According to Andi, it isn't clear whether lpage allocator is worth the
trouble as there are many processors where PMD TLB is far scarcer than
PTE TLB. The advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the actual
size of percpu area and specific processor. As performance
degradation due to TLB pressure tends to be highly workload specific
and subtle, it is difficult to decide which way to go without more
data.
This patch implements percpu_alloc kernel parameter to allow selecting
which first chunk allocator to use to ease debugging and testing.
While at it, make sure all the failure paths report why something
failed to help determining why certain allocator isn't working. Also,
kill the "Great future plan" comment which had already been realized
quite some time ago.
[ Impact: allow explicit percpu first chunk allocator selection ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel. gcov may be useful for:
* debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
* test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
* minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
associated code is never run?)
The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:
* change kbuild to include profiling flags
* provide functions needed by profiling code
* present profiling data as files in debugfs
Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.
For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which
might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the
console again. Especially during development, disabling the screen saver
can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or
other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at
runtime from userspace.
This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows
users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0.
The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl
call - this just allows to conditionally change the default.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Also explains why the touchscreen support is not present,
and were to find a working one...
Signed-off-by: Michel Pollet <buserror@gmail.com>
[ben-linux@fluff.org: Fix header description]
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (103 commits)
powerpc: Fix bug in move of altivec code to vector.S
powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit
powerpc/spufs: Remove unused error path
powerpc: Fix warning when printing a resource_size_t
powerpc/xmon: Remove unused variable in xmon.c
powerpc/pseries: Fix warnings when printing resource_size_t
powerpc: Shield code specific to 64-bit server processors
powerpc: Separate PACA fields for server CPUs
powerpc: Split exception handling out of head_64.S
powerpc: Introduce CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S
powerpc: Move VMX and VSX asm code to vector.S
powerpc: Set init_bootmem_done on NUMA platforms as well
powerpc/mm: Fix a AB->BA deadlock scenario with nohash MMU context lock
powerpc/mm: Fix some SMP issues with MMU context handling
powerpc: Add PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK support
fbdev: Add PLB support and cleanup DCR in xilinxfb driver.
powerpc/virtex: Add ml510 reference design device tree
powerpc/virtex: Add Xilinx ML510 reference design support
powerpc/virtex: refactor intc driver and add support for i8259 cascading
powerpc/virtex: Add support for Xilinx PCI host bridge
...
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits)
ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two()
ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode()
ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops
ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2)
sl82c105: add printk() logging facility
ide-tape: fix proc warning
ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag
ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers
hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list
hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c
ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile()
ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update()
icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method
ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses
ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically
pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method
pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout
pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq()
ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)
ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2)
...
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry
kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak
kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives
kmemleak: Add modules support
kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash
kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks
kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector
kmemleak: Add the base support
Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in:
drivers/char/vt.c
init/main.c
mm/slab.c
Adds support for PCI Express transaction layer end-to-end CRC checking
(ECRC). This patch will enable/disable ECRC checking by setting/clearing
the ECRC Check Enable and/or ECRC Generation Enable bits for devices that
support ECRC.
The ECRC setting is controlled by the "pci=ecrc=<policy>" command-line
option. If this option is not set or is set to 'bios", the enable and
generation bits are left in whatever state that firmware/BIOS set them to.
The "off" setting turns them off, and the "on" option turns them on (if the
device supports it).
Turning ECRC on or off can be a data integrity versus performance
tradeoff. In theory, turning it on will catch more data errors, turning
it off means possibly better performance since CRC does not need to be
calculated by the PCIe hardware and packet sizes are reduced.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's try using it by default. It's an easy revert if it ends up causing trouble.
Reviewed-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This patch adds the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file with some
information about how kmemleak works.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
tracing: add protection around module events unload
tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
tracing: fix the block trace points print size
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
...
* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type
oprofile: add support for Core i7 and Atom
oprofile: remove undocumented oprofile.p4force option
oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
* 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
amd-iommu: remove unnecessary "AMD IOMMU: " prefix
amd-iommu: detach device explicitly before attaching it to a new domain
amd-iommu: remove BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER handling
dma-debug: simplify logic in driver_filter()
dma-debug: disable/enable irqs only once in device_dma_allocations
dma-debug: use pr_* instead of printk(KERN_* ...)
dma-debug: code style fixes
dma-debug: comment style fixes
dma-debug: change hash_bucket_find from first-fit to best-fit
x86: enable GART-IOMMU only after setting up protection methods
amd_iommu: fix lock imbalance
dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter
dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line
dma-debug: add debugfs file for driver filter
dma-debug: add variables and checks for driver filter
dma-debug: fix debug_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu and debug_dma_sync_sg_for_device
dma-debug: use sg_dma_len accessor
dma-debug: use sg_dma_address accessor instead of using dma_address directly
amd-iommu: don't free dma adresses below 512MB with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
amd-iommu: don't preallocate page tables with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS
...
From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host
Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and
risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools.
Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally
disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time
when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the
BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives.
Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using
HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if
any partitions overlapping HPA are detected. Additionally HPA can also
be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0"
to disable HPA on /dev/hda).
v2:
Fix ->resume HPA support.
While at it:
- remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
[patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop]
Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30
to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure
the combination works fine.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add support for Samsung Flex-OneNAND devices.
Flex-OneNAND combines SLC and MLC technologies into a single device.
SLC area provides increased reliability and speed, suitable for storing
code such as bootloader, kernel and root file system. MLC area
provides high density and is suitable for storing user data.
SLC and MLC regions can be configured through kernel parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export flexoand_region and onenand_addr]
Signed-off-by: Rohit Hagargundgi <h.rohit@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Vishak G <vishak.g@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions
on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called.
This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands.
ftrace_notrace=function-list
ftrace_filter=function-list
Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included
in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions
listed.
These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and
debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively.
The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also
be used by the command line interface.
ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin*
Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has
the word spin in it.
Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering
set by the command lines.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Conflicts:
arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c
arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c
Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The kmemtrace.enable kernel parameter no longer works. To enable
kmemtrace at boot-time, you must pass "ftrace=kmemtrace" instead.
[ Impact: remove obsolete kernel parameter documentation ]
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor
capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues.
[ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The IMA TCB policy is dangerous. A normal use can use all of a system's
memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of
executables. The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root
often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the
measurements meaningless.
There is no good fix for this in the kernel. A full TCB policy would need to
be loaded in userspace using LSM rule matching to get both a protected and
useful system. But, if too little is measured before userspace can load a real
policy one again ends up with a meaningless set of measurements. One option
would be to put the policy load inside the initrd in order to get it early
enough in the boot sequence to be useful, but this runs into trouble with the
LSM. For IMA to measure the LSM policy and the LSM policy loading mechanism
it needs rules to do so, but we already talked about problems with defaulting
to such broad rules....
IMA also depends on the files being measured to be on an FS which implements
and supports i_version. Since the only FS with this support (ext4) doesn't
even use it by default it seems silly to have any IMA rules by default.
This should reduce the performance overhead of IMA to near 0 while still
letting users who choose to configure their machine as such to inclue the
ima_tcb kernel paramenter and get measurements during boot before they can
load a customized, reasonable policy in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Adds support for the "unused" page hint which can be used in shared
memory partitions to flag pages not in use, which will then be stolen
before active pages by the hypervisor when memory needs to be moved to
LPARs in need of additional memory. Failure to mark pages as 'unused'
makes the LPAR slower to give up unused memory to other partitions.
This adds the kernel parameter 'cmo_free_hint' to disable this
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch removes module_param oprofile.force_arch_perfmon and
introduces oprofile.cpu_type=archperfmon instead. This new parameter
can be reused for other models and architectures.
