Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.

Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Impact: documentation fix

irqbalance was removed by:

  commit 8b8e8c1b
  Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
  Date:   Tue Aug 19 20:50:23 2008 -0700

Remove the associated documentation for noirqbalance.
Signed-off-by: NMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

   Maybe the incorrect power state is returned on the bogus bios, which
is different with the real power state. For example: the bios returns D0
state and the real power state is D3. OS expects to set the device to D0
state. In  such case if OS uses the power state returned by the BIOS and
checks the device power state very strictly in power transition, the device
can't be transited to the correct power state.

   So the boot option of "acpi.power_nocheck=1" is added to avoid checking
the device power in the course of device power transition.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8049
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000Signed-off-by: NZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLi Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

It can be handy so make sure people know about it.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Since the code is shared pretty much most of the pci= options are shared,
but kernel-parameters.txt marked most of them as i386 only.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

IA64, PPC and SH also support the elfcorehdr command line.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch adds initial_descriptor_timeout module parameter for usbcore.ko
to allow modify initial 64-byte USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR timeout for
non-standard devices.

For example, the SATA8000 device from DATAST0R Technology Corp
requires about 10 seconds to send reply (probably it waits until
inserted disk is ready for operation).

Also, this patch adds missing usbcore parameters to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NJaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Acked-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9129

lenb: Note that overriding a critical trip point
may simply fool the user into thinking that they
have control that they do not actually have.
For it is EC firmware that decides when the EC
sends Linux temperature change events, and the
EC may or may not decide to send Linux these events
anywhere in the neighborhood of the fake
override trip points.  Beware.

note also that thermal.nocrt is already available
to disable crtical trip point actios,
and thermal.crt=-1 is already available to
disabled critical trip points entirely.
Signed-off-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The Routerboard 532 bootloader passes the korina ethernet
MAC adapter address to the kernel on the command line.
Document this in the kernel-parameters file.
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

This adds the core function pnp_dbg() and a new config option to
enable it.

The PNP core debugging messages can be enabled at boot-time with the
"pnp.debug" kernel parameter.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

i8042.debug parameter was missing in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Add it.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

This patch against tip/x86/iommu virtually reverts
2842e5bf. But just reverting the
commit breaks AMD IOMMU so this patch also includes some fixes.

The above commit adds new two options to x86 IOMMU generic kernel boot
options, fullflush and nofullflush. But such change that affects all
the IOMMUs needs more discussion (all IOMMU parties need the chance to
discuss it):

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/106Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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

The GART currently implements the iommu=[no]fullflush command line
parameters which influence its IO/TLB flushing strategy. This patch
makes these parameters generic so that they can be used by the AMD IOMMU
too.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime.

This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption
check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k.  This
change:
 - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to
   prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel.  Things
   like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however.
 - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it.
 - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on
   memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero.  Currently it's called in the
   x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Commit ecd29476 removed the
"disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel parameters from
the kernel but did not remove the references to them from two
files in the Documentation directory: kernel-parameters.txt and
x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.

This change completes the removal.
Signed-off-by: NLuiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: NMaciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

commandline show_msr=1 for bsp, show_msr=32 for all 32 cpus.

[ mingo@elte.hu: added documentation ]
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Implement force params nohrst, nosrst and norst.  This is to work
around reset related problems and ease debugging.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

"bootmem_debug" is not mentioned in kernel-parameters.txt. Recently I
had to use that kernel option and I think it should be documented.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

based on work from Eric, and add some timeout so don't dead loop when debug
device is not installed

v2: fix checkpatch warning
v3: move ehci struct def to linux/usrb/ehci_def.h from host/ehci.h
    also add CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_DBGP to disable it by default
v4: address comments from Ingo, seperate ehci reg def moving to another patch
    also add auto detect port that connect to debug device for Nvidia
    southbridge
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Some bits were missed when the tipar driver was removed.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

ACPI defines a hardware signature.  BIOS calculates the signature according to
hardware configure and if hardware changes while hibernated, the signature
will change.  In that case, S4 resume should fail.

