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diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 5b5aba404aa..73060819ed9 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -251,8 +251,6 @@ mono.txt - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC. moxa-smartio - file with info on installing/using Moxa multiport serial driver. -mtrr.txt - - how to use PPro Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance. mutex-design.txt - info on the generic mutex subsystem. namespaces/ diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 1150444a21a..329dcabe4c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -463,12 +463,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Range: 0 - 8192 Default: 64 - disable_8254_timer - enable_8254_timer - [IA32/X86_64] Disable/Enable interrupt 0 timer routing - over the 8254 in addition to over the IO-APIC. The - kernel tries to set a sensible default. - hpet= [X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage Format: { enable (default) | disable | force } disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead @@ -1882,6 +1876,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file shapers= [NET] Maximal number of shapers. + show_msr= [x86] show boot-time MSR settings + Format: { <integer> } + Show boot-time (BIOS-initialized) MSR settings. + The parameter means the number of CPUs to show, + for example 1 means boot CPU only. + sim710= [SCSI,HW] See header of drivers/scsi/sim710.c. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX b/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..dbe3377754a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/00-INDEX @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +00-INDEX + - this file +mtrr.txt + - how to use x86 Memory Type Range Registers to increase performance diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt index 147bfe511cd..83c0033ee9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ Field name: start_sys Type: read -Offset/size: 0x20c/4 +Offset/size: 0x20c/2 Protocol: 2.00+ The load low segment (0x1000). Obsolete. diff --git a/Documentation/mtrr.txt b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt index c39ac395970..cc071dc333c 100644 --- a/Documentation/mtrr.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Richard Gooch The AMD K6-2 (stepping 8 and above) and K6-3 processors have two MTRRs. These are supported. The AMD Athlon family provide 8 Intel style MTRRs. - + The Centaur C6 (WinChip) has 8 MCRs, allowing write-combining. These are supported. @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 16MB: write-combining, count=1 reg02: base=0xfb000000 (4016MB), size= 4kB: uncachable, count=1 -Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area +Some cards (especially Voodoo Graphics boards) need this 4 kB area excluded from the beginning of the region because it is used for registers. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/pat.txt b/Documentation/x86/pat.txt index 17965f927c1..c93ff5f4c0d 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/pat.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/pat.txt @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ PAT allows for different types of memory attributes. The most commonly used ones that will be supported at this time are Write-back, Uncached, Write-combined and Uncached Minus. + +PAT APIs +-------- + There are many different APIs in the kernel that allows setting of memory attributes at the page level. In order to avoid aliasing, these interfaces should be used thoughtfully. Below is a table of interfaces available, @@ -26,38 +30,38 @@ address range to avoid any aliasing. API | RAM | ACPI,... | Reserved/Holes | -----------------------|----------|------------|------------------| | | | | -ioremap | -- | UC | UC | +ioremap | -- | UC- | UC- | | | | | ioremap_cache | -- | WB | WB | | | | | -ioremap_nocache | -- | UC | UC | +ioremap_nocache | -- | UC- | UC- | | | | | ioremap_wc | -- | -- | WC | | | | | -set_memory_uc | UC | -- | -- | +set_memory_uc | UC- | -- | -- | set_memory_wb | | | | | | | | set_memory_wc | WC | -- | -- | set_memory_wb | | | | | | | | -pci sysfs resource | -- | -- | UC | +pci sysfs resource | -- | -- | UC- | | | | | pci sysfs resource_wc | -- | -- | WC | is IORESOURCE_PREFETCH| | | | | | | | -pci proc | -- | -- | UC | +pci proc | -- | -- | UC- | !PCIIOC_WRITE_COMBINE | | | | | | | | pci proc | -- | -- | WC | PCIIOC_WRITE_COMBINE | | | | | | | | -/dev/mem | -- | UC | UC | +/dev/mem | -- | WB/WC/UC- | WB/WC/UC- | read-write | | | | | | | | -/dev/mem | -- | UC | UC | +/dev/mem | -- | UC- | UC- | mmap SYNC flag | | | | | | | | -/dev/mem | -- | WB/WC/UC | WB/WC/UC | +/dev/mem | -- | WB/WC/UC- | WB/WC/UC- | mmap !SYNC flag | |(from exist-| (from exist- | and | | ing alias)| ing alias) | any alias to this area| | | | @@ -68,7 +72,7 @@ pci proc | -- | -- | WC | and | | | | MTRR says WB | | | | | | | | -/dev/mem | -- | -- | UC_MINUS | +/dev/mem | -- | -- | UC- | mmap !SYNC flag | | | | no alias to this area | | | | and | | | | @@ -98,3 +102,35 @@ types. Drivers should use set_memory_[uc|wc] to set access type for RAM ranges. + +PAT debugging +------------- + +With CONFIG_DEBUG_FS enabled, PAT memtype list can be examined by + +# mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug +# cat /sys/kernel/debug/x86/pat_memtype_list +PAT memtype list: +uncached-minus @ 0x7fadf000-0x7fae0000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb19000-0x7fb1a000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb1a000-0x7fb1b000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb1b000-0x7fb1c000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb1c000-0x7fb1d000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb1d000-0x7fb1e000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb1e000-0x7fb25000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb25000-0x7fb26000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb26000-0x7fb27000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb27000-0x7fb28000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb28000-0x7fb2e000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb2e000-0x7fb2f000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb2f000-0x7fb30000 +uncached-minus @ 0x7fb31000-0x7fb32000 +uncached-minus @ 0x80000000-0x90000000 + +This list shows physical address ranges and various PAT settings used to +access those physical address ranges. + +Another, more verbose way of getting PAT related debug messages is with +"debugpat" boot parameter. With this parameter, various debug messages are +printed to dmesg log. + diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/usb-legacy-support.txt b/Documentation/x86/usb-legacy-support.txt index 1894cdfc69d..1894cdfc69d 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/i386/usb-legacy-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/usb-legacy-support.txt diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index b0c7b6c4abd..72ffb5373ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -54,10 +54,6 @@ APICs apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally broken. - disable_8254_timer / enable_8254_timer - Enable interrupt 0 timer routing over the 8254 in addition to over - the IO-APIC. The kernel tries to set a sensible default. - Early Console syntax: earlyprintk=vga diff --git a/Documentation/x86/i386/zero-page.txt b/Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt index 169ad423a3d..169ad423a3d 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/i386/zero-page.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index ebfd7ff82ad..97f0d2b6dc0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1021,7 +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 @@ -1037,7 +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 @@ -1118,10 +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 @@ -1132,7 +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)" @@ -1192,7 +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 @@ -1200,7 +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. @@ -1357,14 +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 @@ -1379,6 +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 @@ -1774,7 +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/boot/compressed/head_32.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S index ba7736cf2ec..29c5fbf0839 100644 --- a/ |