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  1. 23 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 05 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  5. 18 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  7. 09 1月, 2009 3 次提交
  9. 08 1月, 2009 3 次提交
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      resource: allow MMIO exclusivity for device drivers · e8de1481
      由 Arjan van de Ven 提交于 
      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>
      e8de1481
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      USB: storage: make the "quirks=" module parameter writable · c838ea46
      由 Alan Stern 提交于 
      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>
      c838ea46
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      USB: usb-storage: add "quirks=" module parameter · d4f373e5
      由 Alan Stern 提交于 
      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>
      d4f373e5
  11. 07 1月, 2009 4 次提交
  13. 25 12月, 2008 2 次提交
  15. 20 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  17. 19 12月, 2008 2 次提交
  19. 18 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer · f38f1d2a
      由 Steven Rostedt 提交于 
      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>
      f38f1d2a
  21. 20 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  23. 18 11月, 2008 2 次提交
  25. 15 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  27. 08 11月, 2008 2 次提交
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      ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers · c3d6de69
      由 Thomas Renninger 提交于 
      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>
      c3d6de69
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      ACPI: update debug parameter documentation · a0d84a92
      由 Bjorn Helgaas 提交于 
      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>
      a0d84a92
  29. 07 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  31. 06 11月, 2008 1 次提交
    • S
      file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v4) · 1f29fae2
      由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于 
      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>
      1f29fae2
  33. 04 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  35. 03 11月, 2008 2 次提交
  37. 02 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: Skip verification by the watchdog for TSC clocksource. · 395628ef
      由 Alok Kataria 提交于 
      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>
      395628ef
  39. 28 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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  49. 17 10月, 2008 2 次提交
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      ACPI: Allow overriding to higher critical trip point. · 22a94d79
      由 Zhang Rui 提交于 
      http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9129

lenb: Note that overriding a critical trip point
may simply fool the user into thinking that they
have control that they do not actually have.
For it is EC firmware that decides when the EC
sends Linux temperature change events, and the
EC may or may not decide to send Linux these events
anywhere in the neighborhood of the fake
override trip points.  Beware.

note also that thermal.nocrt is already available
to disable crtical trip point actios,
and thermal.crt=-1 is already available to
disabled critical trip points entirely.
Signed-off-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
      22a94d79
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      driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messages · 346e15be
      由 Jason Baron 提交于 
      Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages.

I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes
control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file,
currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG,
is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by
defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no
affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set.

The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That
is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls
can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis.

Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define 
their own debug levels and flags.

Usage:

Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, 
<debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that
can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows:

	<module_name> <enabled=0/1>
		.
		.
		.

	<module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides
	<enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not

For example:

	snd_hda_intel enabled=0
	fixup enabled=1
	driver enabled=0

Enable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable a module:

	$echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules

Enable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Disable all modules:

	$echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules

Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables
debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above
disable command.

[gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly]
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      346e15be