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2010-07-25ACPI / Sleep: Allow the NVS saving to be skipped during suspend to RAMRafael J. Wysocki1-2/+2
Commit 2a6b69765ad794389f2fc3e14a0afa1a995221c2 (ACPI: Store NVS state even when entering suspend to RAM) caused the ACPI suspend code save the NVS area during suspend and restore it during resume unconditionally, although it is known that some systems need to use acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs for hibernation to work. To allow the affected systems to avoid saving and restoring the NVS area during suspend to RAM and resume, introduce kernel command line option acpi_sleep=nonvs and make acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs work as its alias temporarily (add acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs to the feature removal file). Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16396 . Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-and-tested-by: tomas m <tmezzadra@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-07-14lmb: rename to memblockYinghai Lu1-1/+1
via following scripts FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \ -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g') mv $N $M done and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc. also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/ Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-06-18PCI/PM: Do not use native PCIe PME by defaultRafael J. Wysocki1-1/+3
Commit c7f486567c1d0acd2e4166c47069835b9f75e77b (PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driver) causes the native PCIe PME signaling to be used by default, if the BIOS allows the kernel to control the standard configuration registers of PCIe root ports. However, the native PCIe PME is coupled to the native PCIe hotplug and calling pcie_pme_acpi_setup() makes some BIOSes expect that the native PCIe hotplug will be used as well. That, in turn, causes problems to appear on systems where the PCIe hotplug driver is not loaded. The usual symptom, as reported by Jaroslav Kameník and others, is that the ACPI GPE associated with PCIe hotplug keeps firing continuously causing kacpid to take substantial percentage of CPU time. To work around this issue, change the default so that the native PCIe PME signaling is only used if directly requested with the help of the pcie_pme= command line switch. Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15924 , which is a listed regression from 2.6.33. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Jaroslav Kameník <jaroslav@kamenik.cz> Tested-by: Antoni Grzymala <antekgrzymala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-05-29Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+10
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: (27 commits) ACPI: Don't let acpi_pad needlessly mark TSC unstable drivers/acpi/sleep.h: Checkpatch cleanup ACPI: Minor cleanup eliminating redundant PMTIMER_TICKS to NS conversion ACPI: delete unused c-state promotion/demotion data strucutures ACPI: video: fix acpi_backlight=video ACPI: EC: Use kmemdup drivers/acpi: use kasprintf ACPI, APEI, EINJ injection parameters support Add x64 support to debugfs ACPI, APEI, Use ERST for persistent storage of MCE ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source memory error support ACPI, APEI, UEFI Common Platform Error Record (CPER) header Unified UUID/GUID definition ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support ACPI, APEI, PCIE AER, use general HEST table parsing in AER firmware_first setup ACPI, APEI, Document for APEI ACPI, APEI, EINJ support ACPI, APEI, HEST table parsing ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure ...
2010-05-29Merge branch 'ht-delete-2.6.35' into releaseLen Brown1-2/+1
2010-05-26libata: implement dump_id force paramTejun Heo1-0/+2
Add dump_id libata.force parameter. If specified, libata dumps full IDENTIFY data during device configuration. This is to aid debugging. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Larry Baker <baker@usgs.gov> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-05-25watchdog: update/improve/consolidate watchdog driverRandy Dunlap1-11/+4
Move the limited watchdog driver help from kernel-parameters.txt to Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt and add info to it for all watchdog drivers except the ones that have driver-specific files already. Correct minor comments and MODULE_PARM_DESC() text in 2 places. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-05-21echi-dbgp: Add kernel debugger support for the usb debug portJason Wessel1-0/+11
