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* revert "x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices"Andrew Morton2007-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert 7e92b4fc345f5b6f57585fbe5ffdb0f24d7c9b26. It broke Sébastien Dugué's machine and Jeff said (persuasively) This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS." It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO. Serial ports are something that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game. My new Intel platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of messing with serial port probing even more... because... just wait a year, and your box won't have a serial port either! :) I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver), but the probe change seems questionable. That's sorta analagous to rewriting the floppy driver probe routine. Sure you could do it... but why risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again? It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade. Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this. Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* doc/kernel-parameters: use X86-32 tag instead of IA-32Alan Cox2007-07-31
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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>
* various doc/kernel-parameters fixesRandy Dunlap2007-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | - tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean - correct some source file names - remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree) - removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* AGP: document boot optionsChuck Ebbert2007-07-26
| | | | | | | Add documentation for AGP boot options. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
* x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpuAndi Kleen2007-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This implements new vDSO for x86-64. The concept is similar to the existing vDSOs on i386 and PPC. x86-64 has had static vsyscalls before, but these are not flexible enough anymore. A vDSO is a ELF shared library supplied by the kernel that is mapped into user address space. The vDSO mapping is randomized for each process for security reasons. Doing this was needed for clock_gettime, because clock_gettime always needs a syscall fallback and having one at a fixed address would have made buffer overflow exploits too easy to write. The vdso can be disabled with vdso=0 It currently includes a new gettimeofday implemention and optimized clock_gettime(). The gettimeofday implementation is slightly faster than the one in the old vsyscall. clock_gettime is significantly faster than the syscall for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. The new calls are generally faster than the old vsyscall. Advantages over the old x86-64 vsyscalls: - Extensible - Randomized - Cleaner - Easier to virtualize (the old static address range previously causes overhead e.g. for Xen because it has to create special page tables for it) Weak points: - glibc support still to be written The VM interface is partly based on Ingo Molnar's i386 version. Includes compile fix from Joachim Deguara Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Pull ia64-clocksource into release branchTony Luck2007-07-20
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| * [IA64] Convert to generic timekeeping/clocksourceTony Luck2007-07-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a merge of Peter Keilty's initial patch (which was revived by Bob Picco) for this with Hidetoshi Seto's fixes and scaling improvements. Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | Pull vector-domain into release branchTony Luck2007-07-19
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| * [IA64] Enable percpu vector domain for IA64_GENERICYasuaki Ishimatsu2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add per-CPU vector domain support for IA64_GENERIC. It is enabled by adding the "vector=percpu" boot option. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLEMel Gorman2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called movablecore=. While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable allocations. The amount of memory used for migratable allocations determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at runtime for example. How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | handle kernelcore=: genericMel Gorman2007-07-17
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86. Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation. From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64 because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled in an architecture-independent manner. This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will ignore the boot parameter. [bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2007-07-16
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice more ACSI removal umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
| * remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM driversAdrian Bunk2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the documentation for the removed legacy CDROM drivers. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | Allow softlockup to be runtime disabledDave Jones2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime. Especially if it triggers during a distro install. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devicesPierre Ossman2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some buses (e.g. USB and MMC) do their scanning of devices in the background, causing a race between them and prepare_namespace(). In order to be able to use these buses without an initrd, we now wait for the device specified in root= to actually show up. If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. In order to not mess with setups that reboot on panic, the feature must be turned on via the command line option "rootwait". [bunk@stusta.de: root_wait can become static] Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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>
* | add printk.time option, deprecate 'time'Randy Dunlap2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time. Previously it could be enabled only, but not disabled. Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is. Make its logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time"). Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value". Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be changed at run-time by modifying /sys/module/printk/parameters/time to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it. Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also be set at boot-time by using linux printk.time=<bool> If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated and will be removed. Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-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>
