"acpi_no_auto_ssdt" prevents Linux from automatically loading
all the SSDTs listed in the RSDT/XSDT.
This is needed for debugging. In particular,
it allows a DSDT override to optionally be a DSDT+SSDT override.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3774
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
...
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>
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>
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>
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>
* '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
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>
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>
* 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.
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>
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>
* 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.
...
* '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
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>
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>
_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)
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>
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>
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>
- 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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Add a way to disable the timer IRQ routing check via a boot option. The
VMI timer code uses this to avoid triggering the pester Mingo code, which
probes for some very unusual and broken motherboard routings. It fires
100% of the time when using a paravirtual delay mechanism instead of using
a realtime delay, since there is no elapsed real time, and the 4 timer IRQs
have not yet been delivered.
In addition, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that this bug
could surface on real hardware which picks a particularly bad time to enter
SMM mode, causing a long latency during one of the timer IRQs.
While here, make check_timer be __init.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[chrisw: use no_timer_check to bring inline with x86_64 as per Andi's request]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
It's bitrotten, long unmaintained, long hidden under BROKEN_ON_SMP,
etc. As scheduled in feature-removal-schedule.txt, and ack'd several
times on lkml.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because
they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support.
Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that
don't have HPET, but need a timer override.
We don't know yet how to handle this transparently,
but at least add a command line option to force the timer override
and let them boot.
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Problem:
New Dell PowerEdge servers have 2 embedded ethernet ports, which are
labeled NIC1 and NIC2 on the chassis, in the BIOS setup screens, and
in the printed documentation. Assuming no other add-in ethernet ports
in the system, Linux 2.4 kernels name these eth0 and eth1
respectively. Many people have come to expect this naming. Linux 2.6
kernels name these eth1 and eth0 respectively (backwards from
expectations). I also have reports that various Sun and HP servers
have similar behavior.
Root cause:
Linux 2.4 kernels walk the pci_devices list, which happens to be
sorted in breadth-first order (or pcbios_find_device order on i386,
which most often is breadth-first also). 2.6 kernels have both the
pci_devices list and the pci_bus_type.klist_devices list, the latter
is what is walked at driver load time to match the pci_id tables; this
klist happens to be in depth-first order.
On systems where, for physical routing reasons, NIC1 appears on a
lower bus number than NIC2, but NIC2's bridge is discovered first in
the depth-first ordering, NIC2 will be discovered before NIC1. If the
list were sorted breadth-first, NIC1 would be discovered before NIC2.
A PowerEdge 1955 system has the following topology which easily
exhibits the difference between depth-first and breadth-first device
lists.
-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub
+-02.0-[0000:03-08]--+-00.0-[0000:04-07]--+-00.0-[0000:05-06]----00.0-[0000:06]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC2, 2.4 kernel name eth1, 2.6 kernel name eth0)
+-1c.0-[0000:01-02]----00.0-[0000:02]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC1, 2.4 kernel name eth0, 2.6 kernel name eth1)
Other factors, such as device driver load order and the presence of
PCI slots at various points in the bus hierarchy further complicate
this problem; I'm not trying to solve those here, just restore the
device order, and thus basic behavior, that 2.4 kernels had.
Solution:
The solution can come in multiple steps.
Suggested fix#1: kernel
Patch below optionally sorts the two device lists into breadth-first
ordering to maintain compatibility with 2.4 kernels. It adds two new
command line options:
pci=bfsort
pci=nobfsort
to force the sort order, or not, as you wish. It also adds DMI checks
for the specific Dell systems which exhibit "backwards" ordering, to
make them "right".
Suggested fix#2: udev rules from userland
Many people also have the expectation that embedded NICs are always
discovered before add-in NICs (which this patch does not try to do).
Using the PCI IRQ Routing Table provided by system BIOS, it's easy to
determine which PCI devices are embedded, or if add-in, which PCI slot
they're in. I'm working on a tool that would allow udev to name
ethernet devices in ascending embedded, slot 1 .. slot N order,
subsort by PCI bus/dev/fn breadth-first. It'll be possible to use it
independent of udev as well for those distributions that don't use
udev in their installers.