This patch adds the capability to use the usb debug port with the kernel debugger. It is also still possible to use this functionality with or without the earlyprintk=dbgpX. It is possible to use the kgdbwait boot argument to debug very early in the kernel start up code. There are two ways to use this driver extension with a kernel boot argument. 1) kgdbdbgp=# -- Where # is the number of the usb debug controller You must use sysrq-g to break into the kernel debugger on another connection type other than the dbgp. 2) kgdbdbgp=#debugControlNum#,#Seconds# In this mode, the usb debug port is polled every #Seconds# for character input. It is possible to use gdb or press control-c to break into the kernel debugger. From the implementation perspective there are 3 high level changes. 1) Allow variable retries for the the hardware via dbgp_bulk_read(). The amount of retries for the dbgp_bulk_read() needed to be variable instead of fixed. We do not want to poll at all when the kernel is operating in interrupt driven mode. The polling only occurs if the kernel was booted when specifying some number of seconds via the kgdbdbgp boot argument (IE kgdbdbgp=0,1). In this case the loop count is reduced to 1 so as introduce the smallest amount of latency as possible. 2) Save the bulk IN endpoint address for use by the kgdb code. 3) The addition of the kgdb interface code. This consisted of adding in a character read function for the dbgp as well as a polling thread to allow the dbgp to interrupt the kernel execution. The rest is the typical kgdb I/O api. CC: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21kgdboc: Add ekgdboc for early use of the kernel debuggerJason Wessel1-0/+6
The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available, instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available. CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-21kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdbJason Wessel1-1/+5
Update the kgdb docs to reflect the new directory structure and API. Merge in the kdb shell information. [Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>: grammatical corrections] CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-21kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdbJason Wessel1-3/+5
This patch adds in the kdb PS/2 keyboard driver. This was mostly a direct port from the original kdb where I cleaned up the code against checkpatch.pl and added the glue to stitch it into kgdb. This patch also enables early kdb debug via kgdbwait and the keyboard. All the access to configure kdb using either a serial console or the keyboard is done via kgdboc. If you want to use only the keyboard and want to break in early you would add to your kernel command arguments: kgdboc=kbd kgdbwait If you wanted serial and or the keyboard access you could use: kgdboc=kbd,ttyS0 You can also configure kgdboc as a kernel module or at run time with the sysfs where you can activate and deactivate kgdb. Turn it on: echo kbd,ttyS0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc Turn it off: echo "" > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
2010-05-20Merge branch 'acpica' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (22 commits) ACPI: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64 ACPICA: Update version to 20100428. ACPICA: Update/clarify some parameter names associated with acpi_handle ACPICA: Rename acpi_ex_system_do_suspend->acpi_ex_system_do_sleep ACPICA: Prevent possible allocation overrun during object copy ACPICA: Split large file, evgpeblk ACPICA: Add GPE support for dynamically loaded ACPI tables ACPICA: Clarify/rename some root table descriptor fields ACPICA: Update version to 20100331. ACPICA: Minimize the differences between linux GPE code and ACPICA code base ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT ACPICA: Update DSDT copy/detection. ACPICA: Add subsystem option to force copy of DSDT to local memory ACPICA: Add detection of corrupted/replaced DSDT ACPICA: Add write support for DataTable operation regions ACPICA: Fix for acpi_reallocate_root_table for incorrect root table copy ACPICA: Update comments/headers, no functional change ACPICA: Update version to 20100304 ACPICA: Fix for possible fault in acpi_ex_release_mutex ACPICA: Standardize integer output for ACPICA warnings/errors ...
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+10
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (61 commits) KEYS: Return more accurate error codes LSM: Add __init to fixup function. TOMOYO: Add pathname grouping support. ima: remove ACPI dependency TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup TOMOYO: Use stack memory for pending entry. Revert "ima: remove ACPI dependency" Revert "TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal" KEYS: Do preallocation for __key_link() TOMOYO: Use mutex_lock_interruptible. KEYS: Better handling of errors from construct_alloc_key() KEYS: keyring_serialise_link_sem is only needed for keyring->keyring links TOMOYO: Use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL. ima: remove ACPI dependency TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal selinux: generalize disabling of execmem for plt-in-heap archs LSM Audit: rename LSM_AUDIT_NO_AUDIT to LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock SMACK: Don't #include Ext2 headers ...
