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Author SHA1 Message Date
Randy Dunlap 31c00fc15e Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.
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>
2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
Len Brown f398778aa3 Merge branch 'video' into release
Conflicts:
	Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-11 21:15:50 -05:00
Len Brown 3e0fe36483 Merge branch 'misc' into release 2008-11-11 21:14:11 -05:00
Thomas Renninger c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers
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>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas a0d84a92df ACPI: update debug parameter documentation
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>
2008-11-07 21:45:29 -05:00
Linus Torvalds a15a82f42c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
2008-11-06 15:57:24 -08:00
Li Zefan b225d44e27 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update 'isolcpus' kernel option
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>
2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
Mark McLoughlin e4ab1b3cbb x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
Impact: documentation fix

irqbalance was removed by:

  commit 8b8e8c1bf7
  Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
  Date:   Tue Aug 19 20:50:23 2008 -0700

Remove the associated documentation for noirqbalance.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 14:50:34 +01:00
Uwe Hermann 71cced6eb0 doc/x86: fix doc subdirs
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 16:36:42 +01:00
Len Brown 057316cc6a Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
	drivers/acpi/Kconfig
	drivers/pnp/Makefile
	drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-23 00:11:07 -04:00
Len Brown 4dff4e7f6c Merge branch 'pnp-debug' into test 2008-10-22 23:28:43 -04:00
Len Brown 5f50ef453d Merge branch 'misc' into test 2008-10-22 23:28:38 -04:00
Zhao Yakui f5adfaa372 ACPI: Add "acpi.power_nocheck=1" to disable power state check in power transition
Maybe the incorrect power state is returned on the bogus bios, which
is different with the real power state. For example: the bios returns D0
state and the real power state is D3. OS expects to set the device to D0
state. In  such case if OS uses the power state returned by the BIOS and
checks the device power state very strictly in power transition, the device
can't be transited to the correct power state.

   So the boot option of "acpi.power_nocheck=1" is added to avoid checking
the device power in the course of device power transition.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8049
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22 17:59:57 -04:00
Thomas Renninger 36eec5e29c ACPI: Add expand acpi.debug_layer in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22 17:56:04 -04:00
Chuck Ebbert e5665a45fa PCI: document the pcie_aspm kernel parameter
It can be handy so make sure people know about it.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-20 11:01:49 -07:00
Andi Kleen c01156061b PCI: Document that most pci options are shared between i386 and x86-64
Since the code is shared pretty much most of the pci= options are shared,
but kernel-parameters.txt marked most of them as i386 only.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-10-20 10:53:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ed402af3c2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (112 commits)
  sh: Move SH-4 CPU headers down one more level.
  sh: Only build in gpio.o when CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO is selected.
  sh: Migrate common board headers to mach-common/.
  sh: Move the CPU definition headers from asm/ to cpu/.
  serial: sh-sci: Add support SCIF of SH7723
  video: add sh_mobile_lcdc platform flags
  video: remove unused sh_mobile_lcdc platform data
  sh: remove consistent alloc cruft
  sh: add dynamic crash base address support
  sh: reduce Migo-R smc91x overruns
  sh: Fix up some merge damage.
  Fix debugfs_create_file's error checking method for arch/sh/mm/
  Fix debugfs_create_dir's error checking method for arch/sh/kernel/
  sh: ap325rxa: Add support RTC RX-8564LC in AP325RXA board
  sh: Use sh7720 GPIO on magicpanelr2 board
  sh: Add sh7720 pinmux code
  sh: Use sh7203 GPIO on rsk7203 board
  sh: Add sh7203 pinmux code
  sh: Use sh7723 GPIO on AP325RXA board
  sh: Add sh7723 pinmux code
  ...
2008-10-20 09:13:34 -07:00
Simon Horman e515a0d600 kdump: update elfcorehdr documentation to reflect supported architectures
IA64, PPC and SH also support the elfcorehdr command line.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:40 -07:00
Paul Mundt 4cb40f795a Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
	arch/sh/include/asm/elf.h
2008-10-20 11:17:52 +09:00
Jaroslav Kysela fd7c519dd4 USB: hub.c: Add initial_descriptor_timeout module parameter for usbcore
This patch adds initial_descriptor_timeout module parameter for usbcore.ko
to allow modify initial 64-byte USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR timeout for
non-standard devices.

