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Ingo Molnar
0437e109e1 sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code
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>
2007-07-09 18:51:57 +02:00
Stephen Hemminger
67a32be082 remove leftover documentation of acpi_generic_hotkey
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>
2007-06-27 09:55:34 -07:00
Len Brown
c4d36a822e Pull osi-now into release branch 2007-06-02 01:02:09 -04:00
Christoph Lameter
c1aee215d7 SLUB: More documentation
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>
2007-05-31 07:58:13 -07:00
Len Brown
ae00d81243 ACPI: extend "acpi_osi=" boot option
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>
2007-05-29 18:43:33 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
3d6ac98431 document clocksources
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>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Jesse Barnes
e0863397cb Doc Fix: remove mention of combined mode-related kernel parameters
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>
2007-05-09 20:15:47 -04:00
Antonino A. Daplas
55ff9780e7 vt: add documentation for new boot/sysfs options
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:29 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
7e92b4fc34 x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:23 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
d0d4f69bb6 smsc-ircc2: add PNP support
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>
2007-05-08 11:15:23 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
959b4fdfe7 [PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: Allow boot-time disable of paravirt_ops patching
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>
2007-05-02 19:27:16 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b7fb4af06c [PATCH] i386: Allow boot-time disable of SMP altinstructions
Add "noreplace-smp" to disable SMP instruction replacement.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:13 +02:00
Andi Kleen
f039b75471 [PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10
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>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
1dbf527c51 [PATCH] i386: Make COMPAT_VDSO runtime selectable.
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>
2007-05-02 19:27:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6b06d2cc6d Merge branch 'release' of 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
  ...
2007-04-29 10:47:25 -07:00
Alan Stern
eaafbc3a8a USB: Allow autosuspend delay to equal 0
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>
2007-04-27 13:28:35 -07:00
Zhang Rui
f989106cac ACPI: Improve acpi debug documentation
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>
2007-04-25 01:20:32 -04:00
Len Brown
4e381a4f06 Revert "ACPI: parse 2nd MADT by default"
This reverts commit 09fe58356d.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8283

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-03-30 14:16:10 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
2e7c28382b x86-64: add "local_apic_timer_c2_ok" here too
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>
2007-03-23 11:32:31 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
e585bef815 [PATCH] i386: add command line option "local_apic_timer_c2_ok"
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>
2007-03-23 10:21:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
37c70d0d09 Merge branch 'release' of 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
2007-03-22 19:43:02 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
ad62ca2bd8 [PATCH] i386: disable local apic timer via command line or dmi quirk
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>
2007-03-22 19:39:05 -07:00
Len Brown
09fe58356d ACPI: parse 2nd MADT by default
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-03-15 04:22:18 -04:00
Len Brown
a1fdcc0d27 ACPI: Add support to parse 2nd MADT
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>
2007-03-11 03:30:13 -04:00
Len Brown
63e34ca93a Pull misc-for-upstream into release branch 2007-03-09 23:19:50 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d694c16bc3 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 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.
2007-03-07 10:08:33 -08:00
Bernhard Walle
03d926f828 ACPI: Add kernel-parameters hint that acpi=off doesn't work on IA64.
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>
2007-03-07 03:09:10 -05:00
Greg Banks
42a7fc4a65 [PATCH] knfsd: provide sunrpc pool_mode module option
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>
2007-03-06 09:30:26 -08:00
Paul Mundt
e523d93c84 doc: Add SH to vdso and earlyprintk in kernel-parameters.txt
SH supports both of these options, add it to the docs.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-03-05 14:13:25 +09:00
Alan Stern
b5e795f8df USB: make autosuspend delay a module parameter
This patch (as859) makes the default USB autosuspend delay a module
parameter of usbcore.  By setting the delay value at boot time, users
will be able to prevent the system from autosuspending devices which
for some reason can't handle it.

