Sometimes the kernel prints something interesting while userspace bootup
keeps messages turned off via loglevel. Enable the printing of /all/
kernel messages via the "ignore_loglevel" boot option. Off by default.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Implement prof=sleep profiling. TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken
as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit
for the call site that initiated the sleep.
Sample readprofile output on i386:
306 ps2_sendbyte 1.3973
432 call_usermodehelper_keys 1.9548
484 ps2_command 0.6453
790 __driver_attach 4.7879
1593 msleep 44.2500
3976 sync_buffer 64.1290
4076 do_lookup 12.4648
8587 sync_page 122.6714
20820 total 0.0067
(NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from
deep within the wakeup path.)
akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched. lock_sock(), msleep(), others..
akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise. Presumably doing disk
reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex.
[akpm@osdl.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed
to command line helper function, get_options.
Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a
list of cpus.
Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in
system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of
cpus on a large system. The kernel isolcpus code would not need any
changing to use this feature. To use it, the change would be in the
command line format for 'isolcpus='
Format:
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
or
<cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending
order.)
or a mixture
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>
Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in
which swap files are supported by swsusp.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When using numa=fake on non-NUMA hardware there is no benefit to having the
alien caches, and they consume much memory.
Add a kernel boot option to disable them.
Christoph sayeth "This is good to have even on large NUMA. The problem is
that the alien caches grow by the square of the size of the system in terms of
nodes."
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add debugging printks to the unwinder to allow easier debugging
when something goes wrong with it.
This can be controlled with the new unwinder_debug=N option
Most output is given by N=1
AK: Added documentation of unwinder_debug=
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option. The
VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which
probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings. It fires
100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using
a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs
have not yet been delivered.
In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug
could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter
SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs.
While here, make check_timer be __init.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
It's bitrotten, long unmaintained, long hidden under BROKEN_ON_SMP,
etc. As scheduled in feature-removal-schedule.txt, and ack'd several
times on lkml.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because
they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support.
Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that
don't have HPET, but need a timer override.
We don't know yet how to handle this transparently,
but at least add a command line option to force the timer override
and let them boot.
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Problem:
New Dell PowerEdge servers have 2 embedded ethernet ports, which are
labeled NIC1 and NIC2 on the chassis, in the BIOS setup screens, and
in the printed documentation. Assuming no other add-in ethernet ports
in the system, Linux 2.4 kernels name these eth0 and eth1
respectively. Many people have come to expect this naming. Linux 2.6
kernels name these eth1 and eth0 respectively (backwards from
expectations). I also have reports that various Sun and HP servers
have similar behavior.
Root cause:
Linux 2.4 kernels walk the pci_devices list, which happens to be
sorted in breadth-first order (or pcbios_find_device order on i386,
which most often is breadth-first also). 2.6 kernels have both the
pci_devices list and the pci_bus_type.klist_devices list, the latter
is what is walked at driver load time to match the pci_id tables; this
klist happens to be in depth-first order.
On systems where, for physical routing reasons, NIC1 appears on a
lower bus number than NIC2, but NIC2's bridge is discovered first in
the depth-first ordering, NIC2 will be discovered before NIC1. If the
list were sorted breadth-first, NIC1 would be discovered before NIC2.
A PowerEdge 1955 system has the following topology which easily
exhibits the difference between depth-first and breadth-first device
lists.
-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub
+-02.0-[0000:03-08]--+-00.0-[0000:04-07]--+-00.0-[0000:05-06]----00.0-[0000:06]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC2, 2.4 kernel name eth1, 2.6 kernel name eth0)
+-1c.0-[0000:01-02]----00.0-[0000:02]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC1, 2.4 kernel name eth0, 2.6 kernel name eth1)
Other factors, such as device driver load order and the presence of
PCI slots at various points in the bus hierarchy further complicate
this problem; I'm not trying to solve those here, just restore the
device order, and thus basic behavior, that 2.4 kernels had.
Solution:
The solution can come in multiple steps.
Suggested fix#1: kernel
Patch below optionally sorts the two device lists into breadth-first
ordering to maintain compatibility with 2.4 kernels. It adds two new
command line options:
pci=bfsort
pci=nobfsort
to force the sort order, or not, as you wish. It also adds DMI checks
for the specific Dell systems which exhibit "backwards" ordering, to
make them "right".
Suggested fix#2: udev rules from userland
Many people also have the expectation that embedded NICs are always
discovered before add-in NICs (which this patch does not try to do).
Using the PCI IRQ Routing Table provided by system BIOS, it's easy to
determine which PCI devices are embedded, or if add-in, which PCI slot
they're in. I'm working on a tool that would allow udev to name
ethernet devices in ascending embedded, slot 1 .. slot N order,
subsort by PCI bus/dev/fn breadth-first. It'll be possible to use it
independent of udev as well for those distributions that don't use
udev in their installers.
Suggested fix#3: system board routing rules
One can constrain the system board layout to put NIC1 ahead of NIC2
regardless of breadth-first or depth-first discovery order. This adds
a significant level of complexity to board routing, and may not be
possible in all instances (witness the above systems from several
major manufacturers). I don't want to encourage this particular train
of thought too far, at the expense of not doing #1 or #2 above.
Feedback appreciated. Patch tested on a Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade
with 2.6.18.
You'll also note I took some liberty and temporarily break the klist
abstraction to simplify and speed up the sort algorithm. I think
that's both safe and appropriate in this instance.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since it often takes around 20-30 seconds to scan a scsi bus, it's
highly advantageous to do this in parallel with other things. The bulk
of this patch is ensuring that devices don't change numbering, and that
all devices are discovered prior to trying to start init. For those
who build SCSI as modules, there's a new scsi_wait_scan module that will
ensure all bus scans are finished.
This patch only handles drivers which call scsi_scan_host. Fibre Channel,
SAS, SATA, USB and Firewire all need additional work.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.17.
[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kill a hard-to-calculate 'rsinterval' boot parameter and per-cpu
rcu_data.last_rs_qlen. Instead, it adds adds a flag rcu_ctrlblk.signaled,
which records the fact that one of CPUs has sent a resched IPI since the
last rcu_start_batch().
Roughly speaking, we need two rcu_start_batch()s in order to move callbacks
from ->nxtlist to ->donelist. This means that when ->qlen exceeds qhimark
and continues to grow, we should send a resched IPI, and then do it again
after we gone through a quiescent state.
On the other hand, if it was already sent, we don't need to do it again
when another CPU detects overflow of the queue.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation fix for the arm and arm26 architectures,
in which the reboot kernel parameter is set in arch/*/kernel/process.c
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always
be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot
understand why this rule exists. This patch fixes "can not" in several
Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Fix "quiet" parameter doc. No trailing '=' sign, no value after it. And
it disables "most" kernel messages, not all of them.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly
operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices). This option can be
used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset
during initialization.
This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable
environment. For ex. during kdump boot where devices are in unknown
random state and BIOS execution has been skipped.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
[PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
[PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
[PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
[PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
[PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
[PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
[PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
[PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
[PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
[PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
[PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
[PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
[PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
[PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
[PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
[PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
[PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
...
Add a boot parameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which might
not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a useful tool
to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem address space.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses
happen for some non existent devices. i386/x86-64 do some early
device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable
this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early
accesses which are always type1.
This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter.
I don't think this can break anything because it only changes
a single global that is only used by PCI.
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This reverts commits 11012d419c and
40dd2d20f2, which allowed us to use the
MMIO accesses for PCI config cycles even without the area being marked
reserved in the e820 memory tables.
Those changes were needed for EFI-environment Intel macs, but broke some
newer Intel 965 boards, so for now it's better to revert to our old
2.6.17 behaviour and at least avoid introducing any new breakage.
Andi Kleen has a set of patches that work with both EFI and the broken
Intel 965 boards, which will be applied once they get wider testing.
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I'm not sure if documenting this here is appropriate, but
if it is, here is some text to put there.
Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check
we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that
motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG.
This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Enable delay accounting by default so that feature gets coverage testing
without requiring special measures.
Earlier, it was off by default and had to be enabled via a boot time param.
This patch reverses the default behaviour to improve coverage testing. It
can be removed late in the kernel development cycle if its believed users
shouldn't have to incur any cost if they don't want delay accounting. Or
it can be retained forever if the utility of the stats is deemed common
enough to warrant keeping the feature on.
