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<title>Merge tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag</title>
<updated>2013-03-03T20:06:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-03T20:06:09+00:00</published>
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Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
 "This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
  cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
  fixes which I kept separate to ease review:

   - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
   - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
   - A few privilege protection fixes
   - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
     metag_ksyms.c)
   - Fix some missing exports
   - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
   - Copy device tree to non-init memory
   - Provide dma_get_sgtable()"

* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
  metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
  metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
  metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
  metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
  metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
  genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
  metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
  metag: export clear_page and copy_page
  metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
  metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
  metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
  metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
  perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
  metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
  metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
  ...
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Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
 "This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
  cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
  fixes which I kept separate to ease review:

   - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
   - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
   - A few privilege protection fixes
   - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
     metag_ksyms.c)
   - Fix some missing exports
   - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
   - Copy device tree to non-init memory
   - Provide dma_get_sgtable()"

* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
  metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
  metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
  metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
  metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
  metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
  metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
  genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
  metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
  metag: export clear_page and copy_page
  metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
  metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
  metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
  metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
  perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
  metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
  metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>metag: Basic documentation</title>
<updated>2013-03-02T20:09:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-09T10:00:27+00:00</published>
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Add basic metag documentation. This includes an outline description of
the ABIs (including syscall ABI) and calling conventions, similar to the
one in Documentation/frv/.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
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Add basic metag documentation. This includes an outline description of
the ABIs (including syscall ABI) and calling conventions, similar to the
one in Documentation/frv/.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>x86, ACPI, mm: Revert movablemem_map support</title>
<updated>2013-03-02T17:34:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinghai Lu</name>
<email>yinghai@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:51:27+00:00</published>
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Tim found:

  WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:324 topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80()
  Hardware name: S2600CP
  sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency.
  smpboot: Booting Node   1, Processors  #1
  Modules linked in:
  Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-0-generic #1
  Call Trace:
    set_cpu_sibling_map+0x279/0x449
    start_secondary+0x11d/0x1e5

Don Morris reproduced on a HP z620 workstation, and bisected it to
commit e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock
is ready")

It turns out movable_map has some problems, and it breaks several things

1. numa_init is called several times, NOT just for srat. so those
	nodes_clear(numa_nodes_parsed)
	memset(&amp;numa_meminfo, 0, sizeof(numa_meminfo))
   can not be just removed.  Need to consider sequence is: numaq, srat, amd, dummy.
   and make fall back path working.

2. simply split acpi_numa_init to early_parse_srat.
   a. that early_parse_srat is NOT called for ia64, so you break ia64.
   b.  for (i = 0; i &lt; MAX_LOCAL_APIC; i++)
	     set_apicid_to_node(i, NUMA_NO_NODE)
     still left in numa_init. So it will just clear result from early_parse_srat.
     it should be moved before that....
   c.  it breaks ACPI_TABLE_OVERIDE...as the acpi table scan is moved
       early before override from INITRD is settled.

3. that patch TITLE is total misleading, there is NO x86 in the title,
   but it changes critical x86 code. It caused x86 guys did not
   pay attention to find the problem early. Those patches really should
   be routed via tip/x86/mm.

4. after that commit, following range can not use movable ram:
  a. real_mode code.... well..funny, legacy Node0 [0,1M) could be hot-removed?
  b. initrd... it will be freed after booting, so it could be on movable...
  c. crashkernel for kdump...: looks like we can not put kdump kernel above 4G
	anymore.
  d. init_mem_mapping: can not put page table high anymore.
  e. initmem_init: vmemmap can not be high local node anymore. That is
     not good.

If node is hotplugable, the mem related range like page table and
vmemmap could be on the that node without problem and should be on that
node.

We have workaround patch that could fix some problems, but some can not
be fixed.

So just remove that offending commit and related ones including:

 f7210e6c4ac7 ("mm/memblock.c: use CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to
    protect movablecore_map in memblock_overlaps_region().")

 01a178a94e8e ("acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from
    SRAT")

 27168d38fa20 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: extend movablemem_map ranges to
    the end of node")

 e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is
    ready")

 fb06bc8e5f42 ("page_alloc: bootmem limit with movablecore_map")

 42f47e27e761 ("page_alloc: make movablemem_map have higher priority")

 6981ec31146c ("page_alloc: introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep
    movable limit for nodes")

 34b71f1e04fc ("page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter")

 4d59a75125d5 ("x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node")

Later we should have patches that will make sure kernel put page table
and vmemmap on local node ram instead of push them down to node0.  Also
need to find way to put other kernel used ram to local node ram.

