Merge phase #1 of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

This merges phase 1 of the x86 tree, which is a collection of branches:

  x86/alternatives, x86/cleanups, x86/commandline, x86/crashdump,
  x86/debug, x86/defconfig, x86/doc, x86/exports, x86/fpu, x86/gart,
  x86/idle, x86/mm, x86/mtrr, x86/nmi-watchdog, x86/oprofile,
  x86/paravirt, x86/reboot, x86/sparse-fixes, x86/tsc, x86/urgent and
  x86/vmalloc

and as Ingo says: "these are the easiest, purely independent x86 topics
with no conflicts, in one nice Octopus merge".

* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (147 commits)
  x86: mtrr_cleanup: treat WRPROT as UNCACHEABLE
  x86: mtrr_cleanup: first 1M may be covered in var mtrrs
  x86: mtrr_cleanup: print out correct type v2
  x86: trivial printk fix in efi.c
  x86, debug: mtrr_cleanup print out var mtrr before change it
  x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M, v3
  x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M, cleanup
  x86: change MTRR_SANITIZER to def_bool y
  x86, debug printouts: IOMMU setup failures should not be KERN_ERR
  x86: export set_memory_ro and set_memory_rw
  x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M
  x86: mtrr_cleanup prepare to make gran_size to less 1M
  x86: mtrr_cleanup safe to get more spare regs now
  x86_64: be less annoying on boot, v2
  x86: mtrr_cleanup hole size should be less than half of chunk_size, v2
  x86: add mtrr_cleanup_debug command line
  x86: mtrr_cleanup optimization, v2
  x86: don't need to go to chunksize to 4G
  x86_64: be less annoying on boot
  x86, olpc: fix endian bug in openfirmware workaround
  ...

81 files changed, 2247 insertions, 1238 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index ed92864d132..97f0d2b6dc0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_FTRACE
 	select HAVE_KVM if ((X86_32 && !X86_VOYAGER && !X86_VISWS && !X86_NUMAQ) || X86_64)
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB if !X86_VOYAGER
+	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT if X86_32
 	select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
 
@@ -1020,7 +1021,7 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP
 
 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
-	depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && X86_PC && !NUMA
+	depends on X86_32 && ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL && !NUMA
 
 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
@@ -1036,7 +1037,7 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
 
 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
-	depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC)
+	depends on X86_64 || NUMA || (EXPERIMENTAL && X86_PC) || X86_GENERICARCH
 	select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if X86_32
 	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE if X86_64
 
@@ -1117,10 +1118,10 @@ config MTRR
 	  You can safely say Y even if your machine doesn't have MTRRs, you'll
 	  just add about 9 KB to your kernel.
 
-	  See <file:Documentation/mtrr.txt> for more information.
+	  See <file:Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt> for more information.
 
 config MTRR_SANITIZER
-	bool
+	def_bool y
 	prompt "MTRR cleanup support"
 	depends on MTRR
 	help
@@ -1131,7 +1132,7 @@ config MTRR_SANITIZER
 	  The largest mtrr entry size for a continous block can be set with
 	  mtrr_chunk_size.
 
-	  If unsure, say N.
+	  If unsure, say Y.
 
 config MTRR_SANITIZER_ENABLE_DEFAULT
 	int "MTRR cleanup enable value (0-1)"
@@ -1191,7 +1192,6 @@ config IRQBALANCE
 config SECCOMP
 	def_bool y
 	prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
-	depends on PROC_FS
 	help
 	  This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
 	  that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ config SECCOMP
 	  the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
 	  syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in
 	  their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is
-	  enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled
+	  enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled
 	  and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
 	  defined by each seccomp mode.
 
@@ -1356,14 +1356,14 @@ config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
 	  Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
-	bool "Support for suspend on SMP and hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && EXPERIMENTAL && !X86_VOYAGER
+	bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
+	depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && !X86_VOYAGER
 	---help---
-	  Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on, and to
-	  enable suspend on SMP systems. CPUs can be controlled through
-	  /sys/devices/system/cpu.
-	  Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug and don't need to
-	  suspend.
+	  Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be
+	  controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu.
+	  ( Note: power management support will enable this option
+	    automatically on SMP systems. )
+	  Say N if you want to disable CPU hotplug.
 
