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2015-04-28uas: Add US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_240 flagHans de Goede
The usb-storage driver sets max_sectors = 240 in its scsi-host template, for uas we do not want to do that for all devices, but testing has shown that some devices need it. This commit adds a US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_240 flag for such devices, and implements support for it in uas.c, while at it it also adds support for US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_64 to uas.c. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16 Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-04-24Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux Pull initial ACPI support for arm64 from Will Deacon: "This series introduces preliminary ACPI 5.1 support to the arm64 kernel using the "hardware reduced" profile. We don't support any peripherals yet, so it's fairly limited in scope: - MEMORY init (UEFI) - ACPI discovery (RSDP via UEFI) - CPU init (FADT) - GIC init (MADT) - SMP boot (MADT + PSCI) - ACPI Kconfig options (dependent on EXPERT) ACPI for arm64 has been in development for a while now and hardware has been available that can boot with either FDT or ACPI tables. This has been made possible by both changes to the ACPI spec to cater for ARM-based machines (known as "hardware-reduced" in ACPI parlance) but also a Linaro-driven effort to get this supported on top of the Linux kernel. This pull request is the result of that work. These changes allow us to initialise the CPUs, interrupt controller, and timers via ACPI tables, with memory information and cmdline coming from EFI. We don't support a hybrid ACPI/FDT scheme. Of course, there is still plenty of work to do (a serial console would be nice!) but I expect that to happen on a per-driver basis after this core series has been merged. Anyway, the diff stat here is fairly horrible, but splitting this up and merging it via all the different subsystems would have been extremely painful. Instead, we've got all the relevant Acks in place and I've not seen anything other than trivial (Kconfig) conflicts in -next (for completeness, I've included my resolution below). Nearly half of the insertions fall under Documentation/. So, we'll see how this goes. Right now, it all depends on EXPERT and I fully expect people to use FDT by default for the immediate future" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (31 commits) ARM64 / ACPI: make acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface() as void function ARM64 / ACPI: Ignore the return error value of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface() ARM64 / ACPI: fix usage of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface ARM64: kernel: acpi: honour acpi=force command line parameter ARM64: kernel: acpi: refactor ACPI tables init and checks ARM64: kernel: psci: let ACPI probe PSCI version ARM64: kernel: psci: factor out probe function ACPI: move arm64 GSI IRQ model to generic GSI IRQ layer ARM64 / ACPI: Don't unflatten device tree if acpi=force is passed ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64 Documentation: ACPI for ARM64 ARM64 / ACPI: Enable ARM64 in Kconfig XEN / ACPI: Make XEN ACPI depend on X86 ARM64 / ACPI: Select ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE_ONLY if ACPI is enabled on ARM64 clocksource / arch_timer: Parse GTDT to initialize arch timer irqchip: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_GIC and register device's gsi ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get CPU hardware ID via GICC ACPI / processor: Introduce phys_cpuid_t for CPU hardware ID ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT for SMP initialization ...
2015-04-21Merge tag 'tty-4.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big tty/serial driver update for 4.1-rc1. It was delayed for a bit due to some questions surrounding some of the console command line parsing changes that are in here. There's still one tiny regression for people who were previously putting multiple console command lines and expecting them all to be ignored for some odd reason, but Peter is working on fixing that. If not, I'll send a revert for the offending patch, but I have faith that Peter can address it. Other than the console work here, there's the usual serial driver updates and changes, and a buch of 8250 reworks to try to make that driver easier to maintain over time, and have it support more devices in the future. All of these have been in linux-next for a while" * tag 'tty-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (119 commits) n_gsm: Drop unneeded cast on netdev_priv sc16is7xx: expose RTS inversion in RS-485 mode serial: 8250_pci: port failed after wakeup from S3 earlycon: 8250: Document kernel command line options earlycon: 8250: Fix command line regression earlycon: Fix __earlycon_table stride tty: clean up the tty time logic a bit serial: 8250_dw: only get the clock rate in one place serial: 8250_dw: remove useless ACPI ID check dmaengine: hsu: move memory allocation to GFP_NOWAIT dmaengine: hsu: remove redundant pieces of code serial: 8250_pci: add Intel Tangier support dmaengine: hsu: add Intel Tangier PCI ID serial: 8250_pci: replace switch-case by formula for Intel MID serial: 8250_pci: replace switch-case by formula tty: cpm_uart: replace CONFIG_8xx by CONFIG_CPM1 serial: jsm: some off by one bugs serial: xuartps: Fix check in console_setup(). serial: xuartps: Get rid of register access macros. serial: xuartps: Fix iobase use. ...
2015-04-18Merge branch 'x86-pmem-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull PMEM driver from Ingo Molnar: "This is the initial support for the pmem block device driver: persistent non-volatile memory space mapped into the system's physical memory space as large physical memory regions. The driver is based on Intel code, written by Ross Zwisler, with fixes by Boaz Harrosh, integrated with x86 e820 memory resource management and tidied up by Christoph Hellwig. Note that there were two other separate pmem driver submissions to lkml: but apparently all parties (Ross Zwisler, Boaz Harrosh) are reasonably happy with this initial version. This version enables minimal support that enables persistent memory devices out in the wild to work as block devices, identified through a magic (non-standard) e820 flag and auto-discovered if CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY=y, or added explicitly through manipulating the memory maps via the "memmap=..." boot option with the new, special '!' modifier character. Limitations: this is a regular block device, and since the pmem areas are not struct page backed, they are invisible to the rest of the system (other than the block IO device), so direct IO to/from pmem areas, direct mmap() or XIP is not possible yet. The page cache will also shadow and double buffer pmem contents, etc. Initial support is for x86" * 'x86-pmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: drivers/block/pmem: Fix 32-bit build warning in pmem_alloc() drivers/block/pmem: Add a driver for persistent memory x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 type
2015-04-18Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of identical patches to that file" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits) Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat' Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format README: Update version number reference doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers. Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB ...