2010-05-20ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) supportHuang Ying1-0/+4
ERST is a way provided by APEI to save and retrieve hardware error record to and from some simple persistent storage (such as flash). The Linux kernel support implementation is quite simple and workable in NMI context. So it can be used to save hardware error record into flash in hardware error exception or NMI handler, where other more complex persistent storage such as disk is not usable. After saving hardware error records via ERST in hardware error exception or NMI handler, the error records can be retrieved and logged into disk or network after a clean reboot. For more information about ERST, please refer to ACPI Specification version 4.0, section 17.4. This patch incorporate fixes from Jin Dongming. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> CC: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-20ACPI, APEI, Document for APEIHuang Ying1-0/+5
Add document for APEI, including kernel parameters and EINJ debug file sytem interface. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-18Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning. tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus. tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
2010-05-13Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar1-1/+1
Merge reason: Update from -rc5 to -rc7. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-11x86/amd-iommu: Add amd_iommu=off command line optionJoerg Roedel1-0/+2
This patch adds a command line option to tell the AMD IOMMU driver to not initialize any IOMMU it finds. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-05-06Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris1-6/+1
2010-04-23Merge branch 'tracing/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar1-1/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
2010-04-23libata: fix docs, RE port and device of libata.force ID separated by pointRoman Fietze1-1/+1
According to libata-core correctly around line 6572: /* parse id */ p = strchr(id, '.'); ... the optional device is separated from the port in the libata.force ID by a point or dot instead of by a colon. Fix documentation to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-04-22tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffersFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+5
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens. It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many, plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces. Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the opps, most of the time it is our main interest. This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice. The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed. Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode. v2: Fix double setup v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-04-20ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDTLin Ming1-0/+1
Some BIOS on Toshiba machines corrupt the DSDT, so add a new boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to workaround it. Add warning message to ask users to use this option if corrupt DSDT detected. Also build a DMI blacklist to check it and automatically copy DSDT. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679 Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-04-07Merge branch 'amd-iommu/fixes' into iommu/fixesJoerg Roedel1-5/+0
2010-04-07x86/amd-iommu: Remove obsolete parameter documentationJoerg Roedel1-5/+0
Support for the share and fullflush parameters was removed. Remove the documentation about them too. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-03-31Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris1-4/+6
2010-03-26TPM: workaround to enforce PCR updates across suspendsRajiv Andrade1-0/+10
Add a workaround for TPM's which fail to flush last written PCR values in a TPM_SaveState, in preparation for suspend. Signed-off-by: David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-03-15ACPI: processor: remove early _PDC optin quirksAlex Chiang1-4/+0
Now that we check for physically present processors before blindly evaluating _PDC, we no longer need to maintain a DMI opt-in table nor a kernel param. Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-03-15ACPI: delete the "acpi=ht" boot optionLen Brown1-2/+1
acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was universally deployed and enabled by default in the major Linux distributions. At that time, there were a fair number of people who or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off, yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading. Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht" are accidental, and thus is it possible that it is doing more harm than good. In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht. In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-03-08Merge branch 'x86-mrst-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mrst-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits) x86, mrst: Fix whitespace breakage in apb_timer.c x86, mrst: Fix APB timer per cpu clockevent x86, mrst: Remove X86_MRST dependency on PCI_IOAPIC x86, olpc: Use pci subarch init for OLPC x86, pci: Add arch_init to x86_init abstraction x86, mrst: Add Kconfig dependencies for Moorestown x86, pci: Exclude Moorestown PCI code if CONFIG_X86_MRST=n x86, numaq: Make CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ depend on CONFIG_PCI x86, pci: Add sanity check for PCI fixed bar probing x86, legacy_irq: Remove duplicate vector assigment x86, legacy_irq: Remove left over nr_legacy_irqs x86, mrst: Platform clock setup code x86, apbt: Moorestown APB system timer driver x86, mrst: Add vrtc platform data setup code x86, mrst: Add platform timer info parsing code x86, mrst: Fill in PCI functions in x86_init layer x86, mrst: Add dummy legacy pic to platform setup x86/PCI: Moorestown PCI support x86, ioapic: Add dummy ioapic functions x86, ioapic: Early enable ioapic for timer irq ... Fixed up semantic conflict of new clocksources due to commit 17622339af25 ("clocksource: add argument to resume callback").
2010-03-03Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits) x86: Fix out of order of gsi x86: apic: Fix mismerge, add arch_probe_nr_irqs() again x86, irq: Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions. smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early x86, irq: Remove arch_probe_nr_irqs sparseirq: Use radix_tree instead of ptrs array sparseirq: Change irq_desc_ptrs to static init: Move radix_tree_init() early irq: Remove unnecessary bootmem code x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table x86: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock x86: Convert nmi_lock to raw_spinlock x86: Convert ioapic_lock and vector_lock to raw_spinlock x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix() x86: Fix SCI on IOAPIC != 0 x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mapping x86, irq: Move __setup_vector_irq() before the first irq enable in cpu online path x86, irq: Update the vector domain for legacy irqs handled by io-apic x86, irq: Don't block IRQ0_VECTOR..IRQ15_VECTOR's on all cpu's ...
