- 30 1月, 2008 8 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
To disable CLFLUSH usage, especially in change_page_attr(). Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Jesse Barnes 提交于
On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to cover all available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs) of memory will be marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate from high memory addresses first, this causes the machine to be unusably slow as soon as the kernel starts really using memory (i.e. right around init time). This patch works around the problem by scanning the MTRRs at boot and figuring out whether the current end_pfn value (setup by early e820 code) goes beyond the highest WB MTRR range, and if so, trimming it to match. A fairly obnoxious KERN_WARNING is printed too, letting the user know that not all of their memory is available due to a likely BIOS bug. Something similar could be done on i386 if needed, but the boot ordering would be slightly different, since the MTRR code on i386 depends on the boot_cpu_data structure being setup. This patch fixes a bug in the last patch that caused the code to run on non-Intel machines (AMD machines apparently don't need it and it's untested on other non-Intel machines, so best keep it off). Further enhancements and fixes from: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Tested-by: NJustin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G RAM installed. when try to use kexec second kernel, and the first doesn't include gart_shutdown. the second kernel could have different aper position than the first kernel. and second kernel could use that hole as RAM that is still used by GART set by the first kernel. esp. when try to kexec 2.6.24 with sparse mem enable from previous kernel (from RHEL 5 or SLES 10). the new kernel will use aper by GART (set by first kernel) for vmemmap. and after new kernel setting one new GART. the position will be real RAM. the _mapcount set is lost. Bad page state in process 'swapper' page:ffffe2000e600020 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0 Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Backtrace: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7-smp-gcdf71a10-dirty #13 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8026401f>] bad_page+0x63/0x8d [<ffffffff80264169>] __free_pages_ok+0x7c/0x2a5 [<ffffffff80ba75d1>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xd0/0x198 [<ffffffff80ba3a42>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x3b/0x76 [<ffffffff80ba3461>] mem_init+0x3b/0x152 [<ffffffff80b959d3>] start_kernel+0x236/0x2c2 [<ffffffff80b9511a>] _sinittext+0x11a/0x121 and [ffffe2000e600000-ffffe2000e7fffff] PMD ->ffff81001c200000 on node 0 phys addr is : 0x1c200000 RHEL 5.1 kernel -53 said: PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 1c000000 size 65536 KB new kernel said: Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 3c000000 So could try to disable that GART if possible. According to Ingo > hm, i'm wondering, instead of modifying the GART, why dont we simply > _detect_ whatever GART settings we have inherited, and propagate that > into our e820 maps? I.e. if there's inconsistency, then punch that out > from the memory maps and just dont use that memory. > > that way it would not matter whether the GART settings came from a [old > or crashing] Linux kernel that has not called gart_iommu_shutdown(), or > whether it's a BIOS that has set up an aperture hole inconsistent with > the memory map it passed. (or the memory map we _think_ i tried to pass > us) > > it would also be more robust to only read and do a memory map quirk > based on that, than actively trying to change the GART so early in the > bootup. Later on we have to re-enable the GART _anyway_ and have to > punch a hole for it. > > and as a bonus, we would have shored up our defenses against crappy > BIOSes as well. add e820 modification for gart inconsistent setting. gart_fix_e820=off could be used to disable e820 fix. Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Arjan van de Ven 提交于
The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line for the code even before the trapping instrution (and the start of the trapping instruction is then denoted with a <>). Unfortunately, the 64 bit x86 tree does not yet have this feature, making diagnosing backtraces harder than needed. This patch adds this feature in the same was as the 32 bit tree has (including the same kernel boot parameter), and including a bugfix to make the code use probe_kernel_address() rarther than a buggy (deadlocking) __get_user. Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Huang, Ying 提交于
support according to fixes of x86_64 support. - Delete efi_rt_lock because it is used during system early boot, before SMP is initialized. - Change local_flush_tlb() to __flush_tlb_all() to flush global page mapping. - Clean up includes. - Revise Kconfig description. - Enable noefi kernel parameter on i386. Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This makes x86_64's ia32 emulation support share the sources used in the 32-bit kernel for the 32-bit vDSO and much of its setup code. The 32-bit vDSO mapping now behaves the same on x86_64 as on native 32-bit. The abi.syscall32 sysctl on x86_64 now takes the same values that vm.vdso_enabled takes on the 32-bit kernel. That is, 1 means a randomized vDSO location, 2 means the fixed old address. The CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO option is now available to make this the default setting, the same meaning it has for the 32-bit kernel. (This does not affect the 64-bit vDSO.) The argument vdso32=[012] can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels to set this paramter at boot time. The vdso=[012] argument still does this same thing on the 32-bit kernel. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details: - add the io_delay=none method - make each method selectable from the kernel config - simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call - add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl - change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed - make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: N"David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
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由 Rene Herman 提交于
x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these. David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine, with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger. Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the 2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has two problems. First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which would sort of work, but... Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has. It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus locking outb. Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such, this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems to fit that situation. This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override the DMI based choice again: io_delay=<standard|alternate> where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate" port 0xed. This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well. This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot code be. The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z. This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and David P. Reed. Signed-off-by: NRene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 26 1月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Sebastian Ott 提交于
Information about a ccw device will be dumped in case of a ccw timeout. This can be enabled with the kernel parameter ccw_timeout_log. Signed-off-by: NSebastian Ott <sebott@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Sebastian Ott 提交于
Signed-off-by: NSebastian Ott <sebott@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 25 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Haavard Skinnemoen 提交于