* | vdso: print fatal signalsIngo Molnar2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the /proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch. This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to the kernel console. This is useful to find early bootup bugs where userspace debugging is very hard. Defaults to off. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | more scheduled OSS driver removalAdrian Bunk2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that: - have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and - whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | SLUB: support slub_debug on by defaultChristoph Lameter2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new configuration variable CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON If set then the kernel will be booted by default with slab debugging switched on. Similar to CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG. By default slab debugging is available but must be enabled by specifying "slub_debug" as a kernel parameter. Also add support to switch off slab debugging for a kernel that was built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. This works by specifying slub_debug=- as a kernel parameter. Dave Jones wanted this feature. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118072189913045&w=2 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up switch statement] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logicKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2007-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6. This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable. Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based. [Default Order] The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically. [Node-based Order] This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones (ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist. current 2.6.21 kernel uses this. Pros. * A user can expect local memory as much as possible. Cons. * lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL. Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. [Zone-based order] This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter. Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion. IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist. Pros. * OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted. Cons. * memory locality may not be best. (example) assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL. *node(0)'s memory allocation order: node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. *node(1)'s memory allocation order: node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA. bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd. command: %echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order. command: %echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order. Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes. [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250Yinghai Lu2007-07-16
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and include/asm-x86_64/serial.h. the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in serial initializing stage. the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=> register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time. need to wait till uart_add_one_port in drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0. that is too late. Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier. Make it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature. and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically. new command line will be: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 or earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8 it will print in very early stage: Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8') console [uart0] enabled later for console it will print: console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0] Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing codeIngo Molnar2007-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the SMP load-balancer uses the boot-time migration-cost estimation code to attempt to improve the quality of balancing. The reason for this code is that the discrete priority queues do not preserve the order of scheduling accurately, so the load-balancer skips tasks that were running on a CPU 'recently'. this code is fundamental fragile: the boot-time migration cost detector doesnt really work on systems that had large L3 caches, it caused boot delays on large systems and the whole cache-hot concept made the balancing code pretty undeterministic as well. (and hey, i wrote most of it, so i can say it out loud that it sucks ;-) under CFS the same purpose of cache affinity can be achieved without any special cache-hot special-case: tasks are sorted in the 'timeline' tree and the SMP balancer picks tasks from the left side of the tree, thus the most cache-cold task is balanced automatically. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* remove leftover documentation of acpi_generic_hotkeyStephen Hemminger2007-06-27
| | | | | | | This looks like leftover text in the kernel parameter in documentation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Pull osi-now into release branchLen Brown2007-06-02
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| * ACPI: extend "acpi_osi=" boot optionLen Brown2007-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The boot option "acpi_osi=" has always disabled Linux _OSI support, thus disabling all OS Interface strings which are advertised by Linux to the BIOS. Now... acpi_osi="string" adds the interface string, and acpi_osi="!string" invalidates the pre-defined interface string eg. acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" would disable Linux's claim of Vista compatibility. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | SLUB: More documentationChristoph Lameter2007-05-31
|/ | | | | | | | | | Update documentation to describe how to read a SLUB error report. Add slub parameters to Documentation/kernel-parameters. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