For example, the SATA8000 device from DATAST0R Technology Corp
requires about 10 seconds to send reply (probably it waits until
inserted disk is ready for operation).

Also, this patch adds missing usbcore parameters to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-17 14:41:04 -07:00
Zhang Rui 22a94d79a3 ACPI: Allow overriding to higher critical trip point.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9129

lenb: Note that overriding a critical trip point
may simply fool the user into thinking that they
have control that they do not actually have.
For it is EC firmware that decides when the EC
sends Linux temperature change events, and the
EC may or may not decide to send Linux these events
anywhere in the neighborhood of the fake
override trip points.  Beware.

note also that thermal.nocrt is already available
to disable crtical trip point actios,
and thermal.crt=-1 is already available to
disabled critical trip points entirely.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-17 02:42:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds c813b4e16e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits)
  UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory
  UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support
  UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv
  UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem
  Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function
  NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name
  kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
  sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
  platform: add new device registration helper
  sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()
  PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes
  Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust
  usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN
  debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()
  debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function
  sysfs: fix deadlock
  device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check
  Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
  Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
  ...
2008-10-16 12:40:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 36ac1d2f32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (32 commits)
  Input: wm97xx - update email address for Liam Girdwood
  Input: i8042 - add Thinkpad R31 to nomux list
  Input: move map_to_7segment.h to include/linux
  Input: ads7846 - fix cache line sharing issue
  Input: cm109 - add missing newlines to messages
  Input: document i8042.debug in kernel-parameters.txt
  Input: keyboard - fix potential out of bound access to key_map
  Input: psmouse - add OLPC touchpad driver
  Input: psmouse - tweak PSMOUSE_DEFINE_ATTR to support raw set callbacks
  Input: psmouse - add psmouse_queue_work() for ps/2 extension to make use of
  Input: psmouse - export psmouse_set_state for ps/2 extensions to use
  Input: ads7846 - introduce .gpio_pendown to get pendown state
  Input: ALPS - add signature for DualPoint found in Dell Latitude E6500
  Input: serio_raw - allow attaching to translated (SERIO_I8042XL) ports
  Input: cm109 - don't use obsolete logging macros
  Input: atkbd - expand Latitude's force release quirk to other Dells
  Input: bf54x-keys - add power management support
  Input: atmel_tsadcc - improve accuracy
  Input: convert drivers to use strict_strtoul()
  Input: appletouch - handle geyser 3/4 status bits
  ...
2008-10-16 11:52:08 -07:00
Jason Baron 346e15beb5 driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:47 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov 4c0e799a9a Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2008-10-15 23:29:12 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 8daf14cf56 Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2 2008-10-12 15:50:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar a9b9e81c91 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/memory-corruption-check 2008-10-12 15:05:39 +02:00
Linus Torvalds ead9d23d80 Merge phase #4 (X2APIC, APIC unification, CPU identification unification) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (186 commits)
  x86, debug: print more information about unknown CPUs
  x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
  x86: cpuid, fix typo
  x86: move transmeta cap read to early_init_transmeta()
  x86: identify_cpu_without_cpuid v2
  x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86: move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
  x86: centaur_64.c remove duplicated setting of CONSTANT_TSC
  x86: intel.c put workaround for old cpus together
  x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
  x86: make intel_64.c the same as intel.c
  x86: make intel.c have 64-bit support code
  x86: little clean up of intel.c/intel_64.c
  x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
  x86: make amd_64 have 32 bit code
  x86: make amd.c have 64bit support code
  x86: merge header in amd_64.c
  x86: add srat_detect_node for amd64
  x86: remove duplicated force_mwait
  x86: cpu make amd.c more like amd_64.c v2
  ...
2008-10-11 11:51:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar d84705969f Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-11 20:17:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bf6f51e3a4 Merge phase #3 (IOMMU) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index
  x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices
  x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART
  x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool
  x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean
  x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization
  x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
  revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings"
  x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent
  iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
  x86: remove set_bit_string()
  iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function
  AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
  add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file
  AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer
  AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function
  AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code
  AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order
  AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages
  ...
2008-10-11 11:03:12 -07:00
Florian Fainelli 9bed90c6a4 Documentation: Document the RB532 specific kmac tag
The Routerboard 532 bootloader passes the korina ethernet
MAC adapter address to the kernel on the command line.
Document this in the kernel-parameters file.

