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Linus Torvalds 42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Sylvestre Ledru f65e51d740 Documentation: fix minor typos/spelling
Fix some minor typos:
 * informations => information
 * there own => their own
 * these => this

Signed-off-by: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@scilab.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 17:51:47 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 44a4dcf75c Documentation: update panic parameter info
Add a little more info for some of the panic-related kernel parameters.
Fix "oops=panic" to fit in 80 columns.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-04 17:51:47 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Fabio M. Di Nitto 7bf693951a console: allow to retain boot console via boot option keep_bootcon
On some architectures, the boot process involves de-registering the boot
console (early boot), initialize drivers and then re-register the console.

This mechanism introduces a window in which no printk can happen on the
console and messages are buffered and then printed once the new console is
available.

If a kernel crashes during this window, all it's left on the boot console
is "console [foo] enabled, bootconsole disabled" making debug of the crash
rather 'interesting'.

By adding "keep_bootcon" option, do not unregister the boot console, that
will allow to printk everything that is happening up to the crash.

The option is clearly meant only for debugging purposes as it introduces
lots of duplicated info printed on console, but will make bug report from
users easier as it doesn't require a kernel build just to figure out where
we crash.

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:12 -07:00
Don Zickus fef2c9bc1b kernel/watchdog.c: allow hardlockup to panic by default
When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing
a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the
vmcore and reboot.  This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly
while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with.

Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic
by default.  Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:12 -07:00
Olaf Hering d404ab0a11 move x86 specific oops=panic to generic code
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0a95d92c00 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (62 commits)
  powerpc/85xx: Fix signedness bug in cache-sram
  powerpc/fsl: 85xx: document cache sram bindings
  powerpc/fsl: define binding for fsl mpic interrupt controllers
  powerpc/fsl_msi: Handle msi-available-ranges better
  drivers/serial/ucc_uart.c: Add of_node_put to avoid memory leak
  powerpc/85xx: Fix SPE float to integer conversion failure
  powerpc/85xx: Update sata controller compatible for p1022ds board
  ATA: Add FSL sata v2 controller support
  powerpc/mpc8xxx_gpio: simplify searching for 'fsl, qoriq-gpio' compatiable
  powerpc/8xx: remove obsolete mgsuvd board
  powerpc/82xx: rename and update mgcoge board support
  powerpc/83xx: rename and update kmeter1
  powerpc/85xx: Workaroudn e500 CPU erratum A005
  powerpc/fsl_pci: Add support for FSL PCIe controllers v2.x
  powerpc/85xx: Fix writing to spin table 'cpu-release-addr' on ppc64e
  powerpc/pseries: Disable MSI using new interface if possible
  powerpc: Enable GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED.
  powerpc: core irq_data conversion.
  powerpc: sysdev/xilinx_intc irq_data conversion.
  powerpc: sysdev/uic irq_data conversion.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_msi.c (due to getting rid of
of_platform_driver in arch/powerpc)
2011-03-18 06:31:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 179198373c Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.39' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.39' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (54 commits)
  RPC: killing RPC tasks races fixed
  xprt: remove redundant check
  SUNRPC: Convert struct rpc_xprt to use atomic_t counters
  SUNRPC: Ensure we always run the tk_callback before tk_action
  sunrpc: fix printk format warning
  xprt: remove redundant null check
  nfs: BKL is no longer needed, so remove the include
  NFS: Fix a warning in fs/nfs/idmap.c
  Cleanup: Factor out some cut-and-paste code.
  cleanup: save 60 lines/100 bytes by combining two mostly duplicate functions.
  NFS: account direct-io into task io accounting
  gss:krb5 only include enctype numbers in gm_upcall_enctypes
  RPCRDMA: Fix FRMR registration/invalidate handling.
  RPCRDMA: Fix to XDR page base interpretation in marshalling logic.
  NFSv4: Send unmapped uid/gids to the server when using auth_sys
  NFSv4: Propagate the error NFS4ERR_BADOWNER to nfs4_do_setattr
  NFSv4: cleanup idmapper functions to take an nfs_server argument
  NFSv4: Send unmapped uid/gids to the server if the idmapper fails
  NFSv4: If the server sends us a numeric uid/gid then accept it
  NFSv4.1: reject zero layout with zeroed stripe unit
  ...
2011-03-17 17:40:00 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner c1c5e4d463 Merge branch 'irq/core' into x86/irq
Reason: Enabling irq threads and update to latest genirq functionality
	requires the core code

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-03-12 13:23:40 +01:00
Trond Myklebust b064eca2cf NFSv4: Send unmapped uid/gids to the server when using auth_sys
The new behaviour is enabled using the new module parameter
'nfs4_disable_idmapping'.

