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<title>x86: support XZ-compressed kernel</title>
<updated>2011-01-13T16:03:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lasse Collin</name>
<email>lasse.collin@tukaani.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-13T01:01:24+00:00</published>
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This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin &lt;lasse.collin@tukaani.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Alain Knaff &lt;alain@knaff.lu&gt;
Cc: Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk&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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This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression.  It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.

The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.

Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.

With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.

Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin &lt;lasse.collin@tukaani.org&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Alain Knaff &lt;alain@knaff.lu&gt;
Cc: Albin Tonnerre &lt;albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk&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>
<title>x86: Add CE4100 platform support</title>
<updated>2010-11-11T23:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-09T20:08:04+00:00</published>
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Add CE4100 platform support. CE4100 needs early setup like
moorestown.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.brandewie@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;94720fd7f5564a12ebf202cf2c4f4c0d619aab35.1289331834.git.dirk.brandewie@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Add CE4100 platform support. CE4100 needs early setup like
moorestown.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.brandewie@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;94720fd7f5564a12ebf202cf2c4f4c0d619aab35.1289331834.git.dirk.brandewie@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T15:54:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T15:54:21+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, 32-bit: Align percpu area and irq stacks to THREAD_SIZE
  x86: Move alloc_desk_mask variables inside ifdef
  x86-32: Align IRQ stacks properly
  x86: Remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS
  x86: Always use irq stacks

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/{irq.h, percpu-defs.h}
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* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, 32-bit: Align percpu area and irq stacks to THREAD_SIZE
  x86: Move alloc_desk_mask variables inside ifdef
  x86-32: Align IRQ stacks properly
  x86: Remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS
  x86: Always use irq stacks

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/{irq.h, percpu-defs.h}
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<entry>
<title>x86: Always use irq stacks</title>
<updated>2010-06-29T10:12:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-28T12:15:54+00:00</published>
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IRQ stacks provide much better safety against unexpected stack use from
interrupts, at the minimal downside of slightly higher memory usage.
Enable irq stacks also for the default 8k stack on 32-bit kernels to
minimize the problem of stack overflows through interrupt activity.

This is what the 64-bit kernel and various other architectures already do.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100628121554.GA6605@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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IRQ stacks provide much better safety against unexpected stack use from
interrupts, at the minimal downside of slightly higher memory usage.
Enable irq stacks also for the default 8k stack on 32-bit kernels to
minimize the problem of stack overflows through interrupt activity.

This is what the 64-bit kernel and various other architectures already do.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100628121554.GA6605@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86, olpc: Add support for calling into OpenFirmware</title>
<updated>2010-06-18T21:54:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andres Salomon</name>
<email>dilinger@queued.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-18T21:46:53+00:00</published>
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Add support for saving OFW's cif, and later calling into it to run OFW
commands.  OFW remains resident in memory, living within virtual range
0xff800000 - 0xffc00000.  A single page directory entry points to the
pgdir that OFW actually uses, so rather than saving the entire page
table, we grab and install that one entry permanently in the kernel's
page table.

This is currently only used by the OLPC XO.  Note that this particular
calling convention breaks PAE and PAT, and so cannot be used on newer
x86 hardware.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon &lt;dilinger@queued.net&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100618174653.7755a39a@dev.queued.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Add support for saving OFW's cif, and later calling into it to run OFW
commands.  OFW remains resident in memory, living within virtual range
0xff800000 - 0xffc00000.  A single page directory entry points to the
pgdir that OFW actually uses, so rather than saving the entire page
table, we grab and install that one entry permanently in the kernel's
page table.

This is currently only used by the OLPC XO.  Note that this particular
calling convention breaks PAE and PAT, and so cannot be used on newer
x86 hardware.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon &lt;dilinger@queued.net&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100618174653.7755a39a@dev.queued.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, numa: Remove configurable node size support for numa emulation</title>
<updated>2010-02-15T22:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-15T21:43:33+00:00</published>
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Now that numa=fake=&lt;size&gt;[MG] is implemented, it is possible to remove
configurable node size support.  The command-line parsing was already
broken (numa=fake=*128, for example, would not work) and since fake nodes
are now interleaved over physical nodes, this support is no longer
required.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151343080.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Now that numa=fake=&lt;size&gt;[MG] is implemented, it is possible to remove
configurable node size support.  The command-line parsing was already
broken (numa=fake=*128, for example, would not work) and since fake nodes
are now interleaved over physical nodes, this support is no longer
required.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151343080.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, numa: Add fixed node size option for numa emulation</title>
<updated>2010-02-15T22:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rientjes</name>
<email>rientjes@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-15T21:43:30+00:00</published>
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numa=fake=N specifies the number of fake nodes, N, to partition the
system into and then allocates them by interleaving over physical nodes.
This requires knowledge of the system capacity when attempting to
allocate nodes of a certain size: either very large nodes to benchmark
scalability of code that operates on individual nodes, or very small
nodes to find bugs in the VM.