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11 16:18:47 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas 97ef062bbe PNP: add CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG_MESSAGES and pnp_dbg()
This adds the core function pnp_dbg() and a new config option to
enable it.

The PNP core debugging messages can be enabled at boot-time with the
"pnp.debug" kernel parameter.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-10 23:33:53 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 725c25819e Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10 19:47:12 +02:00
Jiri Kosina 36d9573928 Input: document i8042.debug in kernel-parameters.txt
i8042.debug parameter was missing in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Add it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-10-08 23:46:13 -04:00
Ingo Molnar e496e3d645 Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1 2008-10-06 18:17:07 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori afa9fdc2f5 iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
This patch against tip/x86/iommu virtually reverts
2842e5bf31. But just reverting the
commit breaks AMD IOMMU so this patch also includes some fixes.

The above commit adds new two options to x86 IOMMU generic kernel boot
options, fullflush and nofullflush. But such change that affects all
the IOMMUs needs more discussion (all IOMMU parties need the chance to
discuss it):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/106

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 20:43:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0b88641f1b Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debug 2008-09-22 13:08:57 +02:00
Paul Mundt 6902aa84f5 doc: Add remaining SH parameters to kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-09-21 17:14:42 +09:00
Joerg Roedel 2842e5bf31 x86: move GART TLB flushing options to generic code
The GART currently implements the iommu=[no]fullflush command line
parameters which influence its IO/TLB flushing strategy. This patch
makes these parameters generic so that they can be used by the AMD IOMMU
too.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19 12:59:06 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 9f077871ce x86: clean up memory corruption check and add more kernel parameters
The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime.

This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption
check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07 17:40:01 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 5394f80f92 x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption
Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k.  This
change:
 - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to
   prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel.  Things
   like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however.
 - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it.
 - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on
   memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero.  Currently it's called in the
   x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07 17:39:59 +02:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino 1befdefcf4 x86: remove 8254 timer texts from Documentation
Commit ecd29476ae removed the
"disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel parameters from
the kernel but did not remove the references to them from two
files in the Documentation directory: kernel-parameters.txt and
x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.

This change completes the removal.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-28 18:20:14 +02:00
Yinghai Lu b05f78f5c7 x86_64: printout msr -v2
commandline show_msr=1 for bsp, show_msr=32 for all 32 cpus.

[ mingo@elte.hu: added documentation ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-22 10:43:21 +02:00
Tejun Heo 05944bdf6f libata: implement no[hs]rst force params
Implement force params nohrst, nosrst and norst.  This is to work
around reset related problems and ease debugging.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-08-22 02:07:43 -04:00
Andreas Herrmann 35fc908dc0 documentation: describe bootmem_debug kernel parameter
"bootmem_debug" is not mentioned in kernel-parameters.txt. Recently I
had to use that kernel option and I think it should be documented.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 6dec3a10a7 Merge branch 'x86/x2apic' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	include/asm-x86/i8259.h
	include/asm-x86/msidef.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 16:29:23 +02:00
Yinghai Lu 5c05917e7f x86: usb debug port early console, v4
based on work from Eric, and add some timeout so don't dead loop when debug
device is not installed

v2: fix checkpatch warning
v3: move ehci struct def to linux/usrb/ehci_def.h from host/ehci.h
    also add CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP to disable it by default
v4: address comments from Ingo, seperate ehci reg def moving to another patch
    also add auto detect port that connect to debug device for Nvidia
    southbridge

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-26 16:18:41 +02:00
Adrian Bunk f557d0996a remove some more tipar bits
Some bits were missed when the tipar driver was removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 10a010f695 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/x2apic
Conflicts:

	drivers/pci/dmar.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-25 13:08:16 +02:00
Shaohua Li bdfe6b7c68 pm: acpi hibernation: utilize hardware signature
ACPI defines a hardware signature.  BIOS calculates the signature according to
hardware configure and if hardware changes while hibernated, the signature
will change.  In that case, S4 resume should fail.

Still, there may be systems on which this mechanism does not work correctly,
so it is better to provide a workaround for them.  For this reason, add a new
switch to the acpi_sleep= command line argument allowing one to disable
hardware signature checking.

[shaohua.li@intel.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:24 -07:00