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Randy Dunlap
277cba1d28 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix memmap= language
Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options.

Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or
"marked".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ba6b5084e6 Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb
Pull swiotlb bug-fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 - Don't DoS with 'swiotlb is full' message.
 - Documentation update.

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb:
  swiotlb: Don't DoS us with 'swiotlb buffer is full' (v2)
  swiotlb: update format
2014-01-27 08:17:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
09da8dfa98 Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "As far as the number of commits goes, the top spot belongs to ACPI
  this time with cpufreq in the second position and a handful of PM
  core, PNP and cpuidle updates.  They are fixes and cleanups mostly, as
  usual, with a couple of new features in the mix.

  The most visible change is probably that we will create struct
  acpi_device objects (visible in sysfs) for all devices represented in
  the ACPI tables regardless of their status and there will be a new
  sysfs attribute under those objects allowing user space to check that
  status via _STA.

  Consequently, ACPI device eject or generally hot-removal will not
  delete those objects, unless the table containing the corresponding
  namespace nodes is unloaded, which is extremely rare.  Also ACPI
  container hotplug will be handled quite a bit differently and cpufreq
  will support CPU boost ("turbo") generically and not only in the
  acpi-cpufreq driver.

  Specifics:

   - ACPI core changes to make it create a struct acpi_device object for
     every device represented in the ACPI tables during all namespace
     scans regardless of the current status of that device.  In
     accordance with this, ACPI hotplug operations will not delete those
     objects, unless the underlying ACPI tables go away.

   - On top of the above, new sysfs attribute for ACPI device objects
     allowing user space to check device status by triggering the
     execution of _STA for its ACPI object.  From Srinivas Pandruvada.

   - ACPI core hotplug changes reducing code duplication, integrating
     the PCI root hotplug with the core and reworking container hotplug.

   - ACPI core simplifications making it use ACPI_COMPANION() in the
     code "glueing" ACPI device objects to "physical" devices.

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20131218.  This adds support for
     the DBG2 and PCCT tables to ACPICA, fixes some bugs and improves
     debug facilities.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng and Betty Dall.

   - Init code change to carry out the early ACPI initialization
     earlier.  That should allow us to use ACPI during the timekeeping
     initialization and possibly to simplify the EFI initialization too.
     From Chun-Yi Lee.

   - Clenups of the inclusions of ACPI headers in many places all over
     from Lv Zheng and Rashika Kheria (work in progress).

   - New helper for ACPI _DSM execution and rework of the code in
     drivers that uses _DSM to execute it via the new helper.  From
     Jiang Liu.

   - New Win8 OSI blacklist entries from Takashi Iwai.

   - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Emil Goode, Hanjun
     Guo, Lan Tianyu, Masanari Iida, Oliver Neukum, Prarit Bhargava,
     Rashika Kheria, Tang Chen, Zhang Rui.

   - intel_pstate driver updates, including proper Baytrail support,
     from Dirk Brandewie and intel_pstate documentation from Ramkumar
     Ramachandra.

   - Generic CPU boost ("turbo") support for cpufreq from Lukasz
     Majewski.

   - powernow-k6 cpufreq driver fixes from Mikulas Patocka.

   - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jane Li, Mark
     Brown.

   - Assorted cpufreq drivers fixes and cleanups from Anson Huang, John
     Tobias, Paul Bolle, Paul Walmsley, Sachin Kamat, Shawn Guo, Viresh
     Kumar.

   - cpuidle cleanups from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.

   - Support for hibernation APM events from Bin Shi.

   - Hibernation fix to avoid bringing up nonboot CPUs with ACPI EC
     disabled during thaw transitions from Bjørn Mork.

   - PM core fixes and cleanups from Ben Dooks, Leonardo Potenza, Ulf
     Hansson.

   - PNP subsystem fixes and cleanups from Dmitry Torokhov, Levente
     Kurusa, Rashika Kheria.

