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2008-10-23Merge branch 'linus' into testLen Brown
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c drivers/acpi/Kconfig drivers/pnp/Makefile drivers/pnp/quirks.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22Merge branch 'i7300_idle' into testLen Brown
2008-10-21i7300_idle driver v1.55Andy Henroid
The Intel 7300 Memory Controller supports dynamic throttling of memory which can be used to save power when system is idle. This driver does the memory throttling when all CPUs are idle on such a system. Refer to "Intel 7300 Memory Controller Hub (MCH)" datasheet for the config space description. Signed-off-by: Andy Henroid <andrew.d.henroid@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
2008-10-20Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (131 commits) tracing/fastboot: improve help text tracing/stacktrace: improve help text tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix bootgraph.pl initcall name regexp tracing/fastboot: fix issues and improve output of bootgraph.pl tracepoints: synchronize unregister static inline tracepoints: tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() ftrace: make ftrace_test_p6nop disassembler-friendly markers: fix synchronize marker unregister static inline tracing/fastboot: add better resolution to initcall debug/tracing trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace tracing/fastboot: fix initcalls disposition in bootgraph.pl tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer ftrace: make some tracers reentrant ring-buffer: make reentrant ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace ... Manually fix conflicts: - init/main.c: initcall tracing - kernel/module.c: verbose level vs tracepoints - scripts/bootgraph.pl: fallout from cherry-picking commits.
2008-10-20Merge branch 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip This merges branches irq/genirq, irq/sparseirq-v4, timers/hpet-percpu and x86/uv. The sparseirq branch is just preliminary groundwork: no sparse IRQs are actually implemented by this tree anymore - just the new APIs are added while keeping the old way intact as well (the new APIs map 1:1 to irq_desc[]). The 'real' sparse IRQ support will then be a relatively small patch ontop of this - with a v2.6.29 merge target. * 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (178 commits) genirq: improve include files intr_remapping: fix typo io_apic: make irq_mis_count available on 64-bit too genirq: fix name space collisions of nr_irqs in arch/* genirq: fix name space collision of nr_irqs in autoprobe.c genirq: use iterators for irq_desc loops proc: fixup irq iterator genirq: add reverse iterator for irq_desc x86: move ack_bad_irq() to irq.c x86: unify show_interrupts() and proc helpers x86: cleanup show_interrupts genirq: cleanup the sparseirq modifications genirq: remove artifacts from sparseirq removal genirq: revert dynarray genirq: remove irq_to_desc_alloc genirq: remove sparse irq code genirq: use inline function for irq_to_desc genirq: consolidate nr_irqs and for_each_irq_desc() x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig genirq: define nr_irqs for architectures with GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n ...
2008-10-20container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystemMatt Helsley
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups framework. It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem. The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named freezer.state. Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks in the cgroup. Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in the cgroup. Reading will return the current state. * Examples of usage : # mkdir /containers/freezer # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer /containers # mkdir /containers/0 # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks to get status of the freezer subsystem : # cat /containers/0/freezer.state RUNNING to freeze all tasks in the container : # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state # cat /containers/0/freezer.state FREEZING # cat /containers/0/freezer.state FROZEN to unfreeze all tasks in the container : # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state # cat /containers/0/freezer.state RUNNING This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space task in a simple scenario. It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we return EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this time. After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read. The state will remain "FREEZING" until one of these things happens: 1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to the freezer.state file 2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal and returns EIO) 3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN" state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process] Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16cpuidle: upon BIOS bug, default to default_idle rather than pollingVenkatesh Pallipadi
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11345 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-16Merge branch 'core-v28-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning softirqs, debug: preemption check x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap() IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system() generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses softirq: allocate less vectors IO resources: fix/remove printk printk: robustify printk, update comment printk: robustify printk, fix #2 printk: robustify printk, fix printk: robustify printk Fixed up conflicts in: arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype manually.
