This patch allows memory resources to be assigned with a specified
alignment at boot-time or run-time. The patch is useful when we use PCI
pass-through, because page-aligned memory resources are required to
securely share PCI resources with guest drivers.
If you want to assign the resource at boot time, please set
"pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter.
This is format of "pci=resource_alignment=" boot parameter:
[<order of align>@][<domain>:]<bus>:<slot>.<func>[; ...]
Specifies alignment and device to reassign
aligned memory resources.
If <order of align> is not specified, PAGE_SIZE is
used as alignment.
PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
windows need to be expanded.
This is example:
pci=resource_alignment=20@07:00.0;18@0f:00.0;00:1d.7
If you want to assign the resource at run-time, please set
"/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file, and hot-remove the device and
hot-add the device. For this purpose, fakephp or PCI hotplug interfaces
can be used.
The format of "/sys/bus/pci/resource_alignment" file is the same with
boot parameter. You can use "," instead of ";".
For example:
# cd /sys/bus/pci
# echo -n 20@12:00.0 > resource_alignment
# echo 1 > devices/0000:12:00.0/remove
# echo 1 > rescan
Reviewed-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuji Shimada <shimada-yxb@necst.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Document the "pci=earlydump" argument. This currently only works on x86.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: enable DMAR by default
xen: disable interrupts early, as start_kernel expects
gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_t
gpu/drm, x86, PAT: Handle io_mapping_create_wc() errors in a clean way
x86, Voyager: fix compile by lifting the degeneracy of phys_cpu_present_map
x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- ide=nodma is no longer valid.
drivers/ide/Kconfig
- The module is ide-core.ko not ide.
drivers/ide/ide.c
- It took me a while to figure out what the arguments %d.%d:%d to nodma
module parameter ment, so I added a comment to each.
- Added a comment to each of the sscanf lines.
- There is a bug, if j is 0 it would previously clear all the other bits
except the current device, changed in three different places.
mask &= (1 << i) should be mask &= ~(1 << i).
Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net>
[bart: s/disk/device/ in ide.c, beautify patch description]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Impact: Documentation fix
The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again. It should
never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was
32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Add missing parameter value to list of available values
for acpi=<value>.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Due to recurring issues with DMAR support on certain platforms.
There's a number of filesystem corruption incidents reported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479996http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12578
Provide a Kconfig option to change whether it is enabled by
default.
If disabled, it can still be reenabled by passing intel_iommu=on to the
kernel. Keep the .config option off by default.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-By: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove removed OSS kernel parameters from kernel-parameters.txt
Remove the kernel parameters from the OSS drivers of the chips
es1371 (removed 10-2007/2.6.24) and
cs4232 (removed 02-2008/2.6.25) from the kernel parameters documentation.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] update documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter.
[S390] hvc_iucv: Special handling of IUCV HVC devices
[S390] hvc_iucv: Refactor console and device initialization
[S390] hvc_iucv: Update function documentation
[S390] hvc_iucv: Limit rate of outgoing IUCV messages
[S390] hvc_iucv: Change IUCV term id and use one device as default
[S390] Use unsigned long long for u64 on 64bit.
[S390] qdio: fix broken pointer in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled
[S390] vdso: compile fix
[S390] remove code for oldselect system call
[S390] types: add/fix types.h include in header files
[S390] dasd: add device attribute to disable blocking on lost paths
[S390] dasd: send change uevents for dasd block devices
[S390] tape block: fix dependencies
[S390] asm-s390/posix_types.h: drop __USE_ALL usage
[S390] gettimeofday.S: removed duplicated #includes
[S390] ptrace: no extern declarations for userspace
On some boxes there exist both RSDT and XSDT table. But unfortunately
sometimes there exists the following error when XSDT table is used:
a. 32/64X address mismatch
b. The 32/64X FACS address mismatch
In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that
RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
cc:Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Config and control variable for mem+swap controller.
This patch adds CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
(memory resource controller swap extension.)
For accounting swap, it's obvious that we have to use additional memory to
remember "who uses swap". This adds more overhead. So, it's better to
offer "choice" to users. This patch adds 2 choices.
This patch adds 2 parameters to enable swap extension or not.
