Let the user decide whether power consumption or jitter is the
more important consideration for their machines.

Quoting removal commit af5ab277:

"Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
 various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
 xtime_lock.
    
 Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
 since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
 this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
 many-core systems."

Problems:

- Contrary to the above, systems do encounter contention on both
  xtime_lock and RCU structure locks when the tick is synchronized.
  
- Moderate sized RT systems suffer intolerable jitter due to the tick
  being synchronized.

- SGI reports the same for their large systems.

- Fully utilized systems reap no power saving benefit from skew removal,
  but do suffer from resulting induced lock contention.

- 0209f649 rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout
  This patch was born to combat lock contention which testing showed
  to have been _induced by_ skew removal.  Skew the tick, contention
  disappeared virtually completely.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336472458.21924.78.camel@marge.simpson.netSigned-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch adds an option to instantiate guest virtio-mmio devices
basing on a kernel command line (or module) parameter, for example:

	virtio_mmio.devices=0x100@0x100b0000:48
Signed-off-by: NPawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Sometimes resume= parameter comes in integer style (e.g. major:minor)
and then name_to_dev_t can not detect partition properly. (especially
async device like usb, mmc).

This patch calls get_gendisk() if resumewait is true and resume_file
is in integer format to work around this problem.
Signed-off-by: NMinho Ban <mhban@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines
that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB
of memory.  A quick search on the internet, and you see that
even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest
in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from
the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series.

This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core
kernel code and from the x86 architecture.  There is no point in
carrying this any further into the future.

One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up
stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in
the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c).

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

A PCIe downstream port is a P2P bridge.  Its secondary interface is
a link that should lead only to device 0 (unless ARI is enabled)[1], so
we don't probe for non-zero device numbers.

Some Stratus ftServer systems have a PCIe downstream port (02:00.0) that
leads to both an upstream port (03:00.0) and a downstream port (03:01.0),
and 03:01.0 has important devices below it:

  [0000:02]-+-00.0-[03-3c]--+-00.0-[04-09]--...
                            \-01.0-[0a-0d]--+-[USB]
                                            +-[NIC]
                                            +-...

Previously, we didn't enumerate device 03:01.0, so USB and the network
didn't work.  This patch adds a DMI quirk to scan all device numbers,
not just 0, below a downstream port.

Based on a patch by Prarit Bhargava.

[1] PCIe spec r3.0, sec 7.3.1

CC: Myron Stowe <mstowe@redhat.com>
CC: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
CC: James Paradis <james.paradis@stratus.com>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
CC: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>

In dynamic-debug-howto.txt:

- add section: Debug Messages at Module Initialization Time
- update flags indicators in example outputs to include '='
- make flags descriptions tabular
- add item on '_' flag-char
- add dyndbg, boot-args examples
- rewrap some paragraphs with long lines

In Kconfig.debug, note that compiling with -DDEBUG enables all
pr_debug()s in that code.

In kernel-parameters.txt, add dyndbg and module.dyndbg items,
and deprecate ddebug_query.
Signed-off-by: NJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Bring RCU's kernel command-line parameter documentation up to date.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Mimic the client side by providing a module parameter that turns off
idmapping in the auth_sys case, for backwards compatibility with NFSv2
and NFSv3.

Unlike in the client case, we don't have any way to negotiate, since the
client can return an error to us if it doesn't like the id that we
return to it in (for example) a getattr call.

However, it has always been possible for servers to return numeric id's,
and as far as we're aware clients have always been able to handle them.

Also, in the auth_sys case clients already need to have numeric id's the
same between client and server.

Therefore we believe it's safe to default this to on; but the module
parameter is available to return to previous behavior if this proves to
be a problem in some unexpected setup.
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

Sometimes we need to test a kernel of same version with code or config
option changes.

We already have sysctl to disable module load, but add a kernel
parameter will be more convenient.

Since modules_disabled is int, so here use bint type in core_param.
TODO: make sysctl accept bool and change modules_disabled to bool
Signed-off-by: NDave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

According to grep I see no users:
| #git grep inttest
| Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:    inttest=        [IA-64]

The parameters itself has no description what it supposed to do.
According to the history tree, it was introduced in "[PATCH] Updated
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt" ("10414c6ddb"). By that time that
parameter had an user. It was removed later by "[PATCH] ia64: SGI SN
update" ("c6bacd5010ec") by Jesse Barnes himself.

Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

The behavior of THP can either be toggled through sysfs in runtime or
using a kernel cmdline parameter 'transparent_hugepage='.  Document the
latter in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The pnfs-objects protocol mandates that we autologin into devices not
present in the system, according to information specified in the
get_device_info returned from the server.

The Protocol specifies two login hints.
1. An IP address:port combination
2. A string URI which is constructed as a URL with a protocol prefix
   followed by :// and a string as address. For each  protocol prefix
   the string-address format might be different.

We only support the second option. The first option is just redundant
to the second one.
NOTE: The Kernel part of autologin does not parse the URI string. It
just channels it to a user-mode script. So any new login protocols should
only update the user-mode script which is a part of the nfs-utils package,
but the Kernel need not change.

We implement the autologin by using the call_usermodehelper() API.
(Thanks to Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> for pointing it out)
So there is no running daemon needed, and/or special setup.

We Add the osd_login_prog Kernel module parameters which defaults to:
	/sbin/osd_login

Kernel try's to upcall the program specified in osd_login_prog. If the file is
not found or the execution fails Kernel will disable any farther upcalls, by
zeroing out  osd_login_prog, Until Admin re-enables it by setting the
osd_login_prog parameter to a proper program.

Also add text about the osd_login program command line API to:
	Documentation/filesystems/nfs/pnfs.txt
and documentation of the new  osd_login_prog  module parameter to:
	Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

TODO: Add timeout option in the case osd_login program gets
              stuck
Signed-off-by: NSachin Bhamare <sbhamare@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Broken monitors and/or broken graphic boards may send erroneous or no
EDID data. This also applies to broken KVM devices that are unable to
correctly forward the EDID data of the connected monitor but invent
their own fantasy data.

This patch allows to specify an EDID data set to be used instead of
probing the monitor for it. It contains built-in data sets of frequently
used screen resolutions. In addition, a particular EDID data set may be
provided in the /lib/firmware directory and loaded via the firmware
interface. The name is passed to the kernel as module parameter of the
drm_kms_helper module either when loaded
  options drm_kms_helper edid_firmware=edid/1280x1024.bin
or as kernel commandline parameter
  drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1280x1024.bin

It is also possible to restrict the usage of a specified EDID data set
to a particular connector. This is done by prepending the name of the
connector to the name of the EDID data set using the syntax
  edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<edid>
such as, for example,
  edid_firmware=DVI-I-1:edid/1920x1080.bin
in which case no other connector will be affected.

The built-in data sets are
Resolution    Name
--------------------------------
1024x768      edid/1024x768.bin
1280x1024     edid/1280x1024.bin
1680x1050     edid/1680x1050.bin
1920x1080     edid/1920x1080.bin

They are ignored, if a file with the same name is available in the
/lib/firmware directory.

The built-in EDID data sets are based on standard timings that may not
apply to a particular monitor and even crash it. Ideally, EDID data of
the connected monitor should be used. They may be obtained through the
drm/cardX/cardX-<connector>/edid entry in the /sys/devices PCI directory
of a correctly working graphics adapter.

It is even possible to specify the name of an EDID data set on-the-fly
via the /sys/module interface, e.g.
echo edid/myedid.bin >/sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/edid_firmware
The new screen mode is considered when the related kernel function is
called for the first time after the change. Such calls are made when the
X server is started or when the display settings dialog is opened in an
already running X server.
Signed-off-by: NCarsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

A machine may need to invert the panel backlight brightness value. This
patch adds the infrastructure for a quirk to do so.
Signed-off-by: NCarsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: NChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Following the documentation of the Legacy Backlight Brightness (LBB)
Register in the configuration space of some Intel PCI graphics adapters,
setting the LBB register with the value 0x0 causes the backlight to be
turned off, and 0xFF causes the backlight to be set to 100% intensity
(http://download.intel.com/embedded/processors/Whitepaper/324567.pdf).
The Acer Aspire 5734Z, however, turns the backlight off at 0xFF and sets
it to maximum intensity at 0. In consequence, the screen of this systems
becomes dark at an early boot stage which makes it unusable. The same
inversion applies to the BLC_PWM_CTL I915 register. This problem was
introduced in kernel version 2.6.38 when the PCI device of this system
was first supported by the i915 KMS module.

This patch adds a parameter to the i915 module to enable inversion of
the brightness variable (i915.invert_brightness).
Signed-off-by: NCarsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: NChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

Since commit 04c6862c ("kmsg_dump: add kmsg_dump() calls to the
reboot, halt, poweroff and emergency_restart paths"), kmsg_dump() gets
run on normal paths including poweroff and reboot.

This is less than ideal given pstore implementations that can only
represent single backtraces, since a reboot may overwrite a stored oops
before it's been picked up by userspace.  In addition, some pstore
backends may have low performance and provide a significant delay in
reboot as a result.

This patch adds a printk.always_kmsg_dump kernel parameter (which can also
be changed from userspace).  Without it, the code will only be run on
failure paths rather than on normal paths.  The option can be enabled in
environments where there's a desire to attempt to audit whether or not a
reboot was cleanly requested or not.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NSeiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Send the nfs implementation id in EXCHANGE_ID requests unless the module
parameter nfs.send_implementation_id is 0.

This adds a CONFIG variable for the nii_domain that defaults to "kernel.org".
Signed-off-by: NWeston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

There are PCIe devices on the market that report ARI support but
then fail to initialize correctly when ARI is actually used.  This
leads to situations in which kernels 2.6.34 and newer fail to handle
systems where the previous kernels worked without any apparent
problems.  Unfortunately, it is currently unknown how many such
devices are there.

For this reason, introduce a new kernel command line option,
pci=noari, allowing users to disable PCIe ARI altogether if they
see problems with PCIe device initialization.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Let the user could enable and disable with pci=realloc=on or pci=realloc=off

Also
1. move variable and functions near the place they are used.
2. change macro to function
3. change related functions and variable to static and _init
4. update parameter description accordingly.

This will let us add a config option to control default behavior, and
still allow the user to turn off automatic reallocation if it fails on
their platform until a permanent solution is found.

-v2: still honor pci=realloc, and treat it as pci=realloc=on
     also use enum instead of ...
-v3: update kernel-paramenters.txt according to Jesse.
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Add a parameter to avoid using MSI/MSI-X for PCIe native hotplug; it's
known to be buggy on some platforms.

In my environment, while shutting down, following stack trace is shown
sometimes.

  irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
  Pid: 1081, comm: reboot Not tainted 3.2.0 #1
  Call Trace:
   <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810cec1d>] __report_bad_irq+0x3d/0xe0
   [<ffffffff810cee1c>] note_interrupt+0x15c/0x210
   [<ffffffff810cc485>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0xb5/0x210
   [<ffffffff810cc621>] handle_irq_event+0x41/0x70
   [<ffffffff810cf675>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x55/0xc0
   [<ffffffff81015356>] handle_irq+0x46/0xb0
   [<ffffffff814fbe9d>] do_IRQ+0x5d/0xe0
   [<ffffffff814f146e>] common_interrupt+0x6e/0x6e
   [<ffffffff8106b040>] ? __do_softirq+0x60/0x210
   [<ffffffff8108aeb1>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x151/0x240
   [<ffffffff814fb5ec>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
   [<ffffffff810152d5>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0
   [<ffffffff8106ae9d>] irq_exit+0xbd/0xe0
   [<ffffffff814fbf8e>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x99
   [<ffffffff814f9e5e>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x80
   <EOI>  [<ffffffff814f0fb1>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x11/0x20
   [<ffffffff812629fc>] pci_bus_write_config_word+0x6c/0x80
   [<ffffffff81266fc2>] pci_intx+0x52/0xa0
   [<ffffffff8127de3d>] pci_intx_for_msi+0x1d/0x30
  [<ffffffff8127e4fb>] pci_msi_shutdown+0x7b/0x110
   [<ffffffff81269d34>] pci_device_shutdown+0x34/0x50
   [<ffffffff81326c4f>] device_shutdown+0x2f/0x140
   [<ffffffff8107b981>] kernel_restart_prepare+0x31/0x40
   [<ffffffff8107b9e6>] kernel_restart+0x16/0x60
   [<ffffffff8107bbfd>] sys_reboot+0x1ad/0x220
   [<ffffffff814f4b90>] ? do_page_fault+0x1e0/0x460
   [<ffffffff811942d0>] ? __sync_filesystem+0x90/0x90
   [<ffffffff8105c9aa>] ? __cond_resched+0x2a/0x40
   [<ffffffff814ef090>] ? _cond_resched+0x30/0x40
   [<ffffffff81169e17>] ? iterate_supers+0xb7/0xd0
   [<ffffffff814f9382>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  handlers:
  [<ffffffff8138a0f0>] usb_hcd_irq
  [<ffffffff8138a0f0>] usb_hcd_irq
  [<ffffffff8138a0f0>] usb_hcd_irq
  Disabling IRQ #16

An un-wanted interrupt is generated when PCI driver switches from
MSI/MSI-X to INTx while shutting down the device.  The interrupt does
not happen if MSI/MSI-X is not used on the device.
I confirmed that this problem does not happen if pcie_hp=nomsi was
specified and hotplug operation worked fine as usual.

v2: Automatically disable MSI/MSI-X against following device:
    PCI bridge: Integrated Device Technology, Inc. Device 807f (rev 02)
v3: Based on the review comment, combile the if statements.
v4: Removed module parameter.
    Move some code to build pciehp as a module.
    Move device specific code to driver/pci/quirks.c.
v5: Drop a device specific code until getting a vendor statement.
Reviewed-by: NKenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NMUNEDA Takahiro <muneda.takahiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Correct spelling "mininum" to "minimum", "conroller" to "controller"
and "explicitely" to "explicitly" in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: NMasanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Add the module parameter 'max_session_slots' to set the initial number
of slots that the NFSv4.1 client will attempt to negotiate with the
server.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Add missing intel_idle.max_cstate in kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configured, the CPU will generate an exception
on access (read,write) to an unallocated page, which permits us to catch
code which corrupts memory.  However the kernel is trying to maximise
memory usage, hence there are usually few free pages in the system and
buggy code usually corrupts some crucial data.

This patch changes the buddy allocator to keep more free/protected pages
and to interlace free/protected and allocated pages to increase the
probability of catching corruption.

When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
debug_guardpage_minorder defines the minimum order used by the page
allocator to grant a request.  The requested size will be returned with
the remaining pages used as guard pages.

The default value of debug_guardpage_minorder is zero: no change from
current behaviour.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/]
Signed-off-by: NStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Now that the use of numeric uids/gids is officially sanctioned in
RFC3530bis, it is time to change the default here to 'enabled'.

By doing so, we ensure that NFSv4 copies the behaviour of NFSv3 when we're
using the default AUTH_SYS authentication (i.e. when the client uses the
numeric uids/gids as authentication tokens), so that when new files are
created, they will appear to have the correct user/group.
It also fixes a number of backward compatibility issues when migrating
from NFSv3 to NFSv4 on a platform where the server uses different uid/gid
mappings than the client.

Note also that this setting has been successfully tested against servers
that do not support numeric uids/gids at several Connectathon/Bakeathon
events at this point, and the fall back to using string names/groups has
been shown to work well in all those test cases.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

The unsync code should be stable now, maybe it is the time to remove this
parameter to cleanup the code a little bit
Signed-off-by: NXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Add stacktrace_filter= to the kernel command line that lets
the user pick specific functions to check the stack on.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

If the device starts to use IOMMUv2 features the dma handles
need to stay valid. The only sane way to do this is to use a
identity mapping for the device and not translate it by the
iommu. This is implemented with this patch. Since this lifts
the device-isolation there is also a new kernel parameter
which allows to disable that feature.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

With this patch the OProfile Basic Mode Sampling support for System z
is enhanced with a counter file system.  That way hardware sampling
can be configured using the user space tools with only little
modifications.

With the patch by default new cpu_types (s390/z10, s390/z196) are
returned in order to indicate that we are running a CPU which provides
the hardware sampling facility.  Existing user space tools will
complain about an unknown cpu type. In order to be compatible with
existing user space tools the `cpu_type' module parameter has been
added.  Setting the parameter to `timer' will force the module to
return `timer' as cpu_type.  The module will still try to use hardware
sampling if available and the hwsampling virtual filesystem will be
also be available for configuration.  So this has a different effect
than using the generic oprofile module parameter `timer=1'.

If the basic mode sampling is enabled on the machine and the
cpu_type=timer parameter is not used the kernel module will provide
the following virtual filesystem:

/dev/oprofile/0/enabled
/dev/oprofile/0/event
/dev/oprofile/0/count
/dev/oprofile/0/unit_mask
/dev/oprofile/0/kernel
/dev/oprofile/0/user

In the counter file system only the values of 'enabled', 'count',
'kernel', and 'user' are evaluated by the kernel module. Everything
else must contain fixed values.

The 'event' value only supports a single event - HWSAMPLING with value
0.

The 'count' value specifies the hardware sampling rate as it is passed
to the CPU measurement facility.

The 'kernel' and 'user' flags can now be used to filter for samples
when using hardware sampling.

Additionally also the following file will be created:
/dev/oprofile/timer/enabled

This will always be the inverted value of /dev/oprofile/0/enabled. 0
is not accepted without hardware sampling.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

Signed-off-by: NSedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Commit dfb09f9b ("x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties
on AMD family 15h") introduced a kernel command line parameter
called 'align_va_addr' which still refers to arguments used in
an earlier version of the patch and which got changed without
updating the documentation. Correct that omission.
Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321873819-29541-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.orgSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This essentially reverts:

  2b666859: x86: Default to vsyscall=native for now

The ABI breakage should now be fixed by:

 commit 48c4206f5b02f28c4c78a1f5b491d3772fb64fb9
 Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
 Date:   Thu Oct 20 08:48:19 2011 -0700

    x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults
Signed-off-by: NAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/93154af3b2b6d208906ae02d80d92cf60c6fa94f.1320712291.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Some machines may exhibit problems using the NMI to stop other
cpus. This knob just allows one to revert back to the original
behaviour to help diagnose the problem.

V2:
  make function static
Signed-off-by: NDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: seiji.aguchi@hds.com
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: mjg@redhat.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: gong.chen@intel.com
Cc: satoru.moriya@hds.com
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318533267-18880-4-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The 16-MB global limit on memory used by usbfs isn't suitable for all
people.  It's a reasonable default, but there are applications
(especially for SuperSpeed devices) that need a lot more.

This patch (as1498) creates a writable module parameter for usbcore to
control the global limit.  The default is still 16 MB, but users can
change it at runtime, even after usbcore has been loaded.  As a
special case, setting the value to 0 is treated the same as the hard
limit of 2047 MB.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The option iommu=group_mf indicates the that the iommu driver should
expose all functions of a multi-function PCI device as the same
iommu_device_group.  This is useful for disallowing individual functions
being exposed as independent devices to userspace as there are often
hidden dependencies.  Virtual functions are not affected by this option.
Signed-off-by: NAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Introduce new slab_max_order kernel parameter which is the equivalent of
slub_max_order.

For immediate purposes, allows users to override the heuristic that sets
the max order to 1 by default if they have more than 32MB of RAM.  This
may result in page allocation failures if there is substantial
fragmentation.

Another usecase would be to increase the max order for better
performance.
Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>

We need this to better test x86 NMI timer mode. Otherwise it is very
hard to setup systems with NMI timer enabled, but we have this e.g. in
virtual machine environments.
Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>

We are enabling some power features on medfield.  To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently.

Add a module parameter, so users could change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend
Signed-off-by: NYanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We are enabling some power features on medfield.  To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off ignore_loglevel frequently without
rebooting.

Add a module parameter, so users can change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel
Signed-off-by: NYanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently only the address of the pre-allocated ELF header is passed with
the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter. In order to reserve memory for the header
in the 2nd kernel also the size is required. Current kdump architecture
backends use different methods to do that, e.g. x86 uses the memmap= kernel
parameter. On s390 there is no easy way to transfer this information.
Therefore the elfcorehdr kernel parameter is extended to also pass the size.
This now can also be used as standard mechanism by all future kdump
architecture backends.

The syntax of the kernel parameter is extended as follows:

elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG]

This change is backward compatible because elfcorehdr=size is still allowed.
Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>