Currently only archperfmon is supported.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
This re-adds the force_arch_perfmon option that was in the original
arch perfmon patchkit. Originally this was rejected in favour
of a generalized perfmon=name option, but it turned out implementing
the later in a reliable way is hard (and it would have been easy
to crash the kernel if a user gets it wrong)
But now Atom and Core i7 support being readded a user would
need to update their oprofile userland to beyond 0.9.4 to use oprofile again
on Atom or Core i7.
To avoid this problem readd the force_arch_perfmon option.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file.
Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the
rest of the file.
Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names,
with examples.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch adds kernel parameter intel_iommu=pt to set up pass through
mode in context mapping entry. This disables DMAR in linux kernel; but
KVM still runs on VT-d and interrupt remapping still works.
In this mode, kernel uses swiotlb for DMA API functions but other VT-d
functionalities are enabled for KVM. KVM always uses multi level
translation page table in VT-d. By default, pass though mode is disabled
in kernel.
This is useful when people don't want to enable VT-d DMAR in kernel but
still want to use KVM and interrupt remapping for reasons like DMAR
performance concern or debug purpose.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Weidong Han <weidong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when
entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early
parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt.
[ Impact: add boot parameter description ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally
deleted in commit 0cb55ad2.
Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when
entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early
parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt.
[ Impact: add boot parameter description ]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
X86 is same as X86-32+X86-64 so replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239698023.3033.37.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move entries to be in alpha order as specified near the beginning
of this file.
Clean up some whitespace and line-length miscues.
Add '=' to "selinux" option syntax.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (23 commits)
sh: sh7785lcr: Map whole PCI address space.
sh: Fix up DSP context save/restore.
sh: Fix up number of on-chip DMA channels on SH7091.
sh: update defconfigs.
sh: Kill off broken direct-mapped cache mode.
sh: Wire up ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE for cpuidle.
sh: Add a command line option for disabling I/O trapping.
sh: Select ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE.
sh: migor: Fix up CEU use flags.
input: migor_ts: add wakeup support
rtc: rtc-sh: use set_irq_wake()
input: sh_keysc: use enable/disable_irq_wake()
sh: intc: set_irq_wake() support
sh: intc: install enable, disable and shutdown callbacks
clocksource: sh_cmt: use remove_irq() and remove clockevent workaround
sh: ap325 and Migo-R use new sh_mobile_ceu_info flags
sh: Fix up -Wformat-security whining.
sh: ap325rxa: Add ov772x support, again.
sh: Sanitize asm/mmu.h for assembly use.
sh: Tidy up sh7786 pinmux table.
...
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
function-graph: allow unregistering twice
trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
blktrace: extract duplidate code
blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
blktrace: make classic output more classic
blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
blktrace: fix the original blktrace
blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in
arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
include/linux/memory.h
kernel/extable.c
kernel/module.c
* 'core/debugobjects' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
debugobjects: delay free of internal objects
debugobjects: replace static objects when slab cache becomes available
debug_objects: add boot-parameter toggle to turn object debugging off again
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
trivial: Update my email address
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
...
Enforce strict resource checking - disallowing access by native
drivers to IO ports and memory regions claimed by ACPI firmware.
The patch is mainly aimed to block native hwmon drivers from touching
monitoring chips that ACPI thinks it own.
If this causes a regression, boot with "acpi_enforce_resources=lax"
which was the previous default.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12376http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12541
Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This adds a 'noiotrap' kernel command line option to permit disabling of
I/O trapping. This is mostly useful for running on emulators where the
physical device limitations are not an issue.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
As per discussion in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=123633652517391&w=2
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (88 commits)
PCI: fix HT MSI mapping fix
PCI: don't enable too much HT MSI mapping
x86/PCI: make pci=lastbus=255 work when acpi is on
PCI: save and restore PCIe 2.0 registers
PCI: update fakephp for bus_id removal
PCI: fix kernel oops on bridge removal
PCI: fix conflict between SR-IOV and config space sizing
powerpc/PCI: include pci.h in powerpc MSI implementation
PCI Hotplug: schedule fakephp for feature removal
PCI Hotplug: rename legacy_fakephp to fakephp
PCI Hotplug: restore fakephp interface with complete reimplementation
PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
PCI: Introduce /sys/bus/pci/rescan
PCI: Introduce pci_rescan_bus()
PCI: do not enable bridges more than once
PCI: do not initialize bridges more than once
PCI: always scan child buses
PCI: pci_scan_slot() returns newly found devices
PCI: don't scan existing devices
...