Change the NMI handler to use the die notifier chain to signal anyone who cares. Add a simple "nmi debugger" which hooks into this chain and that may dump registers, task state, etc. when it happens. Signed-off-by: NHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
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- 12 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Minor corrections and additions to 'scsi_logging_level', as pointed out by Chuck Ebbert. Also point out the IBM S390-tools 'scsi_logging_level' script. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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- 11 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 FD Cami 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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- 04 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Samuel Thibault 提交于
The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode. Fix the documentation on the default value, so that we can explain behaviour that otherwise causes bug-reports like this: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9319 Also add the needed "vt." prefix, so that the boot-time config options to switch back to the legacy 8-bit mode is actually documented correctly. Signed-off-by: NSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 26 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Alexey Starikovskiy 提交于
Start in POLL mode, and if we receive confirmation GPE, switch to INT mode. If confirmations are not sent, switch back to POLL. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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- 25 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Mel Gorman 提交于
profile=sleep only works if CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS is set. This patch notes the limitation in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and prints a warning at boot-time if profile=sleep is used without CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT. Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Carlos Corbacho 提交于
This patch adds a quirk from LinuxBIOS to force enable HPET on the nVidia CK804 (nForce 4) chipset. This quirk can very likely support more than just nForce 4 (LinuxBIOS use the same code for nForce 5), and possibly nForce 3, but I don't have those chipsets, so cannot add and test them. Tested on an Abit KN9 (CK804). Signed-off-by: NCarlos Corbacho <cathectic@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +- arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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- 22 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Keshavamurthy, Anil S 提交于
Introduce intel_iommu=forcedac commandline option. This option is helpful to verify the pci device capability of handling physical dma'able address greater than 4G. Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Keshavamurthy, Anil S 提交于
Actual intel IOMMU driver. Hardware spec can be found at: http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization This driver sets X86_64 'dma_ops', so hook into standard DMA APIs. In this way, PCI driver will get virtual DMA address. This change is transparent to PCI drivers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded cast] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [bunk@stusta.de: fix duplicate CONFIG_DMAR Makefile line] Signed-off-by: NAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 10月, 2007 15 次提交
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由 Dave Jones 提交于
Whilst looking up what profile=sleep did, I noticed that we missed adding docs for the most recent addition to the profiler. Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
given the following: $ grep -rw sg_def_reserved_size * Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: sg_def_reserved_size= [SCSI] $ that kernel parameter looks exceedingly dead. Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
>From commit cd8c93a4: "Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line before. Now it is on all the time." Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Since the OSS-related "sb" kernel parameter doesn't seem to be supported, drop its reference from the kernel-parameters.txt file. Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: NArmin Schindler <armin@melware.de> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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由 Bernhard Walle 提交于
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. Signed-off-by: NBernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> 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 force_hpet boot option. (this will be useful to make the forced-enable quirks depend on.) Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Andres Salomon 提交于
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes to sleep. This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC). There are plenty of times that we want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial console to be suspended. This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel boot parameter (no_console_suspend). By default, the serial console will be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing 'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain alive during suspend. For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be applied to make this work for things like netconsole. Signed-off-by: NAndres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Acked-by: N"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Move the = into the __setup line. Document the option in kernel-parameters.txt by adding a pointer to the x86-64 specific documentation. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Pointed out by Robert Day Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 17 10月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 James Morris 提交于
Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the overall security architecture. Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API abuse. Parameters for the capability and root_plug modules are now specified at boot. The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed. In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM. The modular interface is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure. It is used only by out-of-tree modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of the API and dangerous, e.g. silently re-vectoring SELinux. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: USB Kconfig fix] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix LSM kernel-doc] Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it. Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@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 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Add logo.nologo kernel boot option to disable the logo in order to provide more screen space for kernel messages; especially useful when debugging and screen space is more critical. newport_con driver changes are untested. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Optionally add a boot delay after each kernel printk() call, crudely measured in milliseconds, with a maximum delay of 10 seconds per printk. Enable CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y and then add (e.g.): "lpj=loops_per_jiffy boot_delay=100" to the kernel command line. It has been useful in cases like "during boot, my machine just reboots or the screen goes black" by slowing down printk, (and adding initcall_debug), we can usually see the last thing that happened before the lights went out which is usually a valuable clue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: not all architectures implement CONFIG_HZ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix lots of stuff] [bunk@stusta.de: kernel/printk.c: make 2 variables static] [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix slow down printk on boot compile error] Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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