21 May, 2010
5 commits
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This patch adds the capability to use the usb debug port with the
kernel debugger. It is also still possible to use this functionality
with or without the earlyprintk=dbgpX. It is possible to use the
kgdbwait boot argument to debug very early in the kernel start up code.There are two ways to use this driver extension with a kernel boot argument.
1) kgdbdbgp=# -- Where # is the number of the usb debug controller
You must use sysrq-g to break into the kernel debugger on another
connection type other than the dbgp.2) kgdbdbgp=#debugControlNum#,#Seconds#
In this mode, the usb debug port is polled every #Seconds# for
character input. It is possible to use gdb or press control-c to
break into the kernel debugger.From the implementation perspective there are 3 high level changes.
1) Allow variable retries for the the hardware via dbgp_bulk_read().
The amount of retries for the dbgp_bulk_read() needed to be
variable instead of fixed. We do not want to poll at all when the
kernel is operating in interrupt driven mode. The polling only
occurs if the kernel was booted when specifying some number of
seconds via the kgdbdbgp boot argument (IE kgdbdbgp=0,1). In this
case the loop count is reduced to 1 so as introduce the smallest
amount of latency as possible.2) Save the bulk IN endpoint address for use by the kgdb code.
3) The addition of the kgdb interface code.
This consisted of adding in a character read function for the dbgp
as well as a polling thread to allow the dbgp to interrupt the
kernel execution. The rest is the typical kgdb I/O api.CC: Eric Biederman
CC: Yinghai Lu
CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
The ekgdboc= differs from kgdboc= in that you can begin debuggin as
soon as the exceptions are setup and the kgdb I/O driver is available,
instead of waiting until the tty subsystem is available.CC: kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel -
Update the kgdb docs to reflect the new directory structure and API.
Merge in the kdb shell information.
[Randy Dunlap : grammatical corrections]
CC: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel -
This patch adds in the kdb PS/2 keyboard driver. This was mostly a
direct port from the original kdb where I cleaned up the code against
checkpatch.pl and added the glue to stitch it into kgdb.This patch also enables early kdb debug via kgdbwait and the keyboard.
All the access to configure kdb using either a serial console or the
keyboard is done via kgdboc.If you want to use only the keyboard and want to break in early you
would add to your kernel command arguments:kgdboc=kbd kgdbwait
If you wanted serial and or the keyboard access you could use:
kgdboc=kbd,ttyS0
You can also configure kgdboc as a kernel module or at run time with
the sysfs where you can activate and deactivate kgdb.Turn it on:
echo kbd,ttyS0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdbocTurn it off:
echo "" > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdbocSigned-off-by: Jason Wessel
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov -
* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (22 commits)
ACPI: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64
ACPICA: Update version to 20100428.
ACPICA: Update/clarify some parameter names associated with acpi_handle
ACPICA: Rename acpi_ex_system_do_suspend->acpi_ex_system_do_sleep
ACPICA: Prevent possible allocation overrun during object copy
ACPICA: Split large file, evgpeblk
ACPICA: Add GPE support for dynamically loaded ACPI tables
ACPICA: Clarify/rename some root table descriptor fields
ACPICA: Update version to 20100331.
ACPICA: Minimize the differences between linux GPE code and ACPICA code base
ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT
ACPICA: Update DSDT copy/detection.
ACPICA: Add subsystem option to force copy of DSDT to local memory
ACPICA: Add detection of corrupted/replaced DSDT
ACPICA: Add write support for DataTable operation regions
ACPICA: Fix for acpi_reallocate_root_table for incorrect root table copy
ACPICA: Update comments/headers, no functional change
ACPICA: Update version to 20100304
ACPICA: Fix for possible fault in acpi_ex_release_mutex
ACPICA: Standardize integer output for ACPICA warnings/errors
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20 May, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (61 commits)
KEYS: Return more accurate error codes
LSM: Add __init to fixup function.
TOMOYO: Add pathname grouping support.
ima: remove ACPI dependency
TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal
security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup
TOMOYO: Use stack memory for pending entry.
Revert "ima: remove ACPI dependency"
Revert "TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal"
KEYS: Do preallocation for __key_link()
TOMOYO: Use mutex_lock_interruptible.