2015-04-17Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle: "This is the main pull request for MIPS for Linux 4.1. Most noteworthy: - Add more Octeon-optimized crypto functions - Octeon crypto preemption and locking fixes - Little endian support for Octeon - Use correct CSR to soft reset Octeons - Support LEDs on the Octeon-based DSR-1000N - Fix PCI interrupt mapping for the Octeon-based DSR-1000N - Mark prom_free_prom_memory() as __init for a number of systems - Support for Imagination's Pistachio SOC. This includes arch and CLK bits. I'd like to merge pinctrl bits later - Improve parallelism of csum_partial for certain pipelines - Organize DTB files in subdirs like other architectures - Implement read_sched_clock for all MIPS platforms other than Octeon - Massive series of 38 fixes and cleanups for the FPU emulator / kernel - Further FPU remulator work to support new features. This sits on a separate branch which also has been pulled into the 4.1 KVM branch - Clean up and fixes for the SEAD3 eval board; remove unused file - Various updates for Netlogic platforms - A number of small updates for Loongson 3 platforms - Increase the memory limit for ATH79 platforms to 256MB - A fair number of fixes and updates for BCM47xx platforms - Finish the implementation of XPA support - MIPS FDC support. No, not floppy controller but Fast Debug Channel :) - Detect the R16000 used in SGI legacy platforms - Fix Kconfig dependencies for the SSB bus support" * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (265 commits) MIPS: Makefile: Fix MIPS ASE detection code MIPS: asm: elf: Set O32 default FPU flags MIPS: BCM47XX: Fix detecting Microsoft MN-700 & Asus WL500G MIPS: Kconfig: Disable SMP/CPS for 64-bit MIPS: Hibernate: flush TLB entries earlier MIPS: smp-cps: cpu_set FPU mask if FPU present MIPS: lose_fpu(): Disable FPU when MSA enabled MIPS: ralink: add missing symbol for RALINK_ILL_ACC MIPS: ralink: Fix bad config symbol in PCI makefile. SSB: fix Kconfig dependencies MIPS: Malta: Detect and fix bad memsize values Revert "MIPS: Avoid pipeline stalls on some MIPS32R2 cores." MIPS: Octeon: Delete override of cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard. MIPS: Fix cpu_has_mips_r2_exec_hazard. MIPS: kernel: entry.S: Set correct ISA level for mips_ihb MIPS: asm: spinlock: Fix addiu instruction for R10000_LLSC_WAR case MIPS: r4kcache: Use correct base register for MIPS R6 cache flushes MIPS: Kconfig: Fix typo for the r2-to-r6 emulator kernel parameter MIPS: unaligned: Fix regular load/store instruction emulation for EVA MIPS: unaligned: Surround load/store macros in do {} while statements ...
2015-04-14Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These are mostly fixes and cleanups all over, although there are a few items that sort of fall into the new feature category. First off, we have new callbacks for PM domains that should help us to handle some issues related to device initialization in a better way. There also is some consolidation in the unified device properties API area allowing us to use that inferface for accessing data coming from platform initialization code in addition to firmware-provided data. We have some new device/CPU IDs in a few drivers, support for new chips and a new cpufreq driver too. Specifics: - Generic PM domains support update including new PM domain callbacks to handle device initialization better (Russell King, Rafael J Wysocki, Kevin Hilman) - Unified device properties API update including a new mechanism for accessing data provided by platform initialization code (Rafael J Wysocki, Adrian Hunter) - ARM cpuidle update including ARM32/ARM64 handling consolidation (Daniel Lezcano) - intel_idle update including support for the Silvermont Core in the Baytrail SOC and for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and Braswell SOCs (Len Brown, Mathias Krause) - New cpufreq driver for Hisilicon ACPU (Leo Yan) - intel_pstate update including support for the Knights Landing chip (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli, Kristen Carlson Accardi) - QorIQ cpufreq driver update (Tang Yuantian, Arnd Bergmann) - powernv cpufreq driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat) - devfreq update including Tegra support changes (Tomeu Vizoso, MyungJoo Ham, Chanwoo Choi) - powercap RAPL (Running-Average Power Limit) driver update including support for Intel Broadwell server chips (Jacob Pan, Mathias Krause) - ACPI device enumeration update related to the handling of the special PRP0001 device ID allowing DT-style 'compatible' property to be used for ACPI device identification (Rafael J Wysocki) - ACPI EC driver update including limited _DEP support (Lan Tianyu, Lv Zheng) - ACPI backlight driver update including a new mechanism to allow native backlight handling to be forced on non-Windows 8 systems and a new quirk for Lenovo Ideapad Z570 (Aaron Lu, Hans de Goede) - New Windows Vista compatibility quirk for Sony VGN-SR19XN (Chen Yu) - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups (Aaron Lu, Martin Kepplinger, Masanari Iida, Mika Westerberg, Nan Li, Rafael J Wysocki) - Fixes related to suspend-to-idle for the iTCO watchdog driver and the ACPI core system suspend/resume code (Rafael J Wysocki, Chen Yu) - PM tracing support for the suspend phase of system suspend/resume transitions (Zhonghui Fu) - Configurable delay for the system suspend/resume testing facility (Brian Norris) - PNP subsystem cleanups (Peter Huewe, Rafael J Wysocki)" * tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (74 commits) ACPI / scan: Fix NULL pointer dereference in acpi_companion_match() ACPI / scan: Rework modalias creation when "compatible" is present intel_idle: mark cpu id array as __initconst powercap / RAPL: mark rapl_ids array as __initconst powercap / RAPL: add ID for Broadwell server intel_pstate: Knights Landing support intel_pstate: remove MSR test cpufreq: fix qoriq uniprocessor build ACPI / scan: Take the PRP0001 position in the list of IDs into account ACPI / scan: Simplify acpi_match_device() ACPI / scan: Generalize of_compatible matching device property: Introduce firmware node type for platform data device property: Make it possible to use secondary firmware nodes PM / watchdog: iTCO: stop watchdog during system suspend cpufreq: hisilicon: add acpu driver ACPI / EC: Call acpi_walk_dep_device_list() after installing EC opregion handler cpufreq: powernv: Report cpu frequency throttling intel_idle: Add support for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and Braswell SOCs intel_idle: Update support for Silvermont Core in Baytrail SOC PM / devfreq: tegra: Register governor on module init ...
2015-04-14Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton: - arch/sh updates - ocfs2 updates - kernel/watchdog feature - about half of mm/ * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (122 commits) Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17 arm: add support for memtest arm64: add support for memtest memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses mm: move memtest under mm mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd() arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd ...
