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We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the
kernel:
1) freeing of active objects
2) reinitialization of active objects
Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where
we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are
kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt
context and usually causes the machine to panic.
While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code
into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This
debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due
to the intrusiveness into the timer code.
The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause
instantly and keep the system operational.
Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug
information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special
knowledge of the bug reporter.
The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to
expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive,
but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug.
Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a
generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code
and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble.
The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic
objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on
object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is
freed.
The tracked object operations are:
- initializing an object
- adding an object to a subsystem list
- deleting an object from a subsystem list
Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the
subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent
the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message
and a stack trace is printed.
The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's
limited to the requirements of the first user (timers).
The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is
generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check
on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a
global lock.
The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead
is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line
option enables the debugging code.
Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services. CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel. Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds support for OLPC XO hardware. Open Firmware on XOs don't contain
the VSA, so it is necessary to emulate the PCI BARs in the kernel. This also
adds functionality for running EC commands, and a CONFIG_OLPC.
A number of OLPC drivers depend upon CONFIG_OLPC.
olpc_ec_timeout is a hack to work around Embedded Controller bugs.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: geode_has_vsa build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: olpc_register_battery_callback doesn't exist]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* Remove obsoleted "idex=" kernel parameters.
* Make probe_* and cmd640_vlb variables static.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (42 commits)
PCI: Change PCI subsystem MAINTAINER
PCI: pci-iommu-iotlb-flushing-speedup
PCI: pci_setup_bridge() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: pci_bus_size_cardbus() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: pci_scan_device() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: pci_alloc_child_bus() mustn't be __devinit
PCI: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
PCI: Hotplug: fakephp: Return success, not ENODEV, when bus rescan is triggered
PCI: Hotplug: Fix leaks in IBM Hot Plug Controller Driver - ibmphp_init_devno()
PCI: clean up resource alignment management
PCI: aerdrv_acpi.c: remove unneeded NULL check
PCI: Update VIA CX700 quirk
PCI: Expose PCI VPD through sysfs
PCI: iommu: iotlb flushing
PCI: simplify quirk debug output
PCI: iova RB tree setup tweak
PCI: parisc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
PCI: ppc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
PCI: powerpc: use generic pci_enable_resources()
PCI: ia64: use generic pci_enable_resources()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (202 commits)
[POWERPC] Fix compile breakage for 64-bit UP configs
[POWERPC] Define copy_siginfo_from_user32
[POWERPC] Add compat handler for PTRACE_GETSIGINFO
[POWERPC] i2c: Fix build breakage introduced by OF helpers
[POWERPC] Optimize fls64() on 64-bit processors
[POWERPC] irqtrace support for 64-bit powerpc
[POWERPC] Stacktrace support for lockdep
[POWERPC] Move stackframe definitions to common header
[POWERPC] Fix device-tree locking vs. interrupts
[POWERPC] Make pci_bus_to_host()'s struct pci_bus * argument const
[POWERPC] Remove unused __max_memory variable
[POWERPC] Simplify xics direct/lpar irq_host setup
[POWERPC] Use pseries_setup_i8259_cascade() in pseries_mpic_init_IRQ()
[POWERPC] Turn xics_setup_8259_cascade() into a generic pseries_setup_i8259_cascade()
[POWERPC] Move xics_setup_8259_cascade() into platforms/pseries/setup.c
[POWERPC] Use asm-generic/bitops/find.h in bitops.h
[POWERPC] 83xx: mpc8315 - fix USB UTMI Host setup
[POWERPC] 85xx: Fix the size of qe muram for MPC8568E
[POWERPC] 86xx: mpc86xx_hpcn - Temporarily accept old dts node identifier.
[POWERPC] 86xx: mark functions static, other minor cleanups
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This patch is for batching up the flushing of the IOTLB for the DMAR
implementation found in the Intel VT-d hardware. It works by building a list
of to be flushed IOTLB entries and a bitmap list of which DMAR engine they are
from.
After either a high water mark (250 accessible via debugfs) or 10ms the list
of iova's will be reclaimed and the DMAR engines associated are IOTLB-flushed.
This approach recovers 15 to 20% of the performance lost when using the IOMMU
for my netperf udp stream benchmark with small packets. It can be disabled
with a kernel boot parameter "intel_iommu=strict".
Its use does weaken the IOMMU protections a bit.
Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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We currently keep 2 lists of PCI devices in the system, one in the
driver core, and one all on its own. This second list is sorted at boot
time, in "BIOS" order, to try to remain compatible with older kernels
(2.2 and earlier days). There was also a "nosort" option to turn this
sorting off, to remain compatible with even older kernel versions, but
that just ends up being what we have been doing from 2.5 days...
Unfortunately, the second list of devices is not really ever used to
determine the probing order of PCI devices or drivers[1]. That is done
using the driver core list instead. This change happened back in the
early 2.5 days.
Relying on BIOS ording for the binding of drivers to specific device
names is problematic for many reasons, and userspace tools like udev
exist to properly name devices in a persistant manner if that is needed,
no reliance on the BIOS is needed.
Matt Domsch and others at Dell noticed this back in 2006, and added a
boot option to sort the PCI device lists (both of them) in a
breadth-first manner to help remain compatible with the 2.4 order, if
needed for any reason. This option is not going away, as some systems
rely on them.
This patch removes the sorting of the internal PCI device list in "BIOS"
mode, as it's not needed at all anymore, and hasn't for many years.
I've also removed the PCI flags for this from some other arches that for
some reason defined them, but never used them.
This should not change the ordering of any drivers or device probing.
[1] The old-style pci_get_device and pci_find_device() still used this
sorting order, but there are very few drivers that use these functions,
as they are deprecated for use in this manner. If for some reason, a
driver rely on the order and uses these functions, the breadth-first
boot option will resolve any problem.
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- noexec32 is on by default for years already
- add noexec32 to kernel-parameters and fix noexec typo in there
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add the security= boot parameter. This is done to avoid LSM
registration clashes in case of more than one bult-in module.
User can choose a security module to enable at boot. If no
security= boot parameter is specified, only the first LSM
asking for registration will be loaded. An invalid security
module name will be treated as if no module has been chosen.
LSM modules must check now if they are allowed to register
by calling security_module_enable(ops) first. Modify SELinux
and SMACK to do so.
Do not let SMACK register smackfs if it was not chosen on
boot. Smackfs assumes that smack hooks are registered and
the initial task security setup (swapper->security) is done.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (27 commits)
[IA64] kdump: Add crash_save_vmcoreinfo for INIT
[IA64] Fix NUMA configuration issue
[IA64] Itanium Spec updates
[IA64] Untangle sync_icache_dcache() page size determination
[IA64] arch/ia64/kernel/: use time_* macros
[IA64] remove redundant display of free swap space in show_mem()
[IA64] make IOMMU respect the segment boundary limits
[IA64] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64
[IA64] fix getpid and set_tid_address fast system calls for pid namespaces
[IA64] Replace explicit jiffies tests with time_* macros.
[IA64] use goto to jump out do/while_each_thread
[IA64] Fix unlock ordering in smp_callin
[IA64] pgd_offset() constfication.
[IA64] kdump: crash.c coding style fix
[IA64] kdump: add kdump_on_fatal_mca
[IA64] Minimize per_cpu reservations.
[IA64] Correct pernodesize calculation.
[IA64] Kernel parameter for max number of concurrent global TLB purges
[IA64] Multiple outstanding ptc.g instruction support
[IA64] Implement smp_call_function_mask for ia64
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (58 commits)
ide: remove ide_init_default_irq() macro
ide: move default IDE ports setup to ide_generic host driver
ide: remove obsoleted "idex=noprobe" kernel parameter (take 2)
ide: remove needless hwif->irq check from ide_hwif_configure()
ide: init hwif->{io_ports,irq} explicitly in legacy VLB host drivers
ide: limit legacy VLB host drivers to alpha, x86 and mips
cmd640: init hwif->{io_ports,irq} explicitly
cmd640: cleanup setup_device_ptrs()
ide: add ide-4drives host driver (take 3)
ide: remove ppc ifdef from init_ide_data()
ide: remove ide_default_io_ctl() macro
ide: remove CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT
ide: add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS (take 2)
ppc/pmac: remove no longer needed IDE quirk
ppc: don't include <linux/ide.h>
ppc: remove ppc_ide_md
ppc/pplus: remove ppc_ide_md.ide_init_hwif hook
ppc/sandpoint: remove ppc_ide_md hooks
ppc/lopec: remove ppc_ide_md hooks
ppc/mpc8xx: remove ppc_ide_md hooks
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb:
kgdb: always use icache flush for sw breakpoints
kgdb: fix SMP NMI kgdb_handle_exception exit race
kgdb: documentation fixes
kgdb: allow static kgdbts boot configuration
kgdb: add documentation
kgdb: Kconfig fix
kgdb: add kgdb internal test suite
kgdb: fix several kgdb regressions
kgdb: kgdboc pl011 I/O module
kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_*
kgdb: add x86 HW breakpoints
kgdb: print breakpoint removed on exception
kgdb: clocksource watchdog
kgdb: fix NMI hangs
kgdb: fix kgdboc dynamic module configuration
kgdb: document parameters
x86: kgdb support
consoles: polling support, kgdboc
kgdb: core
uaccess: add probe_kernel_write()
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* Remove obsoleted "idex=noprobe" kernel parameter.
