Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc1' into tracing/urgent

1 files changed, 92 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index af600c0fe0ec..ac613a661f46 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
         SUSPEND System suspend states are enabled.
         FTRACE  Function tracing enabled.
         TS      Appropriate touchscreen support is enabled.
+        UMS     USB Mass Storage support is enabled.
         USB     USB support is enabled.
         USBHID  USB Human Interface Device support is enabled.
         V4L     Video For Linux support is enabled.
@@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
                         strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
                                 strictly ACPI specification compliant.
+                        rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
 
                         See also Documentation/power/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
 
@@ -151,16 +153,20 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         default: 0
 
         acpi_sleep=     [HW,ACPI] Sleep options
-                        Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig, old_ordering }
-                        See Documentation/power/video.txt for s3_bios and s3_mode.
+                        Format: { s3_bios, s3_mode, s3_beep, s4_nohwsig,
+                                  old_ordering, s4_nonvs }
+                        See Documentation/power/video.txt for information on
+                        s3_bios and s3_mode.
                         s3_beep is for debugging; it makes the PC's speaker beep
                         as soon as the kernel's real-mode entry point is called.
                         s4_nohwsig prevents ACPI hardware signature from being
                         used during resume from hibernation.
                         old_ordering causes the ACPI 1.0 ordering of the _PTS
-                        control method, wrt putting devices into low power
-                        states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering of _PTS is
-                        used by default).
+                        control method, with respect to putting devices into
+                        low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
+                        of _PTS is used by default).
+                        s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
+                        ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
 
         acpi_sci=       [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Control Interrupt trigger mode
                         Format: { level | edge | high | low }
@@ -195,7 +201,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
         acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
                         Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override.
                         For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer.
-        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI}
+        acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI]
                         Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards
                         that require a timer override, but don't have
                         HPET
@@ -470,8 +476,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         clearcpuid=BITNUM [X86]
                         Disable CPUID feature X for the kernel. See
-                        include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h for the valid bit numbers.
-                        Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
+                        arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h for the valid bit
+                        numbers. Note the Linux specific bits are not necessarily
                         stable over kernel options, but the vendor specific
                         ones should be.
                         Also note that user programs calling CPUID directly
@@ -552,6 +558,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
                         to work with serial and VGA consoles.
 
+        coredump_filter=
+                        [KNL] Change the default value for
+                        /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.
+                        See also Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
+
         cpcihp_generic= [HW,PCI] Generic port I/O CompactPCI driver
                         Format:
                         <first_slot>,<last_slot>,<port>,<enum_bit>[,<debug>]
@@ -824,8 +835,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         hlt             [BUGS=ARM,SH]
 
-        hvc_iucv=       [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV Hypervisor console (HVC)
-                               back-ends. Valid parameters: 0..8
+        hvc_iucv=       [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
+                               terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
 
         i8042.debug     [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
         i8042.direct    [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
@@ -873,17 +884,19 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
 
         idle=           [X86]
-                        Format: idle=poll or idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
-                        Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly improves the performance
-                        of waking up a idle CPU, but will use a lot of power and make the system
-                        run hot. Not recommended.
-                        idle=mwait. On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but the kernel chose
-                        to not use it because it doesn't save as much power as a normal idle
-                        loop use the MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be the same
-                        as idle=poll.
-                        idle=halt. Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
+                        Format: idle=poll, idle=mwait, idle=halt, idle=nomwait
+                        Poll forces a polling idle loop that can slightly
+                        improve the performance of waking up a idle CPU, but
+                        will use a lot of power and make the system run hot.
+                        Not recommended.
+                        idle=mwait: On systems which support MONITOR/MWAIT but
+                        the kernel chose to not use it because it doesn't save
+                        as much power as a normal idle loop, use the
+                        MONITOR/MWAIT idle loop anyways. Performance should be
+                        the same as idle=poll.
+                        idle=halt: Halt is forced to be used for CPU idle.
                         In such case C2/C3 won't be used again.
-                        idle=nomwait. Disable mwait for CPU C-states
+                        idle=nomwait: Disable mwait for CPU C-states
 
         ide-pci-generic.all-generic-ide [HW] (E)IDE subsystem
                         Claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.
@@ -914,6 +927,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         inttest=        [IA64]
 
+        iomem=          Disable strict checking of access to MMIO memory
+                strict  regions from userspace.
+                relaxed
+
         iommu=          [x86]
                 off
                 force
@@ -1074,8 +1091,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
         lapic           [X86-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS
                         disabled it.
 