Reported-by: Tim Gardner &lt;tim.gardner@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Don Morris &lt;don.morris@hp.com&gt;
Bisected-by: Don Morris &lt;don.morris@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Don Morris &lt;don.morris@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Tim found:

  WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:324 topology_sane.isra.2+0x6f/0x80()
  Hardware name: S2600CP
  sched: CPU #1's llc-sibling CPU #0 is not on the same node! [node: 1 != 0]. Ignoring dependency.
  smpboot: Booting Node   1, Processors  #1
  Modules linked in:
  Pid: 0, comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.9.0-0-generic #1
  Call Trace:
    set_cpu_sibling_map+0x279/0x449
    start_secondary+0x11d/0x1e5

Don Morris reproduced on a HP z620 workstation, and bisected it to
commit e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock
is ready")

It turns out movable_map has some problems, and it breaks several things

1. numa_init is called several times, NOT just for srat. so those
	nodes_clear(numa_nodes_parsed)
	memset(&amp;numa_meminfo, 0, sizeof(numa_meminfo))
   can not be just removed.  Need to consider sequence is: numaq, srat, amd, dummy.
   and make fall back path working.

2. simply split acpi_numa_init to early_parse_srat.
   a. that early_parse_srat is NOT called for ia64, so you break ia64.
   b.  for (i = 0; i &lt; MAX_LOCAL_APIC; i++)
	     set_apicid_to_node(i, NUMA_NO_NODE)
     still left in numa_init. So it will just clear result from early_parse_srat.
     it should be moved before that....
   c.  it breaks ACPI_TABLE_OVERIDE...as the acpi table scan is moved
       early before override from INITRD is settled.

3. that patch TITLE is total misleading, there is NO x86 in the title,
   but it changes critical x86 code. It caused x86 guys did not
   pay attention to find the problem early. Those patches really should
   be routed via tip/x86/mm.

4. after that commit, following range can not use movable ram:
  a. real_mode code.... well..funny, legacy Node0 [0,1M) could be hot-removed?
  b. initrd... it will be freed after booting, so it could be on movable...
  c. crashkernel for kdump...: looks like we can not put kdump kernel above 4G
	anymore.
  d. init_mem_mapping: can not put page table high anymore.
  e. initmem_init: vmemmap can not be high local node anymore. That is
     not good.

If node is hotplugable, the mem related range like page table and
vmemmap could be on the that node without problem and should be on that
node.

We have workaround patch that could fix some problems, but some can not
be fixed.

So just remove that offending commit and related ones including:

 f7210e6c4ac7 ("mm/memblock.c: use CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to
    protect movablecore_map in memblock_overlaps_region().")

 01a178a94e8e ("acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from
    SRAT")

 27168d38fa20 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: extend movablemem_map ranges to
    the end of node")

 e8d195525809 ("acpi, memory-hotplug: parse SRAT before memblock is
    ready")

 fb06bc8e5f42 ("page_alloc: bootmem limit with movablecore_map")

 42f47e27e761 ("page_alloc: make movablemem_map have higher priority")

 6981ec31146c ("page_alloc: introduce zone_movable_limit[] to keep
    movable limit for nodes")

 34b71f1e04fc ("page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter")

 4d59a75125d5 ("x86: get pg_data_t's memory from other node")

Later we should have patches that will make sure kernel put page table
and vmemmap on local node ram instead of push them down to node0.  Also
need to find way to put other kernel used ram to local node ram.

Reported-by: Tim Gardner &lt;tim.gardner@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Don Morris &lt;don.morris@hp.com&gt;
Bisected-by: Don Morris &lt;don.morris@hp.com&gt;
Tested-by: Don Morris &lt;don.morris@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-28T00:16:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T00:16:39+00:00</published>
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Pull more x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "Additional x86 fixes.  Three of these patches are pure documentation,
  two are pretty trivial; the remaining one fixes boot problems on some
  non-BIOS machines."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Make sure we can boot in the case the BDA contains pure garbage
  x86, efi: Mark disable_runtime as __initdata
  x86, doc: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors
  doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc&lt;n&gt;'
  doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.
  ACPI: Overriding ACPI tables via initrd only works with an initrd and on X86
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Pull more x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "Additional x86 fixes.  Three of these patches are pure documentation,
  two are pretty trivial; the remaining one fixes boot problems on some
  non-BIOS machines."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Make sure we can boot in the case the BDA contains pure garbage
  x86, efi: Mark disable_runtime as __initdata
  x86, doc: Fix incorrect comment about 64-bit code segment descriptors
  doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc&lt;n&gt;'
  doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.
  ACPI: Overriding ACPI tables via initrd only works with an initrd and on X86
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci</title>
<updated>2013-02-26T05:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-26T05:18:18+00:00</published>
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Pull PCI changes from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Host bridge hotplug
    - Major overhaul of ACPI host bridge add/start (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu)
    - Major overhaul of PCI/ACPI binding (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu)
    - Split out ACPI host bridge and ACPI PCI device hotplug (Yinghai Lu)
    - Stop caching _PRT and make independent of bus numbers (Yinghai Lu)