- CONFIG
- boot option
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (98 commits)
PCI PM: Put PM callbacks in the order of execution
PCI PM: Run default PM callbacks for all devices using new framework
PCI PM: Register power state of devices during initialization
PCI PM: Call pci_fixup_device from legacy routines
PCI PM: Rearrange code in pci-driver.c
PCI PM: Avoid touching devices behind bridges in unknown state
PCI PM: Move pci_has_legacy_pm_support
PCI PM: Power-manage devices without drivers during suspend-resume
PCI PM: Add suspend counterpart of pci_reenable_device
PCI PM: Fix poweroff and restore callbacks
PCI: Use msleep instead of cpu_relax during ASPM link retraining
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Add kerneldoc comments to remining core funtions
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Rearrange code so that related things are together
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Fix suspend and resume of PCI Express port services
PCI: PCIe portdrv: Add kerneldoc comments to some core functions
x86/PCI: Do not use interrupt links for devices using MSI-X
net: sfc: Use pci_clear_master() to disable bus mastering
PCI: Add pci_clear_master() as opposite of pci_set_master()
PCI hotplug: remove redundant test in cpq hotplug
PCI: pciehp: cleanup register and field definitions
...
Device drivers that use pci_request_regions() (and similar APIs) have a
reasonable expectation that they are the only ones accessing their device.
As part of the e1000e hunt, we were afraid that some userland (X or some
bootsplash stuff) was mapping the MMIO region that the driver thought it
had exclusively via /dev/mem or via various sysfs resource mappings.
This patch adds the option for device drivers to cause their reserved
regions to the "banned from /dev/mem use" list, so now both kernel memory
and device-exclusive MMIO regions are banned.
NOTE: This is only active when CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is set.
In addition to the config option, a kernel parameter iomem=relaxed is
provided for the cases where developers want to diagnose, in the field,
drivers issues from userspace.
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
This patch (as1190) makes usb-storage's "quirks=" module parameter
writable, so that users can add entries for their devices at runtime
with no need to reboot or reload usb-storage.
New codes are added for the SANE_SENSE, CAPACITY_HEURISTICS, and
CAPACITY_OK flags.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1163b) adds a "quirks=" module parameter to usb-storage.
This will allow people to make short-term changes to their
unusual_devs list without rebuilding the entire driver. Testing will
become much easier, and less-sophisticated users will be able to
access their buggy devices after a simple config-file change instead
of having to wait for a new kernel release.
The patch also adds a documentation entry for usb-storage's
"delay_use" parameter, which has been around for years but but was
never listed among the kernel parameters.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'. Setting a value to
this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be
changed.
It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole
system at boot time. Without this parameter, users have to change
coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script.
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text.
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>
Add some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.txt.
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>
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.
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>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits)
x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new()
x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code
x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration
x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static
x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32
x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32
x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency
x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used
x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3
x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3
x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3
...
Introduce a topology=[on|off] kernel parameter which allows to switch
cpu topology on/off. Default will be off, since it looks like that for
some workloards this doesn't behave very well (on s390).
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Spell out "wrt". I suspect plenty of people won't know
what that means.
Fix a '}' that should be a ']'.
Reformat long lines into shorter lines.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
On some machines it may be necessary to disable the saving/restoring
of the ACPI NVS memory region during hibernation/resume. For this
purpose, introduce new ACPI kernel command line option
acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs.
Based on a patch by Zhang Rui.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@tuxonice.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
acpi_early_init() was changed to over-write the cmdline param,
making it really inconvenient to set debug flags at boot-time.
Also,
This sets the default level to "info", which is what all the ACPI
drivers use. So to enable messages from drivers, you only have to
supply the "layer" (a.k.a. "component"). For non-"info" ACPI core
and ACPI interpreter messages, you have to supply both level and
layer masks, as before.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Impact: enhancement to stack tracer
The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)
This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.
A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: more general identifier for Phoenix BIOS
AMD IOMMU: check for next_bit also in unmapped area
AMD IOMMU: fix fullflush comparison length
AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default
AMD IOMMU: add parameter to disable device isolation
x86, PEBS/DS: fix code flow in ds_request()
x86: add rdtsc barrier to TSC sync check
xen: fix scrub_page()
x86: fix es7000 compiling
x86, bts: fix unlock problem in ds.c
x86, voyager: fix smp generic helper voyager breakage
x86: move iomap.h to the new include location
Add "min_addr" documentation.
For "max_addr", add nn before [KMG] since a number is needed and this
is consistent with other uses of [KMG].
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU
Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
security/keys/internal.h
security/keys/process_keys.c
security/keys/request_key.c
Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).
Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.
This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.
"acpi_backlight=vendor"
Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.
Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
