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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>
2009-06-24Merge 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 ...
2009-06-18Merge 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>
2009-06-11Merge 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: (44 commits) nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition. TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures. TOMOYO: Remove unused field. integrity: ima audit dentry_open failure TOMOYO: Remove unused parameter. security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models TOMOYO: Simplify policy reader. TOMOYO: Remove redundant markers. SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages TOMOYO: Remove unused mutex. tomoyo: avoid get+put of task_struct smack: Remove redundant initialization. integrity: nfsd imbalance bug fix rootplug: Remove redundant initialization. smack: do not beyond ARRAY_SIZE of data integrity: move ima_counts_get integrity: path_check update IMA: Add __init notation to ima functions IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool ...
2009-06-11kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detectorCatalin Marinas
This patch adds the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file with some information about how kmemleak works. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-10Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits) Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK tracing: add protection around module events unload tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface tracing: fix the block trace points print size tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic tracing/events: fix output format of user stack tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag ...
2009-06-10Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type oprofile: add support for Core i7 and Atom oprofile: remove undocumented oprofile.p4force option oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
2009-06-11Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2009-06-10Merge branch 'iommu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits) amd-iommu: remove unnecessary "AMD IOMMU: " prefix amd-iommu: detach device explicitly before attaching it to a new domain amd-iommu: remove BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER handling dma-debug: simplify logic in driver_filter() dma-debug: disable/enable irqs only once in device_dma_allocations dma-debug: use pr_* instead of printk(KERN_* ...) dma-debug: code style fixes dma-debug: comment style fixes dma-debug: change hash_bucket_find from first-fit to best-fit x86: enable GART-IOMMU only after setting up protection methods amd_iommu: fix lock imbalance dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line dma-debug: add debugfs file for driver filter dma-debug: add variables and checks for driver filter dma-debug: fix debug_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu and debug_dma_sync_sg_for_device dma-debug: use sg_dma_len accessor dma-debug: use sg_dma_address accessor instead of using dma_address directly amd-iommu: don't free dma adresses below 512MB with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS amd-iommu: don't preallocate page tables with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS ...
2009-06-09Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
2009-06-08Merge branch 'next-mtd' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linuxDavid Woodhouse
2009-06-07ide: preserve Host Protected Area by default (v2)Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
From the perspective of most users of recent systems, disabling Host Protected Area (HPA) can break vendor RAID formats, GPT partitions and risks corrupting firmware or overwriting vendor system recovery tools. Unfortunately the original (kernels < 2.6.30) behavior (unconditionally disabling HPA and using full disk capacity) was introduced at the time when the main use of HPA was to make the drive look small enough for the BIOS to allow the system to boot with large capacity drives. Thus to allow the maximum compatibility with the existing setups (using HPA and partitioned with HPA disabled) we automically disable HPA if any partitions overlapping HPA are detected. Additionally HPA can also be disabled using the "nohpa" module parameter (i.e. "ide_core.nohpa=0.0" to disable HPA on /dev/hda). v2: Fix ->resume HPA support. While at it: - remove stale "idebus=" entry from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> [patch description was based on input from Alan Cox and Frans Pop] Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-06-07Merge branch 'dma-debug/2.6.31' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu
2009-06-07Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommuIngo Molnar
Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30 to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure the combination works fine. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-05mtd: Flex-OneNAND supportRohit Hagargundgi
Add support for Samsung Flex-OneNAND devices. Flex-OneNAND combines SLC and MLC technologies into a single device. SLC area provides increased reliability and speed, suitable for storing code such as bootloader, kernel and root file system. MLC area provides high density and is suitable for storing user data. SLC and MLC regions can be configured through kernel parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export flexoand_region and onenand_addr] Signed-off-by: Rohit Hagargundgi <h.rohit@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Vishak G <vishak.g@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-06-02dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command lineJoerg Roedel
This patch add the dma_debug_driver= boot parameter to enable the driver filter for early boot. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-06-01ftrace: add kernel command line function filteringSteven Rostedt
