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2009-10-01x86: earlyprintk: Fix regression to handle serial,ttySn as 1 argJason Wessel
Commit c953094 ("early_printk: Allow more than one early console") introduced a regression in the parsing of the earlyprintk= kernel arguments. If you specify "earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200" as a kernel argument, the "serial,ttyS" should be parsed as a single argument and not as "serial" and then "ttyS". Also update the documentation to reflect you can specify the ttyS directly without the "serial" argument. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> LKML-Reference: <4ABB7D5E.6000301@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-23USB: ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgpJason Wessel
Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other than the first one in the system. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-21trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txtStephen Hemminger
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (262 commits) sh: mach-ecovec24: Add user debug switch support sh: Kill off unused se_skipped in alignment trap notification code. sh: Wire up HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS. video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: use both register sets for display panning video: sh_mobile_lcdcfb: implement display panning sh: Fix up sh7705 flush_dcache_page() build. sh: kfr2r09: document the PLL/FLL <-> RF relationship. sh: mach-ecovec24: need asm/clock.h. sh: mach-ecovec24: deassert usb irq on boot. sh: Add KEYSC support for EcoVec24 sh: add kycr2_delay for sh_keysc sh: cpufreq: Include CPU id in info messages. sh: multi-evt support for SH-X3 proto CPU. sh: clkfwk: remove bogus set_bus_parent() from SH7709. sh: Fix the indication point of the liquid crystal of AP-325RXA(AP3300) sh: Add EcoVec24 romImage defconfig sh: USB disable process is needed if romImage boot for EcoVec24 sh: EcoVec24: add HIZA setting for LED sh: EcoVec24: write MAC address in boot sh: Add romImage support for EcoVec24 ...
2009-09-17MIPS: Loongson: Add a machtype kernel command line argumentWu Zhangjin
The difference between some loongson-based machines is very small, so, if there is no necessary to add new kernel config options to cope with this difference, it will be better to share the same kernel image file between them, benefit from this, the linux distribution developers only have a need to compile the kernel one time. This machtype kernel command line argument will be used later to share the same kernel image file between two different machines(menglong & yeeloong) made by lemote. Thanks very much to Zhang Le for cleaning up the machtype implementation. Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-09-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵Paul Mundt
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: arch/sh/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits) powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas() vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm() percpu: add chunk->base_addr percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[] percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page percpu: improve boot messages percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking ... Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-14Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits) MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry KVM: correct error-handling code KVM: fix compile warnings on s390 KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6 KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags KVM: Add missing #include ...
2009-09-14Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits) netxen: update copyright netxen: fix tx timeout recovery netxen: fix file firmware leak netxen: improve pci memory access netxen: change firmware write size tg3: Fix return ring size breakage netxen: build fix for INET=n cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr() ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded ... Fixed up trivial conflicts: - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine. - drivers/net/tun.c fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use. Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
2009-09-11Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (87 commits) NFSv4: Disallow 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=2' and 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=3' NFS: Allow the "nfs" file system type to support NFSv4 NFS: Move details of nfs4_get_sb() to a helper NFS: Refactor NFSv4 text-based mount option validation NFS: Mount option parser should detect missing "port=" NFS: out of date comment regarding O_EXCL above nfs3_proc_create() NFS: Handle a zero-length auth flavor list SUNRPC: Ensure that sunrpc gets initialised before nfs, lockd, etc... nfs: fix compile error in rpc_pipefs.h nfs: Remove reference to generic_osync_inode from a comment SUNRPC: cache must take a reference to the cache detail's module on open() NFS: Use the DNS resolver in the mount code. NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migration SUNRPC: Fix a typo in cache_pipefs_files nfs: nfs4xdr: optimize low level decoding nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of READ_BUF nfs: nfs4xdr: simplify decode_exchange_id by reusing decode_opaque_inline nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of COPYMEM nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_sessionid helper nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_verifier helper ...