 config COMPAT_VDSO
 	def_bool y
@@ -1378,6 +1378,51 @@ config COMPAT_VDSO
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
+config CMDLINE_BOOL
+	bool "Built-in kernel command line"
+	default n
+	help
+	  Allow for specifying boot arguments to the kernel at
+	  build time.  On some systems (e.g. embedded ones), it is
+	  necessary or convenient to provide some or all of the
+	  kernel boot arguments with the kernel itself (that is,
+	  to not rely on the boot loader to provide them.)
+
+	  To compile command line arguments into the kernel,
+	  set this option to 'Y', then fill in the
+	  the boot arguments in CONFIG_CMDLINE.
+
+	  Systems with fully functional boot loaders (i.e. non-embedded)
+	  should leave this option set to 'N'.
+
+config CMDLINE
+	string "Built-in kernel command string"
+	depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
+	default ""
+	help
+	  Enter arguments here that should be compiled into the kernel
+	  image and used at boot time.  If the boot loader provides a
+	  command line at boot time, it is appended to this string to
+	  form the full kernel command line, when the system boots.
+
+	  However, you can use the CONFIG_CMDLINE_OVERRIDE option to
+	  change this behavior.
+
+	  In most cases, the command line (whether built-in or provided
+	  by the boot loader) should specify the device for the root
+	  file system.
+
+config CMDLINE_OVERRIDE
+	bool "Built-in command line overrides boot loader arguments"
+	default n
+	depends on CMDLINE_BOOL
+	help
+	  Set this option to 'Y' to have the kernel ignore the boot loader
+	  command line, and use ONLY the built-in command line.
+
+	  This is used to work around broken boot loaders.  This should
+	  be set to 'N' under normal conditions.
+
 endmenu
 
 config ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
@@ -1773,7 +1818,7 @@ config COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT
 
 config SYSVIPC_COMPAT
 	def_bool y
-	depends on X86_64 && COMPAT && SYSVIPC
+	depends on COMPAT && SYSVIPC
 
 endmenu
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
index b225219c448..60a85768cfc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu
@@ -418,3 +418,21 @@ config X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY
 config X86_DEBUGCTLMSR
 	def_bool y
 	depends on !(MK6 || MWINCHIPC6 || MWINCHIP2 || MWINCHIP3D || MCYRIXIII || M586MMX || M586TSC || M586 || M486 || M386)
+
+config X86_DS
+	bool "Debug Store support"
+	default y
+	help
+	  Add support for Debug Store.
+	  This allows the kernel to provide a memory buffer to the hardware
+	  to store various profiling and tracing events.
+
+config X86_PTRACE_BTS
+	bool "ptrace interface to Branch Trace Store"
+	default y
+	depends on (X86_DS && X86_DEBUGCTLMSR)
+	help
+	  Add a ptrace interface to allow collecting an execution trace
+	  of the traced task.
+	  This collects control flow changes in a (cyclic) buffer and allows
+	  debuggers to fill in the gaps and show an execution trace of the debuggee.
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
index ba7736cf2ec..29c5fbf0839 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
@@ -137,14 +137,15 @@ relocated:
  */
 	movl output_len(%ebx), %eax
 	pushl %eax
+			# push arguments for decompress_kernel:
 	pushl %ebp	# output address
 	movl input_len(%ebx), %eax
 	pushl %eax	# input_len
 	leal input_data(%ebx), %eax
 	pushl %eax	# input_data
 	leal boot_heap(%ebx), %eax
-	pushl %eax	# heap area as third argument
-	pushl %esi	# real mode pointer as second arg
+	pushl %eax	# heap area
+	pushl %esi	# real mode pointer
 	call decompress_kernel
 	addl $20, %esp
 	popl %ecx
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index 9fea7370647..5780d361105 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  */
 #undef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-#define _ASM_DESC_H_ 1
+#define ASM_X86__DESC_H 1
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
 #include <linux/screen_info.h>
 #include <linux/elf.h>
-#include <asm/io.h>
+#include <linux/io.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/boot.h>
 #include <asm/bootparam.h>
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ static void __putstr(int error, const char *s)
 				y--;
 			}
 		} else {
-			vidmem [(x + cols * y) * 2] = c;
+			vidmem[(x + cols * y) * 2] = c;
 			if (++x >= cols) {
 				x = 0;
 				if (++y >= lines) {
@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ static void *memset(void *s, int c, unsigned n)
 	int i;
 	char *ss = s;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) ss[i] = c;
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+		ss[i] = c;
 	return s;
 }
 
@@ -287,7 +288,8 @@ static void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, unsigned n)
 	const char *s = src;
 	char *d = dest;
 
-	for (i = 0; i < n; i++) d[i] = s[i];
+	for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
+		d[i] = s[i];
 	return dest;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
index af86e431acf..b993062e9a5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ SYSSEG		= DEF_SYSSEG		/* system loaded at 0x10000 (65536) */
 SYSSIZE		= DEF_SYSSIZE		/* system size: # of 16-byte clicks */
 					/* to be loaded */
 ROOT_DEV	= 0			/* ROOT_DEV is now written by "build" */
-SWAP_DEV	= 0			/* SWAP_DEV is now written by "build" */
 
