The usage of the 'gpt' kernel parameter is twofold: (i) skip any mbr
integrity checks and (ii) enable the backup GPT header to be used in
situations where the primary one is corrupted.  This last "feature" is not
obvious and needs to be properly documented in the kernel-parameters
document.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63591



Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: "Chandramouleeswaran,Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Murphy <bugzilla@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add "kmemcheck=xx" to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Fixup caught by checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

When booting a kexec/kdump kernel on a system that has specific memory
hotplug regions the boot will fail with warnings like:

 swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x84d0
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-65.el7.x86_64 #1
 Hardware name: QCI QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R, BIOS QSSC-S4R.QCI.01.00.S013.032920111005 03/29/2011
  0000000000000000 ffff8800341bd8c8 ffffffff815bcc67 ffff8800341bd950
  ffffffff8113b1a0 ffff880036339b00 0000000000000009 00000000000084d0
  ffff8800341bd950 ffffffff815b87ee 0000000000000000 0000000000000200
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff815bcc67>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8113b1a0>] warn_alloc_failed+0xf0/0x160
  [<ffffffff815b87ee>] ?  __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xac/0x196
  [<ffffffff8113f14f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7ff/0xa00
  [<ffffffff815b417c>] vmemmap_alloc_block+0x62/0xba
  [<ffffffff815b41e9>] vmemmap_alloc_block_buf+0x15/0x3b
  [<ffffffff815b1ff6>] vmemmap_populate+0xb4/0x21b
  [<ffffffff815b461d>] sparse_mem_map_populate+0x27/0x35
  [<ffffffff815b400f>] sparse_add_one_section+0x7a/0x185
  [<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
  [<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
  [<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
  [<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
  [<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
  [<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
  [<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
  [<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6
  [<ffffffff81a1fd58>] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2a/0x2a
  [<ffffffff810020e2>] do_one_initcall+0xe2/0x190
  [<ffffffff819e20c4>] kernel_init_freeable+0x17c/0x207
  [<ffffffff819e18d0>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88
  [<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
  [<ffffffff8159feae>] kernel_init+0xe/0x180
  [<ffffffff815cca2c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  [<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
 Mem-Info:
 Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
 CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
 Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
 CPU    0: hi:   42, btch:   7 usd:   0
 active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
  active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
  free:872 slab_reclaimable:13 slab_unreclaimable:1880
  mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
  free_cma:0

because the system has run out of memory at boot time.  This occurs
because of the following sequence in the boot:

Main kernel boots and sets E820 map.  The second kernel is booted with a
map generated by the kdump service using memmap= and memmap=exactmap.
These parameters are added to the kernel parameters of the kexec/kdump
kernel.   The kexec/kdump kernel has limited memory resources so as not
to severely impact the main kernel.

The system then panics and the kdump/kexec kernel boots (which is a
completely new kernel boot).  During this boot ACPI is initialized and the
kernel (as can be seen above) traverses the ACPI namespace and finds an
entry for a memory device to be hotadded.

ie)

  [<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
  [<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
  [<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
  [<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
  [<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
  [<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
  [<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
  [<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6

At this point the kernel adds page table information and the the kexec/kdump
kernel runs out of memory.

This can also be reproduced by using the memmap=exactmap and mem=X
parameters on the main kernel and booting.

This patchset resolves the problem by adding a kernel parameter,
acpi_no_memhotplug, to disable ACPI memory hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter. To use this kernel parameter,
specify an initial APIC ID of the corresponding CPU you want to
disable.

This is mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to disable BSP to wake up
multiple CPUs without causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT
from AP to BSP.

Kdump users first figure out initial APIC ID of the BSP, CPU0 in the
1st kernel, for example from /proc/cpuinfo and then set up this kernel
parameter for the 2nd kernel using the obtained APIC ID.

However, doing this procedure at each boot time manually is awkward,
which should be automatically done by user-land service scripts, for
example, kexec-tools on fedora/RHEL distributions.

This design is more flexible than disabling BSP in kernel boot time
automatically in that in kernel boot time we have no choice but
referring to ACPI/MP table to obtain initial APIC ID for BSP, meaning
that the method is not applicable to the systems without such BIOS
tables.

One assumption behind this design is that users get initial APIC ID of
the BSP in still healthy state and so BSP is uniquely kept in
CPU0. Thus, through the kernel parameter, only one initial APIC ID can
be specified.

