The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.

This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel.  A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NDavid Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

OLPC uses select for OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE, which means OLPC has to
enforce the dependencies for OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE.  Make sure it does so.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
LKML-Reference: <20100923162846.D8D409D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.37

This functionality is known to be incomplete, so discourage its use in
general-purpose kernels.

The only reason to use this driver is to support PCI hotplug on CNB20LE-
based machines that don't have ACPI, and there are very few such
systems.

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665109Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

The cs5535-mfd driver now takes care of the PCI BAR handling; this
means the olpc-xo1 driver shouldn't be touching the PCI device at all.

This patch uses both cs5535-acpi and cs5535-pms platform devices rather
than a single platform device because the cs5535-mfd driver may be used
by other CS5535 platform-specific drivers; OLPC doesn't get to dictate
that ACPI and PMS will always be used together.
Signed-off-by: NAndres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NSamuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>

This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.
Signed-off-by: NLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

For arch which needs USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, it has to select
USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, rather than leaving a choice to user, since they
don't provide their own implementions.

Also, move on_each_cpu() to kernel/smp.c, it is strange to put it in
kernel/softirq.c.

For arch which doesn't use USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, e.g.  blackfin, only
on_each_cpu() is compiled.
Signed-off-by: NAmerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make use of PROC_DEVICETREE to export the tree, and sparc's PROMTREE code to
call into OLPC's Open Firmware to build the tree.

v5: fix buglet with root node check (introduced in v4)

v4: address some minor style issues pointed out by Grant, and explicitly cast
    negative phandle checks to s32.

v3: rename olpc_prom to olpc_dt
  - rework Kconfig entries
  - drop devtree build hook from proc, instead adding a call to x86's
    paging_init (similarly to how sparc64 does it)
  - switch allocation from using slab to alloc_bootmem.  this allows
    the DT to be built earlier during boot (during setup_arch); the
    downside is that there are some 1200 bootmem reservations that are
    done during boot.  Not ideal..
  - add a helper olpc_ofw_is_installed function to test for the
    existence and successful detection of OLPC's OFW.
Signed-off-by: NAndres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <20101116220952.26526a80@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

This leads to a Kconfig dep inversion, x86 selects PERF_EVENT (due to
a hw_breakpoint dep) but doesn't unconditionally provide
HAVE_PERF_EVENT.

(This can cause build failures on M386/M486 kernel .config's.)
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101117222055.982965150@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Not only the naming of the files was confusing, it was even more so for
the function and variable names.

Renamed the K8 NB and NUMA stuff that is also used on other AMD
platforms. This also renames the CONFIG_K8_NUMA option to
CONFIG_AMD_NUMA and the related file k8topology_64.c to
amdtopology_64.c. No functional changes intended.
Signed-off-by: NHans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

The Iris machines from Eurobraille do not have APM or ACPI support
to shut themselves down properly.  A special I/O sequence is
needed to do so.  This modle runs this I/O sequence at
kernel shutdown when its force parameter is set to 1.
Signed-off-by: NShérab <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
[ did minor coding style edits ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

commit b9fc71f4 (x86, mrst: The shutdown for MRST requires the SCU
IPC mechanism) introduced the following warning:

 warning: (X86_MRST && PCI && PCI_GOANY && X86_32 &&
 X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM && X86_IO_APIC) selects INTEL_SCU_IPC which has
 unmet direct dependencies (X86 && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES && X86_MRST)

which is due to the hierarchical menu structure.

Select X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES as well.

Originally-from: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20101115101406.77e072ef.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Fix the build failure reported by Randy.
Reported-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101115173110.6877.83958.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch adds the CE4100 reboot fixup to reboot_fixups_32.c

[ tglx: Moved PCI id to reboot_fixups_32.c ]
Signed-off-by: NDirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <5bdcfb4f0206fa721570504e95659a03b815bc5e.1289331834.git.dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Add CE4100 platform support. CE4100 needs early setup like
moorestown.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NDirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <94720fd7f5564a12ebf202cf2c4f4c0d619aab35.1289331834.git.dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

SFI provides a series of tables. These describe the platform devices present
including SPI and I²C devices, as well as various sensors, keypads and other
glue as well as interfaces provided via the SCU IPC mechanism (intel_scu_ipc.c)

This patch is a merge of the core elements and relevant fixes from the
Intel development code by Feng, Alek, myself into a single coherent patch
for upstream submission.