2009-09-10KVM: add module parameters documentationAndre Przywara
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-06Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-01sh: nmi_debug support.Paul Mundt
This implements support for NMI debugging that was shamelessly copied from the avr32 port. A bit of special magic is needed in the interrupt exception path given that the NMI exception handler is stubbed in to the regular exception handling table despite being reported in INTEVT. So we mangle the lookup and kick off an EXPEVT-style exception dispatch from the INTEVT path for exceptions that do_IRQ() has no chance of handling. As a result, we also drop the evt2irq() conversion from the do_IRQ() path and just do it in assembly. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-08-19NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migrationTrond Myklebust
The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC client. We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with rpc_pipefs. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-19Merge branch 'nfsv4_xdr_cleanups-for-2.6.32' into nfs-for-2.6.32Trond Myklebust
Conflicts: fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
2009-08-14percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocatorTejun Heo
With x86 converted to embedding allocator, lpage doesn't have any user left. Kill it along with cpa handling code. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
2009-08-14percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selectionTejun Heo
Now that all first chunk allocators are in mm/percpu.c, it makes sense to make generalize percpu_alloc kernel parameter. Define PCPU_FC_* and set pcpu_chosen_fc using early_param() in mm/percpu.c. Arch code can use the set value to determine which first chunk allocator to use. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to pageTejun Heo
Page size isn't always 4k depending on arch and configuration. Rename 4k first chunk allocator to page. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-08-12Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: arch/microblaze/include/asm/socket.h
2009-08-12Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: document libata's ignore_hpa optionMichael Prokop
By default the kernel honors the HPA (host protected area) of hard drives. Using libata's ignore_hpa module option it's possible to change this behaviour. Document usage and options of libata.ignore_hpa in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-08-09SUNRPC: convert some sysctls into module parametersTrond Myklebust
Parameters like the minimum reserved port, and the number of slot entries should really be module parameters rather than sysctls. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-07-18Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: tracing/core was on an older, pre-rc1 base. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: dma-debug: Fix the overlap() function to be correct and readable oprofile: reset bt_lost_no_mapping with other stats x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmon signals: declare sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo in syscalls.h rcu: Mark Hierarchical RCU no longer experimental dma-debug: Put all hash-chain locks into the same lock class dma-debug: fix off-by-one error in overlap function
2009-07-10x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmonRobert Richter
The short name of the achitecture is 'arch_perfmon'. This patch changes the kernel parameter to use this name. Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-08netpoll: Introduce netpoll_carrier_timeout kernel optionAnton Vorontsov
Some PHYs require longer timeouts for carrier detection, and auto-negotiation process may take indefinite amount of time. It may be inconvenient to force longer timeouts for sane PHYs, so let's introduce a kernel command line option. Since we're using module_param(), the option also can be changed in runtime. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-01tracing/events: Add trace_event boot optionLi Zefan
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-28Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h> x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h> x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch() x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias() x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
2009-06-28Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: Fix the output of profile ring-buffer: Make it generally available ftrace: Remove duplicate newline tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option ftrace: Fix t_hash_start() ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start() ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start() tracing: Reset iterator in t_start() trace_stat: Don't increment @pos in seq start() tracing_bprintk: Don't increment @pos in t_start() tracing/events: Don't increment @pos in s_start()
2009-06-24Revert "PCI: use ACPI _CRS data by default"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 9e9f46c44e487af0a82eb61b624553e2f7118f5b. Quoting from the commit message: "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." And guess what? The _CRS code causes trouble. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-24tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot optionLi Zefan
We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24Merge branches 'acerhdf', 'acpi-pci-bind', 'bjorn-pci-root', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-12904', 'bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13396', 'bugzilla-13533', 'bugzilla-13612', 'c3_lock', 'hid-cleanups', 'misc-2.6.31', 'pdc-leak-fix', 'pnpacpi', 'power_nocheck', 'thinkpad_acpi', 'video' and 'wmi' into release
2009-06-22Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/iommu-2.6.31Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/iommu-2.6.31: intel-iommu: Fix one last ia64 build problem in Pass Through Support VT-d: support the device IOTLB VT-d: cleanup iommu_flush_iotlb_psi and flush_unmaps VT-d: add device IOTLB invalidation support VT-d: parse ATSR in DMA Remapping Reporting Structure PCI: handle Virtual Function ATS enabling PCI: support the ATS capability intel-iommu: dmar_set_interrupt return error value intel-iommu: Tidy up iommu->gcmd handling intel-iommu: Fix tiny theoretical race in write-buffer flush. intel-iommu: Clean up handling of "caching mode" vs. IOTLB flushing. intel-iommu: Clean up handling of "caching mode" vs. context flushing. VT-d: fix invalid domain id for KVM context flush Fix !CONFIG_DMAR build failure introduced by Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support Intel IOMMU Pass Through Support Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/pci/{intel-iommu.c,intr_remapping.c}
2009-06-22Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (63 commits) mtd: OneNAND: Allow setting of boundary information when built as module jffs2: leaking jffs2_summary in function jffs2_scan_medium mtd: nand: Fix memory leak on txx9ndfmc probe failure. mtd: orion_nand: use burst reads with double word accesses mtd/nand: s3c6400 support for s3c2410 driver [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Use DIV_ROUND_UP [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Deal with unaligned lengths in S3C2440 buffer read/write [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Allow the machine code to get the BBT table from NAND [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Added a kerneldoc for s3c2410_nand_set mtd: physmap_of: Add multiple regions and concatenation support mtd: nand: max_retries off by one in mxc_nand mtd: nand: s3c2410_nand_setrate(): use correct macros for 2412/2440 mtd: onenand: add bbt_wait & unlock_all as replaceable for some platform mtd: Flex-OneNAND support mtd: nand: add OMAP2/OMAP3 NAND driver mtd: maps: Blackfin async: fix memory leaks in probe/remove funcs mtd: uclinux: mark local stuff static mtd: uclinux: do not allow to be built as a module mtd: uclinux: allow systems to override map addr/size mtd: blackfin NFC: fix hang when using NAND on BF527-EZKITs ...
2009-06-22Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (49 commits) [ARM] idle: clean up pm_idle calling, obey hlt_counter [ARM] S3C: Fix gpio-config off-by-one bug [ARM] S3C64XX: add to_irq() support for EINT() GPIO [ARM] S3C64XX: clock.c: fix typo in usb-host clock ctrlbit [ARM] S3C64XX: fix HCLK gate defines [ARM] Update mach-types [ARM] wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open OMAP2 clock/powerdomain: off by 1 error in loop timeout comparisons OMAP3 SDRC: set FIXEDDELAY when disabling SDRC DLL OMAP3: Add support for DPLL3 divisor values higher than 2 OMAP3 SRAM: convert SRAM code to use macros rather than magic numbers OMAP3 SRAM: add more comments on the SRAM code OMAP3 clock/SDRC: program SDRC_MR register during SDRC clock change OMAP3 clock: add a short delay when lowering CORE clk rate OMAP3 clock: initialize SDRC timings at kernel start OMAP3 clock: remove wait for DPLL3 M2 clock to stabilize [ARM] Add old Feroceon support to compressed/head.S [ARM] 5559/1: Limit the stack unwinding caused by a kthread exit [ARM] 5558/1: Add extra checks to ARM unwinder to avoid tracing corrupt stacks [ARM] 5557/1: Discard some ARM.ex*.*exit.text sections when !HOTPLUG or !HOTPLUG_CPU ...
2009-06-22Merge branch 'linux-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (74 commits) PCI: make msi_free_irqs() to use msix_mask_irq() instead of open coded write PCI: Fix the NIU MSI-X problem in a better way PCI ASPM: remove get_root_port_link PCI ASPM: cleanup pcie_aspm_sanity_check PCI ASPM: remove has_switch field PCI ASPM: cleanup calc_Lx_latency PCI ASPM: cleanup pcie_aspm_get_cap_device PCI ASPM: cleanup clkpm checks PCI ASPM: cleanup __pcie_aspm_check_state_one PCI ASPM: cleanup initialization PCI ASPM: cleanup change input argument of aspm functions PCI ASPM: cleanup misc in struct pcie_link_state PCI ASPM: cleanup clkpm state in struct pcie_link_state PCI ASPM: cleanup latency field in struct pcie_link_state PCI ASPM: cleanup aspm state field in struct pcie_link_state PCI ASPM: fix typo in struct pcie_link_state PCI: drivers/pci/slot.c should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS PCI: remove redundant __msi_set_enable() PCI PM: consistently use type bool for wake enable variable x86/ACPI: Correct maximum allowed _CRS returned resources and warn if exceeded ...