In a comparison with disabled_cpu_apicid, we use read_apic_id(), not
boot_cpu_physical_apicid, because on some platforms, the variable is
modified to the apicid reported as BSP through MP table and this
function is executed with the temporarily modified
boot_cpu_physical_apicid. As a result, disabled_cpu_apicid kernel
parameter doesn't work well for apicids of APs.

Fixing the wrong handling of boot_cpu_physical_apicid requires some
reviews and tests beyond some platforms and it could take some
time. The fix here is a kind of workaround to focus on the main topic
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115064458.1545.38775.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6


Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Further documentation of the 3 possible kernel value of the audit
command line option.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

The default audit_backlog_limit is 64.  This was a reasonable limit at one time.

systemd causes so much audit queue activity on startup that auditd doesn't
start before the backlog queue has already overflowed by more than a factor of
2.  On a system with audit= not set on the kernel command line, this isn't an
issue since that history isn't kept for auditd when it is available.  On a
system with audit=1 set on the kernel command line, kaudit tries to keep that
history until auditd is able to drain the queue.

This default can be changed by the "-b" option in audit.rules once the system
has booted, but won't help with lost messages on boot.

One way to solve this would be to increase the default backlog queue size to
avoid losing any messages before auditd is able to consume them.  This would
be overkill to the embedded community and insufficient for some servers.

Another way to solve it might be to add a kconfig option to set the default
based on the system type.  An embedded system would get the current (or
smaller) default, while Workstations might get more than now and servers might
get more.

None of these solutions helps if a system's compiled default is too small to
see the lost messages without compiling a new kernel.

This patch adds a kernel set-up parameter (audit already has one to
enable/disable it) "audit_backlog_limit=<n>" that overrides the default to
allow the system administrator to set the backlog limit.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

Add the "audit=" kernel start-up parameter to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt doesn't contain up-to-date
documentation regarding swiotlb= parameter. Update it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly
onto the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option
to disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the
BIOS.

The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this,
but that was never ported to the libata layer.

This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force.

Example use:

 libata.force=2.0:disable

[v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo]

Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk
Link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co
Link: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive

This new parameter is used to control how to report HW error reporting,
especially for newer Intel platform, like Ivybridge-EX, which contains
an enhanced error decoding functionality in the firmware, i.e. eMCA.

Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386310630-12529-2-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com


[ Boris: massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

In doc, it said that 'Currently supported controllers - "memory"',
but actually we can use cgroup_disable=cpu,cpuset and all other
controllers, so this is confusing for cgroup users without much
cgroup knowledge. We need to make it clear.

[some comments copied from Paul Menage's original patch 8bab8dde]

Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET
registers to userspace.  The Kconfig help points out that in some cases
this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the
map such that additional data is exposed to userspace.

This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP
functionality but it comes with a significant security risk.  In an effort
to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP
functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that
is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The hot-Pluggable field in SRAT specifies which memory is hotpluggable.
As we mentioned before, if hotpluggable memory is used by the kernel, it
cannot be hot-removed.  So memory hotplug users may want to set all
hotpluggable memory in ZONE_MOVABLE so that the kernel won't use it.

Memory hotplug users may also set a node as movable node, which has
ZONE_MOVABLE only, so that the whole node can be hot-removed.

But the kernel cannot use memory in ZONE_MOVABLE.  By doing this, the
kernel cannot use memory in movable nodes.  This will cause NUMA
performance down.  And other users may be unhappy.

So we need a way to allow users to enable and disable this functionality.
In this patch, we introduce movable_node boot option to allow users to
choose to not to consume hotpluggable memory at early boot time and later
we can set it as ZONE_MOVABLE.

To achieve this, the movable_node boot option will control the memblock
allocation direction.  That said, after memblock is ready, before SRAT is
parsed, we should allocate memory near the kernel image as we explained in
the previous patches.  So if movable_node boot option is set, the kernel
does the following:

1. After memblock is ready, make memblock allocate memory bottom up.
2. After SRAT is parsed, make memblock behave as default, allocate memory
   top down.

Users can specify "movable_node" in kernel commandline to enable this
functionality.  For those who don't use memory hotplug or who don't want
to lose their NUMA performance, just don't specify anything.  The kernel
will work as before.

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously,
with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down
for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime
services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use
them.

Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute
the kernel namespace.

Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous
options and chicken bits from the command line.

While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as
a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's
some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to
hold up the sarcasm here...).

Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

It's incredibly difficult to diagnose early EFI boot issues without
special hardware because earlyprintk=vga doesn't work on EFI systems.

Add support for writing to the EFI framebuffer, via earlyprintk=efi,
which will actually give users a chance of providing debug output.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

The IMA measurement list contains two hashes - a template data hash
and a filedata hash.  The template data hash is committed to the TPM,
which is limited, by the TPM v1.2 specification, to 20 bytes.  The
filedata hash is defined as 20 bytes as well.

Now that support for variable length measurement list templates was
added, the filedata hash is not limited to 20 bytes.  This patch adds
Kconfig support for defining larger default filedata hash algorithms
and replacing the builtin default with one specified on the kernel
command line.

<uapi/linux/hash_info.h> contains a list of hash algorithms.  The
Kconfig default hash algorithm is a subset of this list, but any hash
algorithm included in the list can be specified at boot, using the
'ima_hash=' kernel command line option.

Changelog v2:
- update Kconfig

Changelog:
- support hashes that are configured
- use generic HASH_ALGO_ definitions
- add Kconfig support
- hash_setup must be called only once (Dmitry)
- removed trailing whitespaces (Roberto Sassu)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>

This patch allows users to specify from the kernel command line the
template descriptor, among those defined, that will be used to generate
and display measurement entries. If an user specifies a wrong template,
IMA reverts to the template descriptor set in the kernel configuration.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

mrst is used as common name to represent all intel_mid type
soc's. But moorsetwon is just one of the intel_mid soc. So
renamed them to use intel_mid.

This patch mainly renames the variables and related
functions that uses *mrst* prefix with *intel_mid*.

To ensure that there are no functional changes, I have compared
the objdump of related files before and after rename and found
the only difference is symbol and name changes.

Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382049336-21316-6-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

This allows decompress_kernel to return a new location for the kernel to
be relocated to. Additionally, enforces CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START as the
minimum relocation position when building with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE.

With CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE set, the choose_kernel_location routine
will select a new location to decompress the kernel, though here it is
presently a no-op. The kernel command line option "nokaslr" is introduced
to bypass these routines.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381450698-28710-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org


Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Recently commit bab55417 ("block: support embedded device command
line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER.  However, that name
is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot
arg processing, when it really is block specific.

Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_
prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it
is block specific.

In addition, fix up the following less critical items:
 - help text was not really at all helpful.
 - index file for Documentation was not updated
 - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
 - clarify wording in source comments

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Han Pingtian found a typo in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt about
"kernelcore=", that "kernelcore" should be replaced with "Movable" here.

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Which disables in the ticketlock slowpath the Xen PV optimization's.
Useful for diagnosing issues and comparing benchmarks in
over-commit CPU scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Rename the new 'recover_locks' kernel parameter to 'recover_lost_locks'
and change the default to 'false'. Document why in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Move the 'recover_lost_locks' kernel parameter to fs/nfs/super.c to
make it easy to backport to kernels prior to 3.6.x, which don't have
a separate NFSv4 module.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The swapaccount kernel parameter without any values has been removed by
commit a2c8990a ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter") but
it seems that we didn't get rid of all the left overs.

Make sure that menuconfig help text and kernel-parameters.txt are clear
about value for the paramter and remove the stalled comment which is not
very much useful on its own.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Gergely Risko <gergely@risko.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The virtual console has (undocumented) module parameters to set the
colors for italic and underlined text, but the default text color was
hardcoded for some reason.  This made it impossible to change the color
for startup messages, or to set the default for new virtual consoles.
Add a module parameter for that, and document the entire bunch.

Any hacker who thinks that a command prompt on a "black screen with
white font" is not supicious enough can now use the kernel parameter
vt.color=10 to get a nice, evil green.

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This patch changes the "acpi_osi=" boot parameter implementation so
that:
1. "acpi_osi=!" can be used to disable all _OSI OS vendor strings by
   default.  It is meaningless to specify "acpi_osi=!" multiple
   times as it can only affect the default state of the target _OSI
   strings.
2. "acpi_osi=!*" can be used to remove all _OSI OS vendor strings
   and all _OSI feature group strings.  It is useful to specify
   "acpi_osi=!*" multiple times through kernel command line to
   override the current state of the target _OSI strings.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

This patch introduces "acpi_osi=!" command line to force Linux replying
"UNSUPPORTED" to all of the _OSI strings.  This patch is based on an
ACPICA enhancement - the new API acpi_update_interfaces().

