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2010-09-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: bus speed strings should be const PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set() PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available() x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
2010-08-24PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at onceRafael J. Wysocki
After commit 852972acff8f10f3a15679be2059bb94916cba5d (ACPI: Disable ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe) control of the PCIe Capability Structure is unconditionally requested by acpi_pci_root_add(), which in principle may cause problems to happen in two ways. First, the BIOS may refuse to give control of the PCIe Capability Structure if it is not asked for any of the _OSC features depending on it at the same time. Second, the BIOS may assume that control of the _OSC features depending on the PCIe Capability Structure will be requested in the future and may behave incorrectly if that doesn't happen. For this reason, control of the PCIe Capability Structure should always be requested along with control of any other _OSC features that may depend on it (ie. PCIe native PME, PCIe native hot-plug, PCIe AER). Rework the PCIe port driver so that (1) it checks which native PCIe port services can be enabled, according to the BIOS, and (2) it requests control of all these services simultaneously. In particular, this causes pcie_portdrv_probe() to fail if the BIOS refuses to grant control of the PCIe Capability Structure, which means that no native PCIe port services can be enabled for the PCIe Root Complex the given port belongs to. If that happens, ASPM is disabled to avoid problems with mishandling it by the part of the PCIe hierarchy for which control of the PCIe Capability Structure has not been received. Make it possible to override this behavior using 'pcie_ports=native' (use the PCIe native services regardless of the BIOS response to the control request), or 'pcie_ports=compat' (do not use the PCIe native services at all). Accordingly, rework the existing PCIe port service drivers so that they don't request control of the services directly. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-08-24PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port servicesRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce kernel command line switch pcie_ports= allowing one to disable all of the native PCIe port services, so that PCIe ports are treated like PCI-to-PCI bridges. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-08-23xen: pvhvm: rename xen_emul_unplug=ignore to =unnnecessaryIan Campbell
It is not immediately clear what this option causes to become ignored. The actual meaning is that it is not necessary to unplug the emulated devices to safely use the PV ones, even if the platform does not support the unplug protocol. (pressumably the user will only add this option if they have ensured that their domain configuration is safe). I think xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary better captures this. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-23xen: pvhvm: allow user to request no emulated device unplugIan Campbell
this allows the user to disable pvhvm and revert to emulated devices in case of a system misconfiguration (e.g. initramfs with only emulated drivers in it). Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
2010-08-15Merge git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6: intel-iommu: Fix 32-bit build warning with __cmpxchg() intr-remap: allow disabling source id checking
2010-08-14Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text fileRandy Dunlap
Move SCSI parameters from kernel-parameters.txt to their own text file. This continues a trend of moving non-core parameters out of kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11panic: keep blinking in spite of long spin timer modeTAMUKI Shoichi
To keep panic_timeout accuracy when running under a hypervisor, the current implementation only spins on long time (1 second) calls to mdelay. That brings a good effect, but the problem is the keyboard LEDs don't blink at all on that situation. This patch changes to call to panic_blink_enter() between every mdelay and keeps blinking in spite of long spin timer mode. The time to call to mdelay is now 100ms. Even this change will keep panic_timeout accuracy enough when running under a hypervisor. Signed-off-by: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-10serial: MMIO32 support for 8250_early.cSamium Gromoff
Provide MMIO32 support in 8250_early (aka earlycon) [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix printk format warnings] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk args some more] Signed-off-by: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@feelingofgreen.ru> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-10intr-remap: allow disabling source id checkingChris Wright
Allow disabling the source id checking while programming the interrupt remap table entry. Useful for debugging or working around the broken source id checks on some platforms. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-08-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (214 commits) ALSA: hda - Add pin-fix for HP dc5750 ALSA: als4000: Fix potentially invalid DMA mode setup ALSA: als4000: enable burst mode ALSA: hda - Fix initial capsrc selection in patch_alc269() ASoC: TWL4030: Capture route runtime DAPM ordering fix ALSA: hda - Add PC-beep whitelist for an Intel board ALSA: hda - More relax for pending period handling ALSA: hda - Define AC_FMT_* constants ALSA: hda - Fix beep frequency on IDT 92HD73xx and 92HD71Bxx codecs ALSA: hda - Add support for HDMI HBR passthrough ALSA: hda - Set Stream Type in Stream Format according to AES0 ALSA: hda - Fix Thinkpad X300 so SPDIF is not exposed ALSA: hda - FIX to not expose SPDIF on Thinkpad X301, since it does not have the ability to use SPDIF ASoC: wm9081: fix resource reclaim in wm9081_register error path ASoC: wm8978: fix a memory leak if a wm8978_register fail ASoC: wm8974: fix a memory leak if another WM8974 is registered ASoC: wm8961: fix resource reclaim in wm8961_register error path ASoC: wm8955: fix resource reclaim in wm8955_register error path ASoC: wm8940: fix a memory leak if wm8940_register return error ASoC: wm8904: fix resource reclaim in wm8904_register error path ...
