When ACPI && NUMA, pxm_to_node is used and it exists in drivers/acpi/numa.c

Tony said:

  The patch makes sense ...  if you pick both of "ACPI" and "NUMA", then you
  need (and should automatically be given) ACPI_NUMA too.

  The only open question is whether there is a better way of getting there.
  Perhaps with less configuration options in the first place?  We are heading
  towards a future where so many systems will be NUMA that there would seem to
  be little benefit in keeping ACPI_NUMA separate from ACPI ...  but perhaps
  we aren't quite there yet.
Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujtisu.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: N"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

In an effort to make kprobe modules more portable, here is a patch that:

o Introduces the "symbol_name" field to struct kprobe.
  The symbol->address resolution now happens in the kernel in an
  architecture agnostic manner. 64-bit powerpc users no longer have
  to specify the ".symbols"
o Introduces the "offset" field to struct kprobe to allow a user to
  specify an offset into a symbol.
o The legacy mechanism of specifying the kprobe.addr is still supported.
  However, if both the kprobe.addr and kprobe.symbol_name are specified,
  probe registration fails with an -EINVAL.
o The symbol resolution code uses kallsyms_lookup_name(). So
  CONFIG_KPROBES now depends on CONFIG_KALLSYMS
o Apparantly kprobe modules were the only legitimate out-of-tree user of
  the kallsyms_lookup_name() EXPORT. Now that the symbol resolution
  happens in-kernel, remove the EXPORT as suggested by Christoph Hellwig
o Modify tcp_probe.c that uses the kprobe interface so as to make it
  work on multiple platforms (in its earlier form, the code wouldn't
  work, say, on powerpc)
Signed-off-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Size zones and holes in an architecture independent manner for ia64.

[bob.picco@hp.com: fix ia64 FLATMEM+VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP]
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: NBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Make ZONE_DMA32 optional

- Add #ifdefs around ZONE_DMA32 specific code and definitions.

- Add CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 config option and use that for x86_64
  that alone needs this zone.

- Remove the use of CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 and CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL
  for ia64 and fix up the way per node ZVCs are calculated.

- Fall back to prior GFP_ZONEMASK of 0x03 if there is no
  DMA32 zone.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Take default arch/*/kernel/audit.c to lib/, have those with special
needs (== biarch) define AUDIT_ARCH in their Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Change both the NODES_SHIFT and the NR_CPUS so that even big machines
can boot all nodes and processors with a generic kernel.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Per zone counter infrastructure

The counters that we currently have for the VM are split per processor.  The
processor however has not much to do with the zone these pages belong to.  We
cannot tell f.e.  how many ZONE_DMA pages are dirty.

So we are blind to potentially inbalances in the usage of memory in various
zones.  F.e.  in a NUMA system we cannot tell how many pages are dirty on a
particular node.  If we knew then we could put measures into the VM to balance
the use of memory between different zones and different nodes in a NUMA
system.  For example it would be possible to limit the dirty pages per node so
that fast local memory is kept available even if a process is dirtying huge
amounts of pages.

Another example is zone reclaim.  We do not know how many unmapped pages exist
per zone.  So we just have to try to reclaim.  If it is not working then we
pause and try again later.  It would be better if we knew when it makes sense
to reclaim unmapped pages from a zone.  This patchset allows the determination
of the number of unmapped pages per zone.  We can remove the zone reclaim
interval with the counters introduced here.

Futhermore the ability to have various usage statistics available will allow
the development of new NUMA balancing algorithms that may be able to improve
the decision making in the scheduler of when to move a process to another node
and hopefully will also enable automatic page migration through a user space
program that can analyse the memory load distribution and then rebalance
memory use in order to increase performance.

The counter framework here implements differential counters for each processor
in struct zone.  The differential counters are consolidated when a threshold
is exceeded (like done in the current implementation for nr_pageache), when
slab reaping occurs or when a consolidation function is called.

Consolidation uses atomic operations and accumulates counters per zone in the
zone structure and also globally in the vm_stat array.  VM functions can
access the counts by simply indexing a global or zone specific array.