Still, there may be systems on which this mechanism does not work correctly,
so it is better to provide a workaround for them.  For this reason, add a new
switch to the acpi_sleep= command line argument allowing one to disable
hardware signature checking.

[shaohua.li@intel.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Boot-time test for system suspend states (STR or standby).  The generic
RTC framework triggers wakeup alarms, which are used to exit those states.

  - Measures some aspects of suspend time ... this uses "jiffies" until
    someone converts it to use a timebase that works properly even while
    timer IRQs are disabled.

  - Triggered by a command line parameter.  By default nothing even
    vaguely troublesome will happen, but "test_suspend=mem" will give
    you a brief STR test during system boot.  (Or you may need to use
    "test_suspend=standby" instead, if your hardware needs that.)

This isn't without problems.  It fires early enough during boot that for
example both PCMCIA and MMC stacks have misbehaved.  The workaround in
those cases was to boot without such media cards inserted.

[matthltc@us.ibm.com: fix compile failure in boot time suspend selftest]
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Instead of using the variable mmu_huge_psize to keep track of the huge
page size we use an array of MMU_PAGE_* values.  For each supported huge
page size we need to know the hugepte_shift value and have a
pgtable_cache.  The hstate or an mmu_huge_psizes index is passed to
functions so that they know which huge page size they should use.

The hugepage sizes 16M and 64K are setup(if available on the hardware) so
that they don't have to be set on the boot cmd line in order to use them.
The number of 16G pages have to be specified at boot-time though (e.g.
hugepagesz=16G hugepages=5).
Signed-off-by: NJon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Allow configurations with the default huge page size which is different to
the traditional HPAGE_SIZE size.  The default huge page size is the one
represented in the legacy /proc ABIs, SHM, and which is defaulted to when
mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.

This is implemented with a new kernel option default_hugepagesz=, which
defaults to HPAGE_SIZE if not specified.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add an hugepagesz=...  option similar to IA64, PPC etc.  to x86-64.

This finally allows to select GB pages for hugetlbfs in x86 now that all
the infrastructure is in place.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering.  While significant
amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
received from the architecture layer.  This is a mistake, and has resulted in
a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.

This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation.  It
also introduces a few basic defensive measures.  The validation code can be
explicitly disabled for embedded systems.

This patch:

Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.

Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
command-line parameter.

The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c.  Ideally other mm
initialisation code will be moved here over time.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Initially netfilter has had 64bit counters for conntrack-based accounting, but
it was changed in 2.6.14 to save memory. Unfortunately in-kernel 64bit counters are
still required, for example for "connbytes" extension. However, 64bit counters
waste a lot of memory and it was not possible to enable/disable it runtime.

This patch:
 - reimplements accounting with respect to the extension infrastructure,
 - makes one global version of seq_print_acct() instead of two seq_print_counters(),
 - makes it possible to enable it at boot time (for CONFIG_SYSCTL/CONFIG_SYSFS=n),
 - makes it possible to enable/disable it at runtime by sysctl or sysfs,
 - extends counters from 32bit to 64bit,
 - renames ip_conntrack_counter -> nf_conn_counter,
 - enables accounting code unconditionally (no longer depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT),
 - set initial accounting enable state based on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT
 - removes buggy IPCT_COUNTER_FILLING event handling.

If accounting is enabled newly created connections get additional acct extend.
Old connections are not changed as it is not possible to add a ct_extend area
to confirmed conntrack. Accounting is performed for all connections with
acct extend regardless of a current state of "net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct".
Signed-off-by: NKrzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It's not possible to enable the unknown_nmi_panic sysctl option
until init is run. It's useful to be able to panic the kernel
during boot too, this adds a parameter to enable this option.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

only supports memory below max_low_pfn.
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.

When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.

This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914Signed-off-by: NZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLi Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction.  No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.

If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: NZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

* Remove obsoleted "hdx=" kernel parameters.

* Remove no longer used stridx() and match_parm().
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>