 #ifndef SVGA_MODE
 #define SVGA_MODE ASK_VGA
diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
index 104275e191a..ef9a52005ec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
-# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27-rc4
-# Mon Aug 25 15:04:00 2008
+# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27-rc5
+# Wed Sep  3 17:23:09 2008
 #
 # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
 CONFIG_X86_32=y
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y
 # CONFIG_M586 is not set
 # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
 # CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
-# CONFIG_M686 is not set
+CONFIG_M686=y
 # CONFIG_MPENTIUMII is not set
 # CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set
 # CONFIG_MPENTIUMM is not set
@@ -221,13 +221,14 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER=y
 # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set
 # CONFIG_MVIAC7 is not set
 # CONFIG_MPSC is not set
-CONFIG_MCORE2=y
+# CONFIG_MCORE2 is not set
 # CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU is not set
 CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y
 CONFIG_X86_CPU=y
 CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
 CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
 CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
+# CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE is not set
 CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
 CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
 CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
@@ -235,14 +236,15 @@ CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
 CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
 CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
+CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y
 CONFIG_X86_MINIMUM_CPU_FAMILY=4
 CONFIG_X86_DEBUGCTLMSR=y
 CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
 CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y
 CONFIG_DMI=y
 # CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER is not set
-CONFIG_NR_CPUS=4
-# CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is not set
+CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64
+CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y
 CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y
 # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
 CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
@@ -254,7 +256,8 @@ CONFIG_VM86=y
 # CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
 # CONFIG_I8K is not set
 CONFIG_X86_REBOOTFIXUPS=y
-# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
+CONFIG_MICROCODE=y
+CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE=y
 CONFIG_X86_MSR=y
 CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y
 # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
@@ -2115,7 +2118,7 @@ CONFIG_IO_DELAY_0X80=y
 CONFIG_DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE=0
 CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS=y
 # CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG is not set
-# CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is not set
+CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
 
 #
 # Security options
diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
index 678c8acefe0..e620ea6e2a7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
-# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27-rc4
-# Mon Aug 25 14:40:46 2008
+# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27-rc5
+# Wed Sep  3 17:13:39 2008
 #
 CONFIG_64BIT=y
 # CONFIG_X86_32 is not set
@@ -218,17 +218,14 @@ CONFIG_X86_PC=y
 # CONFIG_MVIAC3_2 is not set
 # CONFIG_MVIAC7 is not set
 # CONFIG_MPSC is not set
-CONFIG_MCORE2=y
-# CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU is not set
+# CONFIG_MCORE2 is not set
+CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU=y
 CONFIG_X86_CPU=y
-CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=64
-CONFIG_X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES=64
+CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES=128
+CONFIG_X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES=128
 CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
-CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6
+CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=7
 CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
-CONFIG_X86_INTEL_USERCOPY=y
-CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
-CONFIG_X86_P6_NOP=y
 CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
 CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64=y
 CONFIG_X86_CMOV=y
@@ -243,9 +240,8 @@ CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
 CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y
 CONFIG_SWIOTLB=y
 CONFIG_IOMMU_HELPER=y
-# CONFIG_MAXSMP is not set
-CONFIG_NR_CPUS=4
-# CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is not set
+CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64
+CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y
 CONFIG_SCHED_MC=y
 # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
 CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
@@ -254,7 +250,8 @@ CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
 CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
 # CONFIG_X86_MCE is not set
 # CONFIG_I8K is not set
-# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
+CONFIG_MICROCODE=y
+CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE=y
 CONFIG_X86_MSR=y
 CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y
 CONFIG_NUMA=y
@@ -290,7 +287,7 @@ CONFIG_BOUNCE=y
 CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS=y
 CONFIG_MTRR=y
 # CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER is not set
-# CONFIG_X86_PAT is not set
+CONFIG_X86_PAT=y
 CONFIG_EFI=y
 CONFIG_SECCOMP=y
 # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set
@@ -2089,7 +2086,7 @@ CONFIG_IO_DELAY_0X80=y
 CONFIG_DEFAULT_IO_DELAY_TYPE=0
 CONFIG_DEBUG_BOOT_PARAMS=y
 # CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG is not set
-# CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is not set
+CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING=y
 
 #
 # Security options
diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32_aout.c
index a0e1dbe67dc..127ec3f0721 100644
--- a/