-        lapic_timer_c2_ok       [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer in
-                        C2 power state.
+        lapic_timer_c2_ok       [X86-32,x86-64,APIC] trust the local apic timer
+                        in C2 power state.
 
         libata.dma=     [LIBATA] DMA control
                         libata.dma=0      Disable all PATA and SATA DMA
@@ -1127,6 +1144,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         If there are multiple matching configurations changing
                         the same attribute, the last one is used.
 
+        lmb=debug       [KNL] Enable lmb debug messages.
+
         load_ramdisk=   [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
                         See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
 
@@ -1560,6 +1579,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         nosoftlockup    [KNL] Disable the soft-lockup detector.
 
+        noswapaccount   [KNL] Disable accounting of swap in memory resource
+                        controller. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
+
         nosync          [HW,M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices.
 
         notsc           [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
@@ -1579,6 +1601,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         nr_uarts=       [SERIAL] maximum number of UARTs to be registered.
 
+        ohci1394_dma=early      [HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
+                        See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
+                        info.
+
         olpc_ec_timeout= [OLPC] ms delay when issuing EC commands
                         Rather than timing out after 20 ms if an EC
                         command is not properly ACKed, override the length
@@ -1803,10 +1829,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         autoconfiguration.
                         Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size).
 
-        dynamic_printk
-                        Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
-                        CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. These can also
-                        be switched on/off via <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
+        dynamic_printk  Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if
+                        CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled.
+                        These can also be switched on/off via
+                        <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules
 
         print-fatal-signals=
                         [KNL] debug: print fatal signals
@@ -1894,7 +1920,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         reboot=         [BUGS=X86-32,BUGS=ARM,BUGS=IA-64] Rebooting mode
                         Format: <reboot_mode>[,<reboot_mode2>[,...]]
-                        See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c                   
+                        See arch/*/kernel/reboot.c or arch/*/kernel/process.c
 
         relax_domain_level=
                         [KNL, SMP] Set scheduler's default relax_domain_level.
@@ -2294,7 +2320,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         thermal.psv=    [HW,ACPI]
                         -1: disable all passive trip points
-                        <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this value
+                        <degrees C>: override all passive trip points to this
+                        value
 
         thermal.tzp=    [HW,ACPI]
                         Specify global default ACPI thermal zone polling rate
@@ -2382,6 +2409,41 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
         usbhid.mousepoll=
                         [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
 
+        usb-storage.delay_use=
+                        [UMS] The delay in seconds before a new device is
+                        scanned for Logical Units (default 5).
+
+        usb-storage.quirks=
+                        [UMS] A list of quirks entries to supplement or
+                        override the built-in unusual_devs list.  List
+                        entries are separated by commas.  Each entry has
+                        the form VID:PID:Flags where VID and PID are Vendor
+                        and Product ID values (4-digit hex numbers) and
+                        Flags is a set of characters, each corresponding
+                        to a common usb-storage quirk flag as follows:
+                                a = SANE_SENSE (collect more than 18 bytes
+                                        of sense data);
+                                c = FIX_CAPACITY (decrease the reported
+                                        device capacity by one sector);
+                                h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the
+                                        reported device capacity by one
+                                        sector if the number is odd);
+                                i = IGNORE_DEVICE (don't bind to this
+                                        device);
+                                l = NOT_LOCKABLE (don't try to lock and
+                                        unlock ejectable media);
+                                m = MAX_SECTORS_64 (don't transfer more
+                                        than 64 sectors = 32 KB at a time);
+                                o = CAPACITY_OK (accept the capacity
+                                        reported by the device);
+                                r = IGNORE_RESIDUE (the device reports
+                                        bogus residue values);
+                                s = SINGLE_LUN (the device has only one
+                                        Logical Unit);
+                                w = NO_WP_DETECT (don't test whether the
+                                        medium is write-protected).
+                        Example: quirks=0419:aaf5:rl,0421:0433:rc
+
         add_efi_memmap  [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in
                         kernel's map of available physical RAM.
 
@@ -2442,8 +2504,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         Format:
                         <irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
 
-        norandmaps      Don't use address space randomization
-                        Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
+        norandmaps      Don't use address space randomization.  Equivalent to
+                        echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
 
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