Suggested fix#3: system board routing rules
One can constrain the system board layout to put NIC1 ahead of NIC2
regardless of breadth-first or depth-first discovery order. This adds
a significant level of complexity to board routing, and may not be
possible in all instances (witness the above systems from several
major manufacturers). I don't want to encourage this particular train
of thought too far, at the expense of not doing #1 or #2 above.
Feedback appreciated. Patch tested on a Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade
with 2.6.18.
You'll also note I took some liberty and temporarily break the klist
abstraction to simplify and speed up the sort algorithm. I think
that's both safe and appropriate in this instance.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since it often takes around 20-30 seconds to scan a scsi bus, it's
highly advantageous to do this in parallel with other things. The bulk
of this patch is ensuring that devices don't change numbering, and that
all devices are discovered prior to trying to start init. For those
who build SCSI as modules, there's a new scsi_wait_scan module that will
ensure all bus scans are finished.
This patch only handles drivers which call scsi_scan_host. Fibre Channel,
SAS, SATA, USB and Firewire all need additional work.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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 2.6.17.
[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kill a hard-to-calculate 'rsinterval' boot parameter and per-cpu
rcu_data.last_rs_qlen. Instead, it adds adds a flag rcu_ctrlblk.signaled,
which records the fact that one of CPUs has sent a resched IPI since the
last rcu_start_batch().
Roughly speaking, we need two rcu_start_batch()s in order to move callbacks
from ->nxtlist to ->donelist. This means that when ->qlen exceeds qhimark
and continues to grow, we should send a resched IPI, and then do it again
after we gone through a quiescent state.
On the other hand, if it was already sent, we don't need to do it again
when another CPU detects overflow of the queue.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation fix for the arm and arm26 architectures,
in which the reboot kernel parameter is set in arch/*/kernel/process.c
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always
be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot
understand why this rule exists. This patch fixes "can not" in several
Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Fix "quiet" parameter doc. No trailing '=' sign, no value after it. And
it disables "most" kernel messages, not all of them.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly
operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices). This option can be
used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset
during initialization.
This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable
environment. For ex. during kdump boot where devices are in unknown
random state and BIOS execution has been skipped.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
[PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
[PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
[PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
[PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
[PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
[PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
[PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
[PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
[PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
[PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
[PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
[PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
[PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
[PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
[PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
[PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
[PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
...
Add a boot parameter to reserve high linear address space for hypervisors.
This is necessary to allow dynamically loaded hypervisor modules, which might
not happen until userspace is already running, and also provides a useful tool
to benchmark the performance impact of reduced lowmem address space.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses
happen for some non existent devices. i386/x86-64 do some early
device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable
this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early
accesses which are always type1.
This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter.
I don't think this can break anything because it only changes
a single global that is only used by PCI.
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
This reverts commits 11012d419c and
40dd2d20f2, which allowed us to use the
MMIO accesses for PCI config cycles even without the area being marked
reserved in the e820 memory tables.
Those changes were needed for EFI-environment Intel macs, but broke some
newer Intel 965 boards, so for now it's better to revert to our old
2.6.17 behaviour and at least avoid introducing any new breakage.
Andi Kleen has a set of patches that work with both EFI and the broken
Intel 965 boards, which will be applied once they get wider testing.
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I'm not sure if documenting this here is appropriate, but
if it is, here is some text to put there.
Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check
we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that
motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG.
This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Enable delay accounting by default so that feature gets coverage testing
without requiring special measures.
Earlier, it was off by default and had to be enabled via a boot time param.
This patch reverses the default behaviour to improve coverage testing. It
can be removed late in the kernel development cycle if its believed users
shouldn't have to incur any cost if they don't want delay accounting. Or
it can be retained forever if the utility of the stats is deemed common
enough to warrant keeping the feature on.