The arrangement of counters in an array also simplifies processing when output
has to be generated for /proc/*.

Counters can be updated by calling inc/dec_zone_page_state or
_inc/dec_zone_page_state analogous to *_page_state.  The second group of
functions can be called if it is known that interrupts are disabled.

Special optimized increment and decrement functions are provided.  These can
avoid certain checks and use increment or decrement instructions that an
architecture may provide.

We also add a new CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL that signifies that an architecture can
do DMA to all memory and therefore ZONE_NORMAL will not be populated.  This is
only currently set for IA64 SGI SN2 and currently only affects
node_page_state().  In the best case node_page_state can be reduced to
retrieving a single counter for the one zone on the node.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: export vm_stat[] for filesystems]
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Cleanup: change ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU into a Kconfig method.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Memory hotplug code of i386 adds memory to only highmem.  So, if
CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set, CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG shouldn't be set.
Otherwise, it causes compile error.

In addition, many architecture can't use memory hotplug feature yet.  So, I
introduce CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Refresh NODE_DATA() for generic archs.  In this case, NODE_DATA(nid) ==
node_data[nid].  node_data[] is array of address of pgdat.  So, refresh is
quite simple.
Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'.
This patch removes wrong default for SCHED_SMT.
Signed-off-by: NJean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

When I tried to use PCI Express Hotplug driver on my ia64 box, I
noticed that "PCI Express support" is not even selectable on ia64.
This patch makes PCI Express support selectable.
Signed-off-by: NKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Add support for making ESI calls [1].  ESI stands for "Extensible SAL
specification" and is basically a way for invoking firmware
subroutines which are identified by a GUID.  I don't know whether ESI
is used by vendors other than HP (if you do, please let me know) but
as firmware "backdoors" go, this seems one of the cleaner methods, so
it seems reasonable to support it, even though I'm not aware of any
publicly documented ESI calls.  I'd have liked to make the ESI module
completely stand-alone, but unfortunately that is not easily (or not
at all) possible because in order to make ESI calls in physical mode,
a small stub similar to the EFI stub is needed in the kernel proper.
I did try to create a stub that would work in user-level, but it
quickly got ugly beyond recognition (e.g., the stub had to make
assumptions about how the module-loader generated call-stubs work) and
I didn't even get it to work (that's probably fixable, but I didn't
bother because I concluded it was too ugly anyhow).  While it's not
terribly elegant to have kernel code which isn't actively used in the
kernel proper, I think it might be worth making an exception here for
two reasons: the code is trivially small (all that's really needed is
esi_stub.S) and by including it in the normal kernel distro, it might
encourage other OEMs to also use ESI, which I think would be far
better than each inventing their own firmware "backdoor".

The code was originally written by Alex.  I just massaged and packaged
it a bit (and perhaps messed up some things along the way...).

Changes since first version of patch that was posted to mailing list:
* Export ia64_esi_call and ia64_esi_call_phys() as GPL symbols.
* Disallow building esi.c as a module for now.  Building as a module
  would currently lead to an unresolved reference to "sal_lock" on SMP kernels
  because that symbol doesn't get exported.
* Export esi_call_phys() only if ESI is enabled.
* Remove internal stuff from esi.h and add a "proc_type" argument to
  ia64_esi_call() such that serialization-requirements can be expressed (ESI
  follows SAL here, where procedure calls may have to be serialized, are
  MP-safe, or MP-safe andr reentrant).

[1] h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,919,00.html
Signed-off-by: NDavid Mosberger <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

SERIAL_SGI_IOC4 and BLK_DEV_SGIIOC4 depend upon SGI_IOC4, and
SERIAL_SGI_IOC3 depends upon SGI_IOC3.  Currently the definitions
are out of order in the config sequence.

