36 +03:00
Matthew Garrett
dee28e72b6 pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend
pstore only allows one backend to be registered at present, but the
system may provide several. Add a parameter to allow the user to choose
which backend will be used rather than just relying on load order.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22 16:14:39 -07:00
Mimi Zohar
7102ebcd65 evm: permit only valid security.evm xattrs to be updated
In addition to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN permission to modify/delete
security.evm, prohibit invalid security.evm xattrs from changing,
unless in fixmode. This patch prevents inadvertent 'fixing' of
security.evm to reflect offline modifications.

Changelog v7:
- rename boot paramater 'evm_mode' to 'evm'

Reported-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
2011-07-18 12:29:49 -04:00
Takao Indoh
4996c02306 ACPI: introduce "acpi_rsdp=" parameter for kdump
There is a problem with putting the first kernel in EFI virtual mode,
it is that when the second kernel comes up it tries to initialize the
EFI again and once we have put EFI in virtual mode we can not really
do that.

Actually, EFI is not necessary for kdump, we can boot the second kernel
with "noefi" parameter, but the boot will mostly fail because 2nd kernel
cannot find RSDP.

In this situation, we introduced "acpi_rsdp=" kernel parameter, so that
kexec-tools can pass the "noefi acpi_rsdp=X" to the second kernel to
make kdump works. The physical address of the RSDP can be got from
sysfs(/sys/firmware/efi/systab).

Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-07-16 18:40:16 -04:00
Ram Pai
f483d3923d PCI: conditional resource-reallocation through kernel parameter pci=realloc
Multiple attempts to dynamically reallocate pci resources have
unfortunately lead to regressions. Though we continue to fix the
regressions and fine tune the dynamic-reallocation behavior, we have not
reached a acceptable state yet.
    
This patch provides a interim solution. It disables dynamic reallocation
by default, but adds the ability to enable it through pci=realloc kernel
command line parameter.
    
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-07-08 15:49:20 -07:00
Christian Kujau
b6935f8cd9 Document powerpc udbg-immortal
Back in 2006 the "udbg-immortal" kernel option has been introduced:

  > commit 3b5e905ee3
  > Author: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
  > Date:   Wed Jun 7 12:06:20 2006 +1000
  >
  >  [PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel option

...but I could not find it documented anywhere in the sources.
This patch adds it to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-06-20 11:21:46 +10:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
dcc8545790 Merge 3.0-rc2 into usb-linus as it's needed by some USB patches
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-14 06:51:23 -07:00
Alan Stern
21c13a4f7b usb-storage: redo incorrect reads
Some USB mass-storage devices have bugs that cause them not to handle
the first READ(10) command they receive correctly.  The Corsair
Padlock v2 returns completely bogus data for its first read (possibly
it returns the data in encrypted form even though the device is
supposed to be unlocked).  The Feiya SD/SDHC card reader fails to
complete the first READ(10) command after it is plugged in or after a
new card is inserted, returning a status code that indicates it thinks
the command was invalid, which prevents the kernel from retrying the
read.

Since the first read of a new device or a new medium is for the
partition sector, the kernel is unable to retrieve the device's
partition table.  Users have to manually issue an "hdparm -z" or
"blockdev --rereadpt" command before they can access the device.

This patch (as1470) works around the problem.  It adds a new quirk
flag, US_FL_INVALID_READ10, indicating that the first READ(10) should
always be retried immediately, as should any failing READ(10) commands
(provided the preceding READ(10) command succeeded, to avoid getting
stuck in a loop).  The patch also adds appropriate unusual_devs
entries containing the new flag.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Sven Geggus <sven-usbst@geggus.net>
Tested-by: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+linux@gmail.com>
CC: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07 09:05:42 -07:00
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
c4fc2342cb USB: Add "authorized_default" parameter to the usbcore module
The "authorized_default" module parameter of usbcore controls the default
for the authorized_default variable of each USB host controller.
-1 is authorized for all devices except wireless (default, old behaviour)
0 is unauthorized for all devices
1 is authorized for all devices

Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-06 16:41:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f0f52a9463 Merge git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6:
  intel-iommu: Fix off-by-one in RMRR setup
  intel-iommu: Add domain check in domain_remove_one_dev_info
  intel-iommu: Remove Host Bridge devices from identity mapping
  intel-iommu: Use coherent DMA mask when requested
  intel-iommu: Dont cache iova above 32bit
  intel-iommu: Speed up processing of the identity_mapping function
  intel-iommu: Check for identity mapping candidate using system dma mask
  intel-iommu: Only unlink device domains from iommu
  intel-iommu: Enable super page (2MiB, 1GiB, etc.) support
  intel-iommu: Flush unmaps at domain_exit
  intel-iommu: Remove obsolete comment from detect_intel_iommu
  intel-iommu: fix VT-d PMR disable for TXT on S3 resume
2011-06-02 05:48:50 +09:00