This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the BIOS
(or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like:
/sys/firmware/memmap/0/start (hex number)
end (hex number)
type (string)
... /1/start
end
type
With the following shell snippet one can print the memory map in the same form
the kernel prints itself when booting on x86 (the E820 map).
--------- 8< --------------------------
#!/bin/sh
cd /sys/firmware/memmap
for dir in * ; do
start=$(cat $dir/start)
end=$(cat $dir/end)
type=$(cat $dir/type)
printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type"
done
--------- >8 --------------------------
That patch only provides the needed interface:
1. The sysfs interface.
2. The structure and enumeration definition.
3. The function firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early()
that should be called from architecture code (E820/EFI, for
example) to add the contents to the interface.
If the kernel is compiled without CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP, the interface does
nothing without cluttering the architecture-specific code with #ifdef's.
The purpose of the new interface is kexec: While /proc/iomem represents
the *used* memory map (e.g. modified via kernel parameters like 'memmap'
and 'mem'), the /sys/firmware/memmap tree represents the unmodified memory
map provided via the firmware. So kexec can:
- use the original memory map for rebooting,
- use the /proc/iomem for setting up the ELF core headers for kdump
case that should only represent the memory of the system.
The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
nmi_watchdog is set to NMI_NONE by default (ie disabled) on _any_
mode so lets fix documentation too.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Applies on top of the previous patch:
x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel
Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:
add_efi_memmap
is specified.
Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in
the first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries
to replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
entirely on the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c: Fix bad hint about irqs in i2c.h
i2c: Documentation: fix device matching description
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (55 commits)
net: fib_rules: fix error code for unsupported families
netdevice: Fix wrong string handle in kernel command line parsing
net: Tyop of sk_filter() comment
netlink: Unneeded local variable
net-sched: fix filter destruction in atm/hfsc qdisc destruction
net-sched: change tcf_destroy_chain() to clear start of filter list
ipv4: fix sysctl documentation of time related values
mac80211: don't accept WEP keys other than WEP40 and WEP104
hostap: fix sparse warnings
hostap: don't report useless WDS frames by default
textsearch: fix Boyer-Moore text search bug
netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fixing to check the lower bound of valid ACK
ipv6 route: Convert rt6_device_match() to use RT6_LOOKUP_F_xxx flags.
netlabel: Fix a problem when dumping the default IPv6 static labels
net/inet_lro: remove setting skb->ip_summed when not LRO-able
inet fragments: fix race between inet_frag_find and inet_frag_secret_rebuild
CONNECTOR: add a proc entry to list connectors
netlink: Fix some doc comments in net/netlink/attr.c
tcp: /proc/net/tcp rto,ato values not scaled properly (v2)
include/linux/netdevice.h: don't export MAX_HEADER to userspace
...
These sysctl values are time related and all use the same routine
(proc_dointvec_jiffies) that internally converts from seconds to jiffies.
The code is fine, the documentation is just wrong.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The matching process described for new style clients in
Documentation/i2c/writing-clients is classed as out-of-date
as it requires the presence of an .id_table entry in the
driver's i2c_driver entry.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (42 commits)
V4L/DVB (8108): Fix open/close race in saa7134
V4L/DVB (8100): V4L/vivi: fix possible memory leak in vivi_fillbuff
V4L/DVB (8097): xc5000: check device hardware state to determine if firmware download is needed
V4L/DVB (8096): au8522: prevent false-positive lock status
V4L/DVB (8092): videodev: simplify and fix standard enumeration
V4L/DVB (8075): stv0299: Uncorrected block count and bit error rate fixed
V4L/DVB (8074): av7110: OSD transfers should not be interrupted
V4L/DVB (8073): av7110: Catch another type of ARM crash
V4L/DVB (8071): tda10023: Fix possible kernel oops during initialisation
V4L/DVB (8069): cx18: Fix S-Video and Compsite inputs for the Yuan MPC718 and enable card entry
V4L/DVB (8068): cx18: Add I2C slave reset via GPIO upon initialization
V4L/DVB (8067): cx18: Fix firmware load for case when digital capture happens first
V4L/DVB (8066): cx18: Fix audio mux input definitions for HVR-1600 Line In 2 and FM radio
V4L/DVB (8063): cx18: Fix unintended auto configurations in cx18-av-core
V4L/DVB (8061): cx18: only select tuner / frontend modules if !DVB_FE_CUSTOMISE
V4L/DVB (8048): saa7134: Fix entries for Avermedia A16d and Avermedia E506
V4L/DVB (8044): au8522: tuning optimizations
V4L/DVB (8043): au0828: add support for additional USB device id's
V4L/DVB (8042): DVB-USB UMT-010 channel scan oops
V4L/DVB (8040): soc-camera: remove soc_camera_host_class class
...
The documentation for intr_type module parameter of the s2io driver is
not consistent with the code. The comments in drivers/net/s2io.c are
OK, but Documentation/networking/s2io.txt is wrong.
Pointed out by Andrew Hecox.
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
A bug in libsensors <= 2.10.6 is exposed
when this new hwmon I/F is enabled.
Create CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=n
until some time after libsensors 2.10.7 ships
so those users can run the latest kernel.
libsensors 3.x is already fixed -- those users
can use CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=y now.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
kgdboe is not presently included kgdb, and there should be no
references to it.
Also fix the tcp port terminal connection example.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
* Document the characteristics of libsensors 3.0.0 and 3.0.1.
* The sysfs interface is no longer subject to changes.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: fixup write combine comment in pci_mmap_resource
x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs
x86, pci-dma.c: don't always add __GFP_NORETRY to gfp
suspend-vs-iommu: prevent suspend if we could not resume
x86: pci-dma.c: use __GFP_NO_OOM instead of __GFP_NORETRY
pci, x86: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005)
PCI: use dev_to_node in pci_call_probe
PCI: Correct last two HP entries in the bfsort whitelist
Rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL in thinkpad-acpi code and docs, following
5adad01339 "Input: rename SW_RADIO to
SW_RFKILL_ALL".
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: enable barriers by default
jbd2: Fix barrier fallback code to re-lock the buffer head
ext4: Display the journal_async_commit mount option in /proc/mounts
jbd2: If a journal checksum error is detected, propagate the error to ext4
jbd2: Fix memory leak when verifying checksums in the journal
ext4: fix online resize bug
ext4: Fix uninit block group initialization with FLEX_BG
ext4: Fix use of uninitialized data with debug enabled.
Provide documentation of the kernel-doc documentation conventions oriented
to kernel hackers.
Since I figure that there will be more people reading this
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt file who are kernel developers focused on the
rest of the kernel, than there will be readers of this file who are
documentation developers extracting that embedded kernel-doc
documentation, I have taken the liberty of making the new section added
here:
How to format kernel-doc comments
the first section of the kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt file.
This first section is intended to introduce, motivate and provide basic
usage of the kernel-doc mechanism for kernel hackers developing other
portions of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggest how to deal with patch modifications caused by
merging or back-porting when you're a maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
