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Robert P. J. Day
698524d78d Documentation: Remove unreferenced "blkmtd_*" parms
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:22:16 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
cfd348fd6e Documentation: Remove reference to non-existent "unwind_debug" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:12:55 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
646b1c9dad Documentation: Fix erroneous "dmascc=" documentation
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:11:36 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
30afddadac Documentation: Remove references to dead "eda" and "edb" kernel parms
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:03:32 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
23d028f69a Documentation: Remove references to dead "cyclades=" boot option
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-20 00:01:12 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
02a72fd675 Documentation: Remove reference to non-existent "applicom" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:47:50 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
ac0bf14df7 Documentation: Remove references to dead "noasync" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:33:35 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
634fe2fdbf Documentation: Remove reference to dead "lasi" kernel parm
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:32:16 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
cd1c34f21f Documentation: Delete final reference to "sg_def_reserved_size" kernel parm
given the following:

$ grep -rw sg_def_reserved_size *
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:    sg_def_reserved_size=   [SCSI]
$

that kernel parameter looks exceedingly dead.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:28:40 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
bd9fcb44a7 Documentation: Remove remaining useless reference to acpi_fake_ecdt
>From commit cd8c93a4e0:

"Similar functionality was turned on by acpi_fake_ecdt=1 command line
before. Now it is on all the time."

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:27:18 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
3f5b98a2a0 Documentation: Delete dead OSS-related kernel parameter.
Since the OSS-related "sb" kernel parameter doesn't seem to be
supported, drop its reference from the kernel-parameters.txt file.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:15:26 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
9f5e0bffe5 Documentation: Drop reference to dead "eicon" kernel paramter.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:14:24 +02:00
Bernhard Walle
fb391599f2 Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:51 -07:00
Andres Salomon
8f4ce8c32f serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time option
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop
the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes
to sleep.  This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related
things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be
incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC).  There are plenty of times that we
want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial
console to be suspended.

This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel
boot parameter (no_console_suspend).  By default, the serial console will
be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing
'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain
alive during suspend.

For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be
applied to make this work for things like netconsole.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Andi Kleen
909dd324fb x86: clean up mce= argument parsing slightly
Move the = into the __setup line.
Document the option in kernel-parameters.txt by adding a pointer
to the x86-64 specific documentation.

[ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ]

Pointed out by Robert Day
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-17 20:16:32 +02:00
James Morris
20510f2f4e security: Convert LSM into a static interface
Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security
module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the
overall security architecture.

Needlessly exported LSM symbols have been unexported, to help reduce API
abuse.

Parameters for the capability and root_plug modules are now specified
at boot.

The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed.

In a nutshell, there is no safe way to unload an LSM.  The modular interface
is thus unecessary and broken infrastructure.  It is used only by out-of-tree
modules, which are often binary-only, illegal, abusive of the API and
dangerous, e.g.  silently re-vectoring SELinux.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: USB Kconfig fix]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix LSM kernel-doc]
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:07 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
fac8b209b1 Remove final traces of long-deprecated "ramdisk" kernel parm
Since the "ramdisk" kernel parameter has been officially deprecated
since at least 2.6.18, might as well finally get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
accaa24c49 fbcon: logo: disable logo at boot
Add logo.nologo kernel boot option to disable the logo in order to provide
more screen space for kernel messages; especially useful when debugging and
screen space is more critical.

newport_con driver changes are untested.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
bfe8df3d31 slow down printk during boot
Optionally add a boot delay after each kernel printk() call, crudely
measured in milliseconds, with a maximum delay of 10 seconds per printk.

Enable CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y and then add (e.g.):
"lpj=loops_per_jiffy boot_delay=100"
to the kernel command line.