2015-04-14Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entryVladimir Murzin
Since arm64/arm support memtest command line option update the "memtest" entry. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14lib/ioremap.c: add huge I/O map capability interfacesToshi Kani
Add ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled(), which return 1 when I/O mappings with pud/pmd are enabled on the kernel. ioremap_huge_init() calls arch_ioremap_pud_supported() and arch_ioremap_pmd_supported() to initialize the capabilities at boot-time. A new kernel option "nohugeiomap" is also added, so that user can disable the huge I/O map capabilities when necessary. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Robert Elliott <Elliott@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14watchdog: enable the new user interface of the watchdog mechanismUlrich Obergfell
With the current user interface of the watchdog mechanism it is only possible to disable or enable both lockup detectors at the same time. This series introduces new kernel parameters and changes the semantics of some existing kernel parameters, so that the hard lockup detector and the soft lockup detector can be disabled or enabled individually. With this series applied, the user interface is as follows. - parameters in /proc/sys/kernel . soft_watchdog This is a new parameter to control and examine the run state of the soft lockup detector. . nmi_watchdog The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used to control and examine the run state of the hard lockup detector. . watchdog This parameter is still available to control the run state of both lockup detectors at the same time. If this parameter is examined, it shows the logical OR of soft_watchdog and nmi_watchdog. . watchdog_thresh The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch. - kernel command line parameters . nosoftlockup The semantics of this parameter have changed. It can now be used to disable the soft lockup detector at boot time. . nmi_watchdog=0 or nmi_watchdog=1 Disable or enable the hard lockup detector at boot time. The patch introduces '=1' as a new option. . nowatchdog The semantics of this parameter are not affected by the patch. It is still available to disable both lockup detectors at boot time. Also, remove the proc_dowatchdog() function which is no longer needed. [dzickus@redhat.com: wrote changelog] [dzickus@redhat.com: update documentation for kernel params and sysctl] Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - changes permitting use of call_rcu() and friends very early in boot, for example, before rcu_init() is invoked. - add in-kernel API to enable and disable expediting of normal RCU grace periods. - improve RCU's handling of (hotplug-) outgoing CPUs. - NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes. - tiny-RCU updates to make it more tiny. - documentation updates. - miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (58 commits) cpu: Provide smpboot_thread_init() on !CONFIG_SMP kernels as well cpu: Defer smpboot kthread unparking until CPU known to scheduler rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup rcutorture: Default to grace-period-initialization delays rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop cpu: Make CPU-offline idle-loop transition point more precise rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handling rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs rcutorture: Enable slow grace-period initializations rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdef rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init() rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization ...
2015-04-10earlycon: 8250: Document kernel command line optionsPeter Hurley
Document the expected behavior of kernel command lines of the forms: console=uart[8250],io|mmio|mmio32,<addr>[,options] console=uart[8250],<addr>[,options] and earlycon=uart[8250],io|mmio|mmio32,<addr>[,options] earlycon=uart[8250],<addr>[,options] Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-04-08DOC: kernel-parameters.txt: Mark `nofpu' for MIPS tooMaciej W. Rozycki
The MIPS port has supported this option since forever, long before SH was even in plans. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9665/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2015-04-04Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right placeBorislav Petkov
We're at least trying to be alphabetically sorted. So move "eagerfpu=" in the vicinity of where it belongs at least. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-04-01x86/mm: Add support for the non-standard protected e820 typeChristoph Hellwig
Various recent BIOSes support NVDIMMs or ADR using a non-standard e820 memory type, and Intel supplied reference Linux code using this type to various vendors. Wire this e820 table type up to export platform devices for the pmem driver so that we can use it in Linux. Based on earlier work from: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Includes fixes for NUMA regions from Boaz Harrosh. Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427872339-6688-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de [ Minor cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-01x86/efi: Add a "debug" option to the efi= cmdlineBorislav Petkov
... and hide the memory regions dump behind it. Make it default-off. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141209095843.GA3990@pd.tnic Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2015-03-25ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce early_param "acpi=" to enable/disable ACPIAl Stone
This implements the following policy to decide whether ACPI should be used to boot the system: - acpi=off: ACPI will not be used to boot the system, even if there is no alternative available (e.g., device tree is empty) - acpi=force: only ACPI will be used to boot the system; if that fails, there will be no fallback to alternative methods (such as device tree) - otherwise, ACPI will be used as a fallback if the device tree turns out to lack a platform description; the heuristic to decide this is whether /chosen is the only node present at depth 1 CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> CC: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Tested-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2015-03-20Merge branches 'doc.2015.02.26a', 'earlycb.2015.03.03a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'fixes.2015.03.03a', 'gpexp.2015.02.26a', 'hotplug.2015.03.20a', 'sysidle.2015.02.26b' and 'tiny.2015.02.26a' into HEAD doc.2015.02.26a: Documentation changes earlycb.2015.03.03a: Permit early-boot RCU callbacks fixes.2015.03.03a: Miscellaneous fixes gpexp.2015.02.26a: In-kernel expediting of normal grace periods hotplug.2015.03.20a: CPU hotplug fixes sysidle.2015.02.26b: NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes tiny.2015.02.26a: TINY_RCU fixes
2015-03-11rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initializationPaul E. McKenney
Grace-period initialization normally proceeds quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce races against grace-period initialization. This commit therefore allows grace-period initialization to be artificially slowed down, increasing race-reproduction probability. A pair of new Kconfig parameters are provided, CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT to enable the slowdowns, and CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY to specify the number of jiffies of slowdown to apply. A boot-time parameter named rcutree.gp_init_delay allows boot-time delay to be specified. By default, no delay will be applied even if CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is set. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26documentation: Update rcutree.kthread_prio for grace-period kthread usePaul E. McKenney
Now that the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter also controls the priority of the grace-period kthreads, update the documentation to reflect this change. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26PM / sleep: add configurable delay for pm_testBrian Norris
When CONFIG_PM_DEBUG=y, we provide a sysfs file (/sys/power/pm_test) for selecting one of a few suspend test modes, where rather than entering a full suspend state, the kernel will perform some subset of suspend steps, wait 5 seconds, and then resume back to normal operation. This mode is useful for (among other things) observing the state of the system just before entering a sleep mode, for debugging or analysis purposes. However, a constant 5 second wait is not sufficient for some sorts of analysis; for example, on an SoC, one might want to use external tools to probe the power states of various on-chip controllers or clocks. This patch turns this 5 second delay into a configurable module parameter, so users can determine how long to wait in this pseudo-suspend state before resuming the system. Example (wait 30 seconds); # echo 30 > /sys/module/suspend/parameters/pm_test_delay # echo core > /sys/power/pm_test # time echo mem > /sys/power/state ... [ 17.583625] suspend debug: Waiting for 30 second(s). ... real 0m30.381s user 0m0.017s sys 0m0.080s Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Reviewed-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@chromium.org> Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-02-15Merge tag 'tty-3.20-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial driver patches from Greg KH: "Here's the big tty/serial driver update for 3.20-rc1. Nothing huge here, just lots of driver updates and some core tty layer fixes as well. All have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (119 commits) serial: 8250: Fix UART_BUG_TXEN workaround serial: driver for ETRAX FS UART tty: remove unused variable sprop serial: of-serial: fetch line number from DT serial: samsung: earlycon support depends on CONFIG_SERIAL_SAMSUNG_CONSOLE tty/serial: serial8250_set_divisor() can be static tty/serial: Add Spreadtrum sc9836-uart driver support Documentation: DT: Add bindings for Spreadtrum SoC Platform serial: samsung: remove redundant interrupt enabling tty: Remove external interface for tty_set_termios() serial: omap: Fix RTS handling serial: 8250_omap: Use UPSTAT_AUTORTS for RTS handling serial: core: Rework hw-assisted flow control support tty/serial: 8250_early: Add support for PXA UARTs tty/serial: of_serial: add support for PXA/MMP uarts tty/serial: of_serial: add DT alias ID handling serial: 8250: Prevent concurrent updates to shadow registers serial: 8250: Use canary to restart console after suspend serial: 8250: Refactor XR17V35X divisor calculation serial: 8250: Refactor divisor programming ...
2015-02-11Merge tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Update of all defconfigs - Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs - Some PS3 updates from Geoff - Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton - Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen - Several cxl updates from Ian & Ryan - Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody & Sukadev - Freescale updates from Scott: "Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes" * tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits) cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label cxl: Fix device_node reference counting powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80) perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy() ...
2015-02-10Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) More iov_iter conversion work from Al Viro. [ The "crypto: switch af_alg_make_sg() to iov_iter" commit was wrong, and this pull actually adds an extra commit on top of the branch I'm pulling to fix that up, so that the pre-merge state is ok. - Linus ] 2) Various optimizations to the ipv4 forwarding information base trie lookup implementation. From Alexander Duyck. 3) Remove sock_iocb altogether, from CHristoph Hellwig. 4) Allow congestion control algorithm selection via routing metrics. From Daniel Borkmann. 5) Make ipv4 uncached route list per-cpu, from Eric Dumazet. 6) Handle rfs hash collisions more gracefully, also from Eric Dumazet. 7) Add xmit_more support to r8169, e1000, and e1000e drivers. From Florian Westphal. 8) Transparent Ethernet Bridging support for GRO, from Jesse Gross. 9) Add BPF packet actions to packet scheduler, from Jiri Pirko. 10) Add support for uniqu flow IDs to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer. 11) New NetCP ethernet driver, from Muralidharan Karicheri and Wingman Kwok. 12) More sanely handle out-of-window dupacks, which can result in serious ACK storms. From Neal Cardwell. 13) Various rhashtable bug fixes and enhancements, from Herbert Xu, Patrick McHardy, and Thomas Graf. 14) Support xmit_more in be2net, from Sathya Perla. 15) Group Policy extensions for vxlan, from Thomas Graf. 16) Remove Checksum Offload support for vxlan, from Tom Herbert. 17) Like ipv4, support lockless transmit over ipv6 UDP sockets. From Vlad Yasevich. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1494+1 commits) crypto: fix af_alg_make_sg() conversion to iov_iter ipv4: Namespecify TCP PMTU mechanism i40e: Fix for stats init function call in Rx setup tcp: don't include Fast Open option in SYN-ACK on pure SYN-data openvswitch: Only set TUNNEL_VXLAN_OPT if VXLAN-GBP metadata is set ipv6: Make __ipv6_select_ident static ipv6: Fix fragment id assignment on LE arches. bridge: Fix inability to add non-vlan fdb entry net: Mellanox: Delete unnecessary checks before the function call "vunmap" cxgb4: Add support in cxgb4 to get expansion rom version via ethtool ethtool: rename reserved1 memeber in ethtool_drvinfo for expansion ROM version net: dsa: Remove redundant phy_attach() IB/mlx4: Reset flow support for IB kernel ULPs IB/mlx4: Always use the correct port for mirrored multicast attachments net/bonding: Fix potential bad memory access during bonding events tipc: remove tipc_snprintf tipc: nl compat add noop and remove legacy nl framework tipc: convert legacy nl stats show to nl compat tipc: convert legacy nl net id get to nl compat tipc: convert legacy nl net id set to nl compat ...
2015-02-10Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpufreq: (46 commits) intel_pstate: provide option to only use intel_pstate with HWP cpufreq-dt: Drop unnecessary check before cpufreq_cooling_unregister() invocation cpufreq: Create for_each_governor() cpufreq: Create for_each_policy() cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_disabled() check from cpufreq_cpu_{get|put}() cpufreq: Set cpufreq_cpu_data to NULL before putting kobject intel_pstate: honor user space min_perf_pct override on resume intel_pstate: respect cpufreq policy request intel_pstate: Add num_pstates to sysfs intel_pstate: expose turbo range to sysfs intel_pstate: Add support for SkyLake cpufreq: stats: drop unnecessary locking cpufreq: stats: don't update stats on false notifiers cpufreq: stats: don't update stats from show_trans_table() cpufreq: stats: time_in_state can't be NULL in cpufreq_stats_update() cpufreq: stats: create sysfs group once we are ready cpufreq: remove CPUFREQ_UPDATE_POLICY_CPU notifications cpufreq: stats: drop 'cpu' field of struct cpufreq_stats cpufreq: Remove (now) unused 'last_cpu' from struct cpufreq_policy cpufreq: stats: rename 'struct cpufreq_stats' objects as 'stats' ...
