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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-04-20 04:32:26 +0300
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2015-04-20 06:05:20 +0300
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parent09d51602cf84a1264946711dd4ea0dddbac599a1 (diff)
downloadlinux-2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e.tar.xz
Merge Linus master into drm-next
The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards, due to API changes in the regulator tree. I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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@@ -928,6 +928,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Enable debug messages at boot time. See
Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt for details.
+ eagerfpu= [X86]
+ on enable eager fpu restore
+ off disable eager fpu restore
+ auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
+ enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
+
early_ioremap_debug [KNL]
Enable debug messages in early_ioremap support. This
is useful for tracking down temporary early mappings
@@ -1036,7 +1042,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
efi= [EFI]
- Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime" }
+ Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug" }
old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
default.
@@ -1044,6 +1050,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some
firmware implementations.
noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support
+ debug: enable misc debug output
efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
@@ -1965,6 +1972,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
or
memmap=0x10000$0x18690000
+ memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG]
+ [KNL,X86] Mark specific memory as protected.
+ Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn.
+ The memory region may be marked as e820 type 12 (0xc)
+ and is NVDIMM or ADR memory.
+
memory_corruption_check=0/1 [X86]
Some BIOSes seem to corrupt the first 64k of
memory when doing things like suspend/resume.
@@ -1988,7 +2001,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
seconds. Use this parameter to check at some
other rate. 0 disables periodic checking.
- memtest= [KNL,X86] Enable memtest
+ memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
default : 0 <disable>
Specifies the number of memtest passes to be
@@ -2235,8 +2248,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=X86] Debugging features for SMP kernels
Format: [panic,][nopanic,][num]
- Valid num: 0
+ Valid num: 0 or 1
0 - turn nmi_watchdog off
+ 1 - turn nmi_watchdog on
When panic is specified, panic when an NMI watchdog
timeout occurs (or 'nopanic' to override the opposite
default).
@@ -2315,12 +2329,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
noexec32=off: disable non-executable mappings
read implies executable mappings
- nofpu [SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
+ nofpu [MIPS,SH] Disable hardware FPU at boot time.
nofxsr [BUGS=X86-32] Disables x86 floating point extended
register save and restore. The kernel will only save
legacy floating-point registers on task switch.
+ nohugeiomap [KNL,x86] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.
+
noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
@@ -2340,12 +2356,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
parameter, xsave area per process might occupy more
memory on xsaves enabled systems.
- eagerfpu= [X86]
- on enable eager fpu restore
- off disable eager fpu restore
- auto selects the default scheme, which automatically
- enables eagerfpu restore for xsaveopt.
-
nohlt [BUGS=ARM,SH] Tells the kernel that the sleep(SH) or
wfi(ARM) instruction doesn't work correctly and not to
use it. This is also useful when using JTAG debugger.
@@ -2463,7 +2473,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
- nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).
+ nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
+ soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
nowb [ARM]
@@ -2968,6 +2979,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to
process in one batch.
+ rcutree.gp_init_delay= [KNL]
+ Set the number of jiffies to delay each step of
+ RCU grace-period initialization. This only has
+ effect when CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is
+ set.
+
rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf= [KNL]
Increase the number of CPUs assigned to each
leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
@@ -2991,11 +3008,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
rcutree.kthread_prio= [KNL,BOOT]
- Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU
- per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also
- used for the priority of the RCU boost threads
- (rcub/N). Valid values are 1-99 and the default
- is 1 (the least-favored priority).
+ Set the SCHED_FIFO priority of the RCU per-CPU
+ kthreads (rcuc/N). This value is also used for
+ the priority of the RCU boost threads (rcub/N)
+ and for the RCU grace-period kthreads (rcu_bh,
+ rcu_preempt, and rcu_sched). If RCU_BOOST is
+ set, valid values are 1-99 and the default is 1
+ (the least-favored priority). Otherwise, when
+ RCU_BOOST is not set, valid values are 0-99 and
+ the default is zero (non-realtime operation).
rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride= [KNL]
Set the number of NOCB kthread groups, which
@@ -3462,6 +3483,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
improve throughput, but will also increase the
amount of memory reserved for use by the client.
+ suspend.pm_test_delay=
+ [SUSPEND]
+ Sets the number of seconds to remain in a suspend test
+ mode before resuming the system (see
+ /sys/power/pm_test). Only available when CONFIG_PM_DEBUG
+ is set. Default value is 5.
+
swapaccount=[0|1]
[KNL] Enable accounting of swap in memory resource
controller if no parameter or 1 is given or disable