2010-08-06Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: um: Fix read_persistent_clock fallout kgdb: Do not access xtime directly powerpc: Clean up obsolete code relating to decrementer and timebase powerpc: Rework VDSO gettimeofday to prevent time going backwards clocksource: Add __clocksource_updatefreq_hz/khz methods x86: Convert common clocksources to use clocksource_register_hz/khz timekeeping: Make xtime and wall_to_monotonic static hrtimer: Cleanup direct access to wall_to_monotonic um: Convert to use read_persistent_clock timkeeping: Fix update_vsyscall to provide wall_to_monotonic offset powerpc: Cleanup xtime usage powerpc: Simplify update_vsyscall time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME time: Implement timespec_add x86: Fix vtime/file timestamp inconsistencies Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt Much less trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c resolved as per Thomas' earlier merge commit 47916be4e28c ("Merge branch 'powerpc.cherry-picks' into timers/clocksource")
2010-08-06Merge 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: (30 commits) PCI: update for owner removal from struct device_attribute PCI: Fix warnings when CONFIG_DMI unset PCI: Do not run NVidia quirks related to MSI with MSI disabled x86/PCI: use for_each_pci_dev() PCI: use for_each_pci_dev() PCI: MSI: Restore read_msi_msg_desc(); add get_cached_msi_msg_desc() PCI: export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs PCI: Allow read/write access to sysfs I/O port resources x86/PCI: use host bridge _CRS info on ASRock ALiveSATA2-GLAN PCI: remove unused HAVE_ARCH_PCI_SET_DMA_MAX_SEGMENT_{SIZE|BOUNDARY} PCI: disable mmio during bar sizing PCI: MSI: Remove unsafe and unnecessary hardware access PCI: Default PCIe ASPM control to on and require !EMBEDDED to disable PCI: kernel oops on access to pci proc file while hot-removal PCI: pci-sysfs: remove casts from void* ACPI: Disable ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe PCI hotplug: make sure child bridges are enabled at hotplug time PCI hotplug: shpchp: Removed check for hotplug of display devices PCI hotplug: pciehp: Fixed return value sign for pciehp_unconfigure_device PCI: Don't enable aspm before drivers have had a chance to veto it ...