2008-10-16Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructsJan Beulich
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more appropriate. Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't selected by anything seems also at least questionable. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16genirq: revert dynarrayThomas Gleixner
Revert the dynarray changes. They need more thought and polishing. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-16x86: remove sparse irq from KconfigThomas Gleixner
This code is not ready yet. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-16x86: make HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ support selectableYinghai Lu
Ingo said sparse_irq is some intrusive. need to make it selectable to make it simple, remove irq_desc as parameter in some functions. (ack, eoi, set_affinity). may need to make member if irq_chip to take irq_desc, or struct irq later. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16x86: make 32 bit to use sparse_irqYinghai Lu
but actually irq still needs to be less than NR_IRQS, because interrupt[NR_IRQS] in entry.S. need to enable per_cpu vector... Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16x86: remove irqbalance in kernel for 32 bitYinghai Lu
This has been deprecated for years, the user space irqbalanced utility works better with numa, has configurable policies, etc... Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmai.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16generic: sparse irqs: use irq_desc() together with dyn_array, instead of ↵Yinghai Lu
irq_desc[] add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ to for use condensed array. Get rid of irq_desc[] array assumptions. Preallocate 32 irq_desc, and irq_desc() will try to get more. ( No change in functionality is expected anywhere, except the odd build failure where we missed a code site or where a crossing commit itroduces new irq_desc[] usage. ) v2: according to Eric, change get_irq_desc() to irq_desc() Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16x86: enable dyn_array supportYinghai Lu
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-15Merge branches 'core/softlockup', 'core/softirq', 'core/resources', ↵Ingo Molnar
'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus
2008-10-14ftrace: enable using mcount recording on x86Steven Rostedt
Enable the use of the __mcount_loc infrastructure on x86_64 and i386. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-13Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: include/asm-x86/statfs.h
2008-10-12Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2
2008-10-12Merge branch 'linus' into x86/memory-corruption-checkIngo Molnar
2008-10-11Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-BIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c arch/x86/kernel/setup.c drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into ↵Ingo Molnar
x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-06Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', ↵Ingo Molnar
'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' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
2008-10-01x86: change MTRR_SANITIZER to def_bool yYinghai Lu
This option has been added in v2.6.26 as a default-disabled feature and went through several revisions since then. The feature fixes a wide range of MTRR setup problems that BIOSes leave us with: slow system, slow Xorg, slow system when adding lots of RAM, etc., so we want to enable it by default for v2.6.28. See: [Bug 10508] Upgrade to 4GB of RAM messes up MTRRs http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10508 and the test results in: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/29/273 1. hpa reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1 reg01: base=0x13c000000 (5056MB), size= 64MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 reg05: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 128M num_reg: 6 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC range0: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB hole: 000000013c000000 - 0000000140000000 Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 5056MB, range: 64MB, type UC 2. Dylan Taft reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1 reg04: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg05: base=0xc7e00000 (3198MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1 reg06: base=0xc8000000 (3200MB), size= 128MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 4M num_reg: 6 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c8000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 128MB, type WB hole: 00000000c7e00000 - 00000000c8000000 Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3198MB, range: 2MB, type UC rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000130000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 256MB, type WB 3. Gabriel reg00: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: uncachable, count=1 reg01: base=0xe0000000 (3584MB), size= 512MB: uncachable, count=1 reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 reg04: base=0x120000000 (4608MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1 reg05: base=0x128000000 (4736MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1 reg06: base=0xcf600000 (3318MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 16M num_reg: 7 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000d0000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3072MB, range: 256MB, type WB hole: 00000000cf600000 - 00000000cf800000 Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3318MB, range: 2MB, type UC rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 000000012c000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 512MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 5, base: 4608MB, range: 128MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 6, base: 4736MB, range: 64MB, type WB 4. Mika Fischer reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1 reg01: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg03: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 reg04: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1 will get Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up gran_size: 1M chunk_size: 16M num_reg: 5 lose RAM: 0M range0: 0000000000000000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 0, base: 0MB, range: 2048MB, type WB Setting variable MTRR 1, base: 2048MB, range: 1024MB, type WB hole: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000 Setting variable MTRR 2, base: 3063MB, range: 1MB, type UC Setting variable MTRR 3, base: 3064MB, range: 8MB, type UC rangeX: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 Setting variable MTRR 4, base: 4096MB, range: 1024MB, type WB Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-24Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/microcodeIngo Molnar
2008-09-23x86: moved microcode.c to microcode_intel.cDmitry Adamushko
Combine both generic and arch-specific parts of microcode into a single module (arch-specific parts are config-dependent). Also while we are at it, move arch-specific parts from microcode.h into their respective arch-specific .c files. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com> Cc: "Peter Oruba" <peter.oruba@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19AMD IOMMU: add MSI interrupt supportJoerg Roedel
