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

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>

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>

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>

This reverts commit 9e9f46c4.

Quoting from the commit message:

 "At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's
  try using it by default.  It's an easy revert if it ends up causing
  trouble."

And guess what? The _CRS code causes trouble.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size
boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

According to Andi, it isn't clear whether lpage allocator is worth the
trouble as there are many processors where PMD TLB is far scarcer than
PTE TLB.  The advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the actual
size of percpu area and specific processor.  As performance
degradation due to TLB pressure tends to be highly workload specific
and subtle, it is difficult to decide which way to go without more
data.

This patch implements percpu_alloc kernel parameter to allow selecting
which first chunk allocator to use to ease debugging and testing.

While at it, make sure all the failure paths report why something
failed to help determining why certain allocator isn't working.  Also,
kill the "Great future plan" comment which had already been realized
quite some time ago.

[ Impact: allow explicit percpu first chunk allocator selection ]
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: NJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel.  gcov may be useful for:

 * debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
 * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
 * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
   associated code is never run?)

The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:

 * change kbuild to include profiling flags
 * provide functions needed by profiling code
 * present profiling data as files in debugfs

Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.

For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.htmlSigned-off-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The console blank timer is currently hardcoded to 10*60 seconds which
might be annoying on systems with no input devices attached to wake up the
console again.  Especially during development, disabling the screen saver
can be handy - for example when debugging the root fs mount mechanism or
other scenarios where no userspace program could be started to do that at
runtime from userspace.

This patch defines a core_param for the variable in charge which allows
users to entirely disable the blank feature at boot time by setting it 0.
The value can still be overwritten at runtime using the standard ioctl
call - this just allows to conditionally change the default.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Describe check_enable_amd_mmconf.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Also explains why the touchscreen support is not present,
and were to find a working one...
Signed-off-by: NMichel Pollet <buserror@gmail.com>
[ben-linux@fluff.org: Fix header description]
Signed-off-by: NBen Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>

Fix various typos in documentation txts.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Adds support for PCI Express transaction layer end-to-end CRC checking
(ECRC).  This patch will enable/disable ECRC checking by setting/clearing
the ECRC Check Enable and/or ECRC Generation Enable bits for devices that
support ECRC.

The ECRC setting is controlled by the "pci=ecrc=<policy>" command-line
option. If this option is not set or is set to 'bios", the enable and
generation bits are left in whatever state that firmware/BIOS set them to.
The "off" setting turns them off, and the "on" option turns them on (if the
device supports it).

Turning ECRC on or off can be a data integrity versus performance
tradeoff.  In theory, turning it on will catch more data errors, turning
it off means possibly better performance since CRC does not need to be
calculated by the PCIe hardware and packet sizes are reduced.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's try using it by default.  It's an easy revert if it ends up causing trouble.
Reviewed-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>