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<title>linux-toradex.git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch T30_LinuxImageV2.0Beta2_20130626</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>iommu/amd: Put IOMMUv2 capable devices in pt_domain</title>
<updated>2012-01-23T09:11:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
<email>joerg.roedel@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-12-01T14:49:45+00:00</published>
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If the device starts to use IOMMUv2 features the dma handles
need to stay valid. The only sane way to do this is to use a
identity mapping for the device and not translate it by the
iommu. This is implemented with this patch. Since this lifts
the device-isolation there is also a new kernel parameter
which allows to disable that feature.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
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If the device starts to use IOMMUv2 features the dma handles
need to stay valid. The only sane way to do this is to use a
identity mapping for the device and not translate it by the
iommu. This is implemented with this patch. Since this lifts
the device-isolation there is also a new kernel parameter
which allows to disable that feature.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>iommu: Add option to group multi-function devices</title>
<updated>2012-01-23T09:11:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Williamson</name>
<email>alex.williamson@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-21T19:56:24+00:00</published>
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The option iommu=group_mf indicates the that the iommu driver should
expose all functions of a multi-function PCI device as the same
iommu_device_group.  This is useful for disallowing individual functions
being exposed as independent devices to userspace as there are often
hidden dependencies.  Virtual functions are not affected by this option.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
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The option iommu=group_mf indicates the that the iommu driver should
expose all functions of a multi-function PCI device as the same
iommu_device_group.  This is useful for disallowing individual functions
being exposed as independent devices to userspace as there are often
hidden dependencies.  Virtual functions are not affected by this option.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;joerg.roedel@amd.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, x2apic: Enable the bios request for x2apic optout</title>
<updated>2012-01-23T09:11:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suresh Siddha</name>
<email>suresh.b.siddha@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-24T00:05:18+00:00</published>
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On the platforms which are x2apic and interrupt-remapping
capable, Linux kernel is enabling x2apic even if the BIOS
doesn't. This is to take advantage of the features that x2apic
brings in.

Some of the OEM platforms are running into issues because of
this, as their bios is not x2apic aware. For example, this was
resulting in interrupt migration issues on one of the platforms.
Also if the BIOS SMI handling uses APIC interface to send SMI's,
then the BIOS need to be aware of x2apic mode that OS has
enabled.

On some of these platforms, BIOS doesn't have a HW mechanism to
turnoff the x2apic feature to prevent OS from enabling it.

To resolve this mess, recent changes to the VT-d2 specification:

 http://download.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/Intel(r)_VT_for_Direct_IO.pdf

includes a mechanism that provides BIOS a way to request system
software to opt out of enabling x2apic mode.

Look at the x2apic optout flag in the DMAR tables before
enabling the x2apic mode in the platform. Also print a warning
that we have disabled x2apic based on the BIOS request.

Kernel boot parameter "intremap=no_x2apic_optout" can be used to
override the BIOS x2apic optout request.

Signed-off-by: Youquan Song &lt;youquan.song@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824001456.171766616@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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On the platforms which are x2apic and interrupt-remapping
capable, Linux kernel is enabling x2apic even if the BIOS
doesn't. This is to take advantage of the features that x2apic
brings in.

Some of the OEM platforms are running into issues because of
this, as their bios is not x2apic aware. For example, this was
resulting in interrupt migration issues on one of the platforms.
Also if the BIOS SMI handling uses APIC interface to send SMI's,
then the BIOS need to be aware of x2apic mode that OS has
enabled.

On some of these platforms, BIOS doesn't have a HW mechanism to
turnoff the x2apic feature to prevent OS from enabling it.

To resolve this mess, recent changes to the VT-d2 specification:

 http://download.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/Intel(r)_VT_for_Direct_IO.pdf

includes a mechanism that provides BIOS a way to request system
software to opt out of enabling x2apic mode.

Look at the x2apic optout flag in the DMAR tables before
enabling the x2apic mode in the platform. Also print a warning
that we have disabled x2apic based on the BIOS request.

Kernel boot parameter "intremap=no_x2apic_optout" can be used to
override the BIOS x2apic optout request.

Signed-off-by: Youquan Song &lt;youquan.song@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha &lt;suresh.b.siddha@intel.com&gt;
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824001456.171766616@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Default to vsyscall=native for now</title>
<updated>2011-10-11T06:23:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@stusta.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-05T21:40:47+00:00</published>
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This UML breakage:

  linux-2.6.30.1[3800] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb9c498 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
  linux-2.6.30.1[3856] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb13168 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790

Is caused by commit 3ae36655 ("x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add
vsyscall= parameter") - the vsyscall emulation code is not fully cooked
yet as UML relies on some rather fragile SIGSEGV semantics.

Linus suggested in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/9/376 to default
to vsyscall=native for now, this patch implements that.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111005214047.GE14406@localhost.pp.htv.fi
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This UML breakage:

  linux-2.6.30.1[3800] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb9c498 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
  linux-2.6.30.1[3856] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb13168 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790

Is caused by commit 3ae36655 ("x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add
vsyscall= parameter") - the vsyscall emulation code is not fully cooked
yet as UML relies on some rather fragile SIGSEGV semantics.

Linus suggested in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/9/376 to default
to vsyscall=native for now, this patch implements that.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111005214047.GE14406@localhost.pp.htv.fi
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'apei', 'bz-13195' and 'doc' into acpi</title>
<updated>2011-09-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-09-13T00:00:00+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2011-08-19T17:47:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-19T17:47:07+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
  Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
  block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
  block: improve rq_affinity placement
  blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
  Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
  allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
  xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
  cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
  block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
  block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
  block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
  bsg-lib: add module.h include
  cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
  blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
  loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
  loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
  loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
  loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
  ...
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
  Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
  block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
  block: improve rq_affinity placement
  blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
  Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
  allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
  xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
  cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
  block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
  block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
  block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
  bsg-lib: add module.h include
  cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
  blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
  loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
  loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
  loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
  loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: kernel-parameters.txt cleanups</title>
<updated>2011-08-14T01:34:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@xenotime.net</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-13T19:34:52+00:00</published>
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General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
 - add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
 - alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
 - spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
 - remove trailing whitespace
 - use hyphen in 32-bit etc.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
 - add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
 - alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
 - spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
 - remove trailing whitespace
 - use hyphen in 32-bit etc.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: add ARM user_debug to kernel-parameters.txt</title>
<updated>2011-08-14T01:34:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-13T19:34:50+00:00</published>
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Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip</title>
<updated>2011-08-13T03:46:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-13T03:46:24+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
  x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
  x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
  x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
  x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
  x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
  x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
  x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
  x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
  x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
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* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
  x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
  x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
  x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
  x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
  x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
  x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
  x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
  x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
  x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
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<entry>
<title>PNP: update pnp.debug usage (needs value on command line)</title>
<updated>2011-08-11T19:39:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bhelgaas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-11T18:14:05+00:00</published>
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Commit cdefba03e44 changed pnp.debug from a boot param to a module param,
which means it needs a value when used on the command line.

CC: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Commit cdefba03e44 changed pnp.debug from a boot param to a module param,
which means it needs a value when used on the command line.

CC: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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