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* Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2015-02-211-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This contains: - EFI fixes - a boot printout fix - ASLR/kASLR fixes - intel microcode driver fixes - other misc fixes Most of the linecount comes from an EFI revert" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mm/ASLR: Avoid PAGE_SIZE redefinition for UML subarch x86/microcode/intel: Handle truncated microcode images more robustly x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader x86, mm/ASLR: Fix stack randomization on 64-bit systems x86/mm/init: Fix incorrect page size in init_memory_mapping() printks x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txt x86/apic: Fix the devicetree build in certain configs Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes" x86/efi: Avoid triple faults during EFI mixed mode calls
| * Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txtAlexander Kuleshov2015-02-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422689004-13318-1-git-send-email-kuleshovmail@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | x86_64: add KASan supportAndrey Ryabinin2015-02-141-0/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer. 16TB of virtual addressed used for shadow memory. It's located in range [ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000] between vmemmap and %esp fixup stacks. At early stage we map whole shadow region with zero page. Latter, after pages mapped to direct mapping address range we unmap zero pages from corresponding shadow (see kasan_map_shadow()) and allocate and map a real shadow memory reusing vmemmap_populate() function. Also replace __pa with __pa_nodebug before shadow initialized. __pa with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y make external function call (__phys_addr) __phys_addr is instrumented, so __asan_load could be called before shadow area initialized. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com> Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com> Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* x86, entry: Switch stacks on a paranoid entry from userspaceAndy Lutomirski2015-01-022-9/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This causes all non-NMI, non-double-fault kernel entries from userspace to run on the normal kernel stack. Double-fault is exempt to minimize confusion if we double-fault directly from userspace due to a bad kernel stack. This is, suprisingly, simpler and shorter than the current code. It removes the IMO rather frightening paranoid_userspace path, and it make sync_regs much simpler. There is no risk of stack overflow due to this change -- the kernel stack that we switch to is empty. This will also enable us to create non-atomic sections within machine checks from userspace, which will simplify memory failure handling. It will also allow the upcoming fsgsbase code to be simplified, because it doesn't need to worry about usergs when scheduling in paranoid_exit, as that code no longer exists. Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
* Merge branch 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-12-191-4/+14
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 MPX fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Three updates for the new MPX infrastructure: - Use the proper error check in the trap handler - Add a proper config option for it - Bring documentation up to date" * 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option prompt x86, mpx: Update documentation x86_64/traps: Fix always true condition
| * x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option promptDave Hansen2014-12-151-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Give MPX a real config option. The CPUs that support it (referenced here): https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/402393 are not available publicly yet. Right now only the software emulator provides MPX for the general public. [ tglx: Make it default off. There is no point in having it on right now as no hardware and no proper tooling support are available ] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183836.2569D58D@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * x86, mpx: Update documentationDave Hansen2014-12-151-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I was writing some MPX test programs and realized that the current design makes it tricky. I did something like: bndcfgu |= bnd_dir | BNDCFGU_ENABLE; xrstor(); printf("xrstor done"); // #BR bounds exception here prctl(MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT); and then compiled the app with "-fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx" to enable MPX instrumentation. The problem is that there is MPX instrumentation inserted in to the area of the printf(). The kernel gets a bounds exception and since management isn't yet enabled, it SIGSEGV's. Add a bit to the documentation to explain a way around this and where apps need to be careful. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183835.8C581B3E@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-12-141-2/+5
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes (mainly Andy's TLS fixes), plus a cleanup" * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix MAINTAINERS: Add me as x86 VDSO submaintainer x86/asm: Unify segment selector defines x86/asm: Guard against building the 32/64-bit versions of the asm-offsets*.c file directly x86_64, switch_to(): Load TLS descriptors before switching DS and ES x86/mm: Use min() instead of min_t() in the e820 printout code x86/mm: Fix zone ranges boot printout x86/doc: Update documentation after file shuffling
| * x86/doc: Update documentation after file shufflingLuis R. Rodriguez2014-12-111-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While at it, also refer to the 32 bit entry file. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: bpoirier@suse.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418165684-6226-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | x86, mpx: Add documentation on Intel MPXQiaowei Ren2014-11-181-0/+234