Fix by including drivers/sn/Kconfig immediately after SGI_SN,
upon which SGI_IOC4 and SGI_IOC3 depend.
Signed-off-by: NBrent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Current implementations define NODES_SHIFT in include/asm-xxx/numnodes.h for
each arch.  Its definition is sometimes configurable.  Indeed, ia64 defines 5
NODES_SHIFT values in the current git tree.  But it looks a bit messy.

SGI-SN2(ia64) system requires 1024 nodes, and the number of nodes already has
been changeable by config.  Suitable node's number may be changed in the
future even if it is other architecture.  So, I wrote configurable node's
number.

This patch set defines just default value for each arch which needs multi
nodes except ia64.  But, it is easy to change to configurable if necessary.

On ia64 the number of nodes can be already configured in generic ia64 and SN2
config.  But, NODES_SHIFT is defined for DIG64 and HP'S machine too.  So, I
changed it so that all platforms can be configured via CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT.  It
would be simpler.

See also: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114358010523896&w=2Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Otherwise, illegal configurations like X86_VOYAGER=y, PCI=y are
possible.

This patch also fixes the options select'ing ACPI to also select PCI.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

- remove generic_fls64()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Enable DMI table parsing on ia64.

Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386
dmi_scan.c on x86_64.  dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or
memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found.

This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the x86_64
tree.  In addition, I reworked the DMI detection, such that on EFI-capable
systems, it uses the efi.smbios pointer to find the table, rather than
brute-force searching from 0xF0000.  On non-EFI systems, it continues the
brute-force search.

My test system, an Intel S870BN4 'Tiger4', aka Dell PowerEdge 7250, with
latest BIOS, does not list the IPMI controller in the ACPI namespace, nor
does it have an ACPI SPMI table.  Also note, currently shipping Dell x8xx
EM64T servers don't have these either, so DMI is the only method for
obtaining the address of the IPMI controller.
Signed-off-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: N"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a configuration option to allow the maximum
number of nodes to be configurable for GENERIC or SN
kernels.
Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Commit 9ec4b1f3 made kprobes not compile
without module support, so just make that clear in the Kconfig file.

Also, since it's marked EXPERIMENTAL, make that dependency explicit too.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Somehow I doubt this comment is meant to be here anymore... It's
been floating after the L1_CACHE_SHIFT entry since before Linux
moved to bitkeeper.
Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Actually I think this is more appropriate so we don't end up with 17
cases that add drivers/sn to the build lib.
Include drivers/sn when CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN2 or CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC
is enabled.
Acked-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

here is the BSP removal support for IA64. Its pretty much the same thing that
was released a while back, but has your feedback incorporated.

- Removed CONFIG_BSP_REMOVE_WORKAROUND and associated cmdline param
- Fixed compile issue with sn2/zx1 due to a undefined fix_b0_for_bsp
- some formatting nits (whitespace etc)

This has been tested on tiger and long back by alex on hp systems as well.
Signed-off-by: NAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

I realized ZONE_DMA32 has a trivial bug at Kconfig for ia64.  In
include/linux/gfp.h on 2.6.15-rc5-mm1, CONFIG is define like followings.

#ifdef CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32
#define __GFP_DMA32	((__force gfp_t)0x01)	/* ZONE_DMA is ZONE_DMA32
*/
       :
       :

So, CONFIG_"ZONE"_DMA_IS_DMA32 is clearly wrong.
Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

IA64 traditionally had a 4GB DMA32 zone. Set the compatibility flag
to keep old drivers working.

For new drivers it would be better to use ZONE_DMA32 now.

Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch introduces 4-level page tables to ia64.  I have run
some benchmarks and found nothing interesting.  Performance has
consistently fallen within the noise range.

It also introduces a config option (setting the default to 3
levels).  The config option prevents having 4 level page
tables with 64k base page size.
Signed-off-by: NRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Andrew Morton suggested to move kprobes from kernel hacking menu, since
kernel hacking menu is in-appropriate for the Kprobes.  This patch moves
Kprobes and Oprofile under instrumentation menu.

