linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v3.19

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

2015-01-18T16:55:23Z

Pull input subsystem fixes from Dmitry Torokhov. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: uinput - fix ioctl nr overflow for UI_GET_SYSNAME/VERSION Input: I8042 - add Acer Aspire 7738 to the nomux list Input: elantech - support new ICs types for version 4 Input: i8042 - reset keyboard to fix Elantech touchpad detection MAINTAINERS: remove Dmitry Torokhov's alternate address

Input: i8042 - reset keyboard to fix Elantech touchpad detection

2015-01-08T01:20:44Z

On some laptops, keyboard needs to be reset in order to successfully detect touchpad (e.g., some Gigabyte laptop models with Elantech touchpads). Without resettin keyboard touchpad pretends to be completely dead. Based on the original patch by Mateusz Jończyk this version has been expanded to include DMI based detection & application of the fix automatically on the affected models of laptops. This has been confirmed to fix problem by three users already on three different models of laptops. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81331 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Srihari Vijayaraghavan Acked-by: Mateusz Jończyk Tested-by: Srihari Vijayaraghavan Tested by: Zakariya Dehlawi Tested-by: Guillaum Bouchard Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.19-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2014-12-19T04:28:33Z

Pull more ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These are regression fixes (leds-gpio, ACPI backlight driver, operating performance points library, ACPI device enumeration messages, cpupower tool), other bug fixes (ACPI EC driver, ACPI device PM), some cleanups in the operating performance points (OPP) framework, continuation of CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME elimination, a couple of minor intel_pstate driver changes, a new MAINTAINERS entry for it and an ACPI fan driver change needed for better support of thermal management in user space. Specifics: - Fix a regression in leds-gpio introduced by a recent commit that inadvertently changed the name of one of the properties used by the driver (Fabio Estevam). - Fix a regression in the ACPI backlight driver introduced by a recent fix that missed one special case that had to be taken into account (Aaron Lu). - Drop the level of some new kernel messages from the ACPI core introduced by a recent commit to KERN_DEBUG which they should have used from the start and drop some other unuseful KERN_ERR messages printed by ACPI (Rafael J Wysocki). - Revert an incorrect commit modifying the cpupower tool (Prarit Bhargava). - Fix two regressions introduced by recent commits in the OPP library and clean up some existing minor issues in that code (Viresh Kumar). - Continue to replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM throughout the tree (or drop it where that can be done) in order to make it possible to eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME (Rafael J Wysocki, Ulf Hansson, Ludovic Desroches). There will be one more "CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME removal" batch after this one, because some new uses of it have been introduced during the current merge window, but that should be sufficient to finally get rid of it. - Make the ACPI EC driver more robust against race conditions related to GPE handler installation failures (Lv Zheng). - Prevent the ACPI device PM core code from attempting to disable GPEs that it has not enabled which confuses ACPICA and makes it report errors unnecessarily (Rafael J Wysocki). - Add a "force" command line switch to the intel_pstate driver to make it possible to override the blacklisting of some systems in that driver if needed (Ethan Zhao). - Improve intel_pstate code documentation and add a MAINTAINERS entry for it (Kristen Carlson Accardi). - Make the ACPI fan driver create cooling device interfaces witn names that reflect the IDs of the ACPI device objects they are associated with, except for "generic" ACPI fans (PNP ID "PNP0C0B"). That's necessary for user space thermal management tools to be able to connect the fans with the parts of the system they are supposed to be cooling properly. From Srinivas Pandruvada" * tag 'pm+acpi-3.19-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (32 commits) MAINTAINERS: add entry for intel_pstate ACPI / video: update the skip case for acpi_video_device_in_dod() power / PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME NFC / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM SCSI / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM ACPI / EC: Fix unexpected ec_remove_handlers() invocations Revert "tools: cpupower: fix return checks for sysfs_get_idlestate_count()" tracing / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM x86 / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME in io_apic.c PM: Remove the SET_PM_RUNTIME_PM_OPS() macro mmc: atmel-mci: use SET_RUNTIME_PM_OPS() macro PM / Kconfig: Replace PM_RUNTIME with PM in dependencies ARM / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM sound / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM phy / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM video / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM tty / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM spi: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM ACPI / PM: Do not disable wakeup GPEs that have not been enabled ACPI / utils: Drop error messages from acpi_evaluate_reference() ...

Merge branches 'pm-opp', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-tools'

2014-12-18T17:44:53Z

* pm-opp: PM / OPP: do error handling at the bottom of dev_pm_opp_add_dynamic() PM / OPP: handle allocation of device_opp in a separate routine PM / OPP: reuse find_device_opp() instead of duplicating code PM / OPP: Staticize __dev_pm_opp_remove() PM / OPP: replace kfree with kfree_rcu while freeing 'struct device_opp' * pm-cpufreq: MAINTAINERS: add entry for intel_pstate intel_pstate: Add a few comments intel_pstate: add kernel parameter to force loading * pm-tools: Revert "tools: cpupower: fix return checks for sysfs_get_idlestate_count()"

