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  1. Jul 27, 2007
  2. Jul 22, 2007
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu · 2aae950b
      Andi Kleen authored
      
      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: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2aae950b
  3. Jul 20, 2007
  4. Jul 17, 2007
  5. Jul 16, 2007
    • Dave Jones's avatar
      Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled · 97842216
      Dave Jones authored
      
      It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime.
      Especially if it triggers during a distro install.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      97842216
    • Pierre Ossman's avatar
      init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devices · cc1ed754
      Pierre Ossman authored
      
      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: default avatarPierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cc1ed754
    • Randy Dunlap's avatar
      add printk.time option, deprecate 'time' · e84845c4
      Randy Dunlap authored
      
      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: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e84845c4
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      vdso: print fatal signals · 45807a1d
      Ingo Molnar authored
      
      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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      45807a1d
    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      more scheduled OSS driver removal · b5d425c9
      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: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b5d425c9
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      SLUB: support slub_debug on by default · f0630fff
      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: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0630fff
    • KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's avatar
      change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logic · f0c0b2b8
      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: default avatarKAMEZAWA 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: default avatarLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0c0b2b8
    • Yinghai Lu's avatar
      serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250 · 18a8bd94
      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: default avatar <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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      18a8bd94
    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers · a3e4da54
      Adrian Bunk authored
      
      This patch removes the documentation for the removed legacy CDROM drivers.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      a3e4da54
  6. Jul 09, 2007
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      sched: zap the migration init / cache-hot balancing code · 0437e109
      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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0437e109
  7. Jul 03, 2007
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  10. May 29, 2007
    • Len Brown's avatar
      ACPI: extend "acpi_osi=" boot option · ae00d812
      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: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      ae00d812
  11. May 24, 2007
  12. May 10, 2007
  13. May 08, 2007
    • Antonino A. Daplas's avatar
      vt: add documentation for new boot/sysfs options · 55ff9780
      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: default avatarAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      55ff9780
    • Bjorn Helgaas's avatar
      x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices · 7e92b4fc
      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: default avatarBjorn 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7e92b4fc
    • Bjorn Helgaas's avatar
      smsc-ircc2: add PNP support · d0d4f69b
      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: default avatarBjorn 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: default avatarSamuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d0d4f69b
  14. May 02, 2007
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