KEYS: Better handling of errors from construct_alloc_key()
KEYS: keyring_serialise_link_sem is only needed for keyring->keyring links
TOMOYO: Use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL.
ima: remove ACPI dependency
TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal
selinux: generalize disabling of execmem for plt-in-heap archs
LSM Audit: rename LSM_AUDIT_NO_AUDIT to LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE
CRED: Holding a spinlock does not imply the holding of RCU read lock
SMACK: Don't #include Ext2 headers
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18 May, 2010
1 commit
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…el/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning.
tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header
tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option
ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE
tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines
tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling
tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling
tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff
ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events
ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.
tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions
tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer
tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
13 May, 2010
1 commit
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Merge reason: Update from -rc5 to -rc7.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
11 May, 2010
1 commit
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This patch adds a command line option to tell the AMD IOMMU
driver to not initialize any IOMMU it finds.Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel
06 May, 2010
1 commit
23 Apr, 2010
2 commits
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…deric/random-tracing into tracing/core
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According to libata-core correctly around line 6572:
/* parse id */
p = strchr(id, '.');
...the optional device is separated from the port in the libata.force ID
by a point or dot instead of by a colon.Fix documentation to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Roman Fietze
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik
22 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftestsSigned-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
20 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Some BIOS on Toshiba machines corrupt the DSDT, so add a new
boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to workaround it.
Add warning message to ask users to use this option if corrupt DSDT detected.Also build a DMI blacklist to check it and automatically copy DSDT.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14679
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming
Signed-off-by: Len Brown
07 Apr, 2010
2 commits
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Support for the share and fullflush parameters was removed.
Remove the documentation about them too.Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel
31 Mar, 2010
1 commit
26 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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Add a workaround for TPM's which fail to flush last written
PCR values in a TPM_SaveState, in preparation for suspend.Signed-off-by: David Safford
Acked-by: Rajiv Andrade
Signed-off-by: James Morris
15 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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Now that we check for physically present processors before blindly
evaluating _PDC, we no longer need to maintain a DMI opt-in table
nor a kernel param.Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang
Signed-off-by: Len Brown
08 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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* 'x86-mrst-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
x86, mrst: Fix whitespace breakage in apb_timer.c
x86, mrst: Fix APB timer per cpu clockevent
x86, mrst: Remove X86_MRST dependency on PCI_IOAPIC
x86, olpc: Use pci subarch init for OLPC
x86, pci: Add arch_init to x86_init abstraction
x86, mrst: Add Kconfig dependencies for Moorestown
x86, pci: Exclude Moorestown PCI code if CONFIG_X86_MRST=n
x86, numaq: Make CONFIG_X86_NUMAQ depend on CONFIG_PCI
x86, pci: Add sanity check for PCI fixed bar probing
x86, legacy_irq: Remove duplicate vector assigment
x86, legacy_irq: Remove left over nr_legacy_irqs
x86, mrst: Platform clock setup code
x86, apbt: Moorestown APB system timer driver
x86, mrst: Add vrtc platform data setup code
x86, mrst: Add platform timer info parsing code
x86, mrst: Fill in PCI functions in x86_init layer
x86, mrst: Add dummy legacy pic to platform setup
x86/PCI: Moorestown PCI support
x86, ioapic: Add dummy ioapic functions
x86, ioapic: Early enable ioapic for timer irq
...Fixed up semantic conflict of new clocksources due to commit
17622339af25 ("clocksource: add argument to resume callback").
04 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
x86: Fix out of order of gsi
x86: apic: Fix mismerge, add arch_probe_nr_irqs() again
x86, irq: Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq
xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions.
smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early
x86, irq: Remove arch_probe_nr_irqs
sparseirq: Use radix_tree instead of ptrs array
sparseirq: Change irq_desc_ptrs to static
init: Move radix_tree_init() early
irq: Remove unnecessary bootmem code
x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table
x86: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert nmi_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert ioapic_lock and vector_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix()
x86: Fix SCI on IOAPIC != 0
x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mapping
x86, irq: Move __setup_vector_irq() before the first irq enable in cpu online path
x86, irq: Update the vector domain for legacy irqs handled by io-apic
x86, irq: Don't block IRQ0_VECTOR..IRQ15_VECTOR's on all cpu's
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01 Mar, 2010
3 commits
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Conflicts:
drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c -
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mm: Unify kernel_physical_mapping_init() API
x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time
x86: Do not reserve brk for DMI if it's not going to be used
x86: Convert tlbstate_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Use the generic page_is_ram()
x86: Remove BIOS data range from e820
Move page_is_ram() declaration to mm.h
Generic page_is_ram: use __weak
resources: introduce generic page_is_ram() -
…r-linus', 'x86-debug-for-linus', 'x86-doc-for-linus', 'x86-gpu-for-linus' and 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for IPI data* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
plist: Fix grammar mistake, and c-style mistake* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86_64: Print modules like i386 does* 'x86-doc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Put 'nopat' in kernel-parameters* 'x86-gpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64: Allow fbdev primary video code* 'x86-rlimit-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Use helpers for rlimits
25 Feb, 2010
2 commits
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Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to
enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem
enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which
have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not
really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the
price of the additional mapping operations.Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but
no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system
time used from 59.737s to 55.9s.With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated:
Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914)
User Time 515.983 (5.85019)
System Time 59.737 (1.26727)
Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796)
Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64)
Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307)With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated:
Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968)
User Time 515.659 (6.07012)
System Time 55.9 (1.07799)
Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266)
Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13)
Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039)This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in
highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the
status-quo as the default.It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which
allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently
large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful
experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold
at 16G of total RAM.Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE
pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration,
meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using
lowmem PTEs.Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required
lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which
reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT
pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that
even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for
highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound
of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in
practice 64G is still supported).It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM
you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit.Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin -
Moorestown platform does not have PIT or HPET platform timers. Instead it
has a bank of eight APB timers. The number of available timers to the os
is exposed via SFI mtmr tables. All APB timer interrupts are routed via
ioapic rtes and delivered as MSI.
Currently, we use timer 0 and 1 for per cpu clockevent devices, timer 2
for clocksource.Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
24 Feb, 2010
1 commit
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The main benefit of using ACPI host bridge window information is that
we can do better resource allocation in systems with multiple host bridges,
e.g., http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14183Sometimes we need _CRS information even if we only have one host bridge,
e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/341681Most of these systems are relatively new, so this patch turns on
"pci=use_crs" only on machines with a BIOS date of 2008 or newer.Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes
23 Feb, 2010
2 commits
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Apparently, some machines may have problems with PCI run-time power
management if MSIs are used for the native PCIe PME signaling. In
particular, on the MSI Wind U-100 PCIe PME interrupts are not
generated by a PCIe root port after a resume from suspend to RAM, if
the system wake-up was triggered by a PME from the device attached to
this port. [It doesn't help to free the interrupt on suspend and
request it back on resume, even if that is done along with disabling
the MSI and re-enabling it, respectively.] However, if INTx
interrupts are used for this purpose on the same machine, everything
works just fine.For this reason, add a kernel command line switch allowing one to
request that MSIs be not used for the native PCIe PME signaling,
introduce a DMI table allowing us to blacklist machines that need
this switch to be set by default and put the MSI Wind U-100 into this
table.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes -
PCIe native PME detection mechanism is based on interrupts generated
by root ports or event collectors every time a PCIe device sends a
PME message upstream.Once a PME message has been sent by an endpoint device and received
by its root port (or event collector in the case of root complex
integrated endpoints), the Requester ID from the message header is
registered in the root port's Root Status register. At the same
time, the PME Status bit of the Root Status register is set to
indicate that there's a PME to handle. If PCIe PME interrupt is
enabled for the root port, it generates an interrupt once the PME
Status has been set. After receiving the interrupt, the kernel can
identify the PCIe device that generated the PME using the Requester
ID from the root port's Root Status register. [For details, see PCI
Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0.]Implement a driver for the PCIe PME root port service working in
accordance with the above description.Based on a patch from Shaohua Li .
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes
21 Feb, 2010
1 commit
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Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in
their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during
boot. This can prevent systems booting properly.There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired
default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be
booted.So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via
the kernel command line.Signed-off-by: Russell King
18 Feb, 2010
1 commit
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On x86, before prefill_possible_map(), nr_cpu_ids will be NR_CPUS aka
CONFIG_NR_CPUS.Add nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids. so we can simulate cpus
LKML-Reference:
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Tony Luck
05 Feb, 2010
1 commit
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Update documentation to describe IPv6 parameters.