2015-02-06intel_pstate: provide option to only use intel_pstate with HWPKristen Carlson Accardi
Allow users the option to disable the driver for any hardware which does not support HWP. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-02-02serial: samsung: Add support for early consoleTomasz Figa
This patch adds support for early console initialized from device tree and kernel command line to all variants of Samsung serial driver. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com> [mszyprow: added support for command line based initialization, fixed comments, added documentation] Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com> Tested-by: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com> Tested-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-27Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller
Conflicts: arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6sx-sdb.dts net/sched/cls_bpf.c Two simple sets of overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-23powernv/iommu: disable IOMMU bypass with param iommu=nobypassThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
When IOMMU bypass is enabled, a PCI device can read and write memory that was not mapped by the driver without causing an EEH. That might cause memory corruption, for example. When we disable bypass, DMA reads and writes to addresses not mapped by the IOMMU will cause an EEH, allowing us to debug such issues. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-01-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input Pull input subsystem fixes from Dmitry Torokhov. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: uinput - fix ioctl nr overflow for UI_GET_SYSNAME/VERSION Input: I8042 - add Acer Aspire 7738 to the nomux list Input: elantech - support new ICs types for version 4 Input: i8042 - reset keyboard to fix Elantech touchpad detection MAINTAINERS: remove Dmitry Torokhov's alternate address
2015-01-15Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2015-01-15' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next Here's a big pile of changes for this round. We have * a lot of regulatory code changes to deal with the way newer Intel devices handle this * a change to drop packets while disconnecting from an AP instead of trying to wait for them * a new attempt at improving the tailroom accounting to not kick in too much for performance reasons * improvements in wireless link statistics * many other small improvements and small fixes that didn't seem necessary for 3.19 (e.g. in hwsim which is testing only code) Conflicts: drivers/staging/rtl8723au/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c Minor overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-01-09rfkill: document rfkill module parametersAndrew Clausen
Document the rfkill module parameters default_state and master_switch_mode. Signed-off-by: Andrew Clausen <andrew.p.clausen@gmail.com> [rewrite commit message] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2015-01-07Input: i8042 - reset keyboard to fix Elantech touchpad detectionSrihari Vijayaraghavan
On some laptops, keyboard needs to be reset in order to successfully detect touchpad (e.g., some Gigabyte laptop models with Elantech touchpads). Without resettin keyboard touchpad pretends to be completely dead. Based on the original patch by Mateusz Jończyk this version has been expanded to include DMI based detection & application of the fix automatically on the affected models of laptops. This has been confirmed to fix problem by three users already on three different models of laptops. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81331 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <linux.bug.reporting@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@o2.pl> Tested-by: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <linux.bug.reporting@gmail.com> Tested by: Zakariya Dehlawi <zdehlawi@gmail.com> Tested-by: Guillaum Bouchard <guillaum.bouchard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
2014-12-18Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.19-rc1-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull more ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These are regression fixes (leds-gpio, ACPI backlight driver, operating performance points library, ACPI device enumeration messages, cpupower tool), other bug fixes (ACPI EC driver, ACPI device PM), some cleanups in the operating performance points (OPP) framework, continuation of CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME elimination, a couple of minor intel_pstate driver changes, a new MAINTAINERS entry for it and an ACPI fan driver change needed for better support of thermal management in user space. Specifics: - Fix a regression in leds-gpio introduced by a recent commit that inadvertently changed the name of one of the properties used by the driver (Fabio Estevam). - Fix a regression in the ACPI backlight driver introduced by a recent fix that missed one special case that had to be taken into account (Aaron Lu). - Drop the level of some new kernel messages from the ACPI core introduced by a recent commit to KERN_DEBUG which they should have used from the start and drop some other unuseful KERN_ERR messages printed by ACPI (Rafael J Wysocki). - Revert an incorrect commit modifying the cpupower tool (Prarit Bhargava). - Fix two regressions introduced by recent commits in the OPP library and clean up some existing minor issues in that code (Viresh Kumar). - Continue to replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM throughout the tree (or drop it where that can be done) in order to make it possible to eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME (Rafael J Wysocki, Ulf Hansson, Ludovic Desroches). There will be one more "CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME removal" batch after this one, because some new uses of it have been introduced during the current merge window, but that should be sufficient to finally get rid of it. - Make the ACPI EC driver more robust against race conditions related to GPE handler installation failures (Lv Zheng). - Prevent the ACPI device PM core code from attempting to disable GPEs that it has not enabled which confuses ACPICA and makes it report errors unnecessarily (Rafael J Wysocki). - Add a "force" command line switch to the intel_pstate driver to make it possible to override the blacklisting of some systems in that driver if needed (Ethan Zhao). - Improve intel_pstate code documentation and add a MAINTAINERS entry for it (Kristen Carlson Accardi). - Make the ACPI fan driver create cooling device interfaces witn names that reflect the IDs of the ACPI device objects they are associated with, except for "generic" ACPI fans (PNP ID "PNP0C0B"). That's necessary for user space thermal management tools to be able to connect the fans with the parts of the system they are supposed to be cooling properly. From Srinivas Pandruvada" * tag 'pm+acpi-3.19-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (32 commits) MAINTAINERS: add entry for intel_pstate ACPI / video: update the skip case for acpi_video_device_in_dod() power / PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME NFC / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM SCSI / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM ACPI / EC: Fix unexpected ec_remove_handlers() invocations Revert "tools: cpupower: fix return checks for sysfs_get_idlestate_count()" tracing / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM x86 / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME in io_apic.c PM: Remove the SET_PM_RUNTIME_PM_OPS() macro mmc: atmel-mci: use SET_RUNTIME_PM_OPS() macro PM / Kconfig: Replace PM_RUNTIME with PM in dependencies ARM / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM sound / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM phy / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM video / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM tty / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM spi: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM ACPI / PM: Do not disable wakeup GPEs that have not been enabled ACPI / utils: Drop error messages from acpi_evaluate_reference() ...
