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* gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructurePeter Oberparleiter2009-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* console: make blank timeout value a boot optionDaniel Mack2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the console again. Especially during development, disabling the screen saver can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at runtime from userspace. This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0. The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl call - this just allows to conditionally change the default. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-15
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (103 commits) powerpc: Fix bug in move of altivec code to vector.S powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit powerpc/spufs: Remove unused error path powerpc: Fix warning when printing a resource_size_t powerpc/xmon: Remove unused variable in xmon.c powerpc/pseries: Fix warnings when printing resource_size_t powerpc: Shield code specific to 64-bit server processors powerpc: Separate PACA fields for server CPUs powerpc: Split exception handling out of head_64.S powerpc: Introduce CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S powerpc: Move VMX and VSX asm code to vector.S powerpc: Set init_bootmem_done on NUMA platforms as well powerpc/mm: Fix a AB->BA deadlock scenario with nohash MMU context lock powerpc/mm: Fix some SMP issues with MMU context handling powerpc: Add PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK support fbdev: Add PLB support and cleanup DCR in xilinxfb driver. powerpc/virtex: Add ml510 reference design device tree powerpc/virtex: Add Xilinx ML510 reference design support powerpc/virtex: refactor intc driver and add support for i8259 cascading powerpc/virtex: Add support for Xilinx PCI host bridge ...
| * Merge commit 'origin/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt2009-06-12
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
| * \ Merge branch 'merge' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt2009-05-28
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| * | | powerpc/pseries: CMO unused page hintingRobert Jennings2009-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds support for the "unused" page hint which can be used in shared memory partitions to flag pages not in use, which will then be stolen before active pages by the hypervisor when memory needs to be moved to LPARs in need of additional memory. Failure to mark pages as 'unused' makes the LPAR slower to give up unused memory to other partitions. This adds the kernel parameter 'cmo_free_hint' to disable this functionality. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-14
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits) trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start() trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. ...
| * | | | trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante2009-06-12
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-12
|\ \ \ \ | |/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 * 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits) ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two() ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode() ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2) sl82c105: add printk() logging facility ide-tape: fix proc warning ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile() ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update() icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq() ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2) ...
| * | | ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2009-06-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools. Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives. Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if any partitions overlapping HPA are detected. Additionally HPA can also be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0" to disable HPA on /dev/hda). v2: Fix ->resume HPA support. While at it: - remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> [patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop] Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-06-11
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in: drivers/char/vt.c init/main.c mm/slab.c
| * | | | kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detectorCatalin Marinas2009-06-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file with some information about how kmemleak works. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-11
|\ \ \ \ \ | |/ / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (44 commits) nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition. TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures. TOMOYO: Remove unused field. integrity: ima audit dentry_open failure TOMOYO: Remove unused parameter. security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models TOMOYO: Simplify policy reader. TOMOYO: Remove redundant markers. SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages TOMOYO: Remove unused mutex. tomoyo: avoid get+put of task_struct smack: Remove redundant initialization. integrity: nfsd imbalance bug fix rootplug: Remove redundant initialization. smack: do not beyond ARRAY_SIZE of data integrity: move ima_counts_get integrity: path_check update IMA: Add __init notation to ima functions IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool ...
| * | | | Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris2009-06-10
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| | * | | | IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policyEric Paris2009-05-21
| | | |_|/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IMA TCB policy is dangerous. A normal use can use all of a system's memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of executables. The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the measurements meaningless. There is no good fix for this in the kernel. A full TCB policy would need to be loaded in userspace using LSM rule matching to get both a protected and useful system. But, if too little is measured before userspace can load a real policy one again ends up with a meaningless set of measurements. One option would be to put the policy load inside the initrd in order to get it early enough in the boot sequence to be useful, but this runs into trouble with the LSM. For IMA to measure the LSM policy and the LSM policy loading mechanism it needs rules to do so, but we already talked about problems with defaulting to such broad rules.... IMA also depends on the files being measured to be on an FS which implements and supports i_version. Since the only FS with this support (ext4) doesn't even use it by default it seems silly to have any IMA rules by default. This should reduce the performance overhead of IMA to near 0 while still letting users who choose to configure their machine as such to inclue the ima_tcb kernel paramenter and get measurements during boot before they can load a customized, reasonable policy in userspace. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | | | | Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-10
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits) Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK tracing: add protection around module events unload tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface tracing: fix the block trace points print size tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic tracing/events: fix output format of user stack tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag ...
