- Jul 16, 2007
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Adrian Bunk authored
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>
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Christoph Lameter authored
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>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
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>
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Yinghai Lu authored
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>
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- Jul 09, 2007
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Ingo Molnar authored
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>
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- Jun 27, 2007
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Stephen Hemminger authored
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>
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- May 31, 2007
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Christoph Lameter authored
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>
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- May 29, 2007
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Len Brown authored
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>
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- May 24, 2007
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Randy Dunlap authored
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>
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- May 10, 2007
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Jesse Barnes authored
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>
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- May 08, 2007
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Antonino A. Daplas authored
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>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
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>
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Bjorn Helgaas authored
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>
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- May 02, 2007
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
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>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Add "noreplace-smp" to disable SMP instruction replacement. Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Andi Kleen authored
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>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
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>
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- Apr 27, 2007
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Alan Stern authored
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>
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- Apr 25, 2007
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Zhang Rui authored
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>
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- Mar 30, 2007
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Len Brown authored
This reverts commit 09fe5835. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8283 Signed-off-by:
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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- Mar 23, 2007
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Linus Torvalds authored
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>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
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>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
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>
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- Mar 15, 2007
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Len Brown authored
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465 Signed-off-by:
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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- Mar 11, 2007
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Len Brown authored
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>
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- Mar 07, 2007
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Bernhard Walle authored
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>
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- Mar 06, 2007
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Greg Banks authored
Provide a module param "pool_mode" for sunrpc.ko which allows a sysadmin to choose the mode for mapping NFS thread service pools to CPUs. Values are: auto choose a mapping mode heuristically global (default, same as the pre-2.6.19 code) a single global pool percpu one pool per CPU pernode one pool per NUMA node Note that since 2.6.19 the hardcoded behaviour has been "auto", this patch makes the default "global". The pool mode can be changed after boot/modprobe using /sys, if the NFS and lockd services have been shut down. A useful side effect of this change is to fix a small memory leak when unloading the module. Signed-off-by:
Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Mar 05, 2007
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Paul Mundt authored
SH supports both of these options, add it to the docs. Signed-off-by:
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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- Feb 23, 2007
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Alan Stern authored
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>
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- Feb 17, 2007
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Randy Dunlap authored
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>
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- Feb 16, 2007
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
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>
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Kristen Carlson Accardi authored
_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)
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Thomas Gleixner authored
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>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
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>
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- Feb 13, 2007
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Chuck Ebbert authored
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>
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Karsten Weiss authored
- 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>
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- Feb 11, 2007
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Michael Neuling authored
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>
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- Dec 20, 2006
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Alan Stern authored
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>
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- Dec 13, 2006
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Ingo Molnar authored
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>
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- Dec 08, 2006
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Akinobu Mita authored
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>
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