2014-12-18Merge branches 'pm-opp', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-tools'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-opp: PM / OPP: do error handling at the bottom of dev_pm_opp_add_dynamic() PM / OPP: handle allocation of device_opp in a separate routine PM / OPP: reuse find_device_opp() instead of duplicating code PM / OPP: Staticize __dev_pm_opp_remove() PM / OPP: replace kfree with kfree_rcu while freeing 'struct device_opp' * pm-cpufreq: MAINTAINERS: add entry for intel_pstate intel_pstate: Add a few comments intel_pstate: add kernel parameter to force loading * pm-tools: Revert "tools: cpupower: fix return checks for sysfs_get_idlestate_count()"
2014-12-16Merge tag 'trace-3.19-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as I thought it might be. I'm pushing this in now. This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20. This adds two new features: 1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init(). By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter, tracepoints can be enabled at boot up. For debugging things like the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints enabled very early. People have asked about this before and this has been on my todo list. As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now. This way he can add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when things go wrong. 2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they are triggered. If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging. But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging early lock up or reboot problems. This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests. Thomas tried them out too and it works for his needs. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org" * tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk() tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
2014-12-15tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Add the kernel command line tp_printk option that will have tracepoints that are active sent to printk() as well as to the trace buffer. Passing "tp_printk" will activate this. To turn it off, the sysctl /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk can have '0' echoed into it. Note, this only works if the cmdline option is used. Echoing 1 into the sysctl file without the cmdline option will have no affect. Note, this is a dangerous option. Having high frequency tracepoints send their data to printk() can possibly cause a live lock. This is another reason why this is only active if the command line option is used. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-12-14Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security layer updates from James Morris: "In terms of changes, there's general maintenance to the Smack, SELinux, and integrity code. The IMA code adds a new kconfig option, IMA_APPRAISE_SIGNED_INIT, which allows IMA appraisal to require signatures. Support for reading keys from rootfs before init is call is also added" * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits) selinux: Remove security_ops extern security: smack: fix out-of-bounds access in smk_parse_smack() VFS: refactor vfs_read() ima: require signature based appraisal integrity: provide a hook to load keys when rootfs is ready ima: load x509 certificate from the kernel integrity: provide a function to load x509 certificate from the kernel integrity: define a new function integrity_read_file() Security: smack: replace kzalloc with kmem_cache for inode_smack Smack: Lock mode for the floor and hat labels ima: added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt ima: allocate field pointers array on demand in template_desc_init_fields() ima: don't allocate a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields() ima: display template format in meas. list if template name length is zero ima: added error messages to template-related functions ima: use atomic bit operations to protect policy update interface ima: ignore empty and with whitespaces policy lines ima: no need to allocate entry for comment ima: report policy load status ima: use path names cache ...
2014-12-13Merge branch 'akpm' (second patch-bomb from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - misc fs fixes - add execveat() syscall - new ratelimit feature for fault-injection - decompressor updates - ipc/ updates - fallocate feature creep - fsnotify cleanups - a few other misc things * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (99 commits) cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings parisc: percpu: update comments referring to __get_cpu_var percpu: update local_ops.txt to reflect this_cpu operations percpu: remove __get_cpu_var and __raw_get_cpu_var macros fsnotify: remove destroy_list from fsnotify_mark fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions slub: fix cpuset check in get_any_partial slab: fix cpuset check in fallback_alloc shmdt: use i_size_read() instead of ->i_size ipc/shm.c: fix overly aggressive shmdt() when calls span multiple segments ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling ipc/sem.c: increase SEMMSL, SEMMNI, SEMOPM ipc/sem.c: change memory barrier in sem_lock() to smp_rmb() lib/decompress.c: consistency of compress formats for kernel image decompress_bunzip2: off by one in get_next_block() usr/Kconfig: make initrd compression algorithm selection not expert fault-inject: add ratelimit option ratelimit: add initialization macro ...
2014-12-13mm/page_owner: keep track of page ownersJoonsoo Kim
This is the page owner tracking code which is introduced so far ago. It is resident on Andrew's tree, though, nobody tried to upstream so it remain as is. Our company uses this feature actively to debug memory leak or to find a memory hogger so I decide to upstream this feature. This functionality help us to know who allocates the page. When allocating a page, we store some information about allocation in extra memory. Later, if we need to know status of all pages, we can get and analyze it from this stored information. In previous version of this feature, extra memory is statically defined in struct page, but, in this version, extra memory is allocated outside of struct page. It enables us to turn on/off this feature at boottime without considerable memory waste. Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free, using it to analyze page owner is rather complex. We need to enlarge the trace buffer for preventing overlapping until userspace program launched. And, launched program continually dump out the trace buffer for later analysis and it would change system behaviour with more possibility rather than just keeping it in memory, so bad for debug. Moreover, we can use page_owner feature further for various purposes. For example, we can use it for fragmentation statistics implemented in this patch. And, I also plan to implement some CMA failure debugging feature using this interface. I'd like to give the credit for all developers contributed this feature, but, it's not easy because I don't know exact history. Sorry about that. Below is people who has "Signed-off-by" in the patches in Andrew's tree. Contributor: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se> Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurableJoonsoo Kim
Now, we have prepared to avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime. So introduce new kernel-parameter to disable debug-pagealloc in boottime, and makes related functions to be disabled in this case. Only non-intuitive part is change of guard page functions. Because guard page is effective only if debug-pagealloc is enabled, turning off according to debug-pagealloc is reasonable thing to do. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13hugetlb: fix hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txtLuiz Capitulino
The hugepages= entry in kernel-parameters.txt states that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time and not freed afterwards. This is not true since commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime"), at least for x86_64. Instead of adding arch-specifc observations to the hugepages= entry, this commit just drops the out of date information. Further information about arch-specific support and available features can be obtained in the hugetlb documentation. Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-12Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "Here's my set of accumulated documentation changes for 3.19. It includes a couple of additions to the coding style document, some fixes for minor build problems within the documentation tree, the relocation of the kselftest docs, and various tweaks and additions. A couple of changes reach outside of Documentation/; they only make trivial comment changes and I did my best to get the required acks. Complete with a shiny signed tag this time around" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: kobject: grammar fix Input: xpad - update docs to reflect current state Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for x86_64 cgroups: Documentation: fix wrong cgroupfs paths Documentation/email-clients.txt: add info about Claws Mail CodingStyle: add some more error handling guidelines kselftest: Move the docs to the Documentation dir Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy Documentation: power: Fix typo in Documentation/power Documentation: vm: Add 1GB large page support information ipv4: add kernel parameter tcpmhash_entries Documentation: Fix a typo in mailbox.txt treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers CodingStyle: Add a chapter on conditional compilation