   - New tool for profiling system suspend from Todd E Brandt and a
     cpupower tool cleanup from One Thousand Gnomes"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (153 commits)
  thermal: exynos: boost: Automatic enable/disable of BOOST feature (at Exynos4412)
  cpufreq: exynos4x12: Change L0 driver data to CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ
  Documentation: cpufreq / boost: Update BOOST documentation
  cpufreq: exynos: Extend Exynos cpufreq driver to support boost
  cpufreq / boost: Kconfig: Support for software-managed BOOST
  acpi-cpufreq: Adjust the code to use the common boost attribute
  cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
  intel_pstate: Add trace point to report internal state.
  cpufreq: introduce cpufreq_generic_get() routine
  ARM: SA1100: Create dummy clk_get_rate() to avoid build failures
  cpufreq: stats: create sysfs entries when cpufreq_stats is a module
  cpufreq: stats: free table and remove sysfs entry in a single routine
  cpufreq: stats: remove hotplug notifiers
  cpufreq: stats: handle cpufreq_unregister_driver() and suspend/resume properly
  cpufreq: speedstep: remove unused speedstep_get_state
  platform: introduce OF style 'modalias' support for platform bus
  PM / tools: new tool for suspend/resume performance optimization
  ACPI: fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: add module autoloading support for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: fix create_modalias() return value handling
  ...
2014-01-24 15:51:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3aacd625f2 Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc bits
 - the rest of MM
 - add generic fixmap.h, use it
 - backlight updates
 - dynamic_debug updates
 - printk() updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - binfmt_elf
 - ramfs
 - init/
 - autofs4
 - drivers/rtc
 - nilfs
 - hfsplus
 - Documentation/
 - coredump
 - procfs
 - fork
 - exec
 - kexec
 - kdump
 - partitions
 - rapidio
 - rbtree
 - userns
 - memstick
 - w1
 - decompressors

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits)
  lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures
  romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super
  drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation
  drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug
  userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks
  arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase()
  fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix
  fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding
  rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()
  rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct
  rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches
  partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
  kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
  kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note
  kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
  fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once
  ...
2014-01-23 19:11:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6dd9158ae8 Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit
Pull audit update from Eric Paris:
 "Again we stayed pretty well contained inside the audit system.
  Venturing out was fixing a couple of function prototypes which were
  inconsistent (didn't hurt anything, but we used the same value as an
  int, uint, u32, and I think even a long in a couple of places).

  We also made a couple of minor changes to when a couple of LSMs called
  the audit system.  We hoped to add aarch64 audit support this go
  round, but it wasn't ready.

  I'm disappearing on vacation on Thursday.  I should have internet
  access, but it'll be spotty.  If anything goes wrong please be sure to
  cc rgb@redhat.com.  He'll make fixing things his top priority"

* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (50 commits)
  audit: whitespace fix in kernel-parameters.txt
  audit: fix location of __net_initdata for audit_net_ops
  audit: remove pr_info for every network namespace
  audit: Modify a set of system calls in audit class definitions
  audit: Convert int limit uses to u32
  audit: Use more current logging style
  audit: Use hex_byte_pack_upper
  audit: correct a type mismatch in audit_syscall_exit()
  audit: reorder AUDIT_TTY_SET arguments
  audit: rework AUDIT_TTY_SET to only grab spin_lock once
  audit: remove needless switch in AUDIT_SET
  audit: use define's for audit version
  audit: documentation of audit= kernel parameter
  audit: wait_for_auditd rework for readability
  audit: update MAINTAINERS
  audit: log task info on feature change
  audit: fix incorrect set of audit_sock
  audit: print error message when fail to create audit socket
  audit: fix dangling keywords in audit_log_set_loginuid() output
  audit: log on errors from filter user rules
  ...
2014-01-23 18:08:10 -08:00
Davidlohr Bueso
6c5de79ba2 partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
The usage of the 'gpt' kernel parameter is twofold: (i) skip any mbr
integrity checks and (ii) enable the backup GPT header to be used in
situations where the primary one is corrupted.  This last "feature" is not
obvious and needs to be properly documented in the kernel-parameters
document.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63591

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: "Chandramouleeswaran,Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Murphy <bugzilla@colorremedies.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
Xishi Qiu
c3ac14b267 doc/kmemcheck: add kmemcheck to kernel-parameters
Add "kmemcheck=xx" to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 16:36:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bb1281f2aa Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  neighbour.h: fix comment
  sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
  slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
  doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
  of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
  mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
  lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
  thermal: rcar: comment spelling
  treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
  IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
  Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
  Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
  arm: fix comment header and macro name
  asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
  mtd: onenand: fix comment header
  doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
  drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
  doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
  ...
2014-01-22 21:21:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f4bcd8ccdd Merge branch 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 kernel address space randomization support from Peter Anvin:
 "This enables kernel address space randomization for x86"

