- 06 3月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Clarify the description of the CONFIG_VMI option: describe the reality that VMI is a VMWare-only interface for now. Once that changes and another hypervisor adopts the VMI ABI we can change the text. As can be seen from the Xen paravirtualization patches submitted to lkml the Xen project has chosen its own, non-VMI interface between Xen and the para-Linux - so remove Xen from the description. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Temove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on x86+PARAVIRT kernels. It's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 05 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
More goo from hrtimers integration. We do compile and run properly with NO_HZ enabled. There was a period when we didn't because of a missing export, but that was since fixed. And with the clocksource code now firmly in place, we can get rid of code that fixes up the wallclock, since this is done in the common infrastructure. This actually fixes a timer bug as well, that was caused by do_settimeofday no longer being callable with interrupts disabled due to the use of on_each_cpu(). Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
The broadcast functionality is only necessary when a local APIC is available. Make the config switch depend on X86_LOCAL_APIC. This resolves the mach-voyager breakage introduced by the tick managament code. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 2月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Enable dynamic ticks selection. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Add clockevent drivers for i386: lapic (local) and PIT/HPET (global). Update the timer IRQ to call into the PIT/HPET driver's event handler and the lapic-timer IRQ to call into the lapic clockevent driver. The assignement of timer functionality is delegated to the core framework code and replaces the compile and runtime evalution in do_timer_interrupt_hook() Use the clockevents broadcast support and implement the lapic_broadcast function for ACPI. No changes to existing functionality. [ kdump fix from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> ] [ fixes based on review feedback from Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> ] Cleanups-from: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Build-fixes-from: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
The TSC needs to be verified against another clocksource. Instead of using hardwired assumptions of available hardware, provide a generic verification mechanism. The verification uses the best available clocksource and handles the usability for high resolution timers / dynticks of the clocksource which needs to be verified. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `vmi_stop_hz_timer': : undefined reference to `next_timer_interrupt' If CONFIG_NO_HZ, next_timer_interrupt() doesn't exist (and presumably doesn't make sense). Perhaps VMI shouildn't be playing with timer internals at this level. Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 13 2月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
VMI timer code. It works by taking over the local APIC clock when APIC is configured, which requires a couple hooks into the APIC code. The backend timer code could be commonized into the timer infrastructure, but there are some pieces missing (stolen time, in particular), and the exact semantics of when to do accounting for NO_IDLE need to be shared between different hypervisors as well. So for now, VMI timer is a separate module. [Adrian Bunk: cleanups] Subject: VMI timer patches Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
Fairly straightforward implementation of VMI backend for paravirt-ops. [Adrian Bunk: some cleanups] Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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- 12 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
As Andi pointed out: CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA only disables the ISA DMA channel management. Other functionality may still expect GFP_DMA to provide memory below 16M. So we need to make sure that CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is set independent of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA. Undo the modifications to mm/Kconfig where we made ZONE_DMA dependent on GENERIC_ISA_DMA and set theses explicitly in each arches Kconfig. Reviews must occur for each arch in order to determine if ZONE_DMA can be switched off. It can only be switched off if we know that all devices supported by a platform are capable of performing DMA transfers to all of memory (Some arches already support this: uml, avr32, sh sh64, parisc and IA64/Altix). In order to switch ZONE_DMA off conditionally, one would have to establish a scheme by which one can assure that no drivers are enabled that are only capable of doing I/O to a part of memory, or one needs to provide an alternate means of performing an allocation from a specific range of memory (like provided by alloc_pages_range()) and insure that all drivers use that call. In that case the arches alloc_dma_coherent() may need to be modified to call alloc_pages_range() instead of relying on GFP_DMA. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 06 1月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Vivek Goyal 提交于
o Relocatable bzImage support had got rid of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option thinking that now this option is not required as people can build a second kernel as relocatable and load it anywhere. So need of compiling the kernel for a custom address was gone. But Magnus uses vmlinux images for second kernel in Xen environment and he wants to continue to use it. o Restoring the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option for the time being. I think down the line we can get rid of it. Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 10 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Since Voyager and Visual WS already define ARCH_SETUP, it looks like PARAVIRT shouldn't be offered for them. In file included from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:63: include/asm-i386/mach-visws/setup_arch.h:8:1: warning: "ARCH_SETUP" redefin= ed In file included from include/asm/msr.h:5, from include/asm/processor.h:17, from include/asm/thread_info.h:16, from include/linux/thread_info.h:21, from include/linux/preempt.h:9, from include/linux/spinlock.h:49, from include/linux/capability.h:45, from include/linux/sched.h:46, from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:26: include/asm/paravirt.h:163:1: warning: this is the location of the previous= definition In file included from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:63: include/asm-i386/mach-visws/setup_arch.h:8:1: warning: "ARCH_SETUP" redefin= ed In file included from include/asm/msr.h:5, from include/asm/processor.h:17, from include/asm/thread_info.h:16, from include/linux/thread_info.h:21, from include/linux/preempt.h:9, from include/linux/spinlock.h:49, from include/linux/capability.h:45, from include/linux/sched.h:46, from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:26: include/asm/paravirt.h:163:1: warning: this is the location of the previous= definition Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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- 09 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
This makes i386 use the generic BUG machinery. There are no functional changes from the old i386 implementation. The main advantage in using the generic BUG machinery for i386 is that the inlined overhead of BUG is just the ud2a instruction; the file+line(+function) information are no longer inlined into the instruction stream. This reduces cache pollution, and makes disassembly work properly. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 07 12月, 2006 6 次提交
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Generally better for allmodconfig coverage. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