It provides the needed infrastructure to register I2C, SPI and platform devices
described by the tables, as well as handlers for some of the hardware already
supported in kernel. The 0.8 firmware also provides GPIO tables.

Devices are created at boot time or if they are SCU dependant at the point an
SCU is discovered. The existing Linux device mechanisms will then handle the
device binding. At an abstract level this is an SFI to Linux device translator.

Device/platform specific setup/glue is in this file. This is done so that the
drivers for the generic I²C and SPI bus devices remain cross platform as they
should.

(Updated from RFC version to correct the emc1403 name used by the firmware
 and a wrongly used #define)
Signed-off-by: NAlek Du <alek.du@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101109112158.20013.6158.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
[Clean ups, removal of 0.7 support]
Signed-off-by: NFeng Tang <feng.tang@linux.intel.com>
[Clean ups]
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Set CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT when we set dma_addr_t to 64 bits in
<asm/types.h>; this allows Kconfig decisions based on this property.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
LKML-Reference: <201010202255.o9KMtZXu009370@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it
when TSC is enabled.

This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet.
Following patches use it for different purposes.
Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.

The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The frontend stub lives in arch/x86/pci/xen.c, alongside other
sub-arch PCI init code (e.g. olpc.c).

It provides a mechanism for Xen PCI frontend to setup/destroy
legacy interrupts, MSI/MSI-X, and PCI configuration operations.

[ Impact: add core of Xen PCI support ]
[ v2: Removed the IOMMU code and only focusing on PCI.]
[ v3: removed usage of pci_scan_all_fns as that does not exist]
[ v4: introduced pci_xen value to fix compile warnings]
[ v5: squished fixes+features in one patch, changed Reviewed-by to Ccs]
[ v7: added Acked-by]
Signed-off-by: NAlex Nixon <alex.nixon@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org

This configuration type override is for XO-1 only and must not happen
on XO-1.5.
Acked-by: NAndres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

olpc-xo1 uses pci_*() interfaces so it should depend on PCI.

Otherwise we get build failure like:

 arch/x86/kernel/olpc-xo1.c:65: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_enable_device_io'
 arch/x86/kernel/olpc-xo1.c:71: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_request_region'
 arch/x86/kernel/olpc-xo1.c:80: error: implicit declaration of function 'pci_release_region'
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
LKML-Reference: <20101014101313.adf7eb2a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The config option used by archs to let the build system know that
the C version of the recordmcount works for said arch is currently
called HAVE_C_MCOUNT_RECORD which enables BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT. To
be more consistent with the name that all archs may use, it has been
renamed to HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT. This will be less confusing since
we are building a C recordmcount and not a mcount_record.
Suggested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

This patch adds the support for the C version of recordmcount and
compile times show ~ 12% improvement.

After verifying this works, other archs can add:

 HAVE_C_MCOUNT_RECORD

in its Kconfig and it will use the C version of recordmcount
instead of the perl version.

Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Since the text_poke_smp() definately depends on actual
stop_machine() on smp, add that dependency to Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101014031042.4100.90877.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix kconfig dependency warning to satisfy dependencies:

warning: (X86_VSMP && X86_64 && PCI && X86_EXTENDED_PLATFORM ||
XEN && PARAVIRT_GUEST && (X86_64 || X86_32 && X86_PAE && !X86_VISWS) && X86_CMPXCHG && X86_TSC || KVM_CLOCK && PARAVIRT_GUEST || KVM_GUEST && PARAVIRT_GUEST || LGUEST_GUEST && PARAVIRT_GUEST && X86_32) selects PARAVIRT which has unmet direct dependencies (PARAVIRT_GUEST)
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101013210023.9a033222.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a pm_power_off handler for the OLPC XO-1 laptop.