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the Documentation/x86/intel_mpx.txt file with some information about Intel MPX. Signed-off-by: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141114151832.7FDB1720@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* x86/mm: Update memory map description to list hypervisor-reserved areaDave Hansen2014-09-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Peter Anvin says: > 0xffff880000000000 is the lowest usable address because we have > agreed to leave 0xffff800000000000-0xffff880000000000 for the > hypervisor or other non-OS uses. Let's call this out in the documentation. This came up during the kernel address sanitizer discussions where it was proposed to use this area for other kernel things. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140918195606.841389D2@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* x86/doc: Fix the 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling' sysconfig pathJeremiah Mahler2014-08-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix the documented sysconfig location of 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling' which is under /sys/kernel/debug/... not /sys/debug/kernel/... Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407484195-1441-1-git-send-email-jmmahler@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* x86/mm: New tunable for single vs full TLB flushDave Hansen2014-07-311-0/+75
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most of the logic here is in the documentation file. Please take a look at it. I know we've come full-circle here back to a tunable, but this new one is *WAY* simpler. I challenge anyone to describe in one sentence how the old one worked. Here's the way the new one works: If we are flushing more pages than the ceiling, we use the full flush, otherwise we use per-page flushes. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154101.12B52CAF@viggo.jf.intel.com Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* Merge branch 'x86/espfix' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-06-051-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next Pull x86-64 espfix changes from Peter Anvin: "This is the espfix64 code, which fixes the IRET information leak as well as the associated functionality problem. With this code applied, 16-bit stack segments finally work as intended even on a 64-bit kernel. Consequently, this patchset also removes the runtime option that we added as an interim measure. To help the people working on Linux kernels for very small systems, this patchset also makes these compile-time configurable features" * 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option" x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack
| * x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stackH. Peter Anvin2014-04-301-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer. This causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state to user space. We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which is not available in 64-bit mode. In checkin: b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work. This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart. When we detect that the return SS is on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the relevant alias to return to userspace. The ministacks are mapped readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF handler. (Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.) Special thanks to: - Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF. - Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing. - Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments. Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andrew Lutomriski <amluto@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com> Cc: comex <comexk@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # consider after upstream merge
* | doc: spelling error changesCarlos Garcia2014-05-052-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | Fixed multiple spelling errors. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Carlos E. Garcia <carlos@cgarcia.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* x86, boot: Correct max ramdisk size nameBorislav Petkov2014-03-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | The name in struct bootparam is ->initrd_addr_max and not ramdisk_max. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394633584-5509-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* Documentation/: update 00-INDEX filesHenrik Austad2014-02-111-2/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has not been touched. New 00-INDEX - spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006 Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX) - dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a07d ("dmatest: run test via debugfs") - this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d637 ("percpu: add documentation on this_cpu operations") - ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add support for wound/wait style locks") - bcache.txt was added by commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer cache") - kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb40410 ("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads") - phy.txt was added by commit ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework") - block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc0314 ("null_blk: documentation") - module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea307642 ("Add Documentation/module-signing.txt file") - assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic associative array implementation.") - arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo - arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e839 ("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup") - arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77fc ("ARM: Add interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations") - arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05241d ("ARM: 7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode") - arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cfdd ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3") - arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e05 ("ARM: mcpm: Add baremetal voting mutexes") - blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit 4b60779d5ea7 ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the gptimers API") - devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc681a ("dt: Linux DT usage model documentation") - fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f42879 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based format configuration API") - fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a049807105 ("video, sm501: add edid and commandline support") - fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864afd6 ("fbdev: move udlfb out of staging.") - filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48a2 ("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files") - filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit 8a4c6e19cfed ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration") - ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413ec6 ("ide: add warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)") - laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc21 ("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files") - leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f65 ("LEDS: add BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS") - leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cde2 ("leds: add oneshot trigger") - leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e705 ("leds: add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation") - m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo - networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits 40839129f779, c4e84bde1d59, 5a4faa873782 - networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b32 ("i40evf: add driver to kernel build system") - networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36e2 ("xfrm: Add file to document IPsec corner case") - networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit 3cd7920a2be8 ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram") - networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c3981 ("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O") - networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1597f ("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan) - networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device") - networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d2f ("vxlan: virtual extensible lan") - power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a09a ("PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)") - power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56ea ("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver") - RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa2e ("rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats") - s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation) - s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b358 ("qeth: bridgeport support - basic control") - scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9f7 ("sched: Add documentation for bandwidth control") - scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f35661 ("[SCSI] advansys: Move documentation to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bdb4 ("[SCSI] bfa: add readme file") - scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10eaf4 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add driver documentation") - scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464ebc0 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add cxgb3i iSCSI driver.") - scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f3c ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi") - scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit ca77329fb713 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure") - scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621deca ("[SCSI] osd: Documentation for OSD library") - scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb111c ("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file") - serial/driver was part of the initial repo - serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122ec6 ("n_gsm: add a documentation") - timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build Documentation/ sources") - virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d57 ("KVM: s390: diagnose call documentation") - vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2ccaf ("mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page") - w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2ae ("w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100") - w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6f5 ("hdq: documentation for OMAP HDQ") - x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a895 ("x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading") - x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade478862 ("x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp") - x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b50c ("x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S") - x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874c7 ("x86: PAT documentation") Moved files - arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by commit 37b8304642c7 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of the source code") - efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in commit 4172fe2f8a47 ("EFI stub documentation updates") - laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit efcfed9bad88 ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86") - commit 5616c23ad9cd ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from Doc/x86/i386"): * x86/usb-legacy-support.txt * x86/boot.txt * x86/zero_page.txt - power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df191 ("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi") Removed files (left in 00-INDEX) - memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aadf ("memory.txt: remove stray information") - gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation: gpiolib: document new interface") - networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26dd ("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers") - serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0bb9 ("tty: esp: remove broken driver") - s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f669308 ("[S390] remove tape block docu") - vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2bc ("mm: documentation: remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc") - laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e81 ("acer-wmi: Delete out-of-date documentation") Typos/misc issues - rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit 030d794bf498 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.") - commit b88cf73d9278 ("net: add missing entries to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX") * generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt * spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt - w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f74c ("w1: add 1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31") - s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a407e ("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.") Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits] Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-231-23/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) neighbour.h: fix comment sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/ mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements thermal: rcar: comment spelling treewide: fix comments and printk msgs IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart() Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf arm: fix comment header and macro name asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/ mtd: onenand: fix comment header doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm) treewide: Fix typos in printk drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text ...
| * Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina2013-12-191-65/+0
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things in tree (efi-stub). Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
| * | Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txtRichard Weinberger2013-12-021-23/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt. Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexecDave Young2013-12-291-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Old kexec-tools can not load new kernels. The reason is kexec-tools does not fill efi_info in x86 setup header previously, thus EFI failed to initialize. In new kexec-tools it will by default to fill efi_info and pass other EFI required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel EFI initialization can succeed finally. To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so kexec-tools can check the flag and switch to old logic. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
* | | Merge tag 'efi-next' of ↵Ingo Molnar2013-11-261-0/+7
|\ \ \ | |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi Pull EFI virtual mapping changes from Matt Fleming: * New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is groundwork for kexec support on EFI. (Borislav Petkov) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * | x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mappingBorislav Petkov2013-11-021-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously, with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use them. Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute the kernel namespace. Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous options and chicken bits from the command line. While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to hold up the sarcasm here...). Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
* | | Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-11-121-65/+0
|\| | | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar: "Main changes: - Add support for earlyprintk=efi which uses the EFI framebuffer. Very useful for debugging boot problems. - EFI stub support for large memory maps (more than 128 entries) - EFI ARM support - this was mostly done by generalizing x86 <-> ARM platform differences, such as by moving x86 EFI code into drivers/firmware/efi/ and sharing it with ARM. - Documentation updates - misc fixes" * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits) x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support boot, efi: Remove redundant memset() x86/efi: Fix config_table_type array termination x86 efi: bugfix interrupt disabling sequence x86: EFI stub support for large memory maps efi: resolve warnings found on ARM compile efi: Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions. efi: Renames in handle_cmdline_files() to complete generalization. efi: Generalize handle_ramdisks() and rename to handle_cmdline_files(). efi: Allow efi_free() to be called with size of 0 efi: use efi_get_memory_map() to get final map for x86 efi: generalize efi_get_memory_map() efi: Rename __get_map() to efi_get_memory_map() efi: Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function. efi: Generalize relocate_kernel() for use by other architectures. efi: Move relocate_kernel() to shared file. efi: Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations. efi: Rename memory allocation/free functions efi: Add system table pointer argument to shared functions. efi: Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code to common location ...
| * EFI stub documentation updatesRoy Franz2013-09-251-65/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move efi-stub.txt out of x86 directory and into common directory in preparation for adding ARM EFI stub support. Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-09-061-1/+1
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and documentation updates" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits) doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo treewide: Convert retrun typos to return Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt power: Documentation: Update s2ram link doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64 doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations treewide: Fix printks with 0x%# zram: doc fixes Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL" treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated() doc: fix a typo about irq affinity ...
| * | doc: Fix typo in doucmentationsMasanari Iida2013-07-251-1/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct typo (double words) in documentations. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | Merge branch 'x86/mce' into x86/rasIngo Molnar2013-08-121-0/+5
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | Pursue a single RAS/MCE topic branch on x86. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
| * mce: acpi/apei: Add a boot option to disable ff mode for corrected errorsNaveen N. Rao2013-07-081-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a boot option to disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | arm: add support for LZ4-compressed kernelKyungsik Lee2013-07-091-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Integrates the LZ4 decompression code to the arm pre-boot code. Signed-off-by: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Cc: Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | x86, microcode, amd: Early microcode patch loading support for AMDJacob Shin2013-05-311-6/+5
|/ | | | | | | | | Add early microcode patch loading support for AMD. Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369940959-2077-5-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
* Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-04-301-14/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar: "Two small changes: a documentation update and a constification" * 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy) x86: Constify a few items
| * x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)Dave Hansen2013-04-111-14/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt contain virtually identical text describing earlyprintk. This consolidates the two copies and updates the documentation a bit. No one ever documented the: earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200 syntax, nor mentioned that ARM is now a supported earlyprintk arch. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410210338.E2930E98@viggo.jf.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | x86-64, docs, mm: Add vsyscall range to virtual address space layoutBorislav Petkov2013-04-031-1/+3
|/ | | | | | | | Add the end of the virtual address space to its layout documentation. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362428180-8865-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-02-231-0/+43
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin: "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?) This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late. As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature." * 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled() x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
| * x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loadingFenghua Yu2013-01-311-0/+43
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documenation for early loading microcode methodology. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356075872-3054-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-02-221-0/+38
|\| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin: "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than one would like. The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we create initial page tables. In particular, rather than estimating how much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" -- a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand. This has several advantages: 1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way early in the kernel startup). 2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked from above the 4 GB limit. This allows kdump to work on very large systems. 3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks. The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X. Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to __phys_addr()/__pa()." * 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits) x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time() x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap() x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva() x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic() x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit memblock: Add memblock_mem_size() x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data ...