Merge tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2014-12-16T20:53:59Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as I thought it might be. I'm pushing this in now. This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20. This adds two new features: 1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init(). By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter, tracepoints can be enabled at boot up. For debugging things like the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints enabled very early. People have asked about this before and this has been on my todo list. As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now. This way he can add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when things go wrong. 2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they are triggered. If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging. But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging early lock up or reboot problems. This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests. Thomas tried them out too and it works for his needs. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org" * tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk() tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()

tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()

2014-12-15T15:17:38Z

Add the kernel command line tp_printk option that will have tracepoints that are active sent to printk() as well as to the trace buffer. Passing "tp_printk" will activate this. To turn it off, the sysctl /proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk can have '0' echoed into it. Note, this only works if the cmdline option is used. Echoing 1 into the sysctl file without the cmdline option will have no affect. Note, this is a dangerous option. Having high frequency tracepoints send their data to printk() can possibly cause a live lock. This is another reason why this is only active if the command line option is used. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2014-12-15T04:36:37Z

Pull security layer updates from James Morris: "In terms of changes, there's general maintenance to the Smack, SELinux, and integrity code. The IMA code adds a new kconfig option, IMA_APPRAISE_SIGNED_INIT, which allows IMA appraisal to require signatures. Support for reading keys from rootfs before init is call is also added" * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits) selinux: Remove security_ops extern security: smack: fix out-of-bounds access in smk_parse_smack() VFS: refactor vfs_read() ima: require signature based appraisal integrity: provide a hook to load keys when rootfs is ready ima: load x509 certificate from the kernel integrity: provide a function to load x509 certificate from the kernel integrity: define a new function integrity_read_file() Security: smack: replace kzalloc with kmem_cache for inode_smack Smack: Lock mode for the floor and hat labels ima: added support for new kernel cmdline parameter ima_template_fmt ima: allocate field pointers array on demand in template_desc_init_fields() ima: don't allocate a copy of template_fmt in template_desc_init_fields() ima: display template format in meas. list if template name length is zero ima: added error messages to template-related functions ima: use atomic bit operations to protect policy update interface ima: ignore empty and with whitespaces policy lines ima: no need to allocate entry for comment ima: report policy load status ima: use path names cache ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (second patch-bomb from Andrew)

2014-12-13T21:00:36Z

Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - misc fs fixes - add execveat() syscall - new ratelimit feature for fault-injection - decompressor updates - ipc/ updates - fallocate feature creep - fsnotify cleanups - a few other misc things * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (99 commits) cgroups: Documentation: fix trivial typos and wrong paragraph numberings parisc: percpu: update comments referring to __get_cpu_var percpu: update local_ops.txt to reflect this_cpu operations percpu: remove __get_cpu_var and __raw_get_cpu_var macros fsnotify: remove destroy_list from fsnotify_mark fsnotify: unify inode and mount marks handling fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events mm/cma: make kmemleak ignore CMA regions slub: fix cpuset check in get_any_partial slab: fix cpuset check in fallback_alloc shmdt: use i_size_read() instead of ->i_size ipc/shm.c: fix overly aggressive shmdt() when calls span multiple segments ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling ipc/sem.c: increase SEMMSL, SEMMNI, SEMOPM ipc/sem.c: change memory barrier in sem_lock() to smp_rmb() lib/decompress.c: consistency of compress formats for kernel image decompress_bunzip2: off by one in get_next_block() usr/Kconfig: make initrd compression algorithm selection not expert fault-inject: add ratelimit option ratelimit: add initialization macro ...

mm/page_owner: keep track of page owners

2014-12-13T20:42:48Z

This is the page owner tracking code which is introduced so far ago. It is resident on Andrew's tree, though, nobody tried to upstream so it remain as is. Our company uses this feature actively to debug memory leak or to find a memory hogger so I decide to upstream this feature. This functionality help us to know who allocates the page. When allocating a page, we store some information about allocation in extra memory. Later, if we need to know status of all pages, we can get and analyze it from this stored information. In previous version of this feature, extra memory is statically defined in struct page, but, in this version, extra memory is allocated outside of struct page. It enables us to turn on/off this feature at boottime without considerable memory waste. Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free, using it to analyze page owner is rather complex. We need to enlarge the trace buffer for preventing overlapping until userspace program launched. And, launched program continually dump out the trace buffer for later analysis and it would change system behaviour with more possibility rather than just keeping it in memory, so bad for debug. Moreover, we can use page_owner feature further for various purposes. For example, we can use it for fragmentation statistics implemented in this patch. And, I also plan to implement some CMA failure debugging feature using this interface. I'd like to give the credit for all developers contributed this feature, but, it's not easy because I don't know exact history. Sorry about that. Below is people who has "Signed-off-by" in the patches in Andrew's tree. Contributor: Alexander Nyberg Mel Gorman Dave Hansen Minchan Kim Michal Nazarewicz Andrew Morton Jungsoo Son Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Jungsoo Son Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable

2014-12-13T20:42:48Z

Now, we have prepared to avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime. So introduce new kernel-parameter to disable debug-pagealloc in boottime, and makes related functions to be disabled in this case. Only non-intuitive part is change of guard page functions. Because guard page is effective only if debug-pagealloc is enabled, turning off according to debug-pagealloc is reasonable thing to do. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Michal Nazarewicz Cc: Jungsoo Son Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds