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Linus Torvalds 14897e35fd Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6
* '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
2008-04-11 13:24:16 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 6ded55da6b Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
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>
2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
Paul Menage 8bab8dded6 cgroups: add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time
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
==

[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>
2008-04-04 14:46:26 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 7731ce63d9 ACPI PM: Restore the 2.6.24 suspend ordering
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>
2008-04-01 11:21:08 -07:00
Pavel Machek 1312848e92 kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option better
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>
2008-03-24 19:22:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fb00f7629b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  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
2008-03-18 07:46:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9a9e0d6855 ACPI: Remove ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD option
This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9ad
("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>
2008-03-15 11:58:04 -07:00
Jiri Kosina 75d08c7893 Input: document i8042.noloop
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>
2008-03-14 11:54:25 -04:00
Randy Dunlap 53471121a8 documentation: Move power-related files to Documentation/power/
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>
2008-03-12 18:10:51 -04:00
Randy Dunlap 1c10e93828 ide: update references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt (v2)
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>
2008-03-07 21:53:50 +01:00
Tejun Heo 3326732570 libata: implement libata.force module parameter
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>
2008-02-20 12:12:28 -05:00
Adrian Bunk 08cd93f9e1 remove mca-pentium
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>
2008-02-19 16:18:28 +01:00
Adrian Bunk a36219ac93 The scheduled 'time' option removal
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>
2008-02-08 09:22:36 -08:00
Len Brown 81e242d0ef Merge branches 'release' and 'dsdt-override' into release 2008-02-07 04:01:53 -05:00
Éric Piel 9cbc796028 ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameter
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>
2008-02-07 04:00:24 -05:00
Pavel Machek 23b168d425 PM: documentation cleanups
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>
2008-02-07 01:27:17 -05:00
Denis Cheng 594765a731 ide-pci-generic: kill the unused ifdef/endif/MODULE code
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>
2008-02-06 02:57:49 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day 3239c49cf1 Documentation: Remove references to dead "st0x" and "tmc8xx" parms.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:23:00 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day 24aaef8d7f Documentation: Update to refer to correct "rcupdate" module name
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:20:26 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day 2d27a96614 Documentation: "decnet=" should read "decnet.addr=".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:18:45 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 60417f5976 ACPI suspend: Call _PTS before suspending devices
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>
2008-02-01 18:30:58 -05:00
Paul Mackerras bd45ac0c5d Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-01-31 11:25:51 +11:00
Willy Tarreau e6c4dc6c36 x86: GEODE add the "mfgptfix" boot time option to fix MFGPT timers
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>
2008-01-30 13:33:33 +01:00
Yinghai Lu 093af8d7f0 x86_32: trim memory by updating e820
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>
2008-01-30 13:33:32 +01:00
Andi Kleen ac72e7888a x86: add generic clearcpuid=... option
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>
2008-01-30 13:33:21 +01:00
Andi Kleen 191679fdfa x86: add noclflush option
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>
2008-01-30 13:33:21 +01:00
Jesse Barnes 99fc8d424b x86, 32-bit: trim memory not covered by wb mtrrs
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>
2008-01-30 13:33:18 +01:00
Yinghai Lu aaf2304242 x86: disable the GART early, 64-bit
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than
4G RAM installed.

when try to use kexec second kernel, and the first doesn't include
gart_shutdown. the second kernel could have different aper position than
the first kernel. and second kernel could use that hole as RAM that is
still used by GART set by the first kernel. esp. when try to kexec
2.6.24 with sparse mem enable from previous kernel (from RHEL 5 or SLES
10). the new kernel will use aper by GART (set by first kernel) for
vmemmap. and after new kernel setting one new GART. the position will be
real RAM. the _mapcount set is lost.

Bad page state in process 'swapper'
page:ffffe2000e600020 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Backtrace:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7-smp-gcdf71a10-dirty #13

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8026401f>] bad_page+0x63/0x8d
 [<ffffffff80264169>] __free_pages_ok+0x7c/0x2a5
 [<ffffffff80ba75d1>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xd0/0x198
 [<ffffffff80ba3a42>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x3b/0x76
 [<ffffffff80ba3461>] mem_init+0x3b/0x152
 [<ffffffff80b959d3>] start_kernel+0x236/0x2c2
 [<ffffffff80b9511a>] _sinittext+0x11a/0x121

and
 [ffffe2000e600000-ffffe2000e7fffff] PMD ->ffff81001c200000 on node 0
phys addr is : 0x1c200000

RHEL 5.1 kernel -53 said:
PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 1c000000 size 65536 KB

new kernel said:
Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 3c000000

So could try to disable that GART if possible.