Note that if the server rejects an unmapped uid or gid, then
the client will automatically switch back to using the idmapper.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-03-11 15:39:27 -05:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 4e8b0cf46b powerpc/pseries: Add support for dynamic dma windows
If firmware allows us to map all of a partition's memory for DMA on a
particular bridge, create a 1:1 mapping of that memory. Add hooks for
dealing with hotplug events. Dynamic DMA windows can use larger than the
default page size, and we use the largest one possible.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-03-04 18:19:05 +11:00
Thomas Gleixner 8d32a307e4 genirq: Provide forced interrupt threading
Add a commandline parameter "threadirqs" which forces all interrupts except
those marked IRQF_NO_THREAD to run threaded. That's mostly a debug option to
allow retrieving better debug data from crashing interrupt handlers. If
"threadirqs" is not enabled on the kernel command line, then there is no
impact in the interrupt hotpath.

Architecture code needs to select CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING after
marking the interrupts which cant be threaded IRQF_NO_THREAD. All
interrupts which have IRQF_TIMER set are implict marked
IRQF_NO_THREAD. Also all PER_CPU interrupts are excluded.

Forced threading hard interrupts also forces all soft interrupt
handling into thread context.

When enabled it might slow down things a bit, but for debugging problems in
interrupt code it's a reasonable penalty as it does not immediately
crash and burn the machine when an interrupt handler is buggy.

Some test results on a Core2Duo machine:

Cache cold run of:
 # time git grep irq_desc

      non-threaded       threaded
 real 1m18.741s          1m19.061s
 user 0m1.874s           0m1.757s
 sys  0m5.843s           0m5.427s

 # iperf -c server
non-threaded
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   933 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   934 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   933 Mbits/sec
threaded
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   939 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   934 Mbits/sec
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1.09 GBytes   937 Mbits/sec

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110223234956.772668648@linutronix.de>
2011-02-26 11:57:18 +01:00
Randy Dunlap c756d08a00 Documentation: log_buf_len uses [KMG] suffix
Update the "log_buf_len" description to use [KMG] syntax for the
buffer size.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-21 15:07:04 -08:00
Ahmed S. Darwish 7a19a237d5 Documentation: explain [KMG] parameter suffix
The '[KMG]' suffix is commonly described after a number of kernel
parameter values documentation.  Explicitly state its semantics.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-21 15:07:04 -08:00
Ahmed S. Darwish 6f21e64630 Documentation: complete crashkernel= parameter documentation
Complete the crashkernel= kernel parameter documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-21 15:07:04 -08:00
Alan Cox 9cfe268ec4 Documentation: Fix kernel parameter ordering
A B C D E ...