2010-08-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits) tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex perf: expose event__process function perf events: Fix mmap offset determination perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events perf: New migration tool overview tracing: Drop cpparg() macro perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-05Merge branch 'kms-merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'kms-merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kms drm_fb_helper: Preserve capability to use atomic kms i915: when kgdb is active display compression should be off drm/i915: use new fb debug hooks drm: add KGDB/KDB support fb: add hooks to handle KDB enter/exit kgdboc: Add call backs to allow kernel mode switching vt,console,kdb: automatically set kdb LINES variable vt,console,kdb: implement atomic console enter/leave functions
2010-08-05Merge branch 'upstream/xen' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen * 'upstream/xen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen: (23 commits) xen/panic: use xen_reboot and fix smp_send_stop Xen: register panic notifier to take crashes of xen guests on panic xen: support large numbers of CPUs with vcpu info placement xen: drop xen_sched_clock in favour of using plain wallclock time pvops: do not notify callers from register_xenstore_notifier Introduce CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile option blkfront: do not create a PV cdrom device if xen_hvm_guest support multiple .discard.* sections to avoid section type conflicts xen/pvhvm: fix build problem when !CONFIG_XEN xenfs: enable for HVM domains too x86: Call HVMOP_pagetable_dying on exit_mmap. x86: Unplug emulated disks and nics. x86: Use xen_vcpuop_clockevent, xen_clocksource and xen wallclock. implement O_NONBLOCK for /proc/xen/xenbus xen: Fix find_unbound_irq in presence of ioapic irqs. xen: Add suspend/resume support for PV on HVM guests. xen: Xen PCI platform device driver. x86/xen: event channels delivery on HVM. x86: early PV on HVM features initialization. xen: Add support for HVM hypercalls. ...
2010-08-05kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kmsJason Wessel
Update the kgdb docs to include information about kernel mode setting support. [Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>: grammatical corrections] CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-08-05Merge branch 'topic/misc' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
2010-08-05Merge branch 'perf/nmi' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile Merge reason: Add the now complete topic, fix the conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-04Merge branch 'upstream/pvhvm' into upstream/xenJeremy Fitzhardinge
* upstream/pvhvm: Introduce CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM compile option blkfront: do not create a PV cdrom device if xen_hvm_guest support multiple .discard.* sections to avoid section type conflicts xen/pvhvm: fix build problem when !CONFIG_XEN xenfs: enable for HVM domains too x86: Call HVMOP_pagetable_dying on exit_mmap. x86: Unplug emulated disks and nics. x86: Use xen_vcpuop_clockevent, xen_clocksource and xen wallclock. xen: Fix find_unbound_irq in presence of ioapic irqs. xen: Add suspend/resume support for PV on HVM guests. xen: Xen PCI platform device driver. x86/xen: event channels delivery on HVM. x86: early PV on HVM features initialization. xen: Add support for HVM hypercalls. Conflicts: arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c arch/x86/xen/time.c
2010-08-04Merge 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: (1443 commits) phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579 hso: Add new product ID can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue" net: cleanup inclusion phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support u32: negative offset fix net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev" igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0 e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams cxgb4: update driver version cxgb4: add new PCI IDs ... Manually fix up conflicts in: - drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration infrastructure changes - drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support and cleaning up the IDs - drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req conflict (registration change vs marking it static)
2010-08-02AppArmor: update Maintainer and DocumentationJohn Johansen
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-07-30x86/PCI: Add option to not assign BAR's if not already assignedMike Habeck
The Linux kernel assigns BARs that a BIOS did not assign, most likely to handle broken BIOSes that didn't enumerate the devices correctly. On UV the BIOS purposely doesn't assign I/O BARs for certain devices/ drivers we know don't use them (examples, LSI SAS, Qlogic FC, ...). We purposely don't assign these I/O BARs because I/O Space is a very limited resource. There is only 64k of I/O Space, and in a PCIe topology that space gets divided up into 4k chucks (this is due to the fact that a pci-to-pci bridge's I/O decoder is aligned at 4k)... Thus a system can have at most 16 cards with I/O BARs: (64k / 4k = 16) SGI needs to scale to >16 devices with I/O BARs. So by not assigning I/O BARs on devices we know don't use them, we can do that (iff the kernel doesn't go and assign these BARs that the BIOS purposely didn't assign). This patch will not assign a resource to a device BAR if that BAR was not assigned by the BIOS, and the kernel cmdline option 'pci=nobar' was specified. This patch is closely modeled after the 'pci=norom' option that currently exists in the tree. Signed-off-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-07-27time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIMEJohn Stultz