| * x86, boot: Update comments about entries for 64bit imageYinghai Lu2013-01-301-0/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now 64bit entry is fixed on 0x200, can not be changed anymore. Update the comments to reflect that. Also put info about it in boot.txt -v2: fix some grammar error Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-27-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-02-221-4/+0
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina: "Assorted tiny fixes queued in trivial tree" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (22 commits) DocBook: update EXPORT_SYMBOL entry to point at export.h Documentation: update top level 00-INDEX file with new additions ARM: at91/ide: remove unsused at91-ide Kconfig entry percpu_counter.h: comment code for better readability x86, efi: fix comment typo in head_32.S IB: cxgb3: delay freeing mem untill entirely done with it net: mvneta: remove unneeded version.h include time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any more pcmcia: avoid static analysis complaint about use-after-free fs/jfs: Fix typo in comment : 'how may' -> 'how many' of: add missing documentation for of_platform_populate() btrfs: remove unnecessary cur_trans set before goto loop in join_transaction sound: soc: Fix typo in sound/codecs treewide: Fix typo in various drivers btrfs: fix comment typos Update ibmvscsi module name in Kconfig. powerpc: fix typo (utilties -> utilities) of: fix spelling mistake in comment h8300: Fix home page URL in h8300/README xtensa: Fix home page URL in Kconfig ...
| * \ Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina2013-01-291-3/+4
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/devfreq/exynos4_bus.c Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply patches that are against newer code (mvneta).
| * | | time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any moreJiri Kosina2013-01-231-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'report_lost_ticks' parameter has been removed back in 2007 through 1489939f0ab ("time: x86_64: convert x86_64 to use GENERIC_TIME"). Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | | x86, doc: Add a bootloader ID for OVMFH. Peter Anvin2013-02-081-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | OVMF (an implementation of UEFI based on TianoCore used in virtual environments) now has the ability to boot Linux natively; this is used for "qemu -kernel" and similar things in a UEFI environment. Accordingly, assign it a bootloader ID. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* | | | x86, doc: Boot protocol 2.12 is in 3.8H. Peter Anvin2013-02-011-1/+1
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The boot protocol 2.12 changes were pulled for 3.8, so update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* | | x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocolH. Peter Anvin2013-01-282-1/+30
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol: add xloadflags and additional fields to allow the command line, initramfs and struct boot_params to live above the 4 GiB mark. The xloadflags now communicates if this is a 64-bit kernel with the legacy 64-bit entry point and which of the EFI handover entry points are supported. Avoid adding new read flags to loadflags because of claimed bootloaders testing the whole byte for == 1 to determine bzImageness at least until the issue can be researched further. This is based on patches by Yinghai Lu and David Woodhouse. Originally-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Originally-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Gokul Caushik <caushik1@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
* | Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-12-191-1/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull small x86 fixes from Peter Anvin: "A collection of very small fixes, mostly pure documentation." * 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, doc: Document that bootloader ID 4 is used also by iPXE x86, doc: Add a formal bootloader ID for kexec-tools x86, 8042: Enable A20 using KBC to fix S3 resume on some MSI laptops
| * | x86, doc: Document that bootloader ID 4 is used also by iPXEH. Peter Anvin2012-12-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Etherboot -> gPXE -> iPXE... Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>
| * | x86, doc: Add a formal bootloader ID for kexec-toolsH. Peter Anvin2012-12-131-0/+1
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add bootloader id D for kexec-tools (it is kexec-tools, not the kexec system call, that builds the data structures, therefore it is kexec-tools which is the "bootloader" for this purpose.) Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50C95832.5030306@zytor.com
* / x86/boot/doc: Fix grammar and typo in boot.txtKees Cook2012-10-261-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | Fixes some minor issues in the x86 boot documentation. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121026031702.GA23828@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* x86/mce: Provide boot argument to honour bios-set CMCI thresholdNaveen N. Rao2012-09-271-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The ACPI spec doesn't provide for a way for the bios to pass down recommended thresholds to the OS on a _per-bank_ basis. This patch adds a new boot option, which if passed, tells Linux to use CMCI thresholds set by the bios. As fail-safe, we initialize threshold to 1 if some banks have not been initialized by the bios and warn the user. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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