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc. The
collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches. This patch
sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
disabled through a kernel boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS, which uses the generic lock debugging
code's silent-failure feature to run a matrix of testcases. There are 210
testcases currently:
+-----------------------
| Locking API testsuite:
+------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem |
-------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
A-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-B-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
double unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
bad unlock order: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
--------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
recursive read-lock: | ok | | ok |
--------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
non-nested unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok |
--------------------------------------+------+------+------+
hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/123: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/123: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/132: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/132: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/213: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/213: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/231: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/231: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/312: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/312: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/321: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/321: ok |
--------------------------------+-----+----------------
Good, all 210 testcases passed! |
--------------------------------+
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
[PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
[PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
[PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
...
Implementation of new kernel parameter vmpanic that provides a means to
perform a z/VM CP command after a kernel panic occurred.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.
Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which
can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do
single-stepping and other debugging features.
It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same
high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they
get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which
slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the
VDSO).
There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support
for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer
distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning
it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the
predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.
There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned
on/off.
(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF
coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)
This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization
code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell
started this patch and i completed it.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]
[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Implement the time sources for i386 (acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, and tsc).
With this patch, the conversion of the i386 arch to the generic timekeeping
code should be complete.
The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new clocksources.
[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: acpi_pm cleanup]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure. A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter. This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.
Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.
[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (65 commits)
ACPI: suppress power button event on S3 resume
ACPI: resolve merge conflict between sem2mutex and processor_perflib.c
ACPI: use for_each_possible_cpu() instead of for_each_cpu()
ACPI: delete newly added debugging macros in processor_perflib.c
ACPI: UP build fix for bugzilla-5737
Enable P-state software coordination via _PDC
P-state software coordination for speedstep-centrino
P-state software coordination for acpi-cpufreq
P-state software coordination for ACPI core
ACPI: create acpi_thermal_resume()
ACPI: create acpi_fan_suspend()/acpi_fan_resume()
ACPI: pass pm_message_t from acpi_device_suspend() to root_suspend()
ACPI: create acpi_device_suspend()/acpi_device_resume()
ACPI: replace spin_lock_irq with mutex for ec poll mode
ACPI: Allow a WAN module enable/disable on a Thinkpad X60.
sem2mutex: acpi, acpi_link_lock
ACPI: delete unused acpi_bus_drivers_lock
sem2mutex: drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
ACPI add ia64 exports to build acpi_memhotplug as a module
ACPI: asus_acpi_init(): propagate correct return value
...
Manual resolve of conflicts in:
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
include/acpi/processor.h
Add new per-packet access controls to SELinux, replacing the old
packet controls.
Packets are labeled with the iptables SECMARK and CONNSECMARK targets,
then security policy for the packets is enforced with these controls.
To allow for a smooth transition to the new controls, the old code is
still present, but not active by default. To restore previous
behavior, the old controls may be activated at runtime by writing a
'1' to /selinux/compat_net, and also via the kernel boot parameter
selinux_compat_net. Switching between the network control models
requires the security load_policy permission. The old controls will
probably eventually be removed and any continued use is discouraged.
With this patch, the new secmark controls for SElinux are disabled by
default, so existing behavior is entirely preserved, and the user is
not affected at all.
It also provides a config option to enable the secmark controls by
default (which can always be overridden at boot and runtime). It is
also noted in the kconfig help that the user will need updated
userspace if enabling secmark controls for SELinux and that they'll
probably need the SECMARK and CONNMARK targets, and conntrack protocol
helpers, although such decisions are beyond the scope of kernel
configuration.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The previous patch somewhat diverted the train of thought.
Here I am trying to bring the valued reader back on track.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: delete false version information and history
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
My patch to add brief documentation of the nomca boot parameter
added it out of alphabetical order.
Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This can sometimes be used to work around broken BIOS.
Use "Microsoft Windows" to take the same path
through the BIOS as Windows98 would.
The default is "Microsoft Windows NT", which
is what NT and later versions of Windows use,
and is the most tested path through most BIOS.
Set it to anything else, including "Linux", at your
own risk, as it seems that virtually no BIOS
has been tested with anything but the two options above.
Note that this uses the legacy _OS interface, so
we don't expect this to ever change.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add info on flow control for serial consoles. Refer to netconsole option
also.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Several drivers are starting to grow options to disable MSI. However,
it's often a host chipset issue, not something which individual drivers
should handle. So we add the pci=nomsi kernel parameter to allow the user
to disable MSI modes for systems we haven't added to the quirk list yet.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Allow the x86 "sep" feature to be disabled at bootup. This forces use of the
int80 vsyscall. Mainly for testing or benchmarking the int80 vsyscall code.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds