This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- ide=nodma is no longer valid.

drivers/ide/Kconfig
- The module is ide-core.ko not ide.

drivers/ide/ide.c
- It took me a while to figure out what the arguments %d.%d:%d to nodma
  module parameter ment, so I added a comment to each.
- Added a comment to each of the sscanf lines.
- There is a bug, if j is 0 it would previously clear all the other bits
  except the current device, changed in three different places.
  mask &= (1 << i) should be mask &= ~(1 << i).
Signed-off-by: NDavid Fries <david@fries.net>
[bart: s/disk/device/ in ide.c, beautify patch description]
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

Impact: Documentation fix

The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again.  It should
never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was
32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while.
Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Add missing parameter value to list of available values
for acpi=<value>.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Due to recurring issues with DMAR support on certain platforms.
There's a number of filesystem corruption incidents reported:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479996
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12578

Provide a Kconfig option to change whether it is enabled by
default.

If disabled, it can still be reenabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the
kernel. Keep the .config option off by default.
Signed-off-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-By: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove removed OSS kernel parameters from kernel-parameters.txt

Remove the kernel parameters from the OSS drivers of the chips
es1371 (removed 10-2007/2.6.24) and
cs4232 (removed 02-2008/2.6.25) from the kernel parameters documentation.
Signed-off-by: NHenrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: NTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

On some boxes there exist both RSDT and XSDT table. But unfortunately
sometimes there exists the following error when XSDT table is used:
   a. 32/64X address mismatch
   b. The 32/64X FACS address mismatch

   In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that
RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246Signed-off-by: NZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
cc:Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Config and control variable for mem+swap controller.

This patch adds CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
(memory resource controller swap extension.)

For accounting swap, it's obvious that we have to use additional memory to
remember "who uses swap".  This adds more overhead.  So, it's better to
offer "choice" to users.  This patch adds 2 choices.

This patch adds 2 parameters to enable swap extension or not.
  - CONFIG
  - boot option
Reviewed-by: NDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Device drivers that use pci_request_regions() (and similar APIs) have a
reasonable expectation that they are the only ones accessing their device.
As part of the e1000e hunt, we were afraid that some userland (X or some
bootsplash stuff) was mapping the MMIO region that the driver thought it
had exclusively via /dev/mem or via various sysfs resource mappings.

This patch adds the option for device drivers to cause their reserved
regions to the "banned from /dev/mem use" list, so now both kernel memory
and device-exclusive MMIO regions are banned.
NOTE: This is only active when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is set.

In addition to the config option, a kernel parameter iomem=relaxed is
provided for the cases where developers want to diagnose, in the field,
drivers issues from userspace.
Reviewed-by: NMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

This patch (as1190) makes usb-storage's "quirks=" module parameter
writable, so that users can add entries for their devices at runtime
with no need to reboot or reload usb-storage.

New codes are added for the SANE_SENSE, CAPACITY_HEURISTICS, and
CAPACITY_OK flags.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch (as1163b) adds a "quirks=" module parameter to usb-storage.
This will allow people to make short-term changes to their
unusual_devs list without rebuilding the entire driver.  Testing will
become much easier, and less-sophisticated users will be able to
access their buggy devices after a simple config-file change instead
of having to wait for a new kernel release.

The patch also adds a documentation entry for usb-storage's
"delay_use" parameter, which has been around for years but but was
never listed among the kernel parameters.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'.  Setting a value to
this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be
changed.

It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole
system at boot time.  Without this parameter, users have to change
coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script.
Signed-off-by: NHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text.
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>

Add some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.txt.
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>

Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.
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>

Signed-off-by: NHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Introduce a topology=[on|off] kernel parameter which allows to switch
cpu topology on/off. Default will be off, since it looks like that for
some workloards this doesn't behave very well (on s390).
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

Spell out "wrt".  I suspect plenty of people won't know
what that means.

Fix a '}' that should be a ']'.

Reformat long lines into shorter lines.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

On some machines it may be necessary to disable the saving/restoring
of the ACPI NVS memory region during hibernation/resume.  For this
purpose, introduce new ACPI kernel command line option
acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs.

Based on a patch by Zhang Rui.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NNigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

acpi_early_init() was changed to over-write the cmdline param,
making it really inconvenient to set debug flags at boot-time.

Also,
This sets the default level to "info", which is what all the ACPI
drivers use.  So to enable messages from drivers, you only have to
supply the "layer" (a.k.a. "component").  For non-"info" ACPI core
and ACPI interpreter messages, you have to supply both level and
layer masks, as before.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Impact: enhancement to stack tracer

The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)

This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.

A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Add "min_addr" documentation.
For "max_addr", add nn before [KMG] since a number is needed and this
is consistent with other uses of [KMG].
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>

Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU

Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Impact: add a new AMD IOMMU kernel command line parameter
Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>

Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.

Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU.
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are
compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y).

This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities
compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and
trust) them.

When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes
a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be
used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets.

This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will
not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities
compiled out - in particular a task with  CAP_SETPCAP will not
have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which
isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed
altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead
be able to put new capabilities in its pI.  However since fI
will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the
task nothing.

We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and
dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set.

The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler,
setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked.  That will
be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid
while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid
tries to change settings for the more privileged task.

Changelog:
	Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\
		with-clear-caps patch
	Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are
		not compiled in as it isn't used.
		Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Impact: documentation fix

irqbalance was removed by:

  commit 8b8e8c1b
  Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
  Date:   Tue Aug 19 20:50:23 2008 -0700

Remove the associated documentation for noirqbalance.
Signed-off-by: NMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: documentation update

1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
   move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
   Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.

2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
   position otherwise it will not be recognized.

3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.
Signed-off-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option

In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer
on the kernel boot line.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: Changes timekeeping on Vmware (or with tsc=reliable).

This is achieved by resetting the CLOCKSOURCE_MUST_VERIFY flag.

We add a tsc=reliable commandline option to enable this.
This enables legacy hardware without HPET, LAPIC, or ACPI timers
to enter high-resolution timer mode.

Along with that have extended this to be used in virtualization environement
too. Now we also set this flag if the X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE bit is set.

This is important since there is a wrap-around problem with the acpi_pm timer.
The acpi_pm counter is just 24bits and this can overflow in ~4 seconds. With
the NO_HZ kernels in virtualized environment, there can be situations when
the guest is descheduled for longer duration, as a result we may miss the wrap
of the acpi counter. When TSC is used as a clocksource and acpi_pm timer is
being used as the watchdog clocksource this error in acpi_pm results in TSC
being marked as unstable, and essentially results in time dropping in chunks
of 4 seconds whenever this wrap is missed. Since the virtualized TSC is
reliable on VMware, we should always use the TSCs clocksource on VMware, so
we skip the verfication at runtime, by checking for the feature bit.

Since we reset the flag for mgeode systems too, i have combined
the mgeode case with the feature bit check.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Hansen <jhansen@cardaccess-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

   Maybe the incorrect power state is returned on the bogus bios, which
is different with the real power state. For example: the bios returns D0
state and the real power state is D3. OS expects to set the device to D0
state. In  such case if OS uses the power state returned by the BIOS and
checks the device power state very strictly in power transition, the device
can't be transited to the correct power state.

   So the boot option of "acpi.power_nocheck=1" is added to avoid checking
the device power in the course of device power transition.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8049
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000Signed-off-by: NZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLi Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

It can be handy so make sure people know about it.
Signed-off-by: NChuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Since the code is shared pretty much most of the pci= options are shared,
but kernel-parameters.txt marked most of them as i386 only.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

IA64, PPC and SH also support the elfcorehdr command line.
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>