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26 08:57:18 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 52cfd503ad Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits)
  ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework
  ACPI: fix resource check message
  ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume
  ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable
  ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it
  ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes
  ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device()
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power()
  Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
  ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed
  ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early
  ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently
  ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization
  ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power()
  ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources
  ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes
  ACPICA: Update version to 20101209
  ...
2011-01-13 20:15:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 55065bc527 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: Initialize fpu state in preemptible context
  KVM: VMX: when entering real mode align segment base to 16 bytes
  KVM: MMU: handle 'map_writable' in set_spte() function
  KVM: MMU: audit: allow audit more guests at the same time
  KVM: Fetch guest cr3 from hardware on demand
  KVM: Replace reads of vcpu->arch.cr3 by an accessor
  KVM: MMU: only write protect mappings at pagetable level
  KVM: VMX: Correct asm constraint in vmcs_load()/vmcs_clear()
  KVM: MMU: Initialize base_role for tdp mmus
  KVM: VMX: Optimize atomic EFER load
  KVM: VMX: Add definitions for more vm entry/exit control bits
  KVM: SVM: copy instruction bytes from VMCB
  KVM: SVM: implement enhanced INVLPG intercept
  KVM: SVM: enhance mov DR intercept handler
  KVM: SVM: enhance MOV CR intercept handler
  KVM: SVM: add new SVM feature bit names
  KVM: cleanup emulate_instruction
  KVM: move complete_insn_gp() into x86.c
  KVM: x86: fix CR8 handling
  KVM guest: Fix kvm clock initialization when it's configured out
  ...
2011-01-13 10:14:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 008d23e485 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d24450e207 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: add SW_ROTATE_LOCK switch type
  Input: fix force feedback capability query example
  Input: wacom_w8001 - add single-touch support
  Input: add Austria Microsystem AS5011 joystick driver
  Input: remove aaed2000 keyboard driver
  Input: i8042 - introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13
  Input: cy8ctmg110_ts - Convert to dev_pm_ops
  Input: migor_ts - convert to dev_pm_ops
  Input: mcs5000_ts - convert to dev_pm_ops
  Input: eeti_ts - convert to dev_pm_ops
  Input: ad7879 - convert I2C to dev_pm_ops
2011-01-13 09:58:14 -08:00
Len Brown 9e0c20bceb Merge branch 'acpi-video' into release 2011-01-12 05:02:10 -05:00
Gleb Natapov fd10cde929 KVM paravirt: Add async PF initialization to PV guest.
Enable async PF in a guest if async PF capability is discovered.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2011-01-12 11:23:14 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 5a62f99544 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (72 commits)
  powerpc/pseries: Fix build of topology stuff without CONFIG_NUMA
  powerpc/pseries: Fix VPHN build errors on non-SMP systems
  powerpc/83xx: add mpc8308_p1m DMA controller device-tree node
  powerpc/83xx: add DMA controller to mpc8308 device-tree node
  powerpc/512x: try to free dma descriptors in case of allocation failure
  powerpc/512x: add MPC8308 dma support
  powerpc/512x: fix the hanged dma transfer issue
  powerpc/512x: scatter/gather dma fix
  powerpc/powermac: Make auto-loading of therm_pm72 possible
  of/address: Use propper endianess in get_flags
  powerpc/pci: Use printf extension %pR for struct resource
  powerpc: Remove unnecessary casts of void ptr
  powerpc: Disable VPHN polling during a suspend operation
  powerpc/pseries: Poll VPA for topology changes and update NUMA maps
  powerpc: iommu: Add device name to iommu error printks
  powerpc: Record vma->phys_addr in ioremap()
  powerpc: Update compat_arch_ptrace
  powerpc: Fix PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG on PPC_BOOK3S
  powerpc/time: printk time stamp init not correct
  powerpc: Minor cleanups for machdep.h
  ...
2011-01-11 16:31:41 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt eed0ba0b4a Merge remote branch 'gcl/next' into next 2011-01-11 15:10:08 +11:00
Jiri Kosina f8313ef1f4 Input: i8042 - introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13
i8042 controller present in Dell Vostro V13 errorneously signals spurious
timeouts.

Introduce i8042.notimeout parameter for ignoring i8042-signalled timeouts
and apply this quirk automatically for Dell Vostro V13, based on DMI match.

In addition to that, this machine also needs to be added to nomux blacklist.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2011-01-08 01:38:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d7a5a18190 Merge branch 'x86-tsc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-tsc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Check tsc available/disabled in the delayed init function
  x86: Improve TSC calibration using a delayed workqueue
  x86: Make tsc=reliable override boot time stability checks
2011-01-06 11:08:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 65b2074f84 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
  sched: Change wait_for_completion_*_timeout() to return a signed long
  sched, autogroup: Fix reference leak
  sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory
  sched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef
  sched: Fix interactivity bug by charging unaccounted run-time on entity re-weight
  sched: Move periodic share updates to entity_tick()
  printk: Use this_cpu_{read|write} api on printk_pending
  sched: Make pushable_tasks CONFIG_SMP dependant
  sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
  sched: Fix unregister_fair_sched_group()
  sched: Remove unused argument dest_cpu to migrate_task()
  mutexes, sched: Introduce arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
  sched: Add some clock info to sched_debug
  cpu: Remove incorrect BUG_ON
  cpu: Remove unused variable
  sched: Fix UP build breakage
  sched: Make task dump print all 15 chars of proc comm
  sched: Update tg->shares after cpu.shares write
  sched: Allow update_cfs_load() to update global load
  sched: Implement demand based update_cfs_load()
  ...
2011-01-06 10:23:33 -08:00
Ingo Molnar aef1b9cef7 Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into perf/core
Merge reason: Add the final .37 tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 14:22:10 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 27066fd484 Merge commit 'v2.6.37' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge the final .37 tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 14:14:46 +01:00
Jim Cromie 44dd4ff33c remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
re:
  commit e9d376f0fa
  Author: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Feb 5 11:51:38 2009 -0500

    dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk

Above commit obsoleted the kernel parameter, and even removed its
entry in kernel-parameters.txt, but got reinsterted through
0cb55ad2ad ("docs: alphabetize entries in kernel-parameters.txt")

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 14:07:04 +01:00
Ben Hutchings 551423748a watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation
The error message 'NMI watchdog failed to create perf event...'
does not make it clear that this is a fatal error for the
watchdog.  It also currently prints the error value as a
pointer, rather than extracting the error code with PTR_ERR().
Fix that.