When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called. This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands. ftrace_notrace=function-list ftrace_filter=function-list Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter. The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions listed. These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively. The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also be used by the command line interface. ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin* Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has the word spin in it. Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering set by the command lines. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01Merge branch 'linus' into irq/numaIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/mips/sibyte/bcm1480/irq.c arch/mips/sibyte/sb1250/irq.c Merge reason: we gathered a few conflicts plus update to latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29Merge branch 'merge' into nextBenjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-05-28amd-iommu: remove amd_iommu_size kernel parameterJoerg Roedel
This parameter is not longer necessary when aperture increases dynamically. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2009-05-27ACPI: delete acpi.power_nocheck from kernel-parameters.txtLen Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-05-26kmemtrace: fix kernel parameter documentationPekka Enberg
The kmemtrace.enable kernel parameter no longer works. To enable kmemtrace at boot-time, you must pass "ftrace=kmemtrace" instead. [ Impact: remove obsolete kernel parameter documentation ] Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-22x86: introduce noxsave boot parameterSuresh Siddha
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>
2009-05-22IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policyEric Paris
The IMA TCB policy is dangerous. A normal use can use all of a system's memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of executables. The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the measurements meaningless. There is no good fix for this in the kernel. A full TCB policy would need to be loaded in userspace using LSM rule matching to get both a protected and useful system. But, if too little is measured before userspace can load a real policy one again ends up with a meaningless set of measurements. One option would be to put the policy load inside the initrd in order to get it early enough in the boot sequence to be useful, but this runs into trouble with the LSM. For IMA to measure the LSM policy and the LSM policy loading mechanism it needs rules to do so, but we already talked about problems with defaulting to such broad rules.... IMA also depends on the files being measured to be on an FS which implements and supports i_version. Since the only FS with this support (ext4) doesn't even use it by default it seems silly to have any IMA rules by default. This should reduce the performance overhead of IMA to near 0 while still letting users who choose to configure their machine as such to inclue the ima_tcb kernel paramenter and get measurements during boot before they can load a customized, reasonable policy in userspace. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-21powerpc/pseries: CMO unused page hintingRobert Jennings
Adds support for the "unused" page hint which can be used in shared memory partitions to flag pages not in use, which will then be stolen before active pages by the hypervisor when memory needs to be moved to LPARs in need of additional memory. Failure to mark pages as 'unused' makes the LPAR slower to give up unused memory to other partitions. This adds the kernel parameter 'cmo_free_hint' to disable this functionality. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-11Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc5' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Merge reason: this branch was on a .30-rc2 base - sync it up with all the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_typeRobert Richter
This patch removes module_param oprofile.force_arch_perfmon and introduces oprofile.cpu_type=archperfmon instead. This new parameter can be reused for other models and architectures. Currently only archperfmon is supported. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-05-08oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon optionAndi Kleen
This re-adds the force_arch_perfmon option that was in the original arch perfmon patchkit. Originally this was rejected in favour of a generalized perfmon=name option, but it turned out implementing the later in a reliable way is hard (and it would have been easy to crash the kernel if a user gets it wrong) But now Atom and Core i7 support being readded a user would need to update their oprofile userland to beyond 0.9.4 to use oprofile again on Atom or Core i7. To avoid this problem readd the force_arch_perfmon option. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
2009-05-06doc: small kernel-parameters updatesRandy Dunlap
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>
2009-05-06doc: hashdist defaults on for 64bitHugh Dickins
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>
2009-04-29Intel IOMMU Pass Through SupportFenghua Yu
The patch adds kernel parameter intel_iommu=pt to set up pass through mode in context mapping entry. This disables DMAR in linux kernel; but KVM still runs on VT-d and interrupt remapping still works. In this mode, kernel uses swiotlb for DMA API functions but other VT-d functionalities are enabled for KVM. KVM always uses multi level translation page table in VT-d. By default, pass though mode is disabled in kernel. This is useful when people don't want to enable VT-d DMAR in kernel but still want to use KVM and interrupt remapping for reasons like DMAR performance concern or debug purpose. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Weidong Han <weidong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-04-20Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgentIngo Molnar
Merge reason: We need the x86/uv updates from upstream, to queue up dependent fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-19x86, intr-remap: add option to disable interrupt remappingWeidong Han
Add option "nointremap" to disable interrupt remapping. [ Impact: add new boot option ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: allen.m.kay@intel.com Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com LKML-Reference: <1239957736-6161-5-git-send-email-weidong.han@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>