Reported by .Signed-off-by: Brian Haley
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
23 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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Allow platforms not listed in DMI table
to opt-in and evaluate _PDC early.Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang
Signed-off-by: Len Brown
20 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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Add missing 'nopat' boot option into
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
31 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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Introduce kernel parameter acpi_sleep=sci_force_enable
some laptop requires SCI_EN being set directly on resume,
or else they hung somewhere in the resume code path.We already have a blacklist for these laptops but we still need
this option, especially when debugging some suspend/resume problems,
in case there are systems that need this workaround and are not yet
in the blacklist.Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Signed-off-by: Len Brown
17 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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* 'for-2.6.33' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (42 commits)
nfsd: remove pointless paths in file headers
nfsd: move most of nfsfh.h to fs/nfsd
nfsd: remove unused field rq_reffh
nfsd: enable V4ROOT exports
nfsd: make V4ROOT exports read-only
nfsd: restrict filehandles accepted in V4ROOT case
nfsd: allow exports of symlinks
nfsd: filter readdir results in V4ROOT case
nfsd: filter lookup results in V4ROOT case
nfsd4: don't continue "under" mounts in V4ROOT case
nfsd: introduce export flag for v4 pseudoroot
nfsd: let "insecure" flag vary by pseudoflavor
nfsd: new interface to advertise export features
nfsd: Move private headers to source directory
vfs: nfsctl.c un-used nfsd #includes
lockd: Remove un-used nfsd headers #includes
s390: remove un-used nfsd #includes
sparc: remove un-used nfsd #includes
parsic: remove un-used nfsd #includes
compat.c: Remove dependence on nfsd private headers
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16 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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For embedded systems, the blinking cursor at startup time can be annoying
and unintended. Add a new kernel parameter to change the default cursor
shape.Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch
Cc: Daniel Mack
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Cc: David Newall
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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* 'omap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: (75 commits)
omap3: Fix OMAP35XX_REV macros
omap: serial: fix non-empty uart fifo read abort
omap3: Zoom2/3: Update hsmmc board config params
omap3 : Enable TWL4030 Keypad for Zoom2 and Zoom3 boards
omap3: id code detection 3525 vs 3515
omap3: rx51: Use wl1251 in SPI mode 3
omap3: zoom2/3: make MMC slot work again
omap1: htcherald: Update defconfig to include mux support
omap1: LCD_DMA: Use some define rather than a hexadecimal
omap: header: remove unused data-type
omap: arch/arm/plat-omap/devices.c - sort alphabetically
omap: Correcting GPMC_CONFIG1_DEVICETYPE_NAND
OMAP3: serial - allow platforms specify which UARTs to initialize
omap3: cm-t35: add mux initialization
OMAP4: Sync up omap4430 defconfig
OMAP4: Remove the secondary wait loop
OMAP4: AuxCoreBoot registers only accessible in secure mode
OMAP4: Fix SRAM base and size
OMAP4: Fix cpu detection
omap3: pandora: board file updates for .33
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12 Dec, 2009
2 commits
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Initially only for 34xx. This code allows us to:
- Make the code more generic as the omap internal signal
names can stay the same across omap generations for some
devices- Map mux registers to GPIO registers that is needed for
dynamic muxing of pins during off-idle- Override bootloader mux values via kernel cmdline using
omap_mux=some.signa1=0x1234,some.signal2=0x1234- View and set the mux registers via debugfs if
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabledCc: Mike Rapoport
Cc: Benoit Cousson
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren -
This patch (as1311) fixes a problem in usb-storage: Some devices are
pretty broken when it comes to reporting sense data. The information
they send back indicates that they have more than 18 bytes of sense
data available, but when the system asks for more than 18 they fail or
hang. The symptom is that probing fails with multiple resets.The patch adds a new BAD_SENSE flag to indicate that usb-storage
should never ask for more than 18 bytes of sense data. The flag can
be set in an unusual_devs entry or via the "quirks=" module parameter,
and it is set automatically whenever a REQUEST SENSE command for more
than 18 bytes fails or times out.An unusual_devs entry is added for the Agfa photo frame, which uses a
Prolific chip having this bug.Signed-off-by: Alan Stern
Tested-by: Daniel Kukula
Cc: stable
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