2009-06-22x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameterTejun Heo
According to Andi, it isn't clear whether lpage allocator is worth the trouble as there are many processors where PMD TLB is far scarcer than PTE TLB. The advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the actual size of percpu area and specific processor. As performance degradation due to TLB pressure tends to be highly workload specific and subtle, it is difficult to decide which way to go without more data. This patch implements percpu_alloc kernel parameter to allow selecting which first chunk allocator to use to ease debugging and testing. While at it, make sure all the failure paths report why something failed to help determining why certain allocator isn't working. Also, kill the "Great future plan" comment which had already been realized quite some time ago. [ Impact: allow explicit percpu first chunk allocator selection ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-18Merge branch 'next-s3c' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux into develRussell King
2009-06-18gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructurePeter Oberparleiter
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16console: make blank timeout value a boot optionDaniel Mack
The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the console again. Especially during development, disabling the screen saver can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at runtime from userspace. This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0. The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl call - this just allows to conditionally change the default. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16[ARM] S3C2440: Merge branch next-mini2440 into next-s3cBen Dooks
Merge branch 'next-mini2440' into next-s3c
2009-06-16x86/PCI: add description for check_enable_amd_mmconf boot parameterAndreas Herrmann
Describe check_enable_amd_mmconf. Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-06-15[ARM] MINI2440: Document the mini2440= kernel parameterMichel Pollet
Also explains why the touchscreen support is not present, and were to find a working one... Signed-off-by: Michel Pollet <buserror@gmail.com> [ben-linux@fluff.org: Fix header description] Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
2009-06-15Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (103 commits) powerpc: Fix bug in move of altivec code to vector.S powerpc: Add support for swiotlb on 32-bit powerpc/spufs: Remove unused error path powerpc: Fix warning when printing a resource_size_t powerpc/xmon: Remove unused variable in xmon.c powerpc/pseries: Fix warnings when printing resource_size_t powerpc: Shield code specific to 64-bit server processors powerpc: Separate PACA fields for server CPUs powerpc: Split exception handling out of head_64.S powerpc: Introduce CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S powerpc: Move VMX and VSX asm code to vector.S powerpc: Set init_bootmem_done on NUMA platforms as well powerpc/mm: Fix a AB->BA deadlock scenario with nohash MMU context lock powerpc/mm: Fix some SMP issues with MMU context handling powerpc: Add PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK support fbdev: Add PLB support and cleanup DCR in xilinxfb driver. powerpc/virtex: Add ml510 reference design device tree powerpc/virtex: Add Xilinx ML510 reference design support powerpc/virtex: refactor intc driver and add support for i8259 cascading powerpc/virtex: Add support for Xilinx PCI host bridge ...
2009-06-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (31 commits) trivial: remove the trivial patch monkey's name from SubmittingPatches trivial: Fix a typo in comment of addrconf_dad_start() trivial: usb: fix missing space typo in doc trivial: pci hotplug: adding __init/__exit macros to sgi_hotplug trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands trivial: fix ETIMEOUT -> ETIMEDOUT typos trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names trivial: SubmittingPatches: fix typo trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos trivial: Fix Pavel's address in MAINTAINERS trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory trivial: unnecessary (void*) cast removal in sound/oss/msnd.c trivial: input/misc: Fix typo in Kconfig trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldoc trivial: rbtree.txt: fix rb_entry() parameters in sample code trivial: spelling fix in ppc code comments trivial: fix typo in bio_alloc kernel doc trivial: Documentation/rbtree.txt: cleanup kerneldoc of rbtree.txt trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixes trivial: fix typo milisecond/millisecond for documentation and source comments. ...
2009-06-12Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 * 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (29 commits) ide: re-implement ide_pci_init_one() on top of ide_pci_init_two() ide: unexport ide_find_dma_mode() ide: fix PowerMac bootup oops ide: skip probe if there are no devices on the port (v2) sl82c105: add printk() logging facility ide-tape: fix proc warning ide: add IDE_DFLAG_NIEN_QUIRK device flag ide: respect quirk_drives[] list on all controllers hpt366: enable all quirks for devices on quirk_drives[] list hpt366: sync quirk_drives[] list with pdc202xx_{new,old}.c ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from do_rw_taskfile() ide: remove superfluous SELECT_MASK() call from ide_driveid_update() icside: remove superfluous ->maskproc method ide-tape: fix IDE_AFLAG_* atomic accesses ide-tape: change IDE_AFLAG_IGNORE_DSC non-atomically pdc202xx_old: kill resetproc() method pdc202xx_old: don't call pdc202xx_reset() on IRQ timeout pdc202xx_old: use ide_dma_test_irq() ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2) ide-gd: implement block device ->set_capacity method (v2) ...
2009-06-12trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12Merge commit 'origin/master' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
2009-06-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in: drivers/char/vt.c init/main.c mm/slab.c
2009-06-11PCI: Add support for turning PCIe ECRC on or offAndrew Patterson
Adds support for PCI Express transaction layer end-to-end CRC checking (ECRC). This patch will enable/disable ECRC checking by setting/clearing the ECRC Check Enable and/or ECRC Generation Enable bits for devices that support ECRC. The ECRC setting is controlled by the "pci=ecrc=<policy>" command-line option. If this option is not set or is set to 'bios", the enable and generation bits are left in whatever state that firmware/BIOS set them to. The "off" setting turns them off, and the "on" option turns them on (if the device supports it). Turning ECRC on or off can be a data integrity versus performance tradeoff. In theory, turning it on will catch more data errors, turning it off means possibly better performance since CRC does not need to be calculated by the PCIe hardware and packet sizes are reduced. Signed-off-by: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-06-11PCI: use ACPI _CRS data by defaultJesse Barnes
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>