At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's try using it by default.  It's an easy revert if it ends up causing trouble.

Reviewed-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Introduce "noxsave" boot parameter which will disable the cpu's xsave/xrstor
capabilities. Useful for debugging and working around xsave related issues.

[ Impact: make it possible to debug problems in the field ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Change last "i386" to X86-32 as is used throughout the rest of the file.
Change combination of X86-32,X86-64 to just X86, as is done throughout the
rest of the file.

Add a note that hyphens and underscores are equivalent in parameter names,
with examples.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Christopher Sylvain <chris.sylvain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

kernel boot parameter `hashdist' now defaults on for all 64bit NUMA.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Re-add missing kernel-parameters documentation that was accidentally
deleted in commit 0cb55ad2.

Thanks to Ingo and Weidong Han for the heads-up on this.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

"nox2apic" was removed from kernel-parameters.txt by mistake, when
entries were sorted in alpha order (commit 0cb55ad2). But this early
parameter is still there, add it back to kernel-parameters.txt.

[ Impact: add boot parameter description ]

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-2-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

X86 is same as X86-32+X86-64 so replace X86-32,X86-64 with X86.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239698023.3033.37.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Move entries to be in alpha order as specified near the beginning
of this file.

Clean up some whitespace and line-length miscues.

Add '=' to "selinux" option syntax.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Enforce strict resource checking - disallowing access by native
drivers to IO ports and memory regions claimed by ACPI firmware.

The patch is mainly aimed to block native hwmon drivers from touching
monitoring chips that ACPI thinks it own.

If this causes a regression, boot with "acpi_enforce_resources=lax"
which was the previous default.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12376
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12541



Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

This adds a 'noiotrap' kernel command line option to permit disabling of
I/O trapping. This is mostly useful for running on emulators where the
physical device limitations are not an issue.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

As per discussion in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=123633652517391&w=2



Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

cgroup documentation was moved to Documentation/cgroups/. There are some
places that still refer to Documentation/controllers/,
Documentation/cgroups.txt and Documentation/cpusets.txt. Fix those.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

The SELinux "compat_net" is marked as deprecated, the time has come to
finally remove it from the kernel.  Further code simplifications are
likely in the future, but this patch was intended to be a simple,
straight-up removal of the compat_net code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

This patch introduces the kernel parameter hvc_iucv_allow= that specifies
a comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
If specified, the z/VM IUCV hypervisor console device driver accepts IUCV
connections from listed z/VM user IDs only.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch extends command line option "i2c_bus=bus_id,clkrate" so that
it allow to register additional I2C busses that are not registered with
omap_register_i2c_bus from board initialization code.

Purpose of this is to register additional board busses which are routed
to external connectors only without any on board I2C devices.

Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

This patch adds a new command line option "i2c_bus=bus_id,clkrate" into
I2C bus registration helper. Purpose of the option is to override the
default board specific bus speed which is supplied by the
omap_register_i2c_bus.

The default bus speed is typically set to speed of slowest I2C chip on the
bus and overriding allow to use some experimental configurations or updated
chip versions without any kernel modifications.

Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

This patch allows memory resources to be assigned with a specified
alignment at boot-time or run-time. The patch is useful when we use PCI
pass-through, because page-aligned memory resources are required to
securely share PCI resources with guest drivers.

If you want to assign the resource at boot time, please set
"pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter.

This is format of "pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter:

        [<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
                Specifies alignment and device to reassign
                aligned memory resources.
                If <order of align> is not specified, PAGE_SIZE is
                used as alignment.
                PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
                windows need to be expanded.

This is example:

        pci=resource_alignment=20@07:00.0;18@0f:00.0;00:1d.7

If you want to assign the resource at run-time, please set
"/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file, and hot-remove the device and
hot-add the device.  For this purpose, fakephp or PCI hotplug interfaces
can be used.

The format of "/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file is the same with
boot parameter. You can use "," instead of ";".

For example:

        # cd /sys/bus/pci
        # echo -n 20@12:00.0 > resource_alignment
        # echo 1 > devices/0000:12:00.0/remove
        # echo 1 > rescan

Reviewed-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuji Shimada <shimada-yxb@necst.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Document the "pci=earlydump" argument.  This currently only works on x86.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

from early boot tracing view, trace_buf_size parameter is important.
it should be documented.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090310135200.A48B.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: add dma_debug= and dma_debug_entries= kernel parameters

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

While trying to debug why my Atom netbook is falling over booting
rawhide debug-enabled kernels, I stumbled across the fact that we've
been enabling object debugging by default. However, once you default it
to on, you've got no way to turn it back off again at runtime.