2014-12-10Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.19-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "This time we have some more new material than we used to have during the last couple of development cycles. The most important part of it to me is the introduction of a unified interface for accessing device properties provided by platform firmware. It works with Device Trees and ACPI in a uniform way and drivers using it need not worry about where the properties come from as long as the platform firmware (either DT or ACPI) makes them available. It covers both devices and "bare" device node objects without struct device representation as that turns out to be necessary in some cases. This has been in the works for quite a few months (and development cycles) and has been approved by all of the relevant maintainers. On top of that, some drivers are switched over to the new interface (at25, leds-gpio, gpio_keys_polled) and some additional changes are made to the core GPIO subsystem to allow device drivers to manipulate GPIOs in the "canonical" way on platforms that provide GPIO information in their ACPI tables, but don't assign names to GPIO lines (in which case the driver needs to do that on the basis of what it knows about the device in question). That also has been approved by the GPIO core maintainers and the rfkill driver is now going to use it. Second is support for hardware P-states in the intel_pstate driver. It uses CPUID to detect whether or not the feature is supported by the processor in which case it will be enabled by default. However, it can be disabled entirely from the kernel command line if necessary. Next is support for a platform firmware interface based on ACPI operation regions used by the PMIC (Power Management Integrated Circuit) chips on the Intel Baytrail-T and Baytrail-T-CR platforms. That interface is used for manipulating power resources and for thermal management: sensor temperature reporting, trip point setting and so on. Also the ACPI core is now going to support the _DEP configuration information in a limited way. Basically, _DEP it supposed to reflect off-the-hierarchy dependencies between devices which may be very indirect, like when AML for one device accesses locations in an operation region handled by another device's driver (usually, the device depended on this way is a serial bus or GPIO controller). The support added this time is sufficient to make the ACPI battery driver work on Asus T100A, but it is general enough to be able to cover some other use cases in the future. Finally, we have a new cpufreq driver for the Loongson1B processor. In addition to the above, there are fixes and cleanups all over the place as usual and a traditional ACPICA update to a recent upstream release. As far as the fixes go, the ACPI LPSS (Low-power Subsystem) driver for Intel platforms should be able to handle power management of the DMA engine correctly, the cpufreq-dt driver should interact with the thermal subsystem in a better way and the ACPI backlight driver should handle some more corner cases, among other things. On top of the ACPICA update there are fixes for race conditions in the ACPICA's interrupt handling code which might lead to some random and strange looking failures on some systems. In the cleanups department the most visible part is the series of commits targeted at getting rid of the CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME configuration option. That was triggered by a discussion regarding the generic power domains code during which we realized that trying to support certain combinations of PM config options was painful and not really worth it, because nobody would use them in production anyway. For this reason, we decided to make CONFIG_PM_SLEEP select CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and that lead to the conclusion that the latter became redundant and CONFIG_PM could be used instead of it. The material here makes that replacement in a major part of the tree, but there will be at least one more batch of that in the second part of the merge window. Specifics: - Support for retrieving device properties information from ACPI _DSD device configuration objects and a unified device properties interface for device drivers (and subsystems) on top of that. As stated above, this works with Device Trees and ACPI and allows device drivers to be written in a platform firmware (DT or ACPI) agnostic way. The at25, leds-gpio and gpio_keys_polled drivers are now going to use this new interface and the GPIO subsystem is additionally modified to allow device drivers to assign names to GPIO resources returned by ACPI _CRS objects (in case _DSD is not present or does not provide the expected data). The changes in this set are mostly from Mika Westerberg, Rafael J Wysocki, Aaron Lu, and Darren Hart with some fixes from others (Fabio Estevam, Geert Uytterhoeven). - Support for Hardware Managed Performance States (HWP) as described in Volume 3, section 14.4, of the Intel SDM in the intel_pstate driver. CPUID is used to detect whether or not the feature is supported by the processor. If supported, it will be enabled automatically unless the intel_pstate=no_hwp switch is present in the kernel command line. From Dirk Brandewie. - New Intel Broadwell-H ID for intel_pstate (Dirk Brandewie). - Support for firmware interface based on ACPI operation regions used by the PMIC chips on the Intel Baytrail-T and Baytrail-T-CR platforms for power resource control and thermal management (Aaron Lu). - Limited support for retrieving off-the-hierarchy dependencies between devices from ACPI _DEP device configuration objects and deferred probing support for the ACPI battery driver based on the _DEP information to make that driver work on Asus T100A (Lan Tianyu). - New cpufreq driver for the Loongson1B processor (Kelvin Cheung). - ACPICA update to upstream revision 20141107 which only affects tools (Bob Moore). - Fixes for race conditions in the ACPICA's interrupt handling code and in the ACPI code related to system suspend and resume (Lv Zheng and Rafael J Wysocki). - ACPI core fix for an RCU-related issue in the ioremap() regions management code that slowed down significantly after CPUs had been allowed to enter idle states even if they'd had RCU callbakcs queued and triggered some problems in certain proprietary graphics driver (and elsewhere). The fix replaces synchronize_rcu() in that code with synchronize_rcu_expedited() which makes the issue go away. From Konstantin Khlebnikov. - ACPI LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver fix to handle power management of the DMA engine included into the LPSS correctly. The problem is that the DMA engine doesn't have ACPI PM support of its own and it simply is turned off when the last LPSS device having ACPI PM support goes into D3cold. To work around that, the PM domain used by the ACPI LPSS driver is redesigned so at least one device with ACPI PM support will be on as long as the DMA engine is in use. From Andy Shevchenko. - ACPI backlight driver fix to avoid using it on "Win8-compatible" systems where it doesn't work and where it was used by default by mistake (Aaron Lu). - Assorted minor ACPI core fixes and cleanups from Tomasz Nowicki, Sudeep Holla, Huang Rui, Hanjun Guo, Fabian Frederick, and Ashwin Chaugule (mostly related to the upcoming ARM64 support). - Intel RAPL (Running Average Power Limit) power capping driver fixes and improvements including new processor IDs (Jacob Pan). - Generic power domains modification to power up domains after attaching devices to them to meet the expectations of device drivers and bus types assuming devices to be accessible at probe time (Ulf Hansson). - Preliminary support for controlling device clocks from the generic power domains core code and modifications of the ARM/shmobile platform to use that feature (Ulf Hansson). - Assorted minor fixes and cleanups of the generic power domains core code (Ulf Hansson, Geert Uytterhoeven). - Assorted minor fixes and cleanups of the device clocks control code in the PM core (Geert Uytterhoeven, Grygorii Strashko). - Consolidation of device power management Kconfig options by making CONFIG_PM_SLEEP select CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and removing the latter which is now redundant (Rafael J Wysocki and Kevin Hilman). That is the first batch of the changes needed for this purpose. - Core device runtime power management support code cleanup related to the execution of callbacks (Andrzej Hajda). - cpuidle ARM support improvements (Lorenzo Pieralisi). - cpuidle cleanup related to the CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID flag and a new MAINTAINERS entry for ARM Exynos cpuidle (Daniel Lezcano and Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz). - New cpufreq driver callback (->ready) to be executed when the cpufreq core is ready to use a given policy object and cpufreq-dt driver modification to use that callback for cooling device registration (Viresh Kumar). - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups (Viresh Kumar, Vince Hsu, James Geboski, Tomeu Vizoso). - Assorted fixes and cleanups in the cpufreq-pcc, intel_pstate, cpufreq-dt, pxa2xx cpufreq drivers (Lenny Szubowicz, Ethan Zhao, Stefan Wahren, Petr Cvek). - OPP (Operating Performance Points) framework modification to allow OPPs to be removed too and update of a few cpufreq drivers (cpufreq-dt, exynos5440, imx6q, cpufreq) to remove OPPs (added during initialization) on driver removal (Viresh Kumar). - Hibernation core fixes and cleanups (Tina Ruchandani and Markus Elfring). - PM Kconfig fix related to CPU power management (Pankaj Dubey). - cpupower tool fix (Prarit Bhargava)" * tag 'pm+acpi-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (120 commits) i2c-omap / PM: Drop CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME from i2c-omap.c dmaengine / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM tools: cpupower: fix return checks for sysfs_get_idlestate_count() drivers: sh / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM e1000e / igb / PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME MMC / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM MFD / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM misc / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM media / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM input / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM leds: leds-gpio: Fix multiple instances registration without 'label' property iio / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM hsi / OMAP / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM i2c-hid / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM drm / exynos / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM gpio / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM hwrandom / exynos / PM: Use CONFIG_PM in #ifdef block / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM USB / PM: Drop CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME from the USB core PM: Merge the SET*_RUNTIME_PM_OPS() macros ...