Fix trivial append-only conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
* 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
dma-debug: make memory range checks more consistent
dma-debug: warn of unmapping an invalid dma address
dma-debug: fix dma_debug_add_bus() definition for !CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG
dma-debug/x86: register pci bus for dma-debug leak detection
dma-debug: add a check dma memory leaks
dma-debug: add checks for kernel text and rodata
dma-debug: print stacktrace of mapping path on unmap error
dma-debug: Documentation update
dma-debug: x86 architecture bindings
dma-debug: add function to dump dma mappings
dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_sg_*
dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_range_*
dma-debug: add checks for sync_single_*
dma-debug: add checking for [alloc|free]_coherent
dma-debug: add add checking for map/unmap_sg
dma-debug: add checking for map/unmap_page/single
dma-debug: add core checking functions
dma-debug: add debugfs interface
dma-debug: add kernel command line parameters
dma-debug: add initialization code
...
Fix trivial conflicts due to whitespace changes in arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c
cgroup documentation was moved to Documentation/cgroups/. There are some
places that still refer to Documentation/controllers/,
Documentation/cgroups.txt and Documentation/cpusets.txt. Fix those.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
smack: Add a new '-CIPSO' option to the network address label configuration
netlabel: Cleanup the Smack/NetLabel code to fix incoming TCP connections
lsm: Remove the socket_post_accept() hook
selinux: Remove the "compat_net" compatibility code
netlabel: Label incoming TCP connections correctly in SELinux
lsm: Relocate the IPv4 security_inet_conn_request() hooks
TOMOYO: Fix a typo.
smack: convert smack to standard linux lists
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (422 commits)
[ARM] 5435/1: fix compile warning in sanity_check_meminfo()
[ARM] 5434/1: ARM: OMAP: Fix mailbox compile for 24xx
[ARM] pxa: fix the bad assumption that PCMCIA sockets always start with 0
[ARM] pxa: fix Colibri PXA300 and PXA320 LCD backlight pins
imxfb: Fix TFT mode
i.MX21/27: remove ifdef CONFIG_FB_IMX
imxfb: add clock support
mxc: add arch_reset() function
clkdev: add possibility to get a clock based on the device name
i.MX1: remove fb support from mach-imx
[ARM] pxa: build arch/arm/plat-pxa/mfp.c only when PXA3xx or ARCH_MMP defined
Gemini: Add support for Teltonika RUT100
Gemini: gpiolib based GPIO support v2
MAINTAINERS: add myself as Gemini architecture maintainer
ARM: Add Gemini architecture v3
[ARM] OMAP: Fix compile for omap2_init_common_hw()
MAINTAINERS: Add myself as Faraday ARM core variant maintainer
ARM: Add support for FA526 v2
[ARM] acorn,ebsa110,footbridge,integrator,sa1100: Convert asm/io.h to linux/io.h
[ARM] collie: fix two minor formatting nits
...
The SELinux "compat_net" is marked as deprecated, the time has come to
finally remove it from the kernel. Further code simplifications are
likely in the future, but this patch was intended to be a simple,
straight-up removal of the compat_net code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (81 commits)
[S390] remove duplicated #includes
[S390] cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper
[S390] cpumask: Use accessors code.
[S390] cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits.
[S390] cpumask: remove cpu_coregroup_map
[S390] fix clock comparator save area usage
[S390] Add hwcap flag for the etf3 enhancement facility
[S390] Ensure that ipl panic notifier is called late.
[S390] fix dfp elf hwcap/facility bit detection
[S390] smp: perform initial cpu reset before starting a cpu
[S390] smp: fix memory leak on __cpu_up
[S390] ipl: Improve checking logic and remove switch defaults.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove needless check for NULL pointer.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove redundant initilizations.