The _OSI object provides the platform with the ability to query OSPM
to determine the set of ACPI related interfaces, behaviors, or
features that the operating system supports.  The argument passed to
the _OSI is a string like the followings:
1. Feature Group String, examples include
   Module Device
   Processor Device
   3.0 _SCP Extensions
   Processor Aggregator Device
   ...
2. OS Vendor String, examples include
   Linux
   FreeBSD
   Windows
   ...

There are AML codes provided in the ACPI namespace written in the
following style to determine OSPM interfaces / features:
    Method(OSCK)
    {
        if (CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0))
        {
            if (\_OSI("Windows"))
            {
                Return (One)
            }
            if (\_OSI("Windows 2006"))
            {
                Return (Ones)
            }
            Return (Zero)
        }
        Return (Zero)
    }

There is a debugging facility implemented in Linux.  Users can pass
"acpi_osi=" boot parameters to the kernel to tune the _OSI evaluation
result so that certain AML codes can be executed.  Current
implementation includes:
1. 'acpi_osi=' - this makes CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0) TRUE
2. 'acpi_osi="Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") TRUE
3. 'acpi_osi="!Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") FALSE
The function to implement this feature is also used as a quirk mechanism
in the Linux ACPI subystem.

When _OSI is evaluatated by the AML codes, ACPICA replies "SUPPORTED"
to all Windows operating system vendor strings.  This is because
Windows operating systems return "SUPPORTED" if the argument to the
_OSI method specifies an earlier version of Windows.  Please refer to
the following MSDN document:

How to Identify the Windows Version in ACPI by Using _OSI
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hardware/gg463275.aspx



This adds difficulties when developers want to feed specific Windows
operating system vendor string to the BIOS codes for debugging
purpose, multiple acpi_osi="!xxx" have to be specified in the command
line to force Linux replying "UNSUPPORTED" to the Windows OS vendor
strings listed in the AML codes.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Merge together the unicore32, arm, and x86 reboot= command line
parameter handling.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add description for video module's parameter brightness_switch_enabled
into kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

This patch moves the integrity_audit_msg() function and defintion to
security/integrity/, the parent directory, renames the 'ima_audit'
boot command line option to 'integrity_audit', and fixes the Kconfig
help text to reflect the actual code.

Changelog:
- Fixed ifdef inclusion of integrity_audit_msg() (Fengguang Wu)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.

This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The package power limit notification interrupt is primarily for
system diagnosis, and should not be blindly enabled on every
system by default -- particuarly since Linux does nothing in the
handler except count how many times it has been called...

Add a new kernel cmdline parameter "int_pln_enable" for situations where
users want to oberve these events via existing system counters:

$ grep TRM /proc/interrupts

$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/thermal_throttle/*

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36182



Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Some device require DMADIR to be enabled, but are not detected as such
by atapi_id_dmadir.  One such example is "Asus Serillel 2"
SATA-host-to-PATA-device bridge: the bridge itself requires DMADIR,
even if the bridged device does not.

As atapi_dmadir module parameter can cause problems with some devices
(as per Tejun Heo's memory), enabling it globally may not be possible
depending on the hardware.

This patch adds atapi_dmadir in the form of a "force" horkage value,
allowing global, per-bus and per-device control.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Commit d1a6f4f1
"block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware"
deleted the XD disk driver, but there are still a few
references to it in the documentation directory. Delete
the remnants and thus also free up the major block device
13 for reuse.

Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and
more pages in the swap disk without any purpose.

The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking
is when frontswap is being utilized.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

If tmem is built-in or a module, the user has the option on
the command line to influence it by doing: tmem.<some option>
instead of having a variety of "nocleancache", and
"nofrontswap". The others: "noselfballooning" and "selfballooning";
and "noselfshrink" are in a different driver xen-selfballoon.c
and the patches:

 xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead.
 xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfballoon','selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballon' bool instead.

remove them.

Also add documentation.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
core that is already awake.

Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system.  To enable
power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.

tj: Updated config description and comments.  Renamed
    CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT to CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>