The AMD IOMMU can generate interrupts for various reasons. This patch adds the basic interrupt enabling infrastructure to the driver. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-19Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/cleanupsIngo Molnar
2008-09-16x86: add X86_RESERVE_LOW_64KIngo Molnar
This bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237 Documents a wide range of systems where the BIOS utilizes the first 64K of physical memory during suspend/resume and other hardware events. Currently we reserve this memory on all AMI and Phoenix BIOS systems. Life is too short to hunt subtle memory corruption problems like this, so we try to be robust by default. Still, allow this to be overriden: allow users who want that first 64K of memory to be available to the kernel disable the quirk, via CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=n. Also, allow the early reservation to overlap with other early reservations. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_tJeremy Fitzhardinge
There's no good reason why a resource_size_t shouldn't just be a physical address, so simply redefine it in terms of phys_addr_t. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addressesJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold any physical address. By default it equals the word size of the architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14x86: simpler SYSVIPC_COMPAT definitionAlexey Dobriyan
X86_64 part is entirely redundant. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-09seccomp: drop now bogus dependency on PROC_FSAlexey Dobriyan
seccomp is prctl(2)-driven now. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07x86: default corruption check to off, but put parameter default in KconfigJeremy Fitzhardinge
Default the low memory corruption check to off, but make the default setting of the memory_corruption_check kernel parameter a config parameter. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07x86: clean up memory corruption check and add more kernel parametersJeremy Fitzhardinge
The corruption check is enabled in Kconfig by default, but disabled at runtime. This patch adds several kernel parameters to control the corruption check's behaviour; these are documented in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-07x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruptionJeremy Fitzhardinge
Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k. This change: - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel. Things like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however. - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it. - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero. Currently it's called in the x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06Introduce HAVE_AOUT symbol to remove hard-coded arch list for BINFMT_AOUTDavid Woodhouse
HAVE_AOUT doesn't quite do the same thing as the recently removed ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT config option. That was set even on platforms where binfmt_aout isn't supported, although it's not entirely clear why. So it's best just to introduce a new symbol, handled consistently with other similar HAVE_xxx symbols; with a simple 'select' in the arch Kconfig. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-06Remove redundant CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUTDavid Woodhouse
We don't need this any more; arguably we never really did. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-05Merge branch 'linus' into x86/defconfigIngo Molnar
2008-09-05Merge branch 'linus' into x86/tracehookIngo Molnar
2008-08-25[x86] Clean up MAXSMP Kconfig, and limit NR_CPUS to 512Linus Torvalds
This fixes a regression that was indirectly caused by commit 1184dc2ffe2c8fb9afb766d870850f2c3165ef25 ("x86: modify Kconfig to allow up to 4096 cpus"). Allowing 4k CPU's is not practical at this time, because we still have a number of places that have several 'cpumask_t's on the stack, and a 4k-bit cpumask is 512 bytes of stack-space for each such variable. This literally caused functions like 'smp_call_function_mask' to have a 2.5kB stack frame, and several functions to have 2kB stackframes. With an 8kB stack total, smashing the stack was simply much too likely. At least bugzilla entry http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11342 was due to this. The earlier commit to not inline load_module() into sys_init_module() fixed the particular symptoms of this that Alan Brunelle saw in that bugzilla entry, but the huge stack waste by cpumask_t's was the more direct cause. Some day we'll have allocation helpers that allocate large CPU masks dynamically, but in the meantime we simply cannot allow cpumasks this large. Cc: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-21Merge branch 'linus' into x86/docIngo Molnar
2008-08-15Merge branch 'linus' into x86/tracehookIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15x86, bootup: add built-in kernel command line for x86 (v2)Tim Bird
Allow x86 to support a built-in kernel command line. The built-in command line can override the one provided by the boot loader, for those cases where the boot loader is broken or it is difficult to change the command line in the the boot loader. H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: >> Best would be to make it really apparent in the code that nothing >> changes if this config option is not set. Preferably there should be >> no extra code at all in that case. >> > > I would like to see this: [...Nested ifdefs...] OK. This version changes absolutely nothing if CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is not set (the default). Also, no space is appended even when CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL is set, but the builtin string is empty. This is less sloppy all the way around, IMHO. Note that I use the same option names as on other arches for this feature. [ mingo@elte.hu: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15arch/x86/Kconfig: clean up, experimental adjustementPavel Machek
Adjust experimental tags in Kconfig, update config to notice that i386/x86_64 is now single architecture. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-14Merge branch 'linus' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/genapic_64.c include/asm-x86/kvm_host.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-12mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL itRusty Russell
Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST. Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-11x86: make sparsemem more availableJeff Chua
With CONFIG_X86_PC, I can set CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y. With CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH, CONFIG_SPARSEMEM depends on CONFIG_NUMA. I'm using the patch below to enable sparsemem instead of flatmem. System booted and is running. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11x86: remove EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPUDimitri Sivanich
This removes the EXPERIMENTAL restriction from CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU on the x86 architecture. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>