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initialization code related to collection of per-task "delay" statistics which
measure how long it had to wait for cpu, sync block io, swapping etc. The
collection of statistics and the interface are in other patches. This patch
sets up the data structures and allows the statistics collection to be
disabled through a kernel boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS, which uses the generic lock debugging
code's silent-failure feature to run a matrix of testcases. There are 210
testcases currently:
+-----------------------
| Locking API testsuite:
+------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem |
-------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
A-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-B-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
double unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
bad unlock order: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok |
--------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
recursive read-lock: | ok | | ok |
--------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+
non-nested unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok |
--------------------------------------+------+------+------+
hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok |
hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok |
soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok |
soft-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/123: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/123: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/132: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/132: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/213: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/213: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/231: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/231: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/312: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/312: ok |
hard-irq read-recursion/321: ok |
soft-irq read-recursion/321: ok |
--------------------------------+-----+----------------
Good, all 210 testcases passed! |
--------------------------------+
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
[PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
[PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
[PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
...
Implementation of new kernel parameter vmpanic that provides a means to
perform a z/VM CP command after a kernel panic occurred.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it.
Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which
can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do
single-stepping and other debugging features.
It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same
high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they
get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which
slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the
VDSO).
There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support
for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer
distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning
it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the
predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore.
There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime
/proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned
on/off.
(This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF
coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.)
This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization
code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell
started this patch and i completed it.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2]
[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3]
[akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Implement the time sources for i386 (acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, and tsc).
With this patch, the conversion of the i386 arch to the generic timekeeping
code should be complete.
The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new clocksources.
[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: acpi_pm cleanup]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This introduces the clocksource management infrastructure. A clocksource is a
driver-like architecture generic abstraction of a free-running counter. This
code defines the clocksource structure, and provides management code for
registering, selecting, accessing and scaling clocksources.
Additionally, this includes the trivial jiffies clocksource, a lowest common
denominator clocksource, provided mainly for use as an example.
[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: Don't enable IRQ too early]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (65 commits)
ACPI: suppress power button event on S3 resume
ACPI: resolve merge conflict between sem2mutex and processor_perflib.c
ACPI: use for_each_possible_cpu() instead of for_each_cpu()
ACPI: delete newly added debugging macros in processor_perflib.c
ACPI: UP build fix for bugzilla-5737
Enable P-state software coordination via _PDC
P-state software coordination for speedstep-centrino
P-state software coordination for acpi-cpufreq
P-state software coordination for ACPI core
ACPI: create acpi_thermal_resume()
ACPI: create acpi_fan_suspend()/acpi_fan_resume()
ACPI: pass pm_message_t from acpi_device_suspend() to root_suspend()
ACPI: create acpi_device_suspend()/acpi_device_resume()
ACPI: replace spin_lock_irq with mutex for ec poll mode
ACPI: Allow a WAN module enable/disable on a Thinkpad X60.
sem2mutex: acpi, acpi_link_lock
ACPI: delete unused acpi_bus_drivers_lock
sem2mutex: drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
ACPI add ia64 exports to build acpi_memhotplug as a module
ACPI: asus_acpi_init(): propagate correct return value
...
Manual resolve of conflicts in:
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
include/acpi/processor.h
Add new per-packet access controls to SELinux, replacing the old
packet controls.
Packets are labeled with the iptables SECMARK and CONNSECMARK targets,
then security policy for the packets is enforced with these controls.
To allow for a smooth transition to the new controls, the old code is
still present, but not active by default. To restore previous
behavior, the old controls may be activated at runtime by writing a
'1' to /selinux/compat_net, and also via the kernel boot parameter
selinux_compat_net. Switching between the network control models
requires the security load_policy permission. The old controls will
probably eventually be removed and any continued use is discouraged.
With this patch, the new secmark controls for SElinux are disabled by
default, so existing behavior is entirely preserved, and the user is
not affected at all.