According to Ingo

> hm, i'm wondering, instead of modifying the GART, why dont we simply
> _detect_ whatever GART settings we have inherited, and propagate that
> into our e820 maps? I.e. if there's inconsistency, then punch that out
> from the memory maps and just dont use that memory.
>
> that way it would not matter whether the GART settings came from a [old
> or crashing] Linux kernel that has not called gart_iommu_shutdown(), or
> whether it's a BIOS that has set up an aperture hole inconsistent with
> the memory map it passed. (or the memory map we _think_ i tried to pass
> us)
>
> it would also be more robust to only read and do a memory map quirk
> based on that, than actively trying to change the GART so early in the
> bootup. Later on we have to re-enable the GART _anyway_ and have to
> punch a hole for it.
>
> and as a bonus, we would have shored up our defenses against crappy
> BIOSes as well.

add e820 modification for gart inconsistent setting.

gart_fix_e820=off could be used to disable e820 fix.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:09 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven a25bd94964 x86: add the "print code before the trapping instruction" feature to 64 bit
The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line
for the code even before the trapping instrution (and the start of the
trapping instruction is then denoted with a <>). Unfortunately, the 64 bit
x86 tree does not yet have this feature, making diagnosing backtraces harder
than needed.

This patch adds this feature in the same was as the 32 bit tree has
(including the same kernel boot parameter), and including a bugfix
to make the code use probe_kernel_address() rarther than a buggy (deadlocking)
__get_user.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:08 +01:00
Huang, Ying 8b2cb7a8f5 x86: 32-bit EFI runtime service support: fixes in sync with 64-bit support
support according to fixes of x86_64 support.

- Delete efi_rt_lock because it is used during system early boot,
  before SMP is initialized.

- Change local_flush_tlb() to __flush_tlb_all() to flush global page
  mapping.

- Clean up includes.

- Revise Kconfig description.

- Enable noefi kernel parameter on i386.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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>
2008-01-30 13:32:11 +01:00
Roland McGrath af65d64845 x86 vDSO: consolidate vdso32
This makes x86_64's ia32 emulation support share the sources used in the
32-bit kernel for the 32-bit vDSO and much of its setup code.

The 32-bit vDSO mapping now behaves the same on x86_64 as on native 32-bit.
The abi.syscall32 sysctl on x86_64 now takes the same values that
vm.vdso_enabled takes on the 32-bit kernel.  That is, 1 means a randomized
vDSO location, 2 means the fixed old address.  The CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
option is now available to make this the default setting, the same meaning
it has for the 32-bit kernel.  (This does not affect the 64-bit vDSO.)

The argument vdso32=[012] can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels to
set this paramter at boot time.  The vdso=[012] argument still does this
same thing on the 32-bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6e7c402590 x86: various changes and cleanups to in_p/out_p delay details
various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details:

- add the io_delay=none method
- make each method selectable from the kernel config
- simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call
- add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl
- change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed
- make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
2008-01-30 13:30:05 +01:00
Rene Herman b02aae9cf5 x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.

Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay
writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate
diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these.

David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a
proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine,
with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger.

Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the
2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with
help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has
two problems.

First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while
some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically
problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly
well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and
based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which
would sort of work, but...

Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has.
It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly
or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence
that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus
locking outb.

Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such,
this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more
invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover
only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems
to fit that situation.

This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override
the DMI based choice again:

	io_delay=<standard|alternate>

where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate"
port 0xed.

This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and
command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well.

This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using
the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem
as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the
udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also
fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI
based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot
code be.

The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already
and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the
problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z.

This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and
David P. Reed.

Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:05 +01:00
Sebastian Ott 14ff56bbb3 [S390] cio: Dump ccw device information in case of timeout.
Information about a ccw device will be dumped in
case of a ccw timeout. This can be enabled with
the kernel parameter ccw_timeout_log.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:10:55 +01:00
Sebastian Ott 661ca0da3e [S390] Cleanup in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:10:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 9b73e76f3c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (200 commits)
  [SCSI] usbstorage: use last_sector_bug flag universally
  [SCSI] libsas: abstract STP task status into a function
  [SCSI] ultrastor: clean up inline asm warnings
  [SCSI] aic7xxx: fix firmware build
  [SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls
  [SCSI] ch: remove forward declarations
  [SCSI] ch: fix device minor number management bug
  [SCSI] ch: handle class_device_create failure properly
  [SCSI] NCR5380: fix section mismatch
  [SCSI] sg: fix /proc/scsi/sg/devices when no SCSI devices
  [SCSI] IB/iSER: add logical unit reset support
  [SCSI] don't use __GFP_DMA for sense buffers if not required
  [SCSI] use dynamically allocated sense buffer
  [SCSI] scsi.h: add macro for enclosure bit of inquiry data
  [SCSI] sd: add fix for devices with last sector access problems
  [SCSI] fix pcmcia compile problem
  [SCSI] aacraid: add Voodoo Lite class of cards.
  [SCSI] aacraid: add new driver features flags
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k7.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Issue correct MBC_INITIALIZE_FIRMWARE command.
  ...
2008-01-25 17:19:08 -08:00
Haavard Skinnemoen e7ba176b47 [AVR32] NMI debugging
Change the NMI handler to use the die notifier chain to signal anyone
who cares. Add a simple "nmi debugger" which hooks into this chain and
that may dump registers, task state, etc. when it happens.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
2008-01-25 08:31:43 +01:00
Paul Mackerras 9156ad4833 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2008-01-24 10:07:21 +11:00
Jon Tollefson 4ec161cf73 [POWERPC] Add hugepagesz boot-time parameter
This adds the hugepagesz boot-time parameter for ppc64.  It lets one
pick the size for huge pages.  The choices available are 64K and 16M
when the base page size is 4k.  It defaults to 16M (previously the
only only choice) if nothing or an invalid choice is specified.