The patch also stores the autosuspend delay as a per-device value.  A
later patch will allow the user to change the value, tailoring the
delay for each individual device.  A delay value of 0 will prevent
autosuspend.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-23 15:03:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
874ff01bd9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.
  arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO
  Storage class should be before const qualifier
  kernel/printk.c: comment fix
  update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS.
  Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
  kbuild: more doc. cleanups
  doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
  drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment
  add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC
  correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text
  fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
  fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text
  trivial documentation patch for platform.txt
  Fix typos concerning hierarchy
  Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
  Fix misspellings of "agressive".
  drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch
  Correct trivial typo in log2.h.
  Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.
  ...
2007-02-19 13:29:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
901ea4a079 Merge branch 'acpi' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'acpi' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [PATCH] libata: wrong sizeof for BUFFER
  [PATCH] libata: change order of _SDD/_GTF execution (resend #3)
  [PATCH] libata: ACPI _SDD support
  [PATCH] libata: ACPI and _GTF support
2007-02-19 13:23:50 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
78f92a82c2 doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
Some people are confused about maxcpus=1 and maxcpus=0,
so put the documentation text from init/main.c into
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt also.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17 19:58:30 +01:00
Atsushi Nemoto
4516a618a7 PCI: Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE boot options
CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE was increased to 64MB on 2.6.20-rc2, but larger size might
result in allocation failure for the reserving itself on some platforms
(for example typical 32bit MIPS).  Make it (and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE too)
customizable by "pci=" option for such platforms.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-16 15:30:10 -08:00
Kristen Carlson Accardi
11ef697b37 [PATCH] libata: ACPI and _GTF support
_GTF is an acpi method that is used to reinitialize the drive.  It returns
a task file containing ata commands that are sent back to the drive to restore
it to boot up defaults.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
(cherry picked from 9c69cab24b51a89664f4c0dfaf8a436d32117624 commit)
2007-02-16 13:32:41 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner
54cdfdb47f [PATCH] hrtimers: add high resolution timer support
Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure and the
clockevents / tick-management framework.  This provides accurate timers for
all hrtimer subsystem users.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
79bf2bb335 [PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionality
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers.  The code
which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared
between tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks.  The dyntick
functionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline.  Provide also the
infrastructure to support high resolution timers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16 08:13:59 -08:00
Chuck Ebbert
86c4183742 [PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports
Sometimes developers need to see more object code in an oops report,
e.g. when kernel may be corrupted at runtime.

Add the "code_bytes" option for this.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-13 13:26:25 +01:00
Karsten Weiss
5558870bfb [PATCH] x86-64: improved iommu documentation
- add SWIOTLB config help text
- mention Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt in
  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- remove the duplication of the iommu kernel parameter documentation.
- Better explanation of some of the iommu kernel parameter options.
- "32MB<<order" instead of "32MB^order".
- Mention the default "order" value.
- list the four existing PCI-DMA mapping implementations of arch x86_64
- group the iommu= option keywords by PCI-DMA mapping implementation.
- Distinguish iommu= option keywords from number arguments.
- Explain the meaning of DAC and SAC.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Weiss <knweiss@science-computing.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-02-13 13:26:21 +01:00
Michael Neuling
0a7b35cb18 [PATCH] Add retain_initrd boot option
Add retain_initrd option to control freeing of initrd memory after
extraction.  By default, free memory as previously.

The first boot will need to hold a copy of the in memory fs for the second
boot.  This image can be large (much larger than the kernel), hence we can
save time when the memory loader is slow.  Also, it reduces the memory
footprint while extracting the first boot since you don't need another copy
of the fs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:24 -08:00
Alan Stern
5f8364b7d6 UHCI: module parameter to ignore overcurrent changes
Certain boards seem to like to issue false overcurrent notifications,
for example on ports that don't have anything connected to them.  This
looks like a hardware error, at the level of noise to those ports'
overcurrent input signals (or non-debounced VBUS comparators).  This
surfaces to users as truly massive amounts of syslog spam from khubd
(which is appropriate for real hardware problems, except for the
volume from multiple ports).

Using this new "ignore_oc" flag helps such systems work more sanely,
by preventing such indications from getting to khubd (and spamming
syslog).  The downside is of course that true overcurrent errors will
be masked; they'll appear as spontaneous disconnects, without the
diagnostics that will let users troubleshoot issues like
short-circuited cables.  In addition, controllers with no devices
attached will be forced to poll for new devices rather than relying on
interrupts, since each overcurrent event would generate a new
interrupt.

This patch (as826) is essentially a copy of David Brownell's ignore_oc
patch for ehci-hcd, ported to uhci-hcd.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-20 10:14:26 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
5d6f647fc6 [PATCH] debug: add sysrq_always_enabled boot option
Most distributions enable sysrq support but set it to 0 by default.  Add a
sysrq_always_enabled boot option to always-enable sysrq keys.  Useful for
debugging - without having to modify the disribution's config files (which
might not be possible if the kernel is on a live CD, etc.).

Also, while at it, clean up the sysrq interfaces.

[bunk@stusta.de: make sysrq_always_enabled_setup() static]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:50 -08:00
Akinobu Mita
de1ba09b21 [PATCH] fault injection: documentation and scripts
This patch set provides some fault-injection capabilities.