2010-03-01Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller1-2/+33
Conflicts: drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
2010-02-28Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, mm: Unify kernel_physical_mapping_init() API x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time x86: Do not reserve brk for DMI if it's not going to be used x86: Convert tlbstate_lock to raw_spinlock x86: Use the generic page_is_ram() x86: Remove BIOS data range from e820 Move page_is_ram() declaration to mm.h Generic page_is_ram: use __weak resources: introduce generic page_is_ram()
2010-02-28Merge branches 'core-ipi-for-linus', 'core-locking-for-linus', ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
'tracing-fixes-for-linus', 'x86-debug-for-linus', 'x86-doc-for-linus', 'x86-gpu-for-linus' and 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: plist: Fix grammar mistake, and c-style mistake * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist * 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86_64: Print modules like i386 does * 'x86-doc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parameters * 'x86-gpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64: Allow fbdev primary video code * 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Use helpers for rlimits
2010-02-25x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot timeIan Campbell1-0/+7
Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the price of the additional mapping operations. Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system time used from 59.737s to 55.9s. With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated: Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914) User Time 515.983 (5.85019) System Time 59.737 (1.26727) Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796) Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64) Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307) With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated: Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968) User Time 515.659 (6.07012) System Time 55.9 (1.07799) Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266) Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13) Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039) This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the status-quo as the default. It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold at 16G of total RAM. Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration, meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using lowmem PTEs. Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in practice 64G is still supported). It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> LKML-Reference: <1266403090-20162-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-24x86, apbt: Moorestown APB system timer driverJacob Pan1-0/+6
Moorestown platform does not have PIT or HPET platform timers. Instead it has a bank of eight APB timers. The number of available timers to the os is exposed via SFI mtmr tables. All APB timer interrupts are routed via ioapic rtes and delivered as MSI. Currently, we use timer 0 and 1 for per cpu clockevent devices, timer 2 for clocksource. Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A318D2D2@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-23x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info by default on 2008 and newer machinesBjorn Helgaas1-2/+6
The main benefit of using ACPI host bridge window information is that we can do better resource allocation in systems with multiple host bridges, e.g., http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14183 Sometimes we need _CRS information even if we only have one host bridge, e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/341681 Most of these systems are relatively new, so this patch turns on "pci=use_crs" only on machines with a BIOS date of 2008 or newer. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-02-23PCI PM: Make it possible to force using INTx for PCIe PME signalingRafael J. Wysocki1-0/+2
Apparently, some machines may have problems with PCI run-time power management if MSIs are used for the native PCIe PME signaling. In particular, on the MSI Wind U-100 PCIe PME interrupts are not generated by a PCIe root port after a resume from suspend to RAM, if the system wake-up was triggered by a PME from the device attached to this port. [It doesn't help to free the interrupt on suspend and request it back on resume, even if that is done along with disabling the MSI and re-enabling it, respectively.] However, if INTx interrupts are used for this purpose on the same machine, everything works just fine. For this reason, add a kernel command line switch allowing one to request that MSIs be not used for the native PCIe PME signaling, introduce a DMI table allowing us to blacklist machines that need this switch to be set by default and put the MSI Wind U-100 into this table. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-02-23PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driverRafael J. Wysocki1-0/+6
PCIe native PME detection mechanism is based on interrupts generated by root ports or event collectors every time a PCIe device sends a PME message upstream. Once a PME message has been sent by an endpoint device and received by its root port (or event collector in the case of root complex integrated endpoints), the Requester ID from the message header is registered in the root port's Root Status register. At the same time, the PME Status bit of the Root Status register is set to indicate that there's a PME to handle. If PCIe PME interrupt is enabled for the root port, it generates an interrupt once the PME Status has been set. After receiving the interrupt, the kernel can identify the PCIe device that generated the PME using the Requester ID from the root port's Root Status register. [For details, see PCI Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0.] Implement a driver for the PCIe PME root port service working in accordance with the above description. Based on a patch from Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-02-20ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel bootRussell King1-0/+5
Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during boot. This can prevent systems booting properly. There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be booted. So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via the kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-18smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids earlyYinghai Lu1-0/+6
On x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka CONFIG_NR_CPUS. Add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus <=8 are installed on normal config. -v2: accordging to Christoph, acpi_numa_init should use nr_cpu_ids in stead of NR_CPUS. -v3: add doc in kernel-parameters.txt according to Andrew. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-34-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2010-02-05doc: document IPv6 parametersBrian Haley1-0/+10
Update documentation to describe IPv6 parameters. Reported by <greg@enjellic.com>. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-22ACPI: processor: add kernel command line support for early _PDC evalAlex Chiang1-0/+4
Allow platforms not listed in DMI table to opt-in and evaluate _PDC early. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-01-20x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parametersJiri Kosina1-0/+3
Add missing 'nopat' boot option into Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1001181703560.30977@pobox.suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-31ACPI: introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enableZhang Rui1-1/+4
Introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable some laptop requires SCI_EN being set directly on resume, or else they hung somewhere in the resume code path. We already have a blacklist for these laptops but we still need this option, especially when debugging some suspend/resume problems, in case there are systems that need this workaround and are not yet in the blacklist. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-16Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds1-3/+3
* 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (42 commits) nfsd: remove pointless paths in file headers nfsd: move most of nfsfh.h to fs/nfsd nfsd: remove unused field rq_reffh nfsd: enable V4ROOT exports nfsd: make V4ROOT exports read-only nfsd: restrict filehandles accepted in V4ROOT case nfsd: allow exports of symlinks nfsd: filter readdir results in V4ROOT case nfsd: filter lookup results in V4ROOT case nfsd4: don't continue "under" mounts in V4ROOT case nfsd: introduce export flag for v4 pseudoroot nfsd: let "insecure" flag vary by pseudoflavor nfsd: new interface to advertise export features nfsd: Move private headers to source directory vfs: nfsctl.c un-used nfsd #includes lockd: Remove un-used nfsd headers #includes s390: remove un-used nfsd #includes sparc: remove un-used nfsd #includes parsic: remove un-used nfsd #includes compat.c: Remove dependence on nfsd private headers ...
2009-12-16vt: make the default cursor shape configurableClemens Ladisch1-0/+5
For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor shape. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-12Merge branch 'omap-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 * 'omap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: (75 commits) omap3: Fix OMAP35XX_REV macros omap: serial: fix non-empty uart fifo read abort omap3: Zoom2/3: Update hsmmc board config params omap3 : Enable TWL4030 Keypad for Zoom2 and Zoom3 boards omap3: id code detection 3525 vs 3515 omap3: rx51: Use wl1251 in SPI mode 3 omap3: zoom2/3: make MMC slot work again omap1: htcherald: Update defconfig to include mux support omap1: LCD_DMA: Use some define rather than a hexadecimal omap: header: remove unused data-type omap: arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c - sort alphabetically omap: Correcting GPMC_CONFIG1_DEVICETYPE_NAND OMAP3: serial - allow platforms specify which UARTs to initialize omap3: cm-t35: add mux initialization OMAP4: Sync up omap4430 defconfig OMAP4: Remove the secondary wait loop OMAP4: AuxCoreBoot registers only accessible in secure mode OMAP4: Fix SRAM base and size OMAP4: Fix cpu detection omap3: pandora: board file updates for .33 ...
2009-12-12omap: mux: Add new style pin multiplexing code for omap3Tony Lindgren1-0/+5
Initially only for 34xx. This code allows us to: - Make the code more generic as the omap internal signal names can stay the same across omap generations for some devices - Map mux registers to GPIO registers that is needed for dynamic muxing of pins during off-idle - Override bootloader mux values via kernel cmdline using omap_mux=some.signa1=0x1234,some.signal2=0x1234 - View and set the mux registers via debugfs if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
2009-12-11USB: usb-storage: add BAD_SENSE flagAlan Stern1-0/+2
This patch (as1311) fixes a problem in usb-storage: Some devices are pretty broken when it comes to reporting sense data. The information they send back indicates that they have more than 18 bytes of sense data available, but when the system asks for more than 18 they fail or hang. The symptom is that probing fails with multiple resets. The patch adds a new BAD_SENSE flag to indicate that usb-storage should never ask for more than 18 bytes of sense data. The flag can be set in an unusual_devs entry or via the "quirks=" module parameter, and it is set automatically whenever a REQUEST SENSE command for more than 18 bytes fails or times out. An unusual_devs entry is added for the Agfa photo frame, which uses a Prolific chip having this bug. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Tested-by: Daniel Kukula <daniel.kuku@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>