* Remove no longer needed hwif->noprobe quirk from ide_hwif_configure()
and hwif->noprobe checking from cmd640.c.
v2:
* "ide?=noprobe" -> "ide?=ata66" in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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This option is obsolete and can be removed safely.
It allows us to remove the pci_get_device_reverse() function from the
PCI core.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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document the kgdboc module/boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/ia64/mm/tlb.c
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Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Fix coding style in pci-dma_64.c and add stubs for documentation. I
hope someone fills the rest, I understand maybe off and soft...
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt
Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/
Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc
Fix a typo in highres.txt
Fixes to the seq_file document
Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
Add the seq_file documentation
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Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious
place for this file.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy
- foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem
As a result there will only ever be one call to foo->create(), at init time;
all processes will stay in this group, and the group will never be mounted on
a visible hierarchy. Any additional effects (e.g. not allocating metadata)
are up to the foo subsystem.
This doesn't handle early_init subsystems (their "disabled" bit isn't set be,
but it could easily be extended to do so if any of the early_init systems
wanted it - I think it would just involve some nastier parameter processing
since it would occur before the command-line argument parser had been run.
Hugh said:
Ballpark figures, I'm trying to get this question out rather than
processing the exact numbers: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR adds 15% overhead
to the affected paths, booting with cgroup_disable=memory cuts that back to
1% overhead (due to slightly bigger struct page).
I'm no expert on distros, they may have no interest whatever in
CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y; and the rest of us can easily build with or
without it, or apply the cgroup_disable=memory patches.
Unix bench's execl test result on x86_64 was
== just after boot without mounting any cgroup fs.==
mem_cgorup=off : Execl Throughput 43.0 3150.1 732.6
mem_cgroup=on : Execl Throughput 43.0 2932.6 682.0
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[lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: fix boot option parsing]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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>
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The patch defines kernel parameter "nptcg=". The parameter overrides max number
of concurrent global TLB purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or
SAL PALO.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Some time ago it turned out that our suspend code ordering broke some
NVidia-based systems that hung if _PTS was executed with one of the PCI
devices, specifically a USB controller, in a low power state.
Then, it was noticed that the suspend code ordering was not compliant
with ACPI 1.0, although it was compliant with ACPI 2.0 (and later), and
it was argued that the code had to be changed for that reason (ref.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528).
So we did, but evidently we did wrong, because it's now turning out that
some systems have been broken by this change. Refs:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217#c16
[ I said at that time that something like this might happend, but the
majority of people involved thought that it was improbable due to the
necessity to preserve the compliance of hardware with ACPI 1.0. ]
This actually is a quite serious regression from 2.6.24.
Moreover, the ACPI 1.0 ordering of suspend code introduced another issue
that I have only noticed recently. Namely, if the suspend of one of
devices fails, the already suspended devices will be resumed without
executing _WAK before, which leads to problems on some systems (for
example, in such situations thermal management is broken on my HP
nx6325). Consequently, it also breaks suspend debugging on the affected
systems.
Note also, that the requirement to execute _PTS before suspending
devices does not really make sense, because the device in question may
be put into a low power state at run time for a reason unrelated to a
system-wide suspend.
For the reasons outlined above, the change of the suspend ordering
should be reverted, which is done by the patch below.
[ Felix Möller: "I am the reporter from the original Novell Bug:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217
I just tried current git head (two hours ago) with the patch (the one
from the beginning of this thread) from Rafael and without it. With
the patch my MacBook does suspend without it does not." ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Felix Möller <felix@derklecks.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Old-world powermacs don't set L2CR or L3CR on processor upgrade cards.
This simple patch allows the setting of L3CR via a kernel parameter
(like the existing kernel parameter to set L2CR).
Signed-off-by: Robert Brose <bob@qbjnet.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and
non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory.
Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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:
Input: ALPS - fix forward/back buttons reversed on Acer 5520-5290
Input: ALPS - put secondary device in proper place in sysfs
Input: wacom - add support for Bamboo1, BambooFun, and Cintiq 12WX
Input: document i8042.noloop
Input: add keyboard notifier documentation
Input: ads7846 - fix uninitialized var warning
Input: i8042 - add SNI RM support
Input: i8042 - add Lenovo 3000 N100 to nomux blacklist
Input: i8042 - fix warning on non-x86 builds
Input: cobalt_btns - assorted fixes
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This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9adf8ee89e5c96a47222915c5485ac437
("ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override support"), because the code simply
isn't ready.
It did ugly things to the init sequence to populate the rootfs image
early, but that just ended up showing other problems with the whole
approach. The fact is, the VFS layer simply isn't initialized this
early, and the relevant ACPI code should either run much later, or this
shouldn't be done at all.
For 2.6.25, we'll just pick the latter option. We can revisit this
concept later if necessary.
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@gaugusch.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Document 'noloop' kernel parameter of i8042 controller driver.
Pointed out in #10236.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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Move 00-INDEX entries to power/00-INDEX (and add entry for
pm_qos_interface.txt).
Update references to moved filenames.
Fix some trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Fix all references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Add/update ide/00-INDEX file.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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This patch implements libata.force module parameter which can
selectively override ATA port, link and device configurations
including cable type, SATA PHY SPD limit, transfer mode and NCQ.
For example, you can say "use 1.5Gbps for all fan-out ports attached
to the second port but allow 3.0Gbps for the PMP device itself, oh,
the device attached to the third fan-out port chokes on NCQ and
shouldn't go over UDMA4" by the following.
libata.force=2:1.5g,2.15:3.0g,2.03:noncq,udma4
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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This patch removes the mca-pentium boot option that was a noop.
besides the source code cleanup factor, this saves some text as well:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
651 77 4 732 2dc bugs.o.before
631 53 4 688 2b0 bugs.o.after
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The scheduled removal of the 'time' option.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The acpi_no_initrd_override parameter permits to disable the load of an ACPI
table from the initramfs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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with module_param macro, the __setup code can be killed now:
const __setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on);
and the module name "generic.ko" is not descriptive to its functionality,
can be changed in Makefile, the "ide-pci-generic.ko" is better.
the ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide parameter also documented
in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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The ACPI 1.0 specification wants us to put devices into low power
states after executing the _PTS global control method, while ACPI
2.0 and later want us to do that in the reverse order. The current
suspend code follows ACPI 2.0 in that respect which causes some
ACPI 1.0x systems to hang during suspend (ref.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528).
Make the suspend code execute _PTS before putting devices into low
power states (ie. in accordance with ACPI 1.0x) and provide a command
line option to override the default if need be.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The new "mfgptfix" boot command line option may be usd to fix MFGPT
timers on AMD Geode platforms when the BIOS has incorrectly applied
a workaround. TinyBIOS version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99
fixes the problem by letting the user disable the workaround.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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when MTRRs are not covering the whole e820 table, we need to trim the
RAM and need to update e820.
reuse some code on 64-bit as well.
here need to add early_get_cap and use it in early_cpu_detect, and move
mtrr_bp_init early.
The code successfully trimmed the memory map on Justin's system:
from:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000022c000000 (usable)
to:
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000100000000 - 0000000228000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000228000000 - 000000022c000000 (reserved)
According to Justin it makes quite a difference:
| When I boot the box without any trimming it acts like a 286 or 386,
| takes about 10 minutes to boot (using raptor disks).
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add a generic option to clear any cpuid bit. I added it because it was
very easy to add with the new generic cpuid disable bitmap and perhaps
it will be useful in the future.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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To disable CLFLUSH usage, especially in change_page_attr().
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to cover all
available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs) of memory will be
marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate from high memory addresses
first, this causes the machine to be unusably slow as soon as the kernel
starts really using memory (i.e. right around init time).
This patch works around the problem by scanning the MTRRs at boot and
figuring out whether the current end_pfn value (setup by early e820 code)
goes beyond the highest WB MTRR range, and if so, trimming it to match. A
fairly obnoxious KERN_WARNING is printed too, letting the user know that
not all of their memory is available due to a likely BIOS bug.
Something similar could be done on i386 if needed, but the boot ordering
would be slightly different, since the MTRR code on i386 depends on the
boot_cpu_data structure being setup.
This patch fixes a bug in the last patch that caused the code to run on
non-Intel machines (AMD machines apparently don't need it and it's untested
on other non-Intel machines, so best keep it off).
Further enhancements and fixes from:
Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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