It has been useful in cases like "during boot, my machine just reboots or the
screen goes black" by slowing down printk, (and adding initcall_debug), we can
usually see the last thing that happened before the lights went out which is
usually a valuable clue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: not all architectures implement CONFIG_HZ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix lots of stuff]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/printk.c: make 2 variables static]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: fix slow down printk on boot compile error]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f2e1d89f9b 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: (40 commits)
  Input: use full RCU API
  Input: remove tsdev interface
  Input: add support for Blackfin BF54x Keypad controller
  Input: appletouch - another fix for idle reset logic
  HWMON: hdaps - switch to using input-polldev
  Input: add support for SEGA Dreamcast keyboard
  Input: omap-keyboard - don't pretend we support changing keymap
  Input: lifebook - fix X and Y axis range
  Input: usbtouchscreen - add support for GeneralTouch devices
  Input: fix open count handling in input interfaces
  Input: keyboard - add CapsShift lock
  Input: adbhid - produce all CapsLock key events
  Input: ALPS - add signature for ThinkPad R61
  Input: jornada720_kbd - send MSC_SCAN events
  Input: add support for the HP Jornada 7xx (710/720/728) touchscreen
  Input: add support for HP Jornada 7xx onboard keyboard
  Input: add support for HP Jornada onboard keyboard (HP6XX)
  Input: ucb1400_ts - use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible
  Input: xpad - fix dependancy on LEDS class
  Input: auto-select INPUT for MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN option
  ...

Resolved conflicts manually in drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c: converting from
a class device to a device and converting to use input-polldev created a
few apparently trivial clashes..
2007-10-15 13:41:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f4921aff5b Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (131 commits)
  NFSv4: Fix a typo in nfs_inode_reclaim_delegation
  NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers
  NFS: nfs_refresh_inode should clear cache_validity flags on success
  NFS: Fix a connectathon regression in NFSv3 and NFSv4
  NFS: Use nfs_refresh_inode() in ops that aren't expected to change the inode
  SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release in call refresh
  SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release() if call_allocate fails
  SUNRPC: Fix buggy UDP transmission
  [23/37] Clean up duplicate includes in
  [2.6 patch] net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c: make struct rpcb_program static
  SUNRPC: Use correct type in buffer length calculations
  SUNRPC: Fix default hostname created in rpc_create()
  nfs: add server port to rpc_pipe info file
  NFS: Get rid of some obsolete macros
  NFS: Simplify filehandle revalidation
  NFS: Ensure that nfs_link() returns a hashed dentry
  NFS: Be strict about dentry revalidation when doing exclusive create
  NFS: Don't zap the readdir caches upon error
  NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_reval_fsid()
  NFSv3: Always use directory post-op attributes in nfs3_proc_lookup
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict due to sock_owned_by_user() cleanup manually in
net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
2007-10-15 10:47:35 -07:00
Richard Purdie
70093178b6 Input: remove tsdev interface
Remove the obsolete tsdev.c driver as scheduled.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2007-10-13 00:38:52 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
ab9c232286 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (119 commits)
  [libata] struct pci_dev related cleanups
  libata: use ata_exec_internal() for PMP register access
  libata: implement ATA_PFLAG_RESETTING
  libata: add @timeout to ata_exec_internal[_sg]()
  ahci: fix notification handling
  ahci: clean up PORT_IRQ_BAD_PMP enabling
  ahci: kill leftover from enabling NCQ over PMP
  libata: wrap schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() in loop
  libata: skip suppress reporting if ATA_EHI_QUIET
  libata: clear ehi description after initial host report
  pata_jmicron: match vendor and class code only
  libata: add ST9160821AS / 3.ALD to NCQ blacklist
  pata_acpi: ACPI driver support
  libata-core: Expose gtm methods for driver use
  libata: add HDT722516DLA380 to NCQ blacklist
  libata: blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS
  [libata] Turn on ACPI by default
  libata_scsi: Fix ATAPI transfer lengths
  libata: correct handling of SRST reset sequences
  libata: Integrate ACPI-based PATA/SATA hotplug - version 5
  ...
2007-10-12 16:16:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6a84258e5f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (37 commits)
  PCI: merge almost all of pci_32.h and pci_64.h together
  PCI: X86: Introduce and enable PCI domain support
  PCI: Add 'nodomains' boot option, and pci_domains_supported global
  PCI: modify PCI bridge control ISA flag for clarity
  PCI: use _CRS for PCI resource allocation
  PCI: avoid P2P prefetch window for expansion ROMs
  PCI: skip ISA ioresource alignment on some systems
  PCI: remove transparent bridge sizing
  pci: write file size to inode on proc bus file write
  pci: use size stored in proc_dir_entry for proc bus files
  pci: implement "pci=noaer"
  PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources
  MSI: Use correct data offset for 32-bit MSI in read_msi_msg()
  PCI: Fix incorrect argument order to list_add_tail() in PCI dynamic ID code
  PCI: i386: Compaq EVO N800c needs PCI bus renumbering
  PCI: Remove no longer correct documentation regarding MSI vector assignment
  PCI: re-enable onboard sound on "MSI K8T Neo2-FIR"
  PCI: quirk_vt82c586_acpi: Omit reading PCI revision ID
  PCI: quirk amd_8131_mmrbc: Omit reading pci revision ID
  cpqphp: Use PCI_CLASS_REVISION instead of PCI_REVISION_ID for read
  ...
2007-10-12 15:50:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
efefc6eb38 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (75 commits)
  PM: merge device power-management source files
  sysfs: add copyrights
  kobject: update the copyrights
  kset: add some kerneldoc to help describe what these strange things are
  Driver core: rename ktype_edd and ktype_efivar
  Driver core: rename ktype_driver
  Driver core: rename ktype_device
  Driver core: rename ktype_class
  driver core: remove subsystem_init()
  sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_dirent
  sysfs: implement sysfs_open_dirent
  sysfs: move sysfs_dirent->s_children into sysfs_dirent->s_dir
  sysfs: make sysfs_root a regular directory dirent
  sysfs: open code sysfs_attach_dentry()
  sysfs: make s_elem an anonymous union
  sysfs: make bin attr open get active reference of parent too
  sysfs: kill unnecessary NULL pointer check in sysfs_release()
  sysfs: kill unnecessary sysfs_get() in open paths
  sysfs: reposition sysfs_dirent->s_mode.
  sysfs: kill sysfs_update_file()
  ...
2007-10-12 15:49:37 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
32a2eea795 PCI: Add 'nodomains' boot option, and pci_domains_supported global
* Introduce pci_domains_supported global, hardcoded to zero if
  !CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS.