It also provides a config option to enable the secmark controls by
default (which can always be overridden at boot and runtime). It is
also noted in the kconfig help that the user will need updated
userspace if enabling secmark controls for SELinux and that they'll
probably need the SECMARK and CONNMARK targets, and conntrack protocol
helpers, although such decisions are beyond the scope of kernel
configuration.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The previous patch somewhat diverted the train of thought.
Here I am trying to bring the valued reader back on track.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: mention modinfo and sysfs
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Doc/kernel-parameters.txt: delete false version information and history
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
My patch to add brief documentation of the nomca boot parameter
added it out of alphabetical order.
Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This can sometimes be used to work around broken BIOS.
Use "Microsoft Windows" to take the same path
through the BIOS as Windows98 would.
The default is "Microsoft Windows NT", which
is what NT and later versions of Windows use,
and is the most tested path through most BIOS.
Set it to anything else, including "Linux", at your
own risk, as it seems that virtually no BIOS
has been tested with anything but the two options above.
Note that this uses the legacy _OS interface, so
we don't expect this to ever change.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add info on flow control for serial consoles. Refer to netconsole option
also.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Several drivers are starting to grow options to disable MSI. However,
it's often a host chipset issue, not something which individual drivers
should handle. So we add the pci=nomsi kernel parameter to allow the user
to disable MSI modes for systems we haven't added to the quirk list yet.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Allow the x86 "sep" feature to be disabled at bootup. This forces use of the
int80 vsyscall. Mainly for testing or benchmarking the int80 vsyscall code.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC
timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is
because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU
ends up processing it twice.
This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0.
I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple
and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but
to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds
options to enable/disable too)
Ported over from a similar x86-64 change.
I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but
tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI.
Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone.
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are
two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch
(blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark,
qlowmark).
By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input
RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent
state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting
batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot.
If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems
anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the
batch limit is set to the default.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
AMD SimNow!'s JIT doesn't like them at all in the guest. For distribution
installation it's easiest if it's a boot time option.
Also I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make
it independent from sysctl
And marked __read_mostly which it is.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is the latest version of the scheduler cache-hot-auto-tune patch.
The first problem was that detection time scaled with O(N^2), which is
unacceptable on larger SMP and NUMA systems. To solve this:
- I've added a 'domain distance' function, which is used to cache
measurement results. Each distance is only measured once. This means
that e.g. on NUMA distances of 0, 1 and 2 might be measured, on HT
distances 0 and 1, and on SMP distance 0 is measured. The code walks
the domain tree to determine the distance, so it automatically follows
whatever hierarchy an architecture sets up. This cuts down on the boot
time significantly and removes the O(N^2) limit. The only assumption
is that migration costs can be expressed as a function of domain
distance - this covers the overwhelming majority of existing systems,
and is a good guess even for more assymetric systems.
[ People hacking systems that have assymetries that break this
assumption (e.g. different CPU speeds) should experiment a bit with
the cpu_distance() function. Adding a ->migration_distance factor to
the domain structure would be one possible solution - but lets first
see the problem systems, if they exist at all. Lets not overdesign. ]
Another problem was that only a single cache-size was used for measuring
the cost of migration, and most architectures didnt set that variable
up. Furthermore, a single cache-size does not fit NUMA hierarchies with
L3 caches and does not fit HT setups, where different CPUs will often
have different 'effective cache sizes'. To solve this problem:
- Instead of relying on a single cache-size provided by the platform and
sticking to it, the code now auto-detects the 'effective migration
cost' between two measured CPUs, via iterating through a wide range of
cachesizes. The code searches for the maximum migration cost, which
occurs when the working set of the test-workload falls just below the
'effective cache size'. I.e. real-life optimized search is done for
the maximum migration cost, between two real CPUs.
This, amongst other things, has the positive effect hat if e.g. two
CPUs share a L2/L3 cache, a different (and accurate) migration cost
will be found than between two CPUs on the same system that dont share
any caches.
