Commit c7f486567c
(PCI PM: PCIe PME root port service driver) causes the native PCIe
PME signaling to be used by default, if the BIOS allows the kernel to
control the standard configuration registers of PCIe root ports.
However, the native PCIe PME is coupled to the native PCIe hotplug
and calling pcie_pme_acpi_setup() makes some BIOSes expect that
the native PCIe hotplug will be used as well. That, in turn, causes
problems to appear on systems where the PCIe hotplug driver is not
loaded. The usual symptom, as reported by Jaroslav Kameník and
others, is that the ACPI GPE associated with PCIe hotplug keeps
firing continuously causing kacpid to take substantial percentage
of CPU time.
To work around this issue, change the default so that the native
PCIe PME signaling is only used if directly requested with the help
of the pcie_pme= command line switch.
Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15924 , which is
a listed regression from 2.6.33.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Jaroslav Kameník <jaroslav@kamenik.cz>
Tested-by: Antoni Grzymala <antekgrzymala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Add dump_id libata.force parameter. If specified, libata dumps full
IDENTIFY data during device configuration. This is to aid debugging.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Larry Baker <baker@usgs.gov>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Move the limited watchdog driver help from kernel-parameters.txt
to Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt and add info to it
for all watchdog drivers except the ones that have driver-specific
files already.
Correct minor comments and MODULE_PARM_DESC() text in 2 places.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
This patch adds the capability to use the usb debug port with the
kernel debugger. It is also still possible to use this functionality
with or without the earlyprintk=dbgpX. It is possible to use the
kgdbwait boot argument to debug very early in the kernel start up code.
There are two ways to use this driver extension with a kernel boot argument.
1) kgdbdbgp=# -- Where # is the number of the usb debug controller
You must use sysrq-g to break into the kernel debugger on another
connection type other than the dbgp.
2) kgdbdbgp=#debugControlNum#,#Seconds#
In this mode, the usb debug port is polled every #Seconds# for
character input. It is possible to use gdb or press control-c to
break into the kernel debugger.
From the implementation perspective there are 3 high level changes.
1) Allow variable retries for the the hardware via dbgp_bulk_read().
The amount of retries for the dbgp_bulk_read() needed to be
variable instead of fixed. We do not want to poll at all when the
kernel is operating in interrupt driven mode. The polling only
occurs if the kernel was booted when specifying some number of
seconds via the kgdbdbgp boot argument (IE kgdbdbgp=0,1). In this
case the loop count is reduced to 1 so as introduce the smallest
amount of latency as possible.
2) Save the bulk IN endpoint address for use by the kgdb code.
3) The addition of the kgdb interface code.
This consisted of adding in a character read function for the dbgp
as well as a polling thread to allow the dbgp to interrupt the
kernel execution. The rest is the typical kgdb I/O api.
CC: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as
soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available,
instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available.
CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Update the kgdb docs to reflect the new directory structure and API.
Merge in the kdb shell information.
[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>: grammatical corrections]
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
This patch adds in the kdb PS/2 keyboard driver. This was mostly a
direct port from the original kdb where I cleaned up the code against
checkpatch.pl and added the glue to stitch it into kgdb.
This patch also enables early kdb debug via kgdbwait and the keyboard.
All the access to configure kdb using either a serial console or the
keyboard is done via kgdboc.
If you want to use only the keyboard and want to break in early you
would add to your kernel command arguments:
kgdboc=kbd kgdbwait
If you wanted serial and or the keyboard access you could use:
kgdboc=kbd,ttyS0
You can also configure kgdboc as a kernel module or at run time with
the sysfs where you can activate and deactivate kgdb.
Turn it on:
echo kbd,ttyS0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc
Turn it off:
echo "" > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (22 commits)
ACPI: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64
ACPICA: Update version to 20100428.
ACPICA: Update/clarify some parameter names associated with acpi_handle
ACPICA: Rename acpi_ex_system_do_suspend->acpi_ex_system_do_sleep
ACPICA: Prevent possible allocation overrun during object copy
ACPICA: Split large file, evgpeblk
ACPICA: Add GPE support for dynamically loaded ACPI tables
ACPICA: Clarify/rename some root table descriptor fields
ACPICA: Update version to 20100331.
ACPICA: Minimize the differences between linux GPE code and ACPICA code base
ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT
ACPICA: Update DSDT copy/detection.
ACPICA: Add subsystem option to force copy of DSDT to local memory
ACPICA: Add detection of corrupted/replaced DSDT
ACPICA: Add write support for DataTable operation regions
ACPICA: Fix for acpi_reallocate_root_table for incorrect root table copy
ACPICA: Update comments/headers, no functional change
ACPICA: Update version to 20100304
ACPICA: Fix for possible fault in acpi_ex_release_mutex
ACPICA: Standardize integer output for ACPICA warnings/errors
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (61 commits)
KEYS: Return more accurate error codes
LSM: Add __init to fixup function.
TOMOYO: Add pathname grouping support.
ima: remove ACPI dependency
TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal
security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup
TOMOYO: Use stack memory for pending entry.
Revert "ima: remove ACPI dependency"
Revert "TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal"
KEYS: Do preallocation for __key_link()
TOMOYO: Use mutex_lock_interruptible.
KEYS: Better handling of errors from construct_alloc_key()
KEYS: keyring_serialise_link_sem is only needed for keyring->keyring links
TOMOYO: Use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL.
ima: remove ACPI dependency
TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal
selinux: generalize disabling of execmem for plt-in-heap archs
LSM Audit: rename LSM_AUDIT_NO_AUDIT to LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE
CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock
SMACK: Don't #include Ext2 headers
...
ERST is a way provided by APEI to save and retrieve hardware error
record to and from some simple persistent storage (such as flash).
The Linux kernel support implementation is quite simple and workable
in NMI context. So it can be used to save hardware error record into
flash in hardware error exception or NMI handler, where other more
complex persistent storage such as disk is not usable. After saving
hardware error records via ERST in hardware error exception or NMI
handler, the error records can be retrieved and logged into disk or
network after a clean reboot.
For more information about ERST, please refer to ACPI Specification
version 4.0, section 17.4.
This patch incorporate fixes from Jin Dongming.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
CC: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add document for APEI, including kernel parameters and EINJ debug file
sytem interface.
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning.
tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header
tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option
ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE
tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines
tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling
tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling
tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff
ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events
ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.
tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions
tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer
tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
This patch adds a command line option to tell the AMD IOMMU
driver to not initialize any IOMMU it finds.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
According to libata-core correctly around line 6572:
/* parse id */
p = strchr(id, '.');
...
the optional device is separated from the port in the libata.force ID
by a point or dot instead of by a colon.
Fix documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze <roman.fietze@telemotive.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.
It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.
Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.
This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.
Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.
v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Some BIOS on Toshiba machines corrupt the DSDT, so add a new
boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to workaround it.
Add warning message to ask users to use this option if corrupt DSDT detected.
Also build a DMI blacklist to check it and automatically copy DSDT.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Support for the share and fullflush parameters was removed.
Remove the documentation about them too.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Add a workaround for TPM's which fail to flush last written
PCR values in a TPM_SaveState, in preparation for suspend.
Signed-off-by: David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki
Linus Torvalds
Len Brown
Tejun Heo
Randy Dunlap
Jason Wessel
Huang Ying
Ingo Molnar
Joerg Roedel
James Morris
Roman Fietze
Frederic Weisbecker
Lin Ming
Rajiv Andrade