This patch introduces numa=fake=&lt;size&gt;[MG] so it is possible to specify
the size of each node to allocate.  When used, nodes of the size
specified will be allocated and interleaved over the set of physical
nodes.

FAKE_NODE_MIN_SIZE was also moved to the more-appropriate
include/asm/numa_64.h.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151342510.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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numa=fake=N specifies the number of fake nodes, N, to partition the
system into and then allocates them by interleaving over physical nodes.
This requires knowledge of the system capacity when attempting to
allocate nodes of a certain size: either very large nodes to benchmark
scalability of code that operates on individual nodes, or very small
nodes to find bugs in the VM.

This patch introduces numa=fake=&lt;size&gt;[MG] so it is possible to specify
the size of each node to allocate.  When used, nodes of the size
specified will be allocated and interleaved over the set of physical
nodes.

FAKE_NODE_MIN_SIZE was also moved to the more-appropriate
include/asm/numa_64.h.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151342510.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: ehci-dbgp,documentation: Documentation updates for ehci-dbgp</title>
<updated>2009-09-23T13:46:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wessel</name>
<email>jason.wessel@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-20T20:39:57+00:00</published>
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Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug
controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other
than the first one in the system.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Sarah Sharp &lt;sarah.a.sharp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug
controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other
than the first one in the system.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Sarah Sharp &lt;sarah.a.sharp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-09-18T21:05:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-18T21:05:47+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
  x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
  x86: platform: Fix section annotations
  x86: apic namespace cleanup
  x86: Distangle ioapic and i8259
  x86: Add Moorestown early detection
  x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
  x86: Add early platform detection
  x86: Move tsc_init to late_time_init
  x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
  x86: Replace the now identical time_32/64.c by time.c
  x86: time_32/64.c unify profile_pc
  x86: Move calibrate_cpu to tsc.c
  x86: Make timer setup and global variables the same in time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove mca bus ifdef from timer interrupt
  x86: Simplify timer_ack magic in time_32.c
  x86: Prepare unification of time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove do_timer hook
  x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move percpu clockevents setup to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move xen_post_allocator_init into xen_pagetable_setup_done
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
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* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
  x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
  x86: platform: Fix section annotations
  x86: apic namespace cleanup
  x86: Distangle ioapic and i8259
  x86: Add Moorestown early detection
  x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
  x86: Add early platform detection
  x86: Move tsc_init to late_time_init
  x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
  x86: Replace the now identical time_32/64.c by time.c
  x86: time_32/64.c unify profile_pc
  x86: Move calibrate_cpu to tsc.c
  x86: Make timer setup and global variables the same in time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove mca bus ifdef from timer interrupt
  x86: Simplify timer_ack magic in time_32.c
  x86: Prepare unification of time_32/64.c
  x86: Remove do_timer hook
  x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move percpu clockevents setup to x86_init_ops
  x86: Move xen_post_allocator_init into xen_pagetable_setup_done
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
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<entry>
<title>x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown</title>
<updated>2009-08-31T09:09:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pan, Jacob jun</name>
<email>jacob.jun.pan@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-28T21:52:47+00:00</published>
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x86 bootprotocol 2.07 has introduced hardware_subarch ID in the boot
parameters provided by FW. We use it to identify Moorestown platforms.

[ tglx: Cleanup and paravirt fix ]

Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan &lt;jacob.jun.pan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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x86 bootprotocol 2.07 has introduced hardware_subarch ID in the boot
parameters provided by FW. We use it to identify Moorestown platforms.

[ tglx: Cleanup and paravirt fix ]

Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan &lt;jacob.jun.pan@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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