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Rafael J. Wysocki b27759f880 PCI/PM: Do not use native PCIe PME by default
Commit c7f486567c
(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>
2010-06-18 09:36:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9a90e09854 Merge branch 'release' of 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
  ...
2010-05-28 14:42:18 -07:00
Len Brown d3b383338f Merge branch 'ht-delete-2.6.35' into release 2010-05-28 16:20:35 -04:00
Tejun Heo 43c9c59185 libata: implement dump_id force param
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>
2010-05-25 19:41:19 -04:00
Randy Dunlap 4724ba575e watchdog: update/improve/consolidate watchdog driver
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>
2010-05-25 09:05:34 +00:00
Jason Wessel 4fe1da4ebc echi-dbgp: Add kernel debugger support for the usb debug port
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:31 -05:00
Jason Wessel 9731191f75 kgdboc: Add ekgdboc for early use of the kernel debugger
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:30 -05:00
Jason Wessel 84c08fd61e kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdb
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05:00
Jason Wessel ada64e4c98 kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdb
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>
2010-05-20 21:04:24 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 04afb40593 Merge branch 'acpica' of 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
  ...
2010-05-20 09:45:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 96b5b7f4f2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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
  ...
2010-05-20 08:55:50 -07:00
Huang Ying a08f82d080 ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support
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>
2010-05-19 22:41:31 -04:00
Huang Ying ea8c071cad ACPI, APEI, Document for APEI
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>
2010-05-19 22:39:49 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 752f114fb8 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of 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
2010-05-18 08:35:04 -07:00
Ingo Molnar ad56b0797e Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Update from -rc5 to -rc7.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-13 08:11:29 +02:00
Joerg Roedel a523572596 x86/amd-iommu: Add amd_iommu=off command line option
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>
2010-05-11 17:12:33 +02:00
James Morris 0ffbe2699c Merge branch 'master' into next 2010-05-06 10:56:07 +10:00
Ingo Molnar 77a7f2e94e Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core 2010-04-23 11:25:31 +02:00
Roman Fietze 4c44f309cd libata: fix docs, RE port and device of libata.force ID separated by point
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>
2010-04-22 21:52:14 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker cecbca96da tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
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>
2010-04-21 23:11:42 +02:00
Lin Ming aa2110cb1a ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT
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>
2010-04-20 10:43:16 -04:00
Joerg Roedel 12ff4bf58b Merge branch 'amd-iommu/fixes' into iommu/fixes 2010-04-07 14:36:20 +02:00
Joerg Roedel 20a1cfba34 x86/amd-iommu: Remove obsolete parameter documentation
Support for the share and fullflush parameters was removed.
Remove the documentation about them too.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-04-07 14:31:51 +02:00
James Morris d25d6fa1a9 Merge branch 'master' into next 2010-03-31 08:39:27 +11:00
Rajiv Andrade 225a9be24d TPM: workaround to enforce PCR updates across suspends
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>
2010-03-26 09:30:03 +11:00
Alex Chiang 3b1da4c5d1 ACPI: processor: remove early _PDC optin quirks
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>
2010-03-14 21:17:21 -04:00
Len Brown 68ca406930 ACPI: delete the "acpi=ht" boot option
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>
2010-03-14 20:58:38 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 322aafa664 Merge branch 'x86-mrst-for-linus' of 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
17622339af ("clocksource: add argument to resume callback").
2010-03-07 15:59:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds fb7b096d94 Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of 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
  ...
2010-03-03 08:15:37 -08:00
David S. Miller 47871889c6 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 46bbffad54 Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of 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()
2010-02-28 10:38:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f91b22c35f Merge branches 'core-ipi-for-linus', 'core-locking-for-linus', '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
2010-02-28 10:04:02 -08:00
Ian Campbell 1431559200 x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time
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>
2010-02-25 10:28:19 +01:00
Jacob Pan bb24c47161 x86, apbt: Moorestown APB system timer driver
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>
2010-02-24 11:01:21 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas 7bc5e3f2be x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info by default on 2008 and newer machines
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>
2010-02-23 09:43:42 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki c39fae1416 PCI PM: Make it possible to force using INTx for PCIe PME signaling
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>
2010-02-22 16:20:39 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki c7f486567c PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driver
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>
2010-02-22 16:20:31 -08:00
Russell King d944d549aa ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot
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>
2010-02-20 16:20:49 +00:00
Yinghai Lu 2b633e3fac smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early
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>
2010-02-17 17:30:22 -08:00
Brian Haley b0f83b280f doc: document IPv6 parameters
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>
2010-02-04 13:36:50 -08:00
Alex Chiang 0406ad336c ACPI: processor: add kernel command line support for early _PDC eval
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>
2010-01-22 12:39:21 -05:00
Jiri Kosina 016ddd9b5b x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parameters
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>
2010-01-20 08:58:04 +01:00
Zhang Rui d7f0eea9e4 ACPI: introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable
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>
2009-12-30 18:32:01 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 37c24b37fb Merge branch 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* '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
  ...
2009-12-16 10:43:34 -08:00
Clemens Ladisch 9ea9a886b0 vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
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>
2009-12-16 07:19:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9c3936cb69 Merge branch 'omap-for-linus' of 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
  ...
2009-12-12 11:40:13 -08:00
Tony Lindgren 15ac7afe51 omap: mux: Add new style pin multiplexing code for omap3
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>
2009-12-11 16:16:32 -08:00
Alan Stern a0bb108112 USB: usb-storage: add BAD_SENSE flag
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>
2009-12-11 11:55:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 830cd2ac6e Merge branch 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  vgacon: Add support for setting the default cursor state
  vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs
  x86, setup: Store the boot cursor state
2009-12-08 13:35:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d7fc02c7ba Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1815 commits)
  mac80211: fix reorder buffer release
  iwmc3200wifi: Enable wimax core through module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Add wifi-wimax coexistence mode as a module parameter
  iwmc3200wifi: Coex table command does not expect a response
  iwmc3200wifi: Update wiwi priority table
  iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
  iwlwifi: indicate uCode type when fail dump error/event log
  iwl3945: remove duplicated event logging code
  b43: fix two warnings
  ipw2100: fix rebooting hang with driver loaded
  cfg80211: indent regulatory messages with spaces
  iwmc3200wifi: fix NULL pointer dereference in pmkid update
  mac80211: Fix TX status reporting for injected data frames
  ath9k: enable 2GHz band only if the device supports it
  airo: Fix integer overflow warning
  rt2x00: Fix padding bug on L2PAD devices.
  WE: Fix set events not propagated
  b43legacy: avoid PPC fault during resume
  b43: avoid PPC fault during resume
  tcp: fix a timewait refcnt race
  ...

Fix up conflicts due to sysctl cleanups (dead sysctl_check code and
CTL_UNNUMBERED removed) in
	kernel/sysctl_check.c
	net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
	net/ipv6/addrconf.c
	net/sctp/sysctl.c
2009-12-08 07:55:01 -08:00