* Introduce 'nodomains' boot option, which clears pci_domains_supported
  on platforms that enable it by default (x86, x86-64, and others when
  they are converted to use this).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 15:03:18 -07:00
Gary Hade
62f420f828 PCI: use _CRS for PCI resource allocation
Use _CRS for PCI resource allocation

This patch resolves an issue where incorrect PCI memory and i/o ranges
are being assigned to hotplugged PCI devices on some IBM systems.  The
resource mis-allocation not only makes the PCI device unuseable but
often makes the entire system unuseable due to resulting machine checks.

The hotplug capable PCI slots on the affected systems are not located
under a standard P2P bridge but are instead located under PCI root
bridges or subtractive decode P2P bridges.  For example, the IBM x3850
contains 2 hotplug capable PCI-X slots and 4 hotplug capable PCIe slots
with the PCI-X slots each located under a PCI root bridge and the PCIe
slots each located under a subtractive decode P2P bridge.

The current i386/x86_64 PCI resource allocation code does not use _CRS
returned resource information.  No other resource information source is
available for slots that are not below a standard P2P bridge so
incorrect ranges are being allocated from e820 hole causing the bad
result.

This patch causes the kernel to use _CRS returned resource info.  It is
roughly based on a change provided by Matthew Wilcox for the ia64 kernel
in 2005.  Due to possible buggy BIOS factor and possible yet to be
discovered kernel issues the function is disabled by default and can be
enabled with pci=use_crs.

Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <gary.hade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 15:03:18 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7f78576366 pci: implement "pci=noaer"
For cases in which CONFIG_PCIEAER=y (such as distro kernels), allow users
to disable PCIE Advanced Error Reporting by using "pci=noaer" on the
kernel command line.

This can be used to work around hardware or (kernel) software problems.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 15:03:17 -07:00
Kay Sievers
dc8c85871c PTY: add kernel parameter to overwrite legacy pty count
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:09 -07:00
Andres Salomon
8f36881b3c x86: Geode MFGPT clock event device support
Add support for an MFGPT clock event device; this allows us to use MFGPTs as
the basis for high-resolution timers.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-12 23:04:06 +02:00
Andres Salomon
83d7384f8d x86: Geode Multi-Function General Purpose Timers support
This adds support for Multi-Function General Purpose Timers.  It detects the
available timers during southbridge init, and provides an API for allocating
and setting the timers.  They're higher resolution than the standard PIT, so
the MFGPTs come in handy for quite a few things.

Note that we never clobber the timers that the BIOS might have opted to use;
we just check for unused timers.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2007-10-12 23:04:06 +02:00
Dave Jones
78e70c237f libata: correct kernel parameter in documentation.
'noacpi' isn't a standalone parameter, give it its prefix.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-12 14:55:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f43bf0bebe NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers
This boot parameter will allow legacy 32-bit applications which call stat()
to continue to function even if the NFSv3/v4 server uses 64-bit inode
numbers.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:52 -04:00
Robert P. J. Day
b20c8e8e86 V4L/DVB (6173a): Documentation: Remove reference to dead "cpia_pp=" boot-time option
Since this boot-time option was removed in commit
9ab7e323af, delete the reference to it.
    
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-09-17 19:54:30 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
e53dd083be Revert "V4L/DVB (6173a): Documentation: Remove reference to dead "cpia_pp=" boot-time option"
This reverts commit 4730d3af62.

Unfortunately, patch got mangled by a whitespace removal script.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-09-17 19:54:26 -03:00
Robert P. J. Day
4730d3af62 V4L/DVB (6173a): Documentation: Remove reference to dead "cpia_pp=" boot-time option
Since this boot-time option was removed in commit
9ab7e323af, delete the reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-09-14 13:13:42 -03:00
Len Brown
519ef1af47 Pull thermal into release branch 2007-08-24 22:26:19 -04:00
Len Brown
61ec7567db ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
In MPS mode, "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" boot a UP kernel with IOAPIC disabled.
However, in ACPI mode, these parameters didn't completely disable
the IO APIC initialization code and boot failed.

init/main.c:
	Disable the IO_APIC if "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
	undefine disable_ioapic_setup() when it doesn't apply.

i386:
	delete ioapic_setup(), it was a duplicate of parse_noapic()
	delete undefinition of disable_ioapic_setup()

x86_64:
	rename disable_ioapic_setup() to parse_noapic() to match i386
	define disable_ioapic_setup() in header to match i386

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-21 00:33:35 -04:00
Len Brown
c52a7419af ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.crt=C" bootparam
Some hardware will malfunction at a temperature below
the BIOS provided critical shutdown threshold.

This hook allows moving the critical trip points down
to a temperature which provokes a graceful shutdown
before the hardware malfunction.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8884

WARNING: A trip-point override will not get noticed
until the system delivers a temperature change event,
or unless thermal zone polling is enabled.
eg. "thermal.tzp=10"

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-14 15:49:32 -04:00
Len Brown
d8dd3cbcf1 Pull bugzilla-8842 into release branch 2007-08-12 00:19:23 -04:00
Len Brown
53fdc5185c Pull bugzilla-3774 into release branch 2007-08-12 00:17:59 -04:00
Len Brown
f8707ec964 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.act=" to disable or override active trip point
thermal.act=-1 disables all active trip points
in all ACPI thermal zones.

thermal.act=C, where C > 0, overrides all lowest temperature
active trip points in all thermal zones to C degrees Celsius.
Raising this trip-point may allow you to keep your system silent
up to a higher temperature.  However, it will not allow you to
raise the lowest temperature trip point above the next higher
trip point (if there is one).  Lowering this trip point may
kick in the fan sooner.

Note that overriding this trip-point will disable any BIOS attempts
to implement hysteresis around the lowest temperature trip point.
This may result in the fan starting and stopping frequently
if temperature frequently crosses C.

WARNING: raising trip points above the manufacturer's defaults
may cause the system to run at higher temperature and shorten
its life.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04:00
Len Brown
f548714561 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.nocrt" to disable critical actions
thermal.nocrt=1 disables actions on _CRT and _HOT
ACPI thermal zone trip-points.  They will be marked
as <disabled> in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points.

There are two cases where this option is used:

1. Debugging a hot system crossing valid trip point.

   If your system fan is spinning at full speed,
   be sure that the vent is not clogged with dust.
   Many laptops have very fine thermal fins that are easily blocked.

   Check that the processor fan-sink is properly seated,
   has the proper thermal grease, and is really spinning.

   Check for fan related options in BIOS SETUP.
   Sometimes there is a performance vs quiet option.
   Defaults are generally the most conservative.

   If your fan is not spinning, yet /proc/acpi/fan/
   has files in it, please file a Linux/ACPI bug.

   WARNING: you risk shortening the lifetime of your
   hardware if you use this parameter on a hot system.
   Note that this refers to all system components,
   including the disk drive.