* document clocksourcesRandy Dunlap2007-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | Document the available clocksources per platform and move clocksource= into the correct (alpha) location in the file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Doc Fix: remove mention of combined mode-related kernel parametersJesse Barnes2007-05-09
| | | | | | | | | Looks like you removed the combined_mode quirk (yay!) but didn't update kernel-parameters.txt... might confuse people. Here's a patch to remove mention of it from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* vt: add documentation for new boot/sysfs optionsAntonino A. Daplas2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | Add description to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt on new options default_blue, default_grn, default_red, and default_utf8. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devicesBjorn Helgaas2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make x86 COM ports into platform devices and don't probe for them if we have PNP. This prevents double discovery, where a device was found both by the legacy probe and by 8250_pnp, e.g., serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A This also means IRDA devices without a UART PNP ID will no longer be claimed by the serial driver, which might require changes in IRDA drivers and administration. In addition to this patch, you may need to configure a setserial init script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, so it doesn't poke legacy UART stuff back in. On Debian, "dpkg-reconfigure setserial" with the "kernel" option does this. To force the old legacy probe behavior even when we have PNPBIOS or ACPI, load the new legacy_serial module (or build 8250 static) with the "legacy_serial.force" option. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix makefiles] Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi> Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* smsc-ircc2: add PNP supportBjorn Helgaas2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Claim devices using PNP, unless the user explicitly specified device addresses. This can be disabled with the "smsc-ircc2.nopnp" option. This removes the need for probing legacy addresses and helps untangle IR devices from serial8250 devices. Sometimes the SMC device is at a legacy COM port address but does not use the legacy COM IRQ. In this case, claiming the device using PNP rather than 8250 legacy probe means we can automatically use the correct IRQ rather than forcing the user to use "setserial" to set the IRQ manually. If the PNP claim doesn't work, make sure you don't have a setserial init script, e.g., /etc/init.d/setserial, configured to poke in legacy COM port resources for the IRDA device. That causes the serial driver to claim resources needed by this driver. Based on this patch by Ville Syrjälä: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/IrDA/ir260_smsc_pnp.diff Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> Cc: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi> Cc: Russell King <rmk+serial@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allow boot-time disable of paravirt_ops patchingJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | Add "noreplace-paravirt" to disable paravirt_ops patching. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] i386: Allow boot-time disable of SMP altinstructionsJeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | Add "noreplace-smp" to disable SMP instruction replacement. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10Andi Kleen2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | It doesn't put the CPU into deeper sleep states, so it's better to use the standard idle loop to save power. But allow to reenable it anyways for benchmarking. I also removed the obsolete idle=halt on i386 Cc: andreas.herrmann@amd.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i386: Make COMPAT_VDSO runtime selectable.Jeremy Fitzhardinge2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that relocation of the VDSO for COMPAT_VDSO users is done at runtime rather than compile time, it is possible to enable/disable compat mode at runtime. This patch allows you to enable COMPAT_VDSO mode with "vdso=2" on the kernel command line, or via sysctl. (Switching on a running system shouldn't be done lightly; any process which was relying on the compat VDSO will be upset if it goes away.) The COMPAT_VDSO config option still exists, but if enabled it just makes vdso_enabled default to VDSO_COMPAT. +From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Fix oops from i386-make-compat_vdso-runtime-selectable.patch. Even mingetty at system startup finds it easy to trigger an oops while reading /proc/PID/maps: though it has a good hold on the mm itself, that cannot stop exit_mm() from resetting tsk->mm to NULL. (It is usually show_map()'s call to get_gate_vma() which oopses, and I expect we could change that to check priv->tail_vma instead; but no matter, even m_start()'s call just after get_task_mm() is racy.) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-04-29
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: (105 commits) sonypi: use mutex instead of semaphore sony-laptop: remove user visible camera controls as platform attributes meye: make meye use sony-laptop instead of sonypi sony-laptop: add a meye-usable include file for camera ops sony-laptop: complete the motion eye camera support in sony-laptop sonypi: try to detect if sony-laptop has already taken one of the known ioports sonypi: suggest sonypi users to try sony-laptop instead sony-laptop: add edge modem support (also called WWAN) sony-laptop: add locking on accesses to the ioport and global vars sony-laptop: add camera enable/disable parameter, better handle possible infinite loop thinkpad-acpi: make drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi:fan_mutex static ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to wan and bluetooth subdrivers ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add sysfs support to hotkey subdriver ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve dock subdriver initialization ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve debugging for acpi helpers ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: improve fan control documentation ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: map ENXIO to EINVAL for fan sysfs ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix a fan watchdog invocation ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not arm fan watchdog if it would not work ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add a fan-control feature master toggle ...