2014-12-10Merge tag 'trace-3.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "There was a lot of clean ups and minor fixes. One of those clean ups was to the trace_seq code. It also removed the return values to the trace_seq_*() functions and use trace_seq_has_overflowed() to see if the buffer filled up or not. This is similar to work being done to the seq_file code as well in another tree. Some of the other goodies include: - Added some "!" (NOT) logic to the tracing filter. - Fixed the frame pointer logic to the x86_64 mcount trampolines - Added the logic for dynamic trampolines on !CONFIG_PREEMPT systems. That is, the ftrace trampoline can be dynamically allocated and be called directly by functions that only have a single hook to them" * tag 'trace-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (55 commits) tracing: Truncated output is better than nothing tracing: Add additional marks to signal very large time deltas Documentation: describe trace_buf_size parameter more accurately tracing: Allow NOT to filter AND and OR clauses tracing: Add NOT to filtering logic ftrace/fgraph/x86: Have prepare_ftrace_return() take ip as first parameter ftrace/x86: Get rid of ftrace_caller_setup ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs macro also save stack frames if needed ftrace/x86: Add macro MCOUNT_REG_SIZE for amount of stack used to save mcount regs ftrace/x86: Simplify save_mcount_regs on getting RIP ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs store RIP in %rdi for first parameter ftrace/x86: Rename MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME and add more detailed comments ftrace/x86: Move MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME out of header file ftrace/x86: Have static tracing also use ftrace_caller_setup ftrace/x86: Have static function tracing always test for function graph kprobes: Add IPMODIFY flag to kprobe_ftrace_ops ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflict kprobes/ftrace: Recover original IP if pre_handler doesn't change it tracing/trivial: Fix typos and make an int into a bool tracing: Deletion of an unnecessary check before iput() ...
2014-12-10kernel: add panic_on_warnPrarit Bhargava
There have been several times where I have had to rebuild a kernel to cause a panic when hitting a WARN() in the code in order to get a crash dump from a system. Sometimes this is easy to do, other times (such as in the case of a remote admin) it is not trivial to send new images to the user. A much easier method would be a switch to change the WARN() over to a panic. This makes debugging easier in that I can now test the actual image the WARN() was seen on and I do not have to engage in remote debugging. This patch adds a panic_on_warn kernel parameter and /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_warn calls panic() in the warn_slowpath_common() path. The function will still print out the location of the warning. An example of the panic_on_warn output: The first line below is from the WARN_ON() to output the WARN_ON()'s location. After that the panic() output is displayed. WARNING: CPU: 30 PID: 11698 at /home/prarit/dummy_module/dummy-module.c:25 init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module]() Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ... CPU: 30 PID: 11698 Comm: insmod Tainted: G W OE 3.17.0+ #57 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.00.29.D696.1311111329 11/11/2013 0000000000000000 000000008e3f87df ffff88080f093c38 ffffffff81665190 0000000000000000 ffffffff818aea3d ffff88080f093cb8 ffffffff8165e2ec ffffffff00000008 ffff88080f093cc8 ffff88080f093c68 000000008e3f87df Call Trace: [<ffffffff81665190>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58 [<ffffffff8165e2ec>] panic+0xd0/0x204 [<ffffffffa038e05f>] ? init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module] [<ffffffff81076b90>] warn_slowpath_common+0xd0/0xd0 [<ffffffffa038e040>] ? dummy_greetings+0x40/0x40 [dummy_module] [<ffffffff81076c8a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffffa038e05f>] init_dummy+0x1f/0x30 [dummy_module] [<ffffffff81002144>] do_one_initcall+0xd4/0x210 [<ffffffff811b52c2>] ? __vunmap+0xc2/0x110 [<ffffffff810f8889>] load_module+0x16a9/0x1b30 [<ffffffff810f3d30>] ? store_uevent+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff810f49b9>] ? copy_module_from_fd.isra.44+0x129/0x180 [<ffffffff810f8ec6>] SyS_finit_module+0xa6/0xd0 [<ffffffff8166cf29>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17 Successfully tested by me. hpa said: There is another very valid use for this: many operators would rather a machine shuts down than being potentially compromised either functionally or security-wise. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-11intel_pstate: add kernel parameter to force loadingEthan Zhao
To force loading on Oracle Sun X86 servers, provide one kernel command line parameter intel_pstate = force For those who are aware of the risk of no power capping capabily working and try to get better performance with this driver. Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com> Tested-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com> Acked-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-12-03Documentation: describe trace_buf_size parameter more accuratelyJoonsoo Kim
I'm stuck into panic that too litte free memory is left when I boot with trace_buf_size parameter. After digging into the problem, I found that trace_buf_size is the size of trace buffer on each cpu rather than total size of trace buffer. To prevent victim like me, change description of trace_buf_size parameter more accurately. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417570760-10620-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-11-20Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: - Streamline RCU's use of per-CPU variables, shifting from "cpu" arguments to functions to "this_"-style per-CPU variable accessors. - Signal-handling RCU updates. - Real-time updates. - Torture-test updates. - Miscellaneous fixes. - Documentation updates. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>