[S390] use kzfree()
[S390] BUG to BUG_ON changes
[S390] zfcpdump: Prevent zcore from beeing built as a kernel module.
[S390] Use csum_partial in checksum.h
[S390] cleanup lowcore.h
[S390] eliminate ipl_device from lowcore
...
This patch introduces the kernel parameter hvc_iucv_allow= that specifies
a comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
If specified, the z/VM IUCV hypervisor console device driver accepts IUCV
connections from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.
The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.
for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':
echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
to disable them:
echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch extends command line option "i2c_bus=bus_id,clkrate" so that
it allow to register additional I2C busses that are not registered with
omap_register_i2c_bus from board initialization code.
Purpose of this is to register additional board busses which are routed
to external connectors only without any on board I2C devices.
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
This patch adds a new command line option "i2c_bus=bus_id,clkrate" into
I2C bus registration helper. Purpose of the option is to override the
default board specific bus speed which is supplied by the
omap_register_i2c_bus.
The default bus speed is typically set to speed of slowest I2C chip on the
bus and overriding allow to use some experimental configurations or updated
chip versions without any kernel modifications.
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
This patch allows memory resources to be assigned with a specified
alignment at boot-time or run-time. The patch is useful when we use PCI
pass-through, because page-aligned memory resources are required to
securely share PCI resources with guest drivers.
If you want to assign the resource at boot time, please set
"pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter.
This is format of "pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter:
[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Specifies alignment and device to reassign
aligned memory resources.
If <order of align> is not specified, PAGE_SIZE is
used as alignment.
PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
windows need to be expanded.
This is example:
pci=resource_alignment=20@07:00.0;18@0f:00.0;00:1d.7
If you want to assign the resource at run-time, please set
"/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file, and hot-remove the device and
hot-add the device. For this purpose, fakephp or PCI hotplug interfaces
can be used.
The format of "/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file is the same with
boot parameter. You can use "," instead of ";".
For example:
# cd /sys/bus/pci
# echo -n 20@12:00.0 > resource_alignment
# echo 1 > devices/0000:12:00.0/remove
# echo 1 > rescan
Reviewed-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuji Shimada <shimada-yxb@necst.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Document the "pci=earlydump" argument. This currently only works on x86.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
from early boot tracing view, trace_buf_size parameter is important.
it should be documented.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090310135200.A48B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
While trying to debug why my Atom netbook is falling over booting
rawhide debug-enabled kernels, I stumbled across the fact that we've
been enabling object debugging by default. However, once you default it
to on, you've got no way to turn it back off again at runtime.
Add a boolean toggle to turn it off. I would just make it an int
module_param, however people may already expect the boolean enable
behaviour, so just add an analogue for disabling.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: enable DMAR by default
xen: disable interrupts early, as start_kernel expects
gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_t
gpu/drm, x86, PAT: Handle io_mapping_create_wc() errors in a clean way
x86, Voyager: fix compile by lifting the degeneracy of phys_cpu_present_map
x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- ide=nodma is no longer valid.
drivers/ide/Kconfig
- The module is ide-core.ko not ide.
drivers/ide/ide.c
- It took me a while to figure out what the arguments %d.%d:%d to nodma
module parameter ment, so I added a comment to each.
- Added a comment to each of the sscanf lines.
- There is a bug, if j is 0 it would previously clear all the other bits
except the current device, changed in three different places.
mask &= (1 << i) should be mask &= ~(1 << i).
Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net>
[bart: s/disk/device/ in ide.c, beautify patch description]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Impact: Documentation fix
The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again. It should
never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was
32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Add missing parameter value to list of available values
for acpi=<value>.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
IMA provides hardware (TPM) based measurement and attestation for
file measurements. As the Trusted Computing (TPM) model requires,
IMA measures all files before they are accessed in any way (on the
integrity_bprm_check, integrity_path_check and integrity_file_mmap
hooks), and commits the measurements to the TPM. Once added to the
TPM, measurements can not be removed.