| * ACPI: Improve acpi debug documentationZhang Rui2007-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now we use acpi.debug_level and acpi.debug_layer as kernel boot parameters instead of acpi_dbg_level and acpi_dbg_layer. Thanks to Andi Kleen for pointing it out. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | USB: Allow autosuspend delay to equal 0Alan Stern2007-04-27
|/ | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as867) adds an entry for the new power/autosuspend attribute in Documentation/ABI/testing, and it changes the behavior of the delay value. Now a delay of 0 means to autosuspend as soon as possible, and negative values will prevent autosuspend. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Revert "ACPI: parse 2nd MADT by default"Len Brown2007-03-30
| | | | | | | This reverts commit 09fe58356d148ff66901ddf639e725ca1a48a0af. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8283 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* x86-64: add "local_apic_timer_c2_ok" here tooLinus Torvalds2007-03-23
| | | | | | | | | Needed for any architecture that claims ARCH_APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3, not just i386. I'm hoping Thomas will clean this up a bit later.. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] i386: add command line option "local_apic_timer_c2_ok"Thomas Gleixner2007-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | It turned out that it is almost impossible to trust ACPI, BIOS & Co. regarding the C states. This was the reason to switch the local apic timer off in C2 state already. OTOH there are sane and well behaving systems, which get punished by that decision. Allow the user to confirm that the local apic timer is trustworthy in C2 state. This keeps the default behaviour on the safe side. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-03-22
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: ACPI: IA64: fix %ll build warnings ACPI: IA64: fix allnoconfig build ACPI: Only use IPI on known broken machines (AMD, Dothan/BaniasPentium M) ACPI: ibm-acpi: allow module to load when acpi notifiers can't be set (v2) ACPI: parse 2nd MADT by default ACPICA: revert "acpi_serialize" changes sony-laptop: MAINTAINERS fix entry, add L: and W: ACPI: resolve HP nx6125 S3 immediate wakeup regression ACPI: Add support to parse 2nd MADT
| * ACPI: parse 2nd MADT by defaultLen Brown2007-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * ACPI: Add support to parse 2nd MADTLen Brown2007-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a BIOS bug presents multiple APIC/MADTs, Linux currently uses the 1st and ignores the 2nd. But some machines work better if we use the 2nd. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465 Add a warning and boot parameter "acpi_apic_instance=2" to allow parsing the 2nd. No change to default behaviour in this patch. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | [PATCH] i386: disable local apic timer via command line or dmi quirkThomas Gleixner2007-03-22
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The local APIC timer stops to work in deeper C-States. This is handled by the ACPI code and a broadcast mechanism in the clockevents / tick managment code. Some systems do not expose the deeper C-States to the kernel, but switch into deeper C-States behind the kernels back. This delays the local apic timer interrupts for ever and makes the systems unusable. Add a command line option to disable the local apic timer and a dmi quirk for known broken systems. Andi sayeth: While not wrong by itself i think it is still better to use some heuristic -- like "has battery in ACPI" With the DMI table if the problem is more wide spread we will just continue extending it. But anyways should be ok now for .21 although I'm not really happy with it. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Pull misc-for-upstream into release branchLen Brown2007-03-09
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| * ACPI: Add kernel-parameters hint that acpi=off doesn't work on IA64.Bernhard Walle2007-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-03-07
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh: Kill off I/O cruft for R7780RP. sh: Revert lazy dcache writeback changes. sh: Enable SM501 support for RTS7751R2D. sh: Use L1_CACHE_BYTES for .data.cacheline_aligned. sysctl: Support vdso_enabled sysctl on SH. sh: Fix kernel thread stack corruption with preempt. doc: Add SH to vdso and earlyprintk in kernel-parameters.txt sh: Fix sigmask trampling in signal delivery. sh: Clear UBC when not in use.
| * doc: Add SH to vdso and earlyprintk in kernel-parameters.txtPaul Mundt2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | SH supports both of these options, add it to the docs. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* | [PATCH] knfsd: provide sunrpc pool_mode module optionGreg Banks2007-03-06
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a module param "pool_mode" for sunrpc.ko which allows a sysadmin to choose the mode for mapping NFS thread service pools to CPUs. Values are: auto choose a mapping mode heuristically global (default, same as the pre-2.6.19 code) a single global pool percpu one pool per CPU pernode one pool per NUMA node Note that since 2.6.19 the hardcoded behaviour has been "auto", this patch makes the default "global". The pool mode can be changed after boot/modprobe using /sys, if the NFS and lockd services have been shut down. A useful side effect of this change is to fix a small memory leak when unloading the module. Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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