Add a boolean toggle to turn it off. I would just make it an int
module_param, however people may already expect the boolean enable
behaviour, so just add an analogue for disabling.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- ide=nodma is no longer valid.

drivers/ide/Kconfig
- The module is ide-core.ko not ide.

drivers/ide/ide.c
- It took me a while to figure out what the arguments %d.%d:%d to nodma
  module parameter ment, so I added a comment to each.
- Added a comment to each of the sscanf lines.
- There is a bug, if j is 0 it would previously clear all the other bits
  except the current device, changed in three different places.
  mask &= (1 << i) should be mask &= ~(1 << i).

Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net>
[bart: s/disk/device/ in ide.c, beautify patch description]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: Documentation fix

The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again.  It should
never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was
32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while.

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

Add missing parameter value to list of available values
for acpi=<value>.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

IMA provides hardware (TPM) based measurement and attestation for
file measurements. As the Trusted Computing (TPM) model requires,
IMA measures all files before they are accessed in any way (on the
integrity_bprm_check, integrity_path_check and integrity_file_mmap
hooks), and commits the measurements to the TPM. Once added to the
TPM, measurements can not be removed.

In addition, IMA maintains a list of these file measurements, which
can be used to validate the aggregate value stored in the TPM.  The
TPM can sign these measurements, and thus the system can prove, to
itself and to a third party, the system's integrity in a way that
cannot be circumvented by malicious or compromised software.

- alloc ima_template_entry before calling ima_store_template()
- log ima_add_boot_aggregate() failure
- removed unused IMA_TEMPLATE_NAME_LEN
- replaced hard coded string length with #define name

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

This patch replaces the generic integrity hooks, for which IMA registered
itself, with IMA integrity hooks in the appropriate places directly
in the fs directory.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Due to recurring issues with DMAR support on certain platforms.
There's a number of filesystem corruption incidents reported:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479996
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12578



Provide a Kconfig option to change whether it is enabled by
default.

If disabled, it can still be reenabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the
kernel. Keep the .config option off by default.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-By: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove removed OSS kernel parameters from kernel-parameters.txt

Remove the kernel parameters from the OSS drivers of the chips
es1371 (removed 10-2007/2.6.24) and
cs4232 (removed 02-2008/2.6.25) from the kernel parameters documentation.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

On some boxes there exist both RSDT and XSDT table. But unfortunately
sometimes there exists the following error when XSDT table is used:
   a. 32/64X address mismatch
   b. The 32/64X FACS address mismatch

   In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that
RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246



Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
cc:Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Config and control variable for mem+swap controller.

This patch adds CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
(memory resource controller swap extension.)

For accounting swap, it's obvious that we have to use additional memory to
remember "who uses swap".  This adds more overhead.  So, it's better to
offer "choice" to users.  This patch adds 2 choices.

This patch adds 2 parameters to enable swap extension or not.
  - CONFIG
  - boot option

Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Device drivers that use pci_request_regions() (and similar APIs) have a
reasonable expectation that they are the only ones accessing their device.
As part of the e1000e hunt, we were afraid that some userland (X or some
bootsplash stuff) was mapping the MMIO region that the driver thought it
had exclusively via /dev/mem or via various sysfs resource mappings.

This patch adds the option for device drivers to cause their reserved
regions to the "banned from /dev/mem use" list, so now both kernel memory
and device-exclusive MMIO regions are banned.
NOTE: This is only active when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is set.

In addition to the config option, a kernel parameter iomem=relaxed is
provided for the cases where developers want to diagnose, in the field,
drivers issues from userspace.

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

This patch (as1190) makes usb-storage's "quirks=" module parameter
writable, so that users can add entries for their devices at runtime
with no need to reboot or reload usb-storage.

New codes are added for the SANE_SENSE, CAPACITY_HEURISTICS, and
CAPACITY_OK flags.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch (as1163b) adds a "quirks=" module parameter to usb-storage.
This will allow people to make short-term changes to their
unusual_devs list without rebuilding the entire driver.  Testing will
become much easier, and less-sophisticated users will be able to
access their buggy devices after a simple config-file change instead
of having to wait for a new kernel release.

The patch also adds a documentation entry for usb-storage's
"delay_use" parameter, which has been around for years but but was
never listed among the kernel parameters.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'.  Setting a value to
this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be
changed.

It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole
system at boot time.  Without this parameter, users have to change
coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script.

Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text.

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 some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.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>