(The reliable measurement of migration costs is tricky - see the source
for details.)
Furthermore i've added various boot-time options to override/tune
migration behavior.
Firstly, there's a blanket override for autodetection:
migration_cost=1000,2000,3000
will override the depth 0/1/2 values with 1msec/2msec/3msec values.
Secondly, there's a global factor that can be used to increase (or
decrease) the autodetected values:
migration_factor=120
will increase the autodetected values by 20%. This option is useful to
tune things in a workload-dependent way - e.g. if a workload is
cache-insensitive then CPU utilization can be maximized by specifying
migration_factor=0.
I've tested the autodetection code quite extensively on x86, on 3
P3/Xeon/2MB, and the autodetected values look pretty good:
Dual Celeron (128K L2 cache):
---------------------
migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 131072, cpu: 467 MHz):
---------------------
[00] [01]
[00]: - 1.7(1)
[01]: 1.7(1) -
---------------------
cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 1.7 (1784008)
---------------------
Here the slow memory subsystem dominates system performance, and even
though caches are small, the migration cost is 1.7 msecs.
Dual HT P4 (512K L2 cache):
---------------------
migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 524288, cpu: 2379 MHz):
---------------------
[00] [01] [02] [03]
[00]: - 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1)
[01]: 0.4(1) - 0.4(1) 0.0(0)
[02]: 0.0(0) 0.4(1) - 0.4(1)
[03]: 0.4(1) 0.0(0) 0.4(1) -
---------------------
cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (33900) 0.4 (448514)
---------------------
Here it can be seen that there is no migration cost between two HT
siblings (CPU#0/2 and CPU#1/3 are separate physical CPUs). A fast memory
system makes inter-physical-CPU migration pretty cheap: 0.4 msecs.
8-way P3/Xeon [2MB L2 cache]:
---------------------
migration cost matrix (max_cache_size: 2097152, cpu: 700 MHz):
---------------------
[00] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07]
[00]: - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[01]: 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[02]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[03]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[04]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[05]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1) 19.2(1)
[06]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) - 19.2(1)
[07]: 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) 19.2(1) -
---------------------
cacheflush times [2]: 0.0 (0) 19.2 (19281756)
---------------------
This one has huge caches and a relatively slow memory subsystem - so the
migration cost is 19 msecs.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: <wilder@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- elfcorehdr= specifies the location of elf core header stored by the
crashed kernel. This command line option will be passed by the kexec-tools
to capture kernel.
Changes in this version :
- Added more comments in kernel-parameters.txt and in code.
Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
)
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
- This patch introduces the memmap option for x86_64 similar to i386.
- memmap=exactmap enables setting of an exact E820 memory map, as specified
by the user.
Changes in this version:
- Used e820_end_of_ram() to find the max_pfn as suggested by Andi kleen.
- removed PFN_UP & PFN_DOWN macros
- Printing the user defined map also.
Signed-off-by: Murali M Chakravarthy <muralim@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <nharipra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Also add a nr_uarts module option to the 8250 code to override
this, up to a maximum of CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS
This should appease people who complain about a proliferation
of /dev/ttyS & /sysfs nodes whilst at the same time allowing
a single kernel image to support the rarer occasions of
lots of devices.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
If someone changes the uid/gid mapping in userland, then we do eventually
want those changes to be propagated to the kernel. Currently the kernel
assumes that it may cache entries forever.
Add an expiration time + garbage collector for idmap entries.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Combined mode sucks. Especially when both libata and the legacy IDE
drivers try to drive ports on the same device, since that makes DMA
rather difficult.
This patch addresses the problem by allowing the user to control which
driver binds to the ports in a combined mode configuration. In many
cases, they'll probably want the libata driver to control both ports
since it can use DMA for talking with ATAPI devices (when
libata.atapi_enabled=1 of course). It also allows the user to get old
school behavior by letting the legacy IDE driver bind to both ports.