  PCI device hotplug
    - Clean up cpqphp dead code (Sasha Levin)
    - Disable ARI unless device and upstream bridge support it (Yijing Wang)
    - Initialize all hot-added devices (not functions 0-7) (Yijing Wang)

  Power management
    - Don't touch ASPM if disabled (Joe Lawrence)
    - Fix ASPM link state management (Myron Stowe)

  Miscellaneous
    - Fix PCI_EXP_FLAGS accessor (Alex Williamson)
    - Disable Bus Master in pci_device_shutdown (Konstantin Khlebnikov)
    - Document hotplug resource and MPS parameters (Yijing Wang)
    - Add accessor for PCIe capabilities (Myron Stowe)
    - Drop pciehp suspend/resume messages (Paul Bolle)
    - Make pci_slot built-in only (not a module) (Jiang Liu)
    - Remove unused PCI/ACPI bind ops (Jiang Liu)
    - Removed used pci_root_bus (Bjorn Helgaas)"

* tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (51 commits)
  PCI/ACPI: Don't cache _PRT, and don't associate them with bus numbers
  PCI: Fix PCI Express Capability accessors for PCI_EXP_FLAGS
  ACPI / PCI: Make pci_slot built-in only, not a module
  PCI/PM: Clear state_saved during suspend
  PCI: Use atomic_inc_return() rather than atomic_add_return()
  PCI: Catch attempts to disable already-disabled devices
  PCI: Disable Bus Master unconditionally in pci_device_shutdown()
  PCI: acpiphp: Remove dead code for PCI host bridge hotplug
  PCI: acpiphp: Create companion ACPI devices before creating PCI devices
  PCI: Remove unused "rc" in virtfn_add_bus()
  PCI: pciehp: Drop suspend/resume ENTRY messages
  PCI/ASPM: Don't touch ASPM if forcibly disabled
  PCI/ASPM: Deallocate upstream link state even if device is not PCIe
  PCI: Document MPS parameters pci=pcie_bus_safe, pci=pcie_bus_perf, etc
  PCI: Document hpiosize= and hpmemsize= resource reservation parameters
  PCI: Use PCI Express Capability accessor
  PCI: Introduce accessor to retrieve PCIe Capabilities Register
  PCI: Put pci_dev in device tree as early as possible
  PCI: Skip attaching driver in device_add()
  PCI: acpiphp: Keep driver loaded even if no slots found
  ...
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Pull PCI changes from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Host bridge hotplug
    - Major overhaul of ACPI host bridge add/start (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu)
    - Major overhaul of PCI/ACPI binding (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu)
    - Split out ACPI host bridge and ACPI PCI device hotplug (Yinghai Lu)
    - Stop caching _PRT and make independent of bus numbers (Yinghai Lu)

  PCI device hotplug
    - Clean up cpqphp dead code (Sasha Levin)
    - Disable ARI unless device and upstream bridge support it (Yijing Wang)
    - Initialize all hot-added devices (not functions 0-7) (Yijing Wang)

  Power management
    - Don't touch ASPM if disabled (Joe Lawrence)
    - Fix ASPM link state management (Myron Stowe)

  Miscellaneous
    - Fix PCI_EXP_FLAGS accessor (Alex Williamson)
    - Disable Bus Master in pci_device_shutdown (Konstantin Khlebnikov)
    - Document hotplug resource and MPS parameters (Yijing Wang)
    - Add accessor for PCIe capabilities (Myron Stowe)
    - Drop pciehp suspend/resume messages (Paul Bolle)
    - Make pci_slot built-in only (not a module) (Jiang Liu)
    - Remove unused PCI/ACPI bind ops (Jiang Liu)
    - Removed used pci_root_bus (Bjorn Helgaas)"

* tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (51 commits)
  PCI/ACPI: Don't cache _PRT, and don't associate them with bus numbers
  PCI: Fix PCI Express Capability accessors for PCI_EXP_FLAGS
  ACPI / PCI: Make pci_slot built-in only, not a module
  PCI/PM: Clear state_saved during suspend
  PCI: Use atomic_inc_return() rather than atomic_add_return()
  PCI: Catch attempts to disable already-disabled devices
  PCI: Disable Bus Master unconditionally in pci_device_shutdown()
  PCI: acpiphp: Remove dead code for PCI host bridge hotplug
  PCI: acpiphp: Create companion ACPI devices before creating PCI devices
  PCI: Remove unused "rc" in virtfn_add_bus()
  PCI: pciehp: Drop suspend/resume ENTRY messages
  PCI/ASPM: Don't touch ASPM if forcibly disabled
  PCI/ASPM: Deallocate upstream link state even if device is not PCIe
  PCI: Document MPS parameters pci=pcie_bus_safe, pci=pcie_bus_perf, etc
  PCI: Document hpiosize= and hpmemsize= resource reservation parameters
  PCI: Use PCI Express Capability accessor
  PCI: Introduce accessor to retrieve PCIe Capabilities Register
  PCI: Put pci_dev in device tree as early as possible
  PCI: Skip attaching driver in device_add()
  PCI: acpiphp: Keep driver loaded even if no slots found
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc&lt;n&gt;'</title>
<updated>2013-02-25T21:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-25T20:54:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f'/>
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Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the
hvc driver.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the
hvc driver.

Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.</title>
<updated>2013-02-25T21:41:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-25T20:54:08+00:00</published>
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The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall
(console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console.

Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all'
to output said information.

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall
(console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console.

Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all'
to output said information.

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>acpi, memory-hotplug: support getting hotplug info from SRAT</title>
<updated>2013-02-24T01:50:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Chen</name>
<email>tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T00:33:49+00:00</published>
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We now provide an option for users who don't want to specify physical
memory address in kernel commandline.

         /*
          * For movablemem_map=acpi:
          *
          * SRAT:                |_____| |_____| |_________| |_________| ......
          * node id:                0       1         1           2
          * hotpluggable:           n       y         y           n
          * movablemem_map:              |_____| |_________|
          *
          * Using movablemem_map, we can prevent memblock from allocating memory
          * on ZONE_MOVABLE at boot time.
          */

So user just specify movablemem_map=acpi, and the kernel will use
hotpluggable info in SRAT to determine which memory ranges should be set
as ZONE_MOVABLE.

If all the memory ranges in SRAT is hotpluggable, then no memory can be
used by kernel.  But before parsing SRAT, memblock has already reserve
some memory ranges for other purposes, such as for kernel image, and so
on.  We cannot prevent kernel from using these memory.  So we need to
exclude these ranges even if these memory is hotpluggable.

Furthermore, there could be several memory ranges in the single node
which the kernel resides in.  We may skip one range that have memory
reserved by memblock, but if the rest of memory is too small, then the
kernel will fail to boot.  So, make the whole node which the kernel
resides in un-hotpluggable.  Then the kernel has enough memory to use.

NOTE: Using this way will cause NUMA performance down because the
      whole node will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE, and kernel cannot use memory
      on it.  If users don't want to lose NUMA performance, just don't use
      it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use strcmp()]
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Jianguo &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Brown, Len" &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We now provide an option for users who don't want to specify physical
memory address in kernel commandline.

         /*
          * For movablemem_map=acpi:
          *
          * SRAT:                |_____| |_____| |_________| |_________| ......
          * node id:                0       1         1           2
          * hotpluggable:           n       y         y           n
          * movablemem_map:              |_____| |_________|
          *
          * Using movablemem_map, we can prevent memblock from allocating memory
          * on ZONE_MOVABLE at boot time.
          */

So user just specify movablemem_map=acpi, and the kernel will use
hotpluggable info in SRAT to determine which memory ranges should be set
as ZONE_MOVABLE.

If all the memory ranges in SRAT is hotpluggable, then no memory can be
used by kernel.  But before parsing SRAT, memblock has already reserve
some memory ranges for other purposes, such as for kernel image, and so
on.  We cannot prevent kernel from using these memory.  So we need to
exclude these ranges even if these memory is hotpluggable.

Furthermore, there could be several memory ranges in the single node
which the kernel resides in.  We may skip one range that have memory
reserved by memblock, but if the rest of memory is too small, then the
kernel will fail to boot.  So, make the whole node which the kernel
resides in un-hotpluggable.  Then the kernel has enough memory to use.

NOTE: Using this way will cause NUMA performance down because the
      whole node will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE, and kernel cannot use memory
      on it.  If users don't want to lose NUMA performance, just don't use
      it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use strcmp()]
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Jianguo &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Brown, Len" &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>page_alloc: add movable_memmap kernel parameter</title>
<updated>2013-02-24T01:50:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tang Chen</name>
<email>tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T00:33:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=34b71f1e04fcba578e719e675b4882eeeb2a1f6f'/>
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Add functions to parse movablemem_map boot option.  Since the option
could be specified more then once, all the maps will be stored in the
global variable movablemem_map.map array.

And also, we keep the array in monotonic increasing order by start_pfn.
And merge all overlapped ranges.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded parens]
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang &lt;wency@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lin Feng &lt;linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Jianguo &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add functions to parse movablemem_map boot option.  Since the option
could be specified more then once, all the maps will be stored in the
global variable movablemem_map.map array.

And also, we keep the array in monotonic increasing order by start_pfn.
And merge all overlapped ranges.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded parens]
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang &lt;wency@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Lin Feng &lt;linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Jianguo &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</published>
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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
  ...
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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
  ...
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