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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-05-02 19:37:49 +0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2013-05-02 19:54:19 +0400
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parent8700c95adb033843fc163d112b9d21d4fda78018 (diff)
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Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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index 4865e9bfd08d..7d55ebb5660c 100644
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@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
AVR32 AVR32 architecture is enabled.
AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled.
BLACKFIN Blackfin architecture is enabled.
+ CLK Common clock infrastructure is enabled.
DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled.
DYNAMIC_DEBUG Build in debug messages and enable them at runtime
EDD BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services (EDD) is enabled
@@ -320,6 +321,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
on: enable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
off: disable for both 32- and 64-bit processes
+ alloc_snapshot [FTRACE]
+ Allocate the ftrace snapshot buffer on boot up when the
+ main buffer is allocated. This is handy if debugging
+ and you need to use tracing_snapshot() on boot up, and
+ do not want to use tracing_snapshot_alloc() as it needs
+ to be done where GFP_KERNEL allocations are allowed.
+
amd_iommu= [HW,X86-64]
Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
Possible values are:
@@ -465,6 +473,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
cio_ignore= [S390]
See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
+ clk_ignore_unused
+ [CLK]
+ Keep all clocks already enabled by bootloader on,
+ even if no driver has claimed them. This is useful
+ for debug and development, but should not be
+ needed on a platform with proper driver support.
+ For more information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
[Deprecated]
@@ -596,9 +611,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
is selected automatically. Check
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for further details.
- crashkernel_low=size[KMG]
- [KNL, x86] parts under 4G.
-
crashkernel=range1:size1[,range2:size2,...][@offset]
[KNL] Same as above, but depends on the memory
in the running system. The syntax of range is
@@ -606,6 +618,26 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
a memory unit (amount[KMG]). See also
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt for an example.
+ crashkernel=size[KMG],high
+ [KNL, x86_64] range could be above 4G. Allow kernel
+ to allocate physical memory region from top, so could
+ be above 4G if system have more than 4G ram installed.
+ Otherwise memory region will be allocated below 4G, if
+ available.
+ It will be ignored if crashkernel=X is specified.
+ crashkernel=size[KMG],low
+ [KNL, x86_64] range under 4G. When crashkernel=X,high
+ is passed, kernel could allocate physical memory region
+ above 4G, that cause second kernel crash on system
+ that require some amount of low memory, e.g. swiotlb
+ requires at least 64M+32K low memory. Kernel would
+ try to allocate 72M below 4G automatically.
+ This one let user to specify own low range under 4G
+ for second kernel instead.
+ 0: to disable low allocation.
+ It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
+ or memory reserved is below 4G.
+
cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
Format: <dma>
@@ -788,6 +820,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
edd= [EDD]
Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
+ efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
+ Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
+ your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if
+ you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and
+ fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick.
+
eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW]
See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c.
@@ -2469,9 +2507,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y, set
the specified list of CPUs to be no-callback CPUs.
Invocation of these CPUs' RCU callbacks will
- be offloaded to "rcuoN" kthreads created for
- that purpose. This reduces OS jitter on the
+ be offloaded to "rcuox/N" kthreads created for
+ that purpose, where "x" is "b" for RCU-bh, "p"
+ for RCU-preempt, and "s" for RCU-sched, and "N"
+ is the CPU number. This reduces OS jitter on the
offloaded CPUs, which can be useful for HPC and
+
real-time workloads. It can also improve energy
efficiency for asymmetric multiprocessors.
@@ -2495,6 +2536,17 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
leaf rcu_node structure. Useful for very large
systems.
+ rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set delay from grace-period initialization to
+ first attempt to force quiescent states.
+ Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
+ and maximum value is HZ.
+
+ rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
+ quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
+ value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+
rcutree.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
Set threshold of queued
RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.
@@ -2509,16 +2561,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
rcutree.rcu_cpu_stall_timeout= [KNL,BOOT]
Set timeout for RCU CPU stall warning messages.
- rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
- Set delay from grace-period initialization to
- first attempt to force quiescent states.
- Units are jiffies, minimum value is zero,
- and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
+ RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
- rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs= [KNL,BOOT]
- Set delay between subsequent attempts to force
- quiescent states. Units are jiffies, minimum
- value is one, and maximum value is HZ.
+ rcutree.rcu_idle_lazy_gp_delay= [KNL,BOOT]
+ Set wakeup interval for idle CPUs that have
+ only "lazy" RCU callbacks (RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y).
+ Lazy RCU callbacks are those which RCU can
+ prove do nothing more than free memory.
rcutorture.fqs_duration= [KNL,BOOT]
Set duration of force_quiescent_state bursts.
@@ -3230,6 +3281,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
or other driver-specific files in the
Documentation/watchdog/ directory.
+ workqueue.disable_numa
+ By default, all work items queued to unbound
+ workqueues are affine to the NUMA nodes they're
+ issued on, which results in better behavior in
+ general. If NUMA affinity needs to be disabled for
+ whatever reason, this option can be used. Note
+ that this also can be controlled per-workqueue for
+ workqueues visible under /sys/bus/workqueue/.
+
x2apic_phys [X86-64,APIC] Use x2apic physical mode instead of
default x2apic cluster mode on platforms
supporting x2apic.