| * | | | | ftrace: add kernel command line function filteringSteven Rostedt2009-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called. This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands. ftrace_notrace=function-list ftrace_filter=function-list Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter. The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions listed. These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively. The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also be used by the command line interface. ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin* Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has the word spin in it. Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering set by the command lines. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | | kmemtrace: fix kernel parameter documentationPekka Enberg2009-05-25
| | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kmemtrace.enable kernel parameter no longer works. To enable kmemtrace at boot-time, you must pass "ftrace=kmemtrace" instead. [ Impact: remove obsolete kernel parameter documentation ] Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-10
|\ \ \ \ \ | |_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type oprofile: add support for Core i7 and Atom oprofile: remove undocumented oprofile.p4force option oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
| * | | | oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_typeRobert Richter2009-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes module_param oprofile.force_arch_perfmon and introduces oprofile.cpu_type=archperfmon instead. This new parameter can be reused for other models and architectures. Currently only archperfmon is supported. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * | | | oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon optionAndi Kleen2009-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This re-adds the force_arch_perfmon option that was in the original arch perfmon patchkit. Originally this was rejected in favour of a generalized perfmon=name option, but it turned out implementing the later in a reliable way is hard (and it would have been easy to crash the kernel if a user gets it wrong) But now Atom and Core i7 support being readded a user would need to update their oprofile userland to beyond 0.9.4 to use oprofile again on Atom or Core i7. To avoid this problem readd the force_arch_perfmon option. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'iommu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-10
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits) amd-iommu: remove unnecessary "AMD IOMMU: " prefix amd-iommu: detach device explicitly before attaching it to a new domain amd-iommu: remove BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER handling dma-debug: simplify logic in driver_filter() dma-debug: disable/enable irqs only once in device_dma_allocations dma-debug: use pr_* instead of printk(KERN_* ...) dma-debug: code style fixes dma-debug: comment style fixes dma-debug: change hash_bucket_find from first-fit to best-fit x86: enable GART-IOMMU only after setting up protection methods amd_iommu: fix lock imbalance dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line dma-debug: add debugfs file for driver filter dma-debug: add variables and checks for driver filter dma-debug: fix debug_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu and debug_dma_sync_sg_for_device dma-debug: use sg_dma_len accessor dma-debug: use sg_dma_address accessor instead of using dma_address directly amd-iommu: don't free dma adresses below 512MB with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS amd-iommu: don't preallocate page tables with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS ...
| * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'dma-debug/2.6.31' of ↵Ingo Molnar2009-06-07
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu
| | * | | | | dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command lineJoerg Roedel2009-06-02
| | | |/ / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch add the dma_debug_driver= boot parameter to enable the driver filter for early boot. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommuIngo Molnar2009-06-07
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | |_|/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30 to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure the combination works fine. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | amd-iommu: remove amd_iommu_size kernel parameterJoerg Roedel2009-05-28
| | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This parameter is not longer necessary when aperture increases dynamically. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'linus' into irq/numaIngo Molnar2009-06-01
|\ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | x86: introduce noxsave boot parameterSuresh Siddha2009-05-22
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues. [ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* | | | Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into x86/apicIngo Molnar2009-05-11
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-rc2 base - sync it up with all the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | doc: small kernel-parameters updatesRandy Dunlap2009-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file. Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the rest of the file. Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, with examples. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | doc: hashdist defaults on for 64bitHugh Dickins2009-05-06
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar2009-04-20
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: We need the x86/uv updates from upstream, to queue up dependent fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | doc: fix kernel-parameters.txt mistaken deletionsRandy Dunlap2009-04-18