Now that all arches have been converted over to use generic time via clocksources or arch_gettimeoffset(), we can remove the GENERIC_TIME config option and simplify the generic code. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-26x86: Unplug emulated disks and nics.Stefano Stabellini
Add a xen_emul_unplug command line option to the kernel to unplug xen emulated disks and nics. Set the default value of xen_emul_unplug depending on whether or not the Xen PV frontends and the Xen platform PCI driver have been compiled for this kernel (modules or built-in are both OK). The user can specify xen_emul_unplug=ignore to enable PV drivers on HVM even if the host platform doesn't support unplug. Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2010-07-24ACPI / Sleep: Allow the NVS saving to be skipped during suspend to RAMRafael J. Wysocki
Commit 2a6b69765ad794389f2fc3e14a0afa1a995221c2 (ACPI: Store NVS state even when entering suspend to RAM) caused the ACPI suspend code save the NVS area during suspend and restore it during resume unconditionally, although it is known that some systems need to use acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs for hibernation to work. To allow the affected systems to avoid saving and restoring the NVS area during suspend to RAM and resume, introduce kernel command line option acpi_sleep=nonvs and make acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs work as its alias temporarily (add acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs to the feature removal file). Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16396 . Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-and-tested-by: tomas m <tmezzadra@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-07-14lmb: rename to memblockYinghai Lu
via following scripts FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \ -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g') mv $N $M done and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc. also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/ Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-06-25netfilter: complete the deprecation of CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCTTim Gardner
CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT has been deprecated for awhile and was originally scheduled for removal by 2.6.29. Removing support for this config option also stops this deprecation warning message in the kernel log. [ 61.669627] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max) [ 61.669850] CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use [ 61.669852] nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or [ 61.669853] sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> [Patrick: changed default value to 0] Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-06-18PCI/PM: Do not use native PCIe PME by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Commit c7f486567c1d0acd2e4166c47069835b9f75e77b (PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driver) causes the native PCIe PME signaling to be used by default, if the BIOS allows the kernel to control the standard configuration registers of PCIe root ports. However, the native PCIe PME is coupled to the native PCIe hotplug and calling pcie_pme_acpi_setup() makes some BIOSes expect that the native PCIe hotplug will be used as well. That, in turn, causes problems to appear on systems where the PCIe hotplug driver is not loaded. The usual symptom, as reported by Jaroslav Kameník and others, is that the ACPI GPE associated with PCIe hotplug keeps firing continuously causing kacpid to take substantial percentage of CPU time. To work around this issue, change the default so that the native PCIe PME signaling is only used if directly requested with the help of the pcie_pme= command line switch. Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15924 , which is a listed regression from 2.6.33. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Jaroslav Kameník <jaroslav@kamenik.cz> Tested-by: Antoni Grzymala <antekgrzymala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-06-08sound: move driver parameters to their own filesRandy Dunlap
Move sound (OSS & ALSA) kernel parameters to their own files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-05-28Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (27 commits) ACPI: Don't let acpi_pad needlessly mark TSC unstable drivers/acpi/sleep.h: Checkpatch cleanup ACPI: Minor cleanup eliminating redundant PMTIMER_TICKS to NS conversion ACPI: delete unused c-state promotion/demotion data strucutures ACPI: video: fix acpi_backlight=video ACPI: EC: Use kmemdup drivers/acpi: use kasprintf ACPI, APEI, EINJ injection parameters support Add x64 support to debugfs ACPI, APEI, Use ERST for persistent storage of MCE ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source memory error support ACPI, APEI, UEFI Common Platform Error Record (CPER) header Unified UUID/GUID definition ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support ACPI, APEI, PCIE AER, use general HEST table parsing in AER firmware_first setup ACPI, APEI, Document for APEI ACPI, APEI, EINJ support ACPI, APEI, HEST table parsing ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure ...