Tested 64K huge pages successfully with the libhugetlbfs 1.2.

Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-01-17 14:57:36 +11:00
Randy Dunlap 6af6632a1c [SCSI] boot options: correct option name and tell where to find docs for it
Minor corrections and additions to 'scsi_logging_level', as pointed out
by Chuck Ebbert.
Also point out the IBM S390-tools 'scsi_logging_level' script.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-11 18:22:44 -06:00
FD Cami fcb71f6f03 Update kernel parameter document for libata DMA mode setting knobs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-01-10 16:53:55 -05:00
Samuel Thibault ecb77fa96c Console is utf-8 by default
The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode.  Fix the documentation on
the default value, so that we can explain behaviour that otherwise
causes bug-reports like this:

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9319

Also add the needed "vt." prefix, so that the boot-time config options
to switch back to the legacy 8-bit mode is actually documented
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-03 12:06:40 -08:00
Len Brown 14f7d720bb Pull alexey-fixes into release branch 2007-10-29 17:30:21 -04:00
Alexey Starikovskiy 7843932ac4 ACPI: EC: auto select interrupt mode
Start in POLL mode, and if we receive confirmation GPE,
switch to INT mode.
If confirmations are not sent, switch back to POLL.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-10-25 16:31:31 -04:00
Mel Gorman b3da2a73ff sched: document profile=sleep requiring CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
profile=sleep only works if CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is set. This patch notes
the limitation in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and prints a
warning at boot-time if profile=sleep is used without CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-24 18:23:50 +02:00
Carlos Corbacho d79a5f80dc x86: Force enable HPET for CK804 (nForce 4) chipsets
This patch adds a quirk from LinuxBIOS to force enable HPET on
the nVidia CK804 (nForce 4) chipset.

This quirk can very likely support more than just nForce 4
(LinuxBIOS use the same code for nForce 5), and possibly nForce 3,
but I don't have those chipsets, so cannot add and test them.

Tested on an Abit KN9 (CK804).

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <cathectic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    3 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c            |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
2007-10-23 22:37:25 +02:00
Keshavamurthy, Anil S 7d3b03ce7b Intel IOMMU: Intel iommu cmdline option - forcedac
Introduce intel_iommu=forcedac commandline option.  This option is helpful to
verify the pci device capability of handling physical dma'able address greater
than 4G.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 08:13:18 -07:00
Keshavamurthy, Anil S ba39592764 Intel IOMMU: Intel IOMMU driver
Actual intel IOMMU driver.  Hardware spec can be found at:
http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization

This driver sets X86_64 'dma_ops', so hook into standard DMA APIs.  In this
way, PCI driver will get virtual DMA address.  This change is transparent to
PCI drivers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded cast]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[bunk@stusta.de: fix duplicate CONFIG_DMAR Makefile line]
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 08:13:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c00046c279 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (74 commits)
  fix do_sys_open() prototype
  sysfs: trivial: fix sysfs_create_file kerneldoc spelling mistake
  Documentation: Fix typo in SubmitChecklist.
  Typo: depricated -> deprecated
  Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
  fix typo about TBI in e1000 comment
  proc.txt: Add /proc/stat field
  small documentation fixes
  Fix compiler warning in smount example program from sharedsubtree.txt
  docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation
  documentation/ext3: grammar fixes
  Documentation/java.txt: typo and grammar fixes
  Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix
  include/asm-*/system.h: remove unused set_rmb(), set_wmb() macros
  trivial copy_data_pages() tidy up
  Fix typo in arch/x86/kernel/tsc_32.c
  file link fix for Pegasus USB net driver help
  remove unused return within void return function
  Typo fixes retrun -> return
  x86 hpet.h: remove broken links
  ...
2007-10-19 20:36:17 -07:00
Dave Jones c0fe2e6964 Add missing profile=kvm option to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Whilst looking up what profile=sleep did, I noticed that we missed
adding docs for the most recent addition to the profiler.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 03:08:22 +02:00