linux-stable.git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v3.16.41

USB: uas: Add a new NO_REPORT_LUNS quirk

2016-06-15T20:29:23+00:00

commit 1363074667a6b7d0507527742ccd7bbed5e3ceaa upstream.

Add a new NO_REPORT_LUNS quirk and set it for Seagate drives with
an usb-id of: 0bc2:331a, as these will fail to respond to a
REPORT_LUNS command.

Reported-and-tested-by: David Webb 
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede 
Acked-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

uas: Add US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_240 flag

2015-05-12T08:36:37+00:00

commit ee136af4a064c2f61e2025873584d2c7ec93f4ae upstream.

The usb-storage driver sets max_sectors = 240 in its scsi-host template,
for uas we do not want to do that for all devices, but testing has shown
that some devices need it.

This commit adds a US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_240 flag for such devices, and
implements support for it in uas.c, while at it it also adds support
for US_FL_MAX_SECTORS_64 to uas.c.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede 
Acked-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

Input: i8042 - reset keyboard to fix Elantech touchpad detection

2015-02-04T10:57:11+00:00

commit 148e9a711e034e06310a8c36b64957934ebe30f2 upstream.

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
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 
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques

uas: Add no-report-opcodes quirk

2014-10-15T10:05:30+00:00

commit 734016b00b50a3c6a0e1fc1b7b217e783f5123a1 upstream.

Besides the ASM1051 (*) needing sdev->no_report_opcodes = 1, it turns out that
the JMicron JMS567 also needs it to work properly with uas (usb-storage always
sets it). Since some of the scsi devs were not to keen on the idea to
outrightly set sdev->no_report_opcodes = 1 for all uas devices, so add a quirk
for this, and set it for the JMS567.

*) Which has become a non-issue since we've completely blacklisted uas on
the ASM1051 for other reasons

Reported-and-tested-by: Claudio Bizzarri 
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

uas: Add a quirk for rejecting ATA_12 and ATA_16 commands

2014-10-15T10:05:30+00:00

commit 593078525c8b234a35a36ff551b8716464e86481 upstream.

And set this quirk for the Seagate Expansion Desk (0bc2:2312), as that one
seems to hang upon receiving an ATA_12 or ATA_16 command.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79511
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183190

While at it also add missing documentation for the u value for usb-storage
quirks.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: document the 'u' flag for usb-storage quirks parameter

2014-10-05T20:40:58+00:00

commit b6089f19fe0cec625b5963a851a07c3e412c27c8 upstream.

Commit d24d481b7d36 (usb-storage: Modify and export adjust_quirks so
that it can be used by uas) added the 'u' flag to the quirks module
parameter for usb-storage, but neglected to update the
documentation.  This patch adds the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-07-19T16:23:27+00:00

Pull RCU fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two RCU patches:
   - Address a serious performance regression on open/close caused by
     commit ac1bea85781e ("Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent
     states")
   - Export RCU debug functions.  Not a regression, but enablement to
     address a serious recursion bug in the sl*b allocators in 3.17"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
  rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head()

Revert "ACPI / video: change acpi-video brightness_switch_enabled default to 0"

2014-07-14T18:10:27+00:00

This reverts commit 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video
brightness_switch_enabled default to 0) as it is reported to cause
problems to happen.

Fixes: 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video brightness_switch_enabled default to 0)
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=140534286826819&w=2
Reported by: Bjørn Mork 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Merge branch 'urgent.2014.06.23a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent

2014-06-25T05:37:49+00:00

Pull RCU fixes from Paul E. McKenney:

" This series includes the following:

   1.    Export a pair of debug-object interfaces for RCU that will
         allow the slab allocators to avoid a recursion bug located
         by Sasha Levin.  Strictly speaking, this is not a regression,
         but it would be good to enable the fix.

   2.    Address a serious performance regression on an open/close
         micro-benchmark located by Dave Hansen.  The offending commit
         is ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states).  "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection

2014-06-23T23:47:44+00:00

A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in
kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving
other tasks a chance to run.

Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog
task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system
log.

On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the
actual "culprit" (i.e.  the owner/holder of the contended resource) is
reported to the user.  Often this information has proven to be
insufficient to assist debugging efforts.

To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which
support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup
reporting.  This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain
a stack trace.

If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method.  A sysctl
and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature.

[dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations]
[mq@suse.cz: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin 
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Mateusz Guzik 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds