According to libata-core correctly around line 6572:

	/* parse id */
	p = strchr(id, '.');
	...

the optional device is separated from the port in the libata.force ID
by a point or dot instead of by a colon.

Fix documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

Support for the share and fullflush parameters was removed.
Remove the documentation about them too.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Now that we check for physically present processors before blindly
evaluating _PDC, we no longer need to maintain a DMI opt-in table
nor a kernel param.
Acked-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to
enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem
enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which
have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not
really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the
price of the additional mapping operations.

Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but
no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system
time used from 59.737s to 55.9s.

With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated:
  Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
  Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914)
  User Time 515.983 (5.85019)
  System Time 59.737 (1.26727)
  Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796)
  Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64)
  Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307)

With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated:
  Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
  Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968)
  User Time 515.659 (6.07012)
  System Time 55.9 (1.07799)
  Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266)
  Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13)
  Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039)

This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in
highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the
status-quo as the default.

It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which
allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently
large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful
experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold
at 16G of total RAM.

Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE
pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration,
meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using
lowmem PTEs.

Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required
lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which
reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT
pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that
even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for
highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound
of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in
practice 64G is still supported).

It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM
you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <1266403090-20162-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Moorestown platform does not have PIT or HPET platform timers.  Instead it
has a bank of eight APB timers.  The number of available timers to the os
is exposed via SFI mtmr tables.  All APB timer interrupts are routed via
ioapic rtes and delivered as MSI.
Currently, we use timer 0 and 1 for per cpu clockevent devices, timer 2
for clocksource.
Signed-off-by: NJacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A318D2D2@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

The main benefit of using ACPI host bridge window information is that
we can do better resource allocation in systems with multiple host bridges,
e.g., http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14183

Sometimes we need _CRS information even if we only have one host bridge,
e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/341681

Most of these systems are relatively new, so this patch turns on
"pci=use_crs" only on machines with a BIOS date of 2008 or newer.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Apparently, some machines may have problems with PCI run-time power
management if MSIs are used for the native PCIe PME signaling.  In
particular, on the MSI Wind U-100 PCIe PME interrupts are not
generated by a PCIe root port after a resume from suspend to RAM, if
the system wake-up was triggered by a PME from the device attached to
this port.  [It doesn't help to free the interrupt on suspend and
request it back on resume, even if that is done along with disabling
the MSI and re-enabling it, respectively.]  However, if INTx
interrupts are used for this purpose on the same machine, everything
works just fine.

For this reason, add a kernel command line switch allowing one to
request that MSIs be not used for the native PCIe PME signaling,
introduce a DMI table allowing us to blacklist machines that need
this switch to be set by default and put the MSI Wind U-100 into this
table.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

PCIe native PME detection mechanism is based on interrupts generated
by root ports or event collectors every time a PCIe device sends a
PME message upstream.

Once a PME message has been sent by an endpoint device and received
by its root port (or event collector in the case of root complex
integrated endpoints), the Requester ID from the message header is
registered in the root port's Root Status register.  At the same
time, the PME Status bit of the Root Status register is set to
indicate that there's a PME to handle.  If PCIe PME interrupt is
enabled for the root port, it generates an interrupt once the PME
Status has been set.  After receiving the interrupt, the kernel can
identify the PCIe device that generated the PME using the Requester
ID from the root port's Root Status register. [For details, see PCI
Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0.]

Implement a driver for the PCIe PME root port service working in
accordance with the above description.

Based on a patch from Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in
their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during
boot.  This can prevent systems booting properly.

There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired
default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be
booted.

So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via
the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

On x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka
CONFIG_NR_CPUS.

Add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus <=8 are installed on
normal config.

-v2: accordging to Christoph, acpi_numa_init should use nr_cpu_ids in stead of
     NR_CPUS.
-v3: add doc in kernel-parameters.txt according to Andrew.
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1265793639-15071-34-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Update documentation to describe IPv6 parameters.
Reported by <greg@enjellic.com>.
Signed-off-by: NBrian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Allow platforms not listed in DMI table
to opt-in and evaluate _PDC early.
Signed-off-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Add missing 'nopat' boot option into
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1001181703560.30977@pobox.suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable

some laptop requires SCI_EN being set directly on resume,
or else they hung somewhere in the resume code path.

We already have a blacklist for these laptops but we still need
this option, especially when debugging some suspend/resume problems,
in case there are systems that need this workaround and are not yet
in the blacklist.
Signed-off-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying
and unintended.  Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor
shape.
Signed-off-by: NClemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Initially only for 34xx. This code allows us to:

- Make the code more generic as the omap internal signal
  names can stay the same across omap generations for some
  devices

- Map mux registers to GPIO registers that is needed for
  dynamic muxing of pins during off-idle

- Override bootloader mux values via kernel cmdline using
  omap_mux=some.signa1=0x1234,some.signal2=0x1234

- View and set the mux registers via debugfs if
  CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled

Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il>
Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Signed-off-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

This patch (as1311) fixes a problem in usb-storage: Some devices are
pretty broken when it comes to reporting sense data.  The information
they send back indicates that they have more than 18 bytes of sense
data available, but when the system asks for more than 18 they fail or
hang.  The symptom is that probing fails with multiple resets.

The patch adds a new BAD_SENSE flag to indicate that usb-storage
should never ask for more than 18 bytes of sense data.  The flag can
be set in an unusual_devs entry or via the "quirks=" module parameter,
and it is set automatically whenever a REQUEST SENSE command for more
than 18 bytes fails or times out.

An unusual_devs entry is added for the Agfa photo frame, which uses a
Prolific chip having this bug.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: NDaniel Kukula <daniel.kuku@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Remove the verbose scheduler debug messages unless kernel
parameter "sched_debug" set.  /proc/sched_debug unchanged.
Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091118002221.489305000@alcatraz.americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible
cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so,
unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate
queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application
from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b].

It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals,
but in general application writers do not expect this
outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app
failures under very high load.

This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit
and if print_fatal_signals is enabled:

    task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal

If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly,
you can run following command to lift the limit:

   # ulimit -i unlimited

With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>.
Signed-off-by: NNaohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com>
[ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ]
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We're adding enough nfs documentation that it may as well have its own
subdirectory.
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

    Remove the root_plug example LSM code.  It's unmaintained and
    increasingly broken in various ways.

    Made at the 2009 Kernel Summit in Tokyo!
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: macro@linux-mips.org
LKML-Reference: <20091014150904.GA5259@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add a command line parameter to allow limiting the function graphs
that are traced on boot up from the given top-level callers , when
ftrace=function_graph is specified.

This patch adds the following command line option:
ftrace_graph_filter=function-list

Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.

[fweisbec@gmail.com: picked the documentation changes from the v2 patch]
Signed-off-by: NStefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD2DEB9.2@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

UDP_HTABLE_SIZE was initialy defined to 128, which is a bit small for
several setups.

4000 active UDP sockets -> 32 sockets per chain in average. An
incoming frame has to lookup all sockets to find best match, so long
chains hurt latency.

Instead of a fixed size hash table that cant be perfect for every
needs, let UDP stack choose its table size at boot time like tcp/ip
route, using alloc_large_system_hash() helper

Add an optional boot parameter, uhash_entries=x so that an admin can
force a size between 256 and 65536 if needed, like thash_entries and
rhash_entries.

dmesg logs two new lines :
[    0.647039] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.647099] UDP Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

Maximal size on 64bit arches would be 65536 slots, ie 1 MBytes for non
debugging spinlocks.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit c9530948 ("early_printk: Allow more than one early console")
introduced a regression in the parsing of the earlyprintk= kernel
arguments.

If you specify "earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200" as a kernel
argument, the "serial,ttyS" should be parsed as a single argument
and not as "serial" and then "ttyS".

Also update the documentation to reflect you can specify the ttyS
directly without the "serial" argument.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4ABB7D5E.6000301@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug
controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other
than the first one in the system.
Signed-off-by: NJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

The difference between some loongson-based machines is very small, so, if
there is no necessary to add new kernel config options to cope with this
difference, it will be better to share the same kernel image file between
them, benefit from this, the linux distribution developers only have a need
to compile the kernel one time.

This machtype kernel command line argument will be used later to share the
same kernel image file between two different machines(menglong & yeeloong)
made by lemote.

Thanks very much to Zhang Le for cleaning up the machtype implementation.
Signed-off-by: NWu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: NAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

This implements support for NMI debugging that was shamelessly copied
from the avr32 port. A bit of special magic is needed in the interrupt
exception path given that the NMI exception handler is stubbed in to the
regular exception handling table despite being reported in INTEVT. So we
mangle the lookup and kick off an EXPEVT-style exception dispatch from
the INTEVT path for exceptions that do_IRQ() has no chance of handling.
As a result, we also drop the evt2irq() conversion from the do_IRQ() path
and just do it in assembly.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

The NFSv4 and NFSv4.1 protocols both allow for the redirection of a client
from one server to another in order to support filesystem migration and
replication. For full protocol support, we need to add the ability to
convert a DNS host name into an IP address that we can feed to the RPC
client.

We'll reuse the sunrpc cache, now that it has been converted to work with
rpc_pipefs.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

With x86 converted to embedding allocator, lpage doesn't have any user
left.  Kill it along with cpa handling code.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>

Now that all first chunk allocators are in mm/percpu.c, it makes sense
to make generalize percpu_alloc kernel parameter.  Define PCPU_FC_*
and set pcpu_chosen_fc using early_param() in mm/percpu.c.  Arch code
can use the set value to determine which first chunk allocator to use.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Page size isn't always 4k depending on arch and configuration.  Rename
4k first chunk allocator to page.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

By default the kernel honors the HPA (host protected area) of hard
drives.  Using libata's ignore_hpa module option it's possible to
change this behaviour.

Document usage and options of libata.ignore_hpa in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

Parameters like the minimum reserved port, and the number of slot entries
should really be module parameters rather than sysctls.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The short name of the achitecture is 'arch_perfmon'. This patch
changes the kernel parameter to use this name.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Some PHYs require longer timeouts for carrier detection, and
auto-negotiation process may take indefinite amount of time.

It may be inconvenient to force longer timeouts for sane PHYs,
so let's introduce a kernel command line option.

Since we're using module_param(), the option also can be
changed in runtime.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>