In addition, IMA maintains a list of these file measurements, which
can be used to validate the aggregate value stored in the TPM. The
TPM can sign these measurements, and thus the system can prove, to
itself and to a third party, the system's integrity in a way that
cannot be circumvented by malicious or compromised software.
- alloc ima_template_entry before calling ima_store_template()
- log ima_add_boot_aggregate() failure
- removed unused IMA_TEMPLATE_NAME_LEN
- replaced hard coded string length with #define name
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
This patch replaces the generic integrity hooks, for which IMA registered
itself, with IMA integrity hooks in the appropriate places directly
in the fs directory.
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Due to recurring issues with DMAR support on certain platforms.
There's a number of filesystem corruption incidents reported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479996http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12578
Provide a Kconfig option to change whether it is enabled by
default.
If disabled, it can still be reenabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the
kernel. Keep the .config option off by default.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-By: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove removed OSS kernel parameters from kernel-parameters.txt
Remove the kernel parameters from the OSS drivers of the chips
es1371 (removed 10-2007/2.6.24) and
cs4232 (removed 02-2008/2.6.25) from the kernel parameters documentation.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] update documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter.
[S390] hvc_iucv: Special handling of IUCV HVC devices
[S390] hvc_iucv: Refactor console and device initialization
[S390] hvc_iucv: Update function documentation
[S390] hvc_iucv: Limit rate of outgoing IUCV messages
[S390] hvc_iucv: Change IUCV term id and use one device as default
[S390] Use unsigned long long for u64 on 64bit.
[S390] qdio: fix broken pointer in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled
[S390] vdso: compile fix
[S390] remove code for oldselect system call
[S390] types: add/fix types.h include in header files
[S390] dasd: add device attribute to disable blocking on lost paths
[S390] dasd: send change uevents for dasd block devices
[S390] tape block: fix dependencies
[S390] asm-s390/posix_types.h: drop __USE_ALL usage
[S390] gettimeofday.S: removed duplicated #includes
[S390] ptrace: no extern declarations for userspace
On some boxes there exist both RSDT and XSDT table. But unfortunately
sometimes there exists the following error when XSDT table is used:
a. 32/64X address mismatch
b. The 32/64X FACS address mismatch
In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that
RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
cc:Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Config and control variable for mem+swap controller.
This patch adds CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
(memory resource controller swap extension.)
For accounting swap, it's obvious that we have to use additional memory to
remember "who uses swap". This adds more overhead. So, it's better to
offer "choice" to users. This patch adds 2 choices.
This patch adds 2 parameters to enable swap extension or not.
- CONFIG
- boot option
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (98 commits)
PCI PM: Put PM callbacks in the order of execution
PCI PM: Run default PM callbacks for all devices using new framework
PCI PM: Register power state of devices during initialization
PCI PM: Call pci_fixup_device from legacy routines
PCI PM: Rearrange code in pci-driver.c
PCI PM: Avoid touching devices behind bridges in unknown state
PCI PM: Move pci_has_legacy_pm_support
PCI PM: Power-manage devices without drivers during suspend-resume
PCI PM: Add suspend counterpart of pci_reenable_device
PCI PM: Fix poweroff and restore callbacks
PCI: Use msleep instead of cpu_relax during ASPM link retraining
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Add kerneldoc comments to remining core funtions
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Rearrange code so that related things are together
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Fix suspend and resume of PCI Express port services
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Add kerneldoc comments to some core functions
x86/PCI: Do not use interrupt links for devices using MSI-X
net: sfc: Use pci_clear_master() to disable bus mastering
PCI: Add pci_clear_master() as opposite of pci_set_master()
PCI hotplug: remove redundant test in cpq hotplug
PCI: pciehp: cleanup register and field definitions
...
Device drivers that use pci_request_regions() (and similar APIs) have a
reasonable expectation that they are the only ones accessing their device.