2010-05-28Merge branch 'ht-delete-2.6.35' into releaseLen Brown
2010-05-25libata: implement dump_id force paramTejun Heo
Add dump_id libata.force parameter. If specified, libata dumps full IDENTIFY data during device configuration. This is to aid debugging. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Larry Baker <baker@usgs.gov> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-05-25watchdog: update/improve/consolidate watchdog driverRandy Dunlap
Move the limited watchdog driver help from kernel-parameters.txt to Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt and add info to it for all watchdog drivers except the ones that have driver-specific files already. Correct minor comments and MODULE_PARM_DESC() text in 2 places. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2010-05-20echi-dbgp: Add kernel debugger support for the usb debug portJason Wessel
This patch adds the capability to use the usb debug port with the kernel debugger. It is also still possible to use this functionality with or without the earlyprintk=dbgpX. It is possible to use the kgdbwait boot argument to debug very early in the kernel start up code. There are two ways to use this driver extension with a kernel boot argument. 1) kgdbdbgp=# -- Where # is the number of the usb debug controller You must use sysrq-g to break into the kernel debugger on another connection type other than the dbgp. 2) kgdbdbgp=#debugControlNum#,#Seconds# In this mode, the usb debug port is polled every #Seconds# for character input. It is possible to use gdb or press control-c to break into the kernel debugger. From the implementation perspective there are 3 high level changes. 1) Allow variable retries for the the hardware via dbgp_bulk_read(). The amount of retries for the dbgp_bulk_read() needed to be variable instead of fixed. We do not want to poll at all when the kernel is operating in interrupt driven mode. The polling only occurs if the kernel was booted when specifying some number of seconds via the kgdbdbgp boot argument (IE kgdbdbgp=0,1). In this case the loop count is reduced to 1 so as introduce the smallest amount of latency as possible. 2) Save the bulk IN endpoint address for use by the kgdb code. 3) The addition of the kgdb interface code. This consisted of adding in a character read function for the dbgp as well as a polling thread to allow the dbgp to interrupt the kernel execution. The rest is the typical kgdb I/O api. CC: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-20kgdboc: Add ekgdboc for early use of the kernel debuggerJason Wessel
The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available, instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available. CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kgdb,docs: Update the kgdb docs to include kdbJason Wessel
Update the kgdb docs to reflect the new directory structure and API. Merge in the kdb shell information. [Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>: grammatical corrections] CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2010-05-20kgdboc,keyboard: Keyboard driver for kdb with kgdbJason Wessel
This patch adds in the kdb PS/2 keyboard driver. This was mostly a direct port from the original kdb where I cleaned up the code against checkpatch.pl and added the glue to stitch it into kgdb. This patch also enables early kdb debug via kgdbwait and the keyboard. All the access to configure kdb using either a serial console or the keyboard is done via kgdboc. If you want to use only the keyboard and want to break in early you would add to your kernel command arguments: kgdboc=kbd kgdbwait If you wanted serial and or the keyboard access you could use: kgdboc=kbd,ttyS0 You can also configure kgdboc as a kernel module or at run time with the sysfs where you can activate and deactivate kgdb. Turn it on: echo kbd,ttyS0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc Turn it off: echo "" > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
2010-05-20Merge branch 'acpica' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (22 commits) ACPI: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64 ACPICA: Update version to 20100428. ACPICA: Update/clarify some parameter names associated with acpi_handle ACPICA: Rename acpi_ex_system_do_suspend->acpi_ex_system_do_sleep ACPICA: Prevent possible allocation overrun during object copy ACPICA: Split large file, evgpeblk ACPICA: Add GPE support for dynamically loaded ACPI tables ACPICA: Clarify/rename some root table descriptor fields ACPICA: Update version to 20100331. ACPICA: Minimize the differences between linux GPE code and ACPICA code base ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT ACPICA: Update DSDT copy/detection. ACPICA: Add subsystem option to force copy of DSDT to local memory ACPICA: Add detection of corrupted/replaced DSDT ACPICA: Add write support for DataTable operation regions ACPICA: Fix for acpi_reallocate_root_table for incorrect root table copy ACPICA: Update comments/headers, no functional change ACPICA: Update version to 20100304 ACPICA: Fix for possible fault in acpi_ex_release_mutex ACPICA: Standardize integer output for ACPICA warnings/errors ...