The driver can be built modular and follows the behaviour of the
APM driver, setting pm_power_off to NULL on unload. However, the
ability to unload the module will probably be removed (with a simple
__module_get(THIS_MODULE)) if/when XO-1 suspend/resume support is
added to this file at a later date.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101010094032.9AE669D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Switch over to the new allocator and remove all the magic which was
caused by the unability to destroy irq descriptors. Get rid of the
create_irq_nr() loop for sparse and non sparse irq.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100927121843.314600915@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The XO-1.5 laptop is not currently detected as an OLPC machine because
it fails this XO-1-centric check.

Now that we have OLPC OFW support in the kernel, a more sensible
check is to see if we found OFW during boot and check the architecture
property.

Also remove a now-meaningless codepath, as we're always going to have
OFW support with OLPC.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100923162846.D8D409D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

This configuration type override is for XO-1 only and must not happen
on XO-1.5.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100923162805.0F6549D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Cc: Andres Solomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

The !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE was added to enable the jump label functionality
because Jason noticed that the gcc option would not optimize the labels
and may even hurt performance.

But this is a gcc problem not a kernel one. Removing this condition should
add motivation to the gcc developers to actually fix it.

Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <f838f49f40fbea0254036194be66dc48b598dcea.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

[ cleaned up some formatting ]
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The file names are somehow misleading as the code is not specific to
AMD K8 CPUs anymore. The files accomodate code for other AMD CPU
northbridges as well.

Same is true for the config option which is valid for AMD CPU
northbridges in general and not specific to K8.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100917160343.GD4958@loge.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NArnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

Requested by Ingo, Thomas and HPA.

The old bootmem code is no longer necessary, and the transition is
complete.  Remove it.
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1. replace find_e820_area with memblock_find_in_range
2. replace reserve_early with memblock_x86_reserve_range
3. replace free_early with memblock_x86_free_range.
4. NO_BOOTMEM will switch to use memblock too.
5. use _e820, _early wrap in the patch, in following patch, will
   replace them all
6. because memblock_x86_free_range support partial free, we can remove some special care
7. Need to make sure that memblock_find_in_range() is called after memblock_x86_fill()
   so adjust some calling later in setup.c::setup_arch()
   -- corruption_check and mptable_update

-v2: Move reserve_brk() early
    Before fill_memblock_area, to avoid overlap between brk and memblock_find_in_range()
    that could happen We have more then 128 RAM entry in E820 tables, and
    memblock_x86_fill() could use memblock_find_in_range() to find a new place for
    memblock.memory.region array.
    and We don't need to use extend_brk() after fill_memblock_area()
    So move reserve_brk() early before fill_memblock_area().
-v3: Move find_smp_config early
    To make sure memblock_find_in_range not find wrong place, if BIOS doesn't put mptable
    in right place.
-v4: Treat RESERVED_KERN as RAM in memblock.memory. and they are already in
    memblock.reserved already..
    use __NOT_KEEP_MEMBLOCK to make sure memblock related code could be freed later.
-v5: Generic version __memblock_find_in_range() is going from high to low, and for 32bit
    active_region for 32bit does include high pages
    need to replace the limit with memblock.default_alloc_limit, aka get_max_mapped()
-v6: Use current_limit instead
-v7: check with MEMBLOCK_ERROR instead of -1ULL or -1L
-v8: Set memblock_can_resize early to handle EFI with more RAM entries
-v9: update after kmemleak changes in mainline
Suggested-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Suggested-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Suggested-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Add a kernel command-line option so the x86 early memory reservation
size can be adjusted at runtime instead of only at compile time.
Suggested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <tip-d0cd7425@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

The laundry list of BIOSes that need the low 64K reserved is getting
very long, so make it the default across all BIOSes.  This also allows
the code to be simplified and unified with the reservation code for
the first 4K.

This resolves kernel bugzilla 16661 and who knows what else...
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>

With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies
from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these
techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform.
These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the
performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware
expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of
years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this
feature from the hypervisor.

Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels
still work fine on VMware's platform.
Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are,
Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence
releases for these products will continue supporting VMI.

For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this,
http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html

This feature removal was scheduled for 2.6.37 back in September 2009.
Signed-off-by: NAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
LKML-Reference: <1282600151.19396.22.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

The "Configure" word tends to make user believe they have to say 'yes'
to be able to choose the number of procs/nodes.  "Enable" should be
unambiguous enough.
Signed-off-by: NSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>