Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'. Setting a value to
this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be
changed.
It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole
system at boot time. Without this parameter, users have to change
coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script.
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits)
x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new()
x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code
x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes
x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic
x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys
x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value
x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface
x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration
x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static
x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies
x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32
x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32
x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency
x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used
x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3
x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3
x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3
x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3
...
Introduce a topology=[on|off] kernel parameter which allows to switch
cpu topology on/off. Default will be off, since it looks like that for
some workloards this doesn't behave very well (on s390).
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
acpi_early_init() was changed to over-write the cmdline param,
making it really inconvenient to set debug flags at boot-time.
Also,
This sets the default level to "info", which is what all the ACPI
drivers use. So to enable messages from drivers, you only have to
supply the "layer" (a.k.a. "component"). For non-"info" ACPI core
and ACPI interpreter messages, you have to supply both level and
layer masks, as before.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Impact: enhancement to stack tracer
The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
(besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)
This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
has been added to enable it on bootup.
A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: more general identifier for Phoenix BIOS
AMD IOMMU: check for next_bit also in unmapped area
AMD IOMMU: fix fullflush comparison length
AMD IOMMU: enable device isolation per default
AMD IOMMU: add parameter to disable device isolation
x86, PEBS/DS: fix code flow in ds_request()
x86: add rdtsc barrier to TSC sync check
xen: fix scrub_page()
x86: fix es7000 compiling
x86, bts: fix unlock problem in ds.c
x86, voyager: fix smp generic helper voyager breakage
x86: move iomap.h to the new include location
Add "min_addr" documentation.
For "max_addr", add nn before [KMG] since a number is needed and this
is consistent with other uses of [KMG].
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: makes device isolation the default for AMD IOMMU
Some device drivers showed double-free bugs of DMA memory while testing
them with AMD IOMMU. If all devices share the same protection domain
this can lead to data corruption and data loss. Prevent this by putting
each device into its own protection domain per default.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
security/keys/internal.h
security/keys/process_keys.c
security/keys/request_key.c
Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).
Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.
This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.
"acpi_backlight=vendor"
Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's
more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that
enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful
examples.
Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are
copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h).
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"
x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo
AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path
x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR
x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle
x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu
x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit
x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS
x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs
x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed
x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage
AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are
compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y).
This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities
compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and
trust) them.
When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes
a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be
used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets.
This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will
not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities
compiled out - in particular a task with CAP_SETPCAP will not
have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which
isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed
altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead
be able to put new capabilities in its pI. However since fI
will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the
task nothing.
We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and
dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set.
The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler,
setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked. That will
be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid
while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid
tries to change settings for the more privileged task.
Changelog:
Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\
with-clear-caps patch
Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are
not compiled in as it isn't used.
Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Impact: documentation update
1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.
2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
position otherwise it will not be recognized.
3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option
In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer
on the kernel boot line.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Changes timekeeping on Vmware (or with tsc=reliable).
This is achieved by resetting the CLOCKSOURCE_MUST_VERIFY flag.
We add a tsc=reliable commandline option to enable this.
This enables legacy hardware without HPET, LAPIC, or ACPI timers
to enter high-resolution timer mode.
Along with that have extended this to be used in virtualization environement
too. Now we also set this flag if the X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE bit is set.
This is important since there is a wrap-around problem with the acpi_pm timer.
The acpi_pm counter is just 24bits and this can overflow in ~4 seconds. With
the NO_HZ kernels in virtualized environment, there can be situations when
the guest is descheduled for longer duration, as a result we may miss the wrap
of the acpi counter. When TSC is used as a clocksource and acpi_pm timer is
being used as the watchdog clocksource this error in acpi_pm results in TSC
being marked as unstable, and essentially results in time dropping in chunks
of 4 seconds whenever this wrap is missed. Since the virtualized TSC is
reliable on VMware, we should always use the TSCs clocksource on VMware, so
we skip the verfication at runtime, by checking for the feature bit.
Since we reset the flag for mgeode systems too, i have combined
the mgeode case with the feature bit check.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hansen <jhansen@cardaccess-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Maybe the incorrect power state is returned on the bogus bios, which
is different with the real power state. For example: the bios returns D0
state and the real power state is D3. OS expects to set the device to D0
state. In such case if OS uses the power state returned by the BIOS and
checks the device power state very strictly in power transition, the device
can't be transited to the correct power state.
So the boot option of "acpi.power_nocheck=1" is added to avoid checking
the device power in the course of device power transition.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8049http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
It can be handy so make sure people know about it.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Since the code is shared pretty much most of the pci= options are shared,
but kernel-parameters.txt marked most of them as i386 only.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (112 commits)
sh: Move SH-4 CPU headers down one more level.
sh: Only build in gpio.o when CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIO is selected.
sh: Migrate common board headers to mach-common/.
sh: Move the CPU definition headers from asm/ to cpu/.
serial: sh-sci: Add support SCIF of SH7723
video: add sh_mobile_lcdc platform flags
video: remove unused sh_mobile_lcdc platform data
sh: remove consistent alloc cruft
sh: add dynamic crash base address support
sh: reduce Migo-R smc91x overruns
sh: Fix up some merge damage.
Fix debugfs_create_file's error checking method for arch/sh/mm/
Fix debugfs_create_dir's error checking method for arch/sh/kernel/
sh: ap325rxa: Add support RTC RX-8564LC in AP325RXA board
sh: Use sh7720 GPIO on magicpanelr2 board
sh: Add sh7720 pinmux code
sh: Use sh7203 GPIO on rsk7203 board
sh: Add sh7203 pinmux code
sh: Use sh7723 GPIO on AP325RXA board
sh: Add sh7723 pinmux code
...
IA64, PPC and SH also support the elfcorehdr command line.
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds initial_descriptor_timeout module parameter for usbcore.ko
to allow modify initial 64-byte USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR timeout for
non-standard devices.
For example, the SATA8000 device from DATAST0R Technology Corp
requires about 10 seconds to send reply (probably it waits until
inserted disk is ready for operation).
Also, this patch adds missing usbcore parameters to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