* 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kaslr: Clarify RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET
  x86, kaslr: Remove unused including <linux/version.h>
  x86, kaslr: Use char array to gain sizeof sanity
  x86, kaslr: Add a circular multiply for better bit diffusion
  x86, kaslr: Mix entropy sources together as needed
  x86/relocs: Add percpu fixup for GNU ld 2.23
  x86, boot: Rename get_flags() and check_flags() to *_cpuflags()
  x86, kaslr: Raise the maximum virtual address to -1 GiB on x86_64
  x86, kaslr: Report kernel offset on panic
  x86, kaslr: Select random position from e820 maps
  x86, kaslr: Provide randomness functions
  x86, kaslr: Return location from decompress_kernel
  x86, boot: Move CPU flags out of cpucheck
  x86, relocs: Add more per-cpu gold special cases
2014-01-20 14:45:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
fab5669d55 Merge branch 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 RAS changes from Ingo Molnar:

 - SCI reporting for other error types not only correctable ones

 - GHES cleanups

 - Add the functionality to override error reporting agents as some
   machines are sporting a new extended error logging capability which,
   if done properly in the BIOS, makes a corresponding EDAC module
   redundant

 - PCIe AER tracepoint severity levels fix

 - Error path correction for the mce device init

 - MCE timer fix

 - Add more flexibility to the error injection (EINJ) debugfs interface

* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, mce: Fix mce_start_timer semantics
  ACPI, APEI, GHES: Cleanup ghes memory error handling
  ACPI, APEI: Cleanup alignment-aware accesses
  ACPI, APEI, GHES: Do not report only correctable errors with SCI
  ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Changes to the ACPI/APEI/EINJ debugfs interface
  ACPI, eMCA: Combine eMCA/EDAC event reporting priority
  EDAC, sb_edac: Modify H/W event reporting policy
  EDAC: Add an edac_report parameter to EDAC
  PCI, AER: Fix severity usage in aer trace event
  x86, mce: Call put_device on device_register failure
2014-01-20 12:10:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
972d5e7e5b Merge branch 'x86-efi-kexec-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This consists of two main parts:

   - New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
     groundwork for kexec support on EFI (Borislav Petkov)

   - EFI kexec support itself (Dave Young)"

* 'x86-efi-kexec-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  x86/efi: parse_efi_setup() build fix
  x86: ksysfs.c build fix
  x86/efi: Delete superfluous global variables
  x86: Reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline
  x86: Export x86 boot_params to sysfs
  x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec
  x86/efi: Pass necessary EFI data for kexec via setup_data
  efi: Export EFI runtime memory mapping to sysfs
  efi: Export more EFI table variables to sysfs
  x86/efi: Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode() function
  x86/efi: Fix off-by-one bug in EFI Boot Services reservation
  x86/efi: Add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed()
  x86/efi: Remove unused variables in __map_region()
  x86/efi: Check krealloc return value
  x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping
  x86/mm/cpa: Map in an arbitrary pgd
  x86/mm/pageattr: Add last levels of error path
  x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PUD error unwinding path
  x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PTE pagetable populating function
  x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PMD pagetable populating function
  ...
2014-01-20 12:05:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1a7dbbcc8c Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/apic changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two main changes:

   - improve local APIC Error Status Register reporting robustness

   - add the 'disable_cpu_apicid=x' boot parameter for kexec booting"

* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, apic: Make disabled_cpu_apicid static read_mostly, fix typos
  x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter
  x86/apic: Read Error Status Register correctly
2014-01-20 11:50:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a693c46e14 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 - add RCU torture scripts/tooling
 - static analysis improvements
 - update RCU documentation
 - miscellaneous fixes

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.h
  rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.h
  rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow
  rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
  rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq
  rcu: Add an RCU_INITIALIZER for global RCU-protected pointers
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe
  bonding: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for better overhead and for sparse
  rcu: Add comment on evaluate-once properties of rcu_assign_pointer().
  rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions
  rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments
  rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf values
  rcu: Fix coccinelle warnings
  rcutorture: Stop tracking FSF's postal address
  rcutorture: Move checkarg to functions.sh
  rcutorture: Flag errors and warnings with color coding
  rcutorture: Record results from repeated runs of the same test scenario
  rcutorture: Test summary at end of run with less chattiness
  rcutorture: Update comment in kvm.sh listing typical RCU trace events
  rcutorture: Add tracing-enabled version of TREE08
  ...
2014-01-20 10:25:12 -08:00
Richard Guy Briggs
f3411cb2b2 audit: whitespace fix in kernel-parameters.txt
Fixup caught by checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2014-01-17 17:15:02 -05:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8341ecc9f4 Merge branches 'acpi-init' and 'acpi-hotplug'
* acpi-init:
  ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()

* acpi-hotplug:
  ACPI / memhotplug: add parameter to disable memory hotplug
2014-01-17 01:57:26 +01:00
Prarit Bhargava
00159a2013 ACPI / memhotplug: add parameter to disable memory hotplug
When booting a kexec/kdump kernel on a system that has specific memory
hotplug regions the boot will fail with warnings like:

 swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:9, mode:0x84d0
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-65.el7.x86_64 #1
 Hardware name: QCI QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R, BIOS QSSC-S4R.QCI.01.00.S013.032920111005 03/29/2011
  0000000000000000 ffff8800341bd8c8 ffffffff815bcc67 ffff8800341bd950
  ffffffff8113b1a0 ffff880036339b00 0000000000000009 00000000000084d0
  ffff8800341bd950 ffffffff815b87ee 0000000000000000 0000000000000200
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff815bcc67>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [<ffffffff8113b1a0>] warn_alloc_failed+0xf0/0x160
  [<ffffffff815b87ee>] ?  __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xac/0x196
  [<ffffffff8113f14f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7ff/0xa00
  [<ffffffff815b417c>] vmemmap_alloc_block+0x62/0xba
  [<ffffffff815b41e9>] vmemmap_alloc_block_buf+0x15/0x3b
  [<ffffffff815b1ff6>] vmemmap_populate+0xb4/0x21b
  [<ffffffff815b461d>] sparse_mem_map_populate+0x27/0x35
  [<ffffffff815b400f>] sparse_add_one_section+0x7a/0x185
  [<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
  [<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
  [<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
  [<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
  [<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
  [<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
  [<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
  [<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6
  [<ffffffff81a1fd58>] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2a/0x2a
  [<ffffffff810020e2>] do_one_initcall+0xe2/0x190
  [<ffffffff819e20c4>] kernel_init_freeable+0x17c/0x207
  [<ffffffff819e18d0>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88
  [<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
  [<ffffffff8159feae>] kernel_init+0xe/0x180
  [<ffffffff815cca2c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  [<ffffffff8159fea0>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
 Mem-Info:
 Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
 CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
 Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu:
 CPU    0: hi:   42, btch:   7 usd:   0
 active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
  active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
  free:872 slab_reclaimable:13 slab_unreclaimable:1880
  mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
  free_cma:0

because the system has run out of memory at boot time.  This occurs
because of the following sequence in the boot:

Main kernel boots and sets E820 map.  The second kernel is booted with a
map generated by the kdump service using memmap= and memmap=exactmap.
These parameters are added to the kernel parameters of the kexec/kdump
kernel.   The kexec/kdump kernel has limited memory resources so as not
to severely impact the main kernel.

The system then panics and the kdump/kexec kernel boots (which is a
completely new kernel boot).  During this boot ACPI is initialized and the
kernel (as can be seen above) traverses the ACPI namespace and finds an
entry for a memory device to be hotadded.

ie)

  [<ffffffff815a1e9f>] __add_pages+0xaf/0x240
  [<ffffffff81047359>] arch_add_memory+0x59/0xd0
  [<ffffffff815a21d9>] add_memory+0xb9/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff81333b9c>] acpi_memory_device_add+0x18d/0x26d
  [<ffffffff81309a01>] acpi_bus_device_attach+0x7d/0xcd
  [<ffffffff8132379d>] acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0xc8/0x17f
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81309984>] ? acpi_bus_type_and_status+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81323c8c>] acpi_walk_namespace+0x95/0xc5
  [<ffffffff8130a6d6>] acpi_bus_scan+0x8b/0x9d
  [<ffffffff81a2019a>] acpi_scan_init+0x63/0x160
  [<ffffffff81a1ffb5>] acpi_init+0x25d/0x2a6

At this point the kernel adds page table information and the the kexec/kdump
kernel runs out of memory.

This can also be reproduced by using the memmap=exactmap and mem=X
parameters on the main kernel and booting.

This patchset resolves the problem by adding a kernel parameter,
acpi_no_memhotplug, to disable ACPI memory hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-01-16 01:43:49 +01:00
HATAYAMA Daisuke
151e0c7de6 x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter
Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter. To use this kernel parameter,
specify an initial APIC ID of the corresponding CPU you want to
disable.

This is mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to disable BSP to wake up
multiple CPUs without causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT
from AP to BSP.

Kdump users first figure out initial APIC ID of the BSP, CPU0 in the
1st kernel, for example from /proc/cpuinfo and then set up this kernel
parameter for the 2nd kernel using the obtained APIC ID.

However, doing this procedure at each boot time manually is awkward,
which should be automatically done by user-land service scripts, for
example, kexec-tools on fedora/RHEL distributions.

This design is more flexible than disabling BSP in kernel boot time
automatically in that in kernel boot time we have no choice but
referring to ACPI/MP table to obtain initial APIC ID for BSP, meaning
that the method is not applicable to the systems without such BIOS
tables.

One assumption behind this design is that users get initial APIC ID of
the BSP in still healthy state and so BSP is uniquely kept in
CPU0. Thus, through the kernel parameter, only one initial APIC ID can
be specified.

In a comparison with disabled_cpu_apicid, we use read_apic_id(), not
boot_cpu_physical_apicid, because on some platforms, the variable is
modified to the apicid reported as BSP through MP table and this
function is executed with the temporarily modified
boot_cpu_physical_apicid. As a result, disabled_cpu_apicid kernel
parameter doesn't work well for apicids of APs.

Fixing the wrong handling of boot_cpu_physical_apicid requires some
reviews and tests beyond some platforms and it could take some
time. The fix here is a kind of workaround to focus on the main topic
of this patch.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115064458.1545.38775.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-01-15 09:19:20 -08:00
Eric Paris
d796114825 audit: documentation of audit= kernel parameter
Further documentation of the 3 possible kernel value of the audit
command line option.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2014-01-13 22:33:33 -05:00
Richard Guy Briggs
f910fde730 audit: add kernel set-up parameter to override default backlog limit
The default audit_backlog_limit is 64.  This was a reasonable limit at one time.

systemd causes so much audit queue activity on startup that auditd doesn't
start before the backlog queue has already overflowed by more than a factor of
2.  On a system with audit= not set on the kernel command line, this isn't an
issue since that history isn't kept for auditd when it is available.  On a
system with audit=1 set on the kernel command line, kaudit tries to keep that
history until auditd is able to drain the queue.

This default can be changed by the "-b" option in audit.rules once the system
has booted, but won't help with lost messages on boot.

One way to solve this would be to increase the default backlog queue size to
avoid losing any messages before auditd is able to consume them.  This would
be overkill to the embedded community and insufficient for some servers.

Another way to solve it might be to add a kconfig option to set the default
based on the system type.  An embedded system would get the current (or
smaller) default, while Workstations might get more than now and servers might
get more.

None of these solutions helps if a system's compiled default is too small to
see the lost messages without compiling a new kernel.

This patch adds a kernel set-up parameter (audit already has one to
enable/disable it) "audit_backlog_limit=<n>" that overrides the default to
allow the system administrator to set the backlog limit.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2014-01-13 22:28:31 -05:00
Richard Guy Briggs
a106fb0c67 documentation: document the audit= kernel start-up parameter
Add the "audit=" kernel start-up parameter to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2014-01-13 22:28:25 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
da4540757d Merge tag 'v3.13-rc8' into x86/ras, to pick up fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-12 17:56:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ef0b8b9a52 Merge tag 'v3.13-rc7' into x86/efi-kexec to resolve conflicts
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
	drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-05 12:34:29 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
91fec0f562 swiotlb: update format
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt doesn't contain up-to-date
documentation regarding swiotlb= parameter. Update it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-12-31 10:16:05 -05:00
Jiri Kosina
e23c34bb41 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things
in tree (efi-stub).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-19 15:08:32 +01:00
Robin H. Johnson
b8bd6dc361 libata: disable a disk via libata.force params
A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly
onto the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option
to disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the
BIOS.

The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this,
but that was never ported to the libata layer.

This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force.

Example use:

 libata.force=2.0:disable

[v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo]

Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk
Link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co
Link: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive
2013-12-16 12:41:57 -05:00