Add a note to the description of the 'nowatchdog' kernel
parameter to associate it with this message.

Reported-by: Cesare Leonardi <celeonar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: 599368@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 608138@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .37.x and later
LKML-Reference: <1294009362.3167.126.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-03 05:25:52 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 6c529a266b Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc7' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest -rc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-22 11:53:23 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas c0f5ac5426 Revert "resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down"
This reverts commit e7f8567db9.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-12-17 10:00:59 -08:00
Zhang Rui 677bd810ee ACPI video: remove output switching control
Remove the ACPI video output switching control as it never works.

With the patch applied,
ACPI video driver still catches the video output notification,
but it does nothing but raises the notification to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-12-14 00:04:52 -05:00
Don Zickus 5dc3055879 x86, NMI: Add back unknown_nmi_panic and nmi_watchdog sysctls
Originally adapted from Huang Ying's patch which moved the
unknown_nmi_panic to the traps.c file.  Because the old nmi
watchdog was deleted before this change happened, the
unknown_nmi_panic sysctl was lost.  This re-adds it.

Also, the nmi_watchdog sysctl was re-implemented and its
documentation updated accordingly.

Patch-inspired-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1291068437-5331-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-10 00:01:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 8e9255e6a2 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Merge reason: we want to queue up dependent cleanup

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-08 20:15:29 +01:00
John Stultz b0f969009f Merge remote branch 'tip/x86/tsc' into fortglx/2.6.38/tip/x86/tsc
Conflicts:
	Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
2010-12-02 16:47:52 -08:00
Mike Galbraith 5091faa449 sched: Add 'autogroup' scheduling feature: automated per session task groups
A recurring complaint from CFS users is that parallel kbuild has
a negative impact on desktop interactivity.  This patch
implements an idea from Linus, to automatically create task
groups.  Currently, only per session autogroups are implemented,
but the patch leaves the way open for enhancement.

Implementation: each task's signal struct contains an inherited
pointer to a refcounted autogroup struct containing a task group
pointer, the default for all tasks pointing to the
init_task_group.  When a task calls setsid(), a new task group
is created, the process is moved into the new task group, and a
reference to the preveious task group is dropped.  Child
processes inherit this task group thereafter, and increase it's
refcount.  When the last thread of a process exits, the
process's reference is dropped, such that when the last process
referencing an autogroup exits, the autogroup is destroyed.

At runqueue selection time, IFF a task has no cgroup assignment,
its current autogroup is used.

Autogroup bandwidth is controllable via setting it's nice level
through the proc filesystem:

  cat /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Displays the task's group and the group's nice level.

  echo <nice level> > /proc/<pid>/autogroup

Sets the task group's shares to the weight of nice <level> task.
Setting nice level is rate limited for !admin users due to the
abuse risk of task group locking.

The feature is enabled from boot by default if
CONFIG_SCHED_AUTOGROUP=y is selected, but can be disabled via
the boot option noautogroup, and can also be turned on/off on
the fly via:

  echo [01] > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

... which will automatically move tasks to/from the root task group.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ Removed the task_group_path() debug code, and fixed !EVENTFD build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1290281700.28711.9.camel@maggy.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-11-30 16:03:35 +01:00
Will Schmidt 4e89a2d8e2 powerpc/pseries: Add kernel parameter to disable batched hcalls
This introduces a pair of kernel parameters that can be used to disable
the MULTITCE and BULK_REMOVE h-calls.

By default, those hcalls are enabled, active, and good for throughput
and performance.  The ability to disable them will be useful for some of
the PREEMPT_RT related investigation and work occurring on Power.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-11-29 15:48:18 +11:00
Michal Hocko a42c390cfa cgroups: make swap accounting default behavior configurable
Swap accounting can be configured by CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
configuration option and then it is turned on by default.  There is a boot
option (noswapaccount) which can disable this feature.

This makes it hard for distributors to enable the configuration option as
this feature leads to a bigger memory consumption and this is a no-go for
general purpose distribution kernel.  On the other hand swap accounting
may be very usuful for some workloads.

This patch adds a new configuration option which controls the default
behavior (CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED).  If the option is selected
then the feature is turned on by default.

It also adds a new boot parameter swapaccount[=1|0] which enhances the
original noswapaccount parameter semantic by means of enable/disable logic
(defaults to 1 if no value is provided to be still consistent with
noswapaccount).