2010-05-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (61 commits) KEYS: Return more accurate error codes LSM: Add __init to fixup function. TOMOYO: Add pathname grouping support. ima: remove ACPI dependency TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup TOMOYO: Use stack memory for pending entry. Revert "ima: remove ACPI dependency" Revert "TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal" KEYS: Do preallocation for __key_link() TOMOYO: Use mutex_lock_interruptible. KEYS: Better handling of errors from construct_alloc_key() KEYS: keyring_serialise_link_sem is only needed for keyring->keyring links TOMOYO: Use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL. ima: remove ACPI dependency TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal selinux: generalize disabling of execmem for plt-in-heap archs LSM Audit: rename LSM_AUDIT_NO_AUDIT to LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock SMACK: Don't #include Ext2 headers ...
2010-05-19ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) supportHuang Ying
ERST is a way provided by APEI to save and retrieve hardware error record to and from some simple persistent storage (such as flash). The Linux kernel support implementation is quite simple and workable in NMI context. So it can be used to save hardware error record into flash in hardware error exception or NMI handler, where other more complex persistent storage such as disk is not usable. After saving hardware error records via ERST in hardware error exception or NMI handler, the error records can be retrieved and logged into disk or network after a clean reboot. For more information about ERST, please refer to ACPI Specification version 4.0, section 17.4. This patch incorporate fixes from Jin Dongming. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> CC: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-19ACPI, APEI, Document for APEIHuang Ying
Add document for APEI, including kernel parameters and EINJ debug file sytem interface. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-18Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning. tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus. tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
2010-05-13Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Update from -rc5 to -rc7. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-12lockup_detector: Combine nmi_watchdog and softlockup detectorDon Zickus
The new nmi_watchdog (which uses the perf event subsystem) is very similar in structure to the softlockup detector. Using Ingo's suggestion, I combined the two functionalities into one file: kernel/watchdog.c. Now both the nmi_watchdog (or hardlockup detector) and softlockup detector sit on top of the perf event subsystem, which is run every 60 seconds or so to see if there are any lockups. To detect hardlockups, cpus not responding to interrupts, I implemented an hrtimer that runs 5 times for every perf event overflow event. If that stops counting on a cpu, then the cpu is most likely in trouble. To detect softlockups, tasks not yielding to the scheduler, I used the previous kthread idea that now gets kicked every time the hrtimer fires. If the kthread isn't being scheduled neither is anyone else and the warning is printed to the console. I tested this on x86_64 and both the softlockup and hardlockup paths work. V2: - cleaned up the Kconfig and softlockup combination - surrounded hardlockup cases with #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI - seperated out the softlockup case from perf event subsystem - re-arranged the enabling/disabling nmi watchdog from proc space - added cpumasks for hardlockup failure cases - removed fallback to soft events if no PMU exists for hard events V3: - comment cleanups - drop support for older softlockup code - per_cpu cleanups - completely remove software clock base hardlockup detector - use per_cpu masking on hard/soft lockup detection - #ifdef cleanups - rename config option NMI_WATCHDOG to LOCKUP_DETECTOR - documentation additions V4: - documentation fixes - convert per_cpu to __get_cpu_var - powerpc compile fixes V5: - split apart warn flags for hard and soft lockups TODO: - figure out how to make an arch-agnostic clock2cycles call (if possible) to feed into perf events as a sample period [fweisbec: merged conflict patch] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1273266711-18706-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-05-11x86/amd-iommu: Add amd_iommu=off command line optionJoerg Roedel
This patch adds a command line option to tell the AMD IOMMU driver to not initialize any IOMMU it finds. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-05-06Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
2010-04-23Merge branch 'tracing/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
2010-04-22libata: fix docs, RE port and device of libata.force ID separated by pointRoman Fietze
According to libata-core correctly around line 6572: /* parse id */ p = strchr(id, '.'); ... the optional device is separated from the port in the libata.force ID by a point or dot instead of by a colon. Fix documentation to reflect this. Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2010-04-21tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffersFrederic Weisbecker
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens. It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many, plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces. Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the opps, most of the time it is our main interest. This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice. The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed. Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode. v2: Fix double setup v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>