- kmalloc() failures

- alloc_pages() failures

- disk IO errors

We can see what really happens if those failures happen.

In order to enable these fault-injection capabilities:

1. Enable relevant config options (CONFIG_FAILSLAB, CONFIG_PAGE_ALLOC,
   CONFIG_MAKE_REQUEST) and if you want to configure them via debugfs,
   enable CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS.

2. Build and boot with this kernel

3. Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior by boot option or debugfs

   - Boot option

     failslab=
     fail_page_alloc=
     fail_make_request=

   - Debugfs

     /debug/failslab/*
     /debug/fail_page_alloc/*
     /debug/fail_make_request/*

   Please refer to the Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt
   for details.

4. See what really happens.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <dwm@meer.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:29:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4522d58275 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (156 commits)
  [PATCH] x86-64: Export smp_call_function_single
  [PATCH] i386: Clean up smp_tune_scheduling()
  [PATCH] unwinder: move .eh_frame to RODATA
  [PATCH] unwinder: fully support linker generated .eh_frame_hdr section
  [PATCH] x86-64: don't use set_irq_regs()
  [PATCH] x86-64: check vector in setup_ioapic_dest to verify if need setup_IO_APIC_irq
  [PATCH] x86-64: Make ix86 default to HIGHMEM4G instead of NOHIGHMEM
  [PATCH] i386: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
  [PATCH] x86-64: remove remaining pc98 code
  [PATCH] x86-64: remove unused variable
  [PATCH] x86-64: Fix constraints in atomic_add_return()
  [PATCH] x86-64: fix asm constraints in i386 atomic_add_return
  [PATCH] x86-64: Correct documentation for bzImage protocol v2.05
  [PATCH] x86-64: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc in MTRR code
  [PATCH] x86-64: Fix numaq build error
  [PATCH] x86-64: include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h isn't a userspace header
  [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder
  [PATCH] x86-64: Clarify error message in GART code
  [PATCH] x86-64: Fix interrupt race in idle callback (3rd try)
  [PATCH] x86-64: Remove unwind stack pointer alignment forcing again
  ...

Fixed conflict in include/linux/uaccess.h manually

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:59:11 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
7929082250 [PATCH] add ignore_loglevel boot option
Sometimes the kernel prints something interesting while userspace bootup
keeps messages turned off via loglevel.  Enable the printing of /all/
kernel messages via the "ignore_loglevel" boot option.  Off by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:47 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
ece8a684c7 [PATCH] sleep profiling
Implement prof=sleep profiling.  TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken
as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit
for the call site that initiated the sleep.

Sample readprofile output on i386:

   306 ps2_sendbyte                               1.3973
   432 call_usermodehelper_keys                   1.9548
   484 ps2_command                                0.6453
   790 __driver_attach                            4.7879
  1593 msleep                                    44.2500
  3976 sync_buffer                               64.1290
  4076 do_lookup                                 12.4648
  8587 sync_page                                122.6714
 20820 total                                      0.0067

(NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from
deep within the wakeup path.)

akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched.  lock_sock(), msleep(), others..

akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise.  Presumably doing disk
reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex.

[akpm@osdl.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Derek Fults
22f2e28017 [PATCH] get_options to allow a hypenated range for isolcpus
This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed
to command line helper function, get_options.

Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a
list of cpus.

Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
Valid values of <cpu_number>  include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in
system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of
cpus on a large system.  The kernel isolcpus code would not need any
changing to use this feature.  To use it, the change would be in the
command line format for 'isolcpus='
Format:
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>
or
<cpu number>-<cpu number>  (must be a positive range in ascending
order.)
or a mixture
<cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number>

Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:35 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
ecbd0da1ec [PATCH] swsusp: document support for swap files
Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in
which swap files are supported by swsusp.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
Paul Menage
3395ee0588 [PATCH] mm: add noaliencache boot option to disable numa alien caches
When using numa=fake on non-NUMA hardware there is no benefit to having the
alien caches, and they consume much memory.

Add a kernel boot option to disable them.

Christoph sayeth "This is good to have even on large NUMA.  The problem is
that the alien caches grow by the square of the size of the system in terms of
nodes."

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
Jan Beulich
6d0185ea61 [PATCH] unwinder: Add debugging output to the Dwarf2 unwinder
Add debugging printks to the unwinder to allow easier debugging
when something goes wrong with it.

This can be controlled with the new unwinder_debug=N option
Most output is given by N=1

AK: Added documentation of unwinder_debug=

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-12-07 02:14:13 +01:00