The default behavior is unchanged (if CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is
enabled then CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED is enabled as well)

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-25 06:50:45 +09:00
Randy Dunlap 17a9e7bbae Documentation: remove anticipatory scheduler info
Remove anticipatory block I/O scheduler info from Documentation/
since the code has been deleted.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-11 12:09:59 +01:00
Linus Torvalds e9f29c9a56 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (27 commits)
  x86: allocate space within a region top-down
  x86: update iomem_resource end based on CPU physical address capabilities
  x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning
  PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down
  resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down
  resources: handle overflow when aligning start of available area
  resources: ensure callback doesn't allocate outside available space
  resources: factor out resource_clip() to simplify find_resource()
  resources: add a default alignf to simplify find_resource()
  x86/PCI: MMCONFIG: fix region end calculation
  PCI: Add support for polling PME state on suspended legacy PCI devices
  PCI: Export some PCI PM functionality
  PCI: fix message typo
  PCI: log vendor/device ID always
  PCI: update Intel chipset names and defines
  PCI: use new ccflags variable in Makefile
  PCI: add PCI_MSIX_TABLE/PBA defines
  PCI: add PCI vendor id for STmicroelectronics
  x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
  PCI: OLPC: Only enable PCI configuration type override on XO-1
  ...
2010-10-28 11:59:52 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas e7f8567db9 resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down
Allocate space from the top of a region first, then work downward,
if an architecture desires this.

When we allocate space from a resource, we look for gaps between children
of the resource.  Previously, we always looked at gaps from the bottom up.
For example, given this:

    [mem 0xbff00000-0xf7ffffff] PCI Bus 0000:00
      [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap -- available
      [mem 0xc0000000-0xdfffffff] PCI Bus 0000:02
      [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap -- available

we attempted to allocate from the [mem 0xbff00000-0xbfffffff] gap first,
then the [mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] gap.

With this patch an architecture can choose to allocate from the top gap
[mem 0xe0000000-0xf7ffffff] first.

We can't do this across the board because iomem_resource.end is initialized
to 0xffffffff_ffffffff on 64-bit architectures, and most machines can't
address the entire 64-bit physical address space.  Therefore, we only
allocate top-down if the arch requests it by clearing
"resource_alloc_from_bottom".

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-10-26 15:33:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 74eb94b218 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits)
  SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred
  nfs: fix unchecked value
  Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe
  Revalidate caches on lock
  SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve
  NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir
  NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent
  NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid
  NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr
  NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer
  NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code
  NFS: Readdir plus in v4
  NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function
  NFS: check xdr_decode for errors
  NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors
  NFS: readdir with vmapped pages
  NFS: remove page size checking code
  NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream
  SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
  NFS: remove readdir plus limit
  ...
2010-10-25 13:48:29 -07:00
Heiko Carstens c9af3fa9e1 [S390] topology: change default
Switch default value of the kernel parameter 'topology' from off to on.
Various performance measurements have finally shown that there are no
(known) regressions anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-10-25 16:10:20 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 229aebb873 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
  Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
  Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
  Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially
  ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
  ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
  drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
  arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
  Fix typo configue => configure in comments
  Fix typo: configuation => configuration
  Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed]
  Fix various typos of valid in comments
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
	drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
	drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1765a1fe5d Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (321 commits)
  KVM: Drop CONFIG_DMAR dependency around kvm_iommu_map_pages
  KVM: Fix signature of kvm_iommu_map_pages stub
  KVM: MCE: Send SRAR SIGBUS directly
  KVM: MCE: Add MCG_SER_P into KVM_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED
  KVM: fix typo in copyright notice
  KVM: Disable interrupts around get_kernel_ns()
  KVM: MMU: Avoid sign extension in mmu_alloc_direct_roots() pae root address
  KVM: MMU: move access code parsing to FNAME(walk_addr) function
  KVM: MMU: audit: check whether have unsync sps after root sync
  KVM: MMU: audit: introduce audit_printk to cleanup audit code
  KVM: MMU: audit: unregister audit tracepoints before module unloaded
  KVM: MMU: audit: fix vcpu's spte walking
  KVM: MMU: set access bit for direct mapping
  KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest page table
  KVM: MMU: update 'root_hpa' out of loop in PAE shadow path
  KVM: x86 emulator: Eliminate compilation warning in x86_decode_insn()
  KVM: x86: Fix constant type in kvm_get_time_scale
  KVM: VMX: Add AX to list of registers clobbered by guest switch
  KVM guest: Move a printk that's using the clock before it's ready
  KVM: x86: TSC catchup mode
  ...
2010-10-24 12:47:25 -07:00
Xiao Guangrong a182d8737f KVM: document 'kvm.mmu_audit' parameter
Document this parameter into Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:58 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong 8475f94abf KVM: fix the description of kvm-amd.nested in documentation
The default state of 'kvm-amd.nested' is enabled now, so fix the documentation

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-24 10:52:58 +02:00