(akpm: it's not a natural fit, but things like djprobes and the s390 guys'
statistics library need a home)
Signed-of-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Restrict CONFIG_SGI_SN_XP to IA64_GENERIC or IA64_SGI_SN2 kernels.
Signed-off-by: NDean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

The patch modifies the Kconfig file to introduce the new memory model
options and other related SPARSEMEM changes.  There is also a minor change
in the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: NBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

The swiotlb implementation is shared by both IA-64 and EM64T. However,
the source itself lives under arch/ia64. This patch moves swiotlb.c
from arch/ia64/lib to lib/ and fixes-up the appropriate Makefile and
Kconfig files. No actual changes are made to swiotlb.c.
Signed-off-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This patch increases the maximum number of cpus supported on IA64
to 1024. No changes are made to the default SSI size. The patch
simply allows specifying up to 1024p.

There are certainly scaling (& other) issues that also need to be
addressed!!!  Additional patches will follow.....
Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Several implementations were essentialy a common piece of C code using
the cmpxchg() macro.  Put the implementation in one spot that everyone
can share, and convert sparc64 over to using this.

Alpha is the lone arch-specific implementation, which codes up a
special fast path for the common case in order to avoid GP reloading
which a pure C version would require.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When handling writes to /proc/irq, current code is re-programming rte
entries directly. This is not recommended and could potentially cause
chipset's to lockup, or cause missing interrupts.

CONFIG_IRQ_BALANCE does this correctly, where it re-programs only when the
interrupt is pending. The same needs to be done for /proc/irq handling as well.
Otherwise user space irq balancers are really not doing the right thing.

- Changed pending_irq_balance_cpumask to pending_irq_migrate_cpumask for
  lack of a generic name.
- added move_irq out of IRQ_BALANCE, and added this same to X86_64
- Added new proc handler for write, so we can do deferred write at irq
  handling time.
- Display of /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity used to display CPU_MASKALL, instead
  it now shows only active cpu masks, or exactly what was set.
- Provided a common move_irq implementation, instead of duplicating
  when using generic irq framework.

Tested on i386/x86_64 and ia64 with CONFIG_PCI_MSI turned on and off.
Tested UP builds as well.

MSI testing: tbd: I have cards, need to look for a x-over cable, although I
did test an earlier version of this patch.  Will test in a couple days.
Signed-off-by: NAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: NZwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: NCoywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: NAshok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The config option 'CONFIG_ACPI_DEALLOCATE_IRQ' is no longer
needed. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: NKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Patch to support P-state transitions on ia64. This driver is based on ACPI,
and uses the ACPI processor driver interface to find out the P-state support
information for the processor. This driver plugs into generic cpufreq
infrastructure.

Once this driver is loaded successfully, ondemand/userspace governor can be
used to change the CPU frequency dynamically based on load or on request from
userspace process.

Refer :
ACPI specification -
      http://www.acpi.info
P-state related PAL calls -
      http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/24869909.pdfSigned-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Build issues were mostly in the ACPI=n case -- don't do that.
Select ACPI from IA64_GENERIC.
Add some missing dependencies on ACPI.

Mark BLACKLIST_YEAR and some laptop-only ACPI drivers
as X86-only.  Let me know when you get an IA64 Laptop.
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

The current one doesn't even make sense anymore on i386 where it
apparently came from.

Follow-up wordsmithing by Matthew Wilcox and Tony Luck.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

This patch removes the CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIM option entirely, allowing
any kernel bootable on sn2 to also be booted in the simulator.

Boot tested on Altix and HP rx2600.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Create a new top-level menu named "Networking" thus moving
net related options and protocol selection way from the drivers
menu and up on the top-level where they belong.

To implement this all architectures has to source "net/Kconfig" before
drivers/*/Kconfig in their Kconfig file. This change has been
implemented for all architectures.

Device drivers for ordinary NIC's are still to be found
in the Device Drivers section, but Bluetooth, IrDA and ax25
are located with their corresponding menu entries under the new
networking menu item.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It allows a selectable timer interrupt frequency of 100, 250 and 1000 HZ.
Reducing the timer frequency may have important performance benefits on
large systems.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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