As part of the e1000e hunt, we were afraid that some userland (X or some
bootsplash stuff) was mapping the MMIO region that the driver thought it
had exclusively via /dev/mem or via various sysfs resource mappings.
This patch adds the option for device drivers to cause their reserved
regions to the "banned from /dev/mem use" list, so now both kernel memory
and device-exclusive MMIO regions are banned.
NOTE: This is only active when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is set.
In addition to the config option, a kernel parameter iomem=relaxed is
provided for the cases where developers want to diagnose, in the field,
drivers issues from userspace.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This patch (as1190) makes usb-storage's "quirks=" module parameter
writable, so that users can add entries for their devices at runtime
with no need to reboot or reload usb-storage.
New codes are added for the SANE_SENSE, CAPACITY_HEURISTICS, and
CAPACITY_OK flags.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1163b) adds a "quirks=" module parameter to usb-storage.
This will allow people to make short-term changes to their
unusual_devs list without rebuilding the entire driver. Testing will
become much easier, and less-sophisticated users will be able to
access their buggy devices after a simple config-file change instead
of having to wait for a new kernel release.
The patch also adds a documentation entry for usb-storage's
"delay_use" parameter, which has been around for years but but was
never listed among the kernel parameters.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'. Setting a value to
this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be
changed.
It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole
system at boot time. Without this parameter, users have to change
coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script.
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as kmalloc,
kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected data is then fed
to the userspace application in order to analyse allocation hotspots,
internal fragmentation and so on, making it possible to see how well an
allocator performs, as well as debug and profile kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits)
x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new()
x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code
x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration
x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static
x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32
x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32
x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency
x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used
x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3
x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3
x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3
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Introduce a topology=[on|off] kernel parameter which allows to switch
cpu topology on/off. Default will be off, since it looks like that for
some workloards this doesn't behave very well (on s390).
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Spell out "wrt". I suspect plenty of people won't know
what that means.
Fix a '}' that should be a ']'.
Reformat long lines into shorter lines.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
On some machines it may be necessary to disable the saving/restoring
of the ACPI NVS memory region during hibernation/resume. For this
purpose, introduce new ACPI kernel command line option
acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs.
Based on a patch by Zhang Rui.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
acpi_early_init() was changed to over-write the cmdline param,
making it really inconvenient to set debug flags at boot-time.
Also,
This sets the default level to "info", which is what all the ACPI
drivers use. So to enable messages from drivers, you only have to
supply the "layer" (a.k.a. "component"). For non-"info" ACPI core
and ACPI interpreter messages, you have to supply both level and
layer masks, as before.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Impact: enhancement to stack tracer
The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)
This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.
A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: more general identifier for Phoenix BIOS
AMD IOMMU: check for next_bit also in unmapped area
AMD IOMMU: fix fullflush comparison length
AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default
AMD IOMMU: add parameter to disable device isolation
x86, PEBS/DS: fix code flow in ds_request()
x86: add rdtsc barrier to TSC sync check
xen: fix scrub_page()
x86: fix es7000 compiling
x86, bts: fix unlock problem in ds.c
x86, voyager: fix smp generic helper voyager breakage
x86: move iomap.h to the new include location
Add "min_addr" documentation.
For "max_addr", add nn before [KMG] since a number is needed and this
is consistent with other uses of [KMG].
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU
Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
security/keys/internal.h
security/keys/process_keys.c
security/keys/request_key.c
Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).
Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.
This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.
"acpi_backlight=vendor"
Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.
Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"
x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo
AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path
x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR
x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle
x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu
x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit
x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS
x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed
x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage
AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are
compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y).
This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities
compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and
trust) them.
When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes
a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be
used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets.
This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will
not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities
compiled out - in particular a task with CAP_SETPCAP will not
have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which
isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed
altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead
be able to put new capabilities in its pI. However since fI
will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the
task nothing.
We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and
dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set.
The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler,
setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked. That will
be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid
while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid
tries to change settings for the more privileged task.
Changelog:
Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\
with-clear-caps patch
Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are
not compiled in as it isn't used.
Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