-mregparm=3 has been enabled by default for some time on i386, and AFAIK there aren't any problems with it left. This patch removes the REGPARM config option and sets -mregparm=3 unconditionally. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Create a paravirt.h header for all the critical operations which need to be replaced with hypervisor calls, and include that instead of defining native operations, when CONFIG_PARAVIRT. This patch does the dumbest possible replacement of paravirtualized instructions: calls through a "paravirt_ops" structure. Currently these are function implementations of native hardware: hypervisors will override the ops structure with their own variants. All the pv-ops functions are declared "fastcall" so that a specific register-based ABI is used, to make inlining assember easier. And: +From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> The paravirt ops introduce a 'weak' attribute onto memory_setup(). Code ordering leads to the following warnings on x86: arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:651: warning: weak declaration of `memory_setup' after first use results in unspecified behavior Move memory_setup() to avoid this. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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由 Vivek Goyal 提交于
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Vivek Goyal 提交于
o Now CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START is being replaced with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN. Hardcoding the kernel physical start value creates a problem in relocatable kernel context due to boot loader limitations. For ex, if somebody compiles a relocatable kernel to be run from address 4MB, but this kernel will run from location 1MB as grub loads the kernel at physical address 1MB. Kernel thinks that I am a relocatable kernel and I should run from the address I have been loaded at. So somebody wanting to run kernel from 4MB alignment location (for improved performance regions) can't do that. o Hence, Eric proposed that probably CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN will make more sense in relocatable kernel context. At run time kernel will move itself to a physical addr location which meets user specified alignment restrictions. Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below 1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code. A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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- 04 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Matt LaPlante 提交于
The patch below corrects multiple occurances of "the the" typos across several files, both in source comments and KConfig files. There is no actual code changed, only text. Note this only affects the /arch directory, and I believe I could find many more elsewhere. :) Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- 02 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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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>
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- 27 9月, 2006 3 次提交
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由 Shaohua Li 提交于
Add sysfs support. Currently each CPU has three microcode related attributes. One is 'version' which shows current ucode version of CPU. Tools can use the attribute do validation or show CPU ucode status. one is 'reload' which allows manually reloading ucode. Another is 'processor_flags', which exports processor flags, so we can write tools to check if CPU has latest ucode. Also add suspend/resume and CPU hotplug support. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix] [bunk@stusta.de: Kconfig fixes] Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: NTigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Shaohua Li 提交于
Clean up microcode update driver and make it more readable. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: NTigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Mel Gorman 提交于
Size zones and holes in an architecture independent manner for x86. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 26 9月, 2006 5 次提交
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由 Dave Hansen 提交于
The current VMSPLIT Kconfig option is disabled whenever highmem is on. This is a bit screwy because the people who need to change VMSPLIT the most tend to be the ones with highmem and constrained lowmem. So, remove the highmem dependency. But, re-include the dependency for the "full 1GB of lowmem" option. You can't have the full 1GB of lowmem and highmem because of the need for the vmalloc(), kmap(), etc... areas. I thought there would be at least a bit of tweaking to do to get it to work, but everything seems OK. Boot tested on a 4GB x86 machine, and a 12GB 3-node NUMA-Q: elm3b82:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3695412 kB MemFree: 3659540 kB ... LowTotal: 2909008 kB LowFree: 2892324 kB ... elm3b82:~# zgrep PAE /proc/config.gz CONFIG_X86_PAE=y larry:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 11845900 kB MemFree: 11786748 kB ... LowTotal: 2855180 kB LowFree: 2830092 kB Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Make __FIXADDR_TOP a variable, so that it can be set to not get in the way of address space a hypervisor may want to reserve. Original patch by Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all of the serious problems have been worked through. So it is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Improve Kconfig description of CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP. Previously it was too brief to be useful. Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
There are some machines around (large xSeries or Unisys ES7000) that need physical IO-APIC destination mode to access all of their IO devices. This currently doesn't work in UP kernels as used in distribution installers. This patch allows to compile even UP kernels as GENERICARCH which allows to use physical or clustered APIC mode. Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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- 28 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
When we select NUMA with i386, the system is only X86_NUMAQ or using ACPI. Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 01 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Arthur Othieno 提交于
It is described as being experimental, but doesn't actually depend on EXPERIMENTAL. Change the text. Signed-off-by: NArthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 04 7月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Enable LOCKDEP_SUPPORT on i386. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Framework to generate and save stacktraces quickly, without printing anything to the console. i386 support. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
arch/i386/kernel/srat.c won't compile without CONFIG_ACPI. Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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- 30 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Matt LaPlante 提交于
Several KConfig files had 'similarity' and 'independent' spelled incorrectly... Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Yasunori Goto 提交于
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>
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- 28 6月, 2006 3 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it. Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do single-stepping and other debugging features. It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the VDSO). There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore. There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned on/off. (This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.) This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell started this patch and i completed it. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3] [akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change] Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 James Bottomley 提交于
Commit 1e9f28fa ("[PATCH] sched: new sched domain for representing multi-core") incorrectly made SCHED_SMT and some of the structures it uses dependent on SMP. However, this is wrong, the structures are only defined if X86_HT, so SCHED_SMT has to depend on that as well. The patch broke voyager, since it doesn't provide any of the multi-core or hyperthreading structures. Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
Introduce the Kconfig entry and actually switch to a 64bit value, if wanted, for resource_size_t. Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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