But neither is forced, the patch doesn't change current behavior unless
one of combined_mode=ide or combined_mode=libata is passed
on the boot line. Either of those options may require you to access
your devices via different device nodes (/dev/hd* in the ide case
and /dev/sd* in the libata case), though of course if you have udev
installed nicely you may not notice anything. :)
Let me know if the documentation is too cryptic, I'd be happy to expand
on it if necessary. I think most users will want to boot with
'combined_mode=libata' and add 'options libata atapi_enabled=1'
to their modules.conf to get good DVD playing and disk behavior
(haven't tested CD or DVD writing though).
I'd much rather things behave sanely by default (i.e. DMA for devices on
both ports), but apparently that's difficult given the various chip
bugs and hardware configs out there (not to mention that people's
drives may suddenly change from /dev/hdc to /dev/sdb), so this boot
option may be the correct long term fix.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Please, please now delete the Atari CONFIG_STRAM_SWAP code. It may be
excellent and ingenious code, but its reference to swap_vfsmnt betrays that it
hasn't been built since 2.5.1 (four years old come December), it's delving
deep into matters which are the preserve of core mm code, its only purpose is
to give the more conscientious mm guys an anxiety attack from time to time;
yet we keep on breaking it more and more.
If you want to use RAM for swap, then if the MTD driver does not already
provide just what you need, I'm sure David could be persuaded to add the
extra. But you'd also like to be able to allocate extents of that swap for
other use: we can give you a core interface for that if you need. But unbuilt
for four years suggests to me that there's no need at all.
I cannot swear the patch below won't break your build, but believe so.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This revised patch (as586b) makes usb-handoff permanently true and no
longer a kernel boot parameter. It also removes the piix3_usb quirk code;
that was nothing more than an early version of the USB handoff code
(written at a time when Intel's PIIX3 was about the only motherboard with
USB support). And it adds identifiers for the three PCI USB controller
classes to pci_ids.h.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix typos & trailing whitespace.
Add blank lines in a few places.
Remove "AM53C974=" option: driver does not exist.
Restrict to < 80 columns in most places (but don't split formatted
command-line arguments).
Add a few option arguments for completeness.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Original patch from Bertro Simul
This is probably still not quite correct, but seems to be
the best solution so far.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to
run from it. Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from
/init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical.
Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible,
since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early
userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e. load filesystem
modules and drivers).
Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if
specified.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When both platform-specific and generic drivers exist,
enable generic over-ride with "acpi_generic_hotkey".
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4953
Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This is a small documentation patch for a boot time parameter.
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options. Its effectiveness
varies we've found in the Fedora case. Quite a few systems with misdescribed
IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll. It also fixes up the VIA systems
although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default
as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically).
A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause
an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for. In those cases it
doesn't help.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I updated this to remove unnecessary variable initialization, make
check_routing be inline only and not __init, switch to strtoul, and
formatting fixes as per Randy Dunlap's recommendations.
I updated this to change pirq_table_addr to a long, and to add a warning
msg if the PIRQ table wasn't found at the specified address, as per thread
with Matthew Wilcox.
In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to store or generate it's PIRQ
table in the F0000h-100000h standard range. This patch adds a pci kernel
parameter, pirqaddr to allow the bootloader (or BIOS based loader) to inform
the kernel where the PIRQ table got stored. A beneficial side-effect is that,
if one's BIOS uses a static address each time for it's PIRQ table, then
pirqaddr can be used to avoid the $pirq search through that address block each
time at boot for normal PIRQ BIOSes.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds support for retrieving the address of elf core header if one
is passed in command line.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the
sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls.
Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is
relatively clean.
In addition the hopefully architecture independent option
crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented. It's purpose is to reserve
space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be
setup to access.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I8K: Change to use stock dmi infrastructure instead of homegrown
parsing code. The driver now requires box's DMI data to match
list of supported models so driver can be safely compiled-in
by default without fear of it poking into random SMM BIOS
code. DMI checks can be ignored with i8k.ignore_dmi option.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