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally deleted in commit 0cb55ad2. Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * / docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txtWeidong Han2009-04-18
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt. [ Impact: add boot parameter description ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * x86, documentation: kernel-parameters replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86Jaswinder Singh Rajput2009-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | X86 is same as X86-32+X86-64 so replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1239698023.3033.37.camel@ht.satnam> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86, intr-remap: add option to disable interrupt remappingWeidong Han2009-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add option "nointremap" to disable interrupt remapping. [ Impact: add new boot option ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-5-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | docs, x86: add nox2apic back to kernel-parameters.txtWeidong Han2009-04-19
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt. [ Impact: add boot parameter description ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* docs: alphabetize entries in kernel-parameters.txtRandy Dunlap2009-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Move entries to be in alpha order as specified near the beginning of this file. Clean up some whitespace and line-length miscues. Add '=' to "selinux" option syntax. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: (140 commits) ACPI: processor: use .notify method instead of installing handler directly ACPI: button: use .notify method instead of installing handler directly ACPI: support acpi_device_ops .notify methods toshiba-acpi: remove MAINTAINERS entry ACPI: battery: asynchronous init acer-wmi: Update copyright notice & documentation acer-wmi: Cleanup the failure cleanup handling acer-wmi: Blacklist Acer Aspire One video: build fix thinkpad-acpi: rework brightness support thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the fan subdriver thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for rfkill subdrivers thinkpad-acpi: restrict access to some firmware LEDs thinkpad-acpi: remove HKEY disable functionality thinkpad-acpi: add new debug helpers and warn of deprecated atts thinkpad-acpi: add missing log levels thinkpad-acpi: cleanup debug helpers thinkpad-acpi: documentation cleanup thinkpad-acpi: drop ibm-acpi alias ...
| * Merge branch 'linus' into releaseLen Brown2009-04-05
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | ACPI: acpi_enforce_resource=strict by defaultLuca Tettamanti2009-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enforce strict resource checking - disallowing access by native drivers to IO ports and memory regions claimed by ACPI firmware. The patch is mainly aimed to block native hwmon drivers from touching monitoring chips that ACPI thinks it own. If this causes a regression, boot with "acpi_enforce_resources=lax" which was the previous default. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12376 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12541 Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-04-05
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (23 commits) sh: sh7785lcr: Map whole PCI address space. sh: Fix up DSP context save/restore. sh: Fix up number of on-chip DMA channels on SH7091. sh: update defconfigs. sh: Kill off broken direct-mapped cache mode. sh: Wire up ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE for cpuidle. sh: Add a command line option for disabling I/O trapping. sh: Select ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE. sh: migor: Fix up CEU use flags. input: migor_ts: add wakeup support rtc: rtc-sh: use set_irq_wake() input: sh_keysc: use enable/disable_irq_wake() sh: intc: set_irq_wake() support sh: intc: install enable, disable and shutdown callbacks clocksource: sh_cmt: use remove_irq() and remove clockevent workaround sh: ap325 and Migo-R use new sh_mobile_ceu_info flags sh: Fix up -Wformat-security whining. sh: ap325rxa: Add ov772x support, again. sh: Sanitize asm/mmu.h for assembly use. sh: Tidy up sh7786 pinmux table. ...
| * | | sh: Add a command line option for disabling I/O trapping.Paul Mundt2009-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a 'noiotrap' kernel command line option to permit disabling of I/O trapping. This is mostly useful for running on emulators where the physical device limitations are not an issue. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-05
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c
| * \ \ \ Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linusIngo Molnar2009-04-01
| |\ \ \ \ | | |/ / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: include/linux/slub_def.h lib/Kconfig.debug mm/slob.c mm/slub.c
| | * | | doc: add trace_buf_size description to kernel-parameters.txtKOSAKI Motohiro2009-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | from early boot tracing view, trace_buf_size parameter is important. it should be documented. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <20090310135200.A48B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | Merge branch 'x86/core' into tracing/texteditIngo Molnar2009-03-06
| | |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig block/blktrace.c kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic conflict: kernel/trace/blktrace.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * \ \ \ Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/mmiotrace' and 'linus' into ↵Ingo Molnar2009-03-02
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| | * | | | Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-02-27
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