2. Working around a cool system crossing critical
   trip point due to erroneous temperature reading.

   Try again with CONFIG_HWMON=n
   There is known potential for conflict between the
   the hwmon sub-system and the ACPI BIOS.
   If this fixes it, notify lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
   and linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

   Otherwise, file a Linux/ACPI bug, or notify
   just linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:44 -04:00
Len Brown
a70cdc5200 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.psv=" to override passive trip points
"thermal.psv=-1" disables passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.

"thermal.psv=C", where 'C' is degrees Celsius,
overrides all existing passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.

thermal.psv is checked at module load time,
and in response to trip-point change events.

Note that if the system does not deliver thermal zone
temperature change events near the new trip-point,
then it will not be noticed.  To force your custom
trip point to be noticed, you may need to enable polling:
eg. thermal.tzp=3000 invokes polling every 5 minutes.

Note that once passive thermal throttling is invoked,
it has its own internal Thermal Sampling Period (_TSP),
that is unrelated to _TZP.

WARNING: disabling or raising a thermal trip point
may result in increased running temperature and
shorter hardware lifetime on some systems.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:35 -04:00
Len Brown
730ff34de7 ACPI: thermal: expose "thermal.tzp=" to set global polling frequency
Thermal Zone Polling frequency (_TZP) is an optional ACPI object
recommending the rate that the OS should poll the associated thermal zone.

If _TZP is 0, no polling should be used.
If _TZP is non-zero, then the platform recommends that
the OS poll the thermal zone at the specified rate.
The minimum period is 30 seconds.
The maximum period is 5 minutes.

(note _TZP and thermal.tzp units are in deci-seconds,
 so _TZP = 300 corresponds to 30 seconds)

If _TZP is not present, ACPI 3.0b recommends that the
thermal zone be polled at an "OS provided default frequency".

However, common industry practice is:
1. The BIOS never specifies any _TZP
2. High volume OS's from this century never poll any thermal zones

Ie. The OS depends on the platform's ability to
provoke thermal events when necessary, and
the "OS provided default frequency" is "never":-)

There is a proposal that ACPI 4.0 be updated to reflect
common industry practice -- ie. no _TZP, no polling.

The Linux kernel already follows this practice --
thermal zones are not polled unless _TZP is present and non-zero.

But thermal zone polling is useful as a workaround for systems
which have ACPI thermal control, but have an issue preventing
thermal events.  Indeed, some Linux distributions still
set a non-zero thermal polling frequency for this reason.

But rather than ask the user to write a polling frequency
into all the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/polling_frequency
files, here we simply document and expose the already
existing module parameter to do the same at system level,
to simplify debugging those broken platforms.

Note that thermal.tzp is a module-load time parameter only.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:26 -04:00
Len Brown
72b33ef8bb ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.off=1" to disable ACPI thermal support
"thermal.off=1" disables all ACPI thermal support at boot time.

CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=n can do this at build time.
"# rmmod thermal" can do this at run time,
as long as thermal is built as a module.

WARNING: On some systems, disabling ACPI thermal support
will cause the system to run hotter and reduce the
lifetime of the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04:00
Gabriel C
8dfe9c21a8 kernel-parameters.txt : watchdog.txt should be wdt.txt
Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt does not exist, it is Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:41 -07:00
Robin Getz
0ae53640b5 Blackfin arch: Initial patch to add earlyprintk support
This allows debugging of problems which happen eary in the kernel
boot process (after bootargs are parsed, but before serial subsystem
is fully initialized)

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-09 17:24:49 +08:00
Andrew Morton
57d4810ea0 revert "x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices"
Revert 7e92b4fc34.  It broke Sébastien Dugué's
machine and Jeff said (persuasively)

  This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of
  breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS."

  It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO.  Serial ports are something
  that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game.  My new Intel
  platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of
  messing with serial port probing even more...  because...  just wait a year,
  and your box won't have a serial port either!  :)

  I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver),
  but the probe change seems questionable.  That's sorta analagous to
  rewriting the floppy driver probe routine.  Sure you could do it...  but why
  risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again?

  It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for
  something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade.

Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this.

Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Alan Cox
cd4f0ef7c0 doc/kernel-parameters: use X86-32 tag instead of IA-32
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00