)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "68a3a7feb08f960095072f28ec20f7900793c506", "tree": "1d458822fd4414997b6f12ad8a915f785d7e730f", "parents": [ "9d99aaa31f5994d1923c3713ce9144c4c42332e1" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Fri Apr 07 19:49:18 2006 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Apr 09 11:53:16 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Reserve SRAT hotadd memory on x86-64\n\nFrom: Keith Mannthey, Andi Kleen\n\nImplement memory hotadd without sparsemem. The memory in the SRAT\nhotadd area is just preserved instead and can be activated later.\n\nThere are a few restrictions:\n- Only one continuous hotadd area allowed per node\n\nThe main problem is dealing with the many buggy SRAT tables\nthat are out there. The strategy here is to reject anything\nsuspicious.\n\nOriginally from Keith Mannthey, with several hacks and changes by AK\nand also contributions from Andrew Morton\n\n[ TBD: Problems pointed out by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki \u003ckamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e:\n\n 1) Goto\u0027s rebuild_zonelist patch will not work if CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG\u003dn.\n\n Rebuilding zonelist is necessary when the system has just memory \u003c\n 4G at boot, and hot add memory \u003e 4G. because x86_64 has DMA32,\n ZONE_NORAML is not included into zonelist at boot time if system\n doesn\u0027t have memory \u003e4G at boot.\n\n [AK: should just force the higher zones at boot time when SRAT tells us]\n\n 2) zone and node\u0027s spanned_pages and present_pages are not incremented.\n They should be.\n\n For example, our server (ia64/Fujitsu PrimeQuest) can equip memory\n from 4G to 1T(maybe 2T in future), and SRAT will *always* say we have\n possible 1T +memory. (Microsoft requires \"write all possible memory\n in SRAT\") When we reserve memmap for possible 1T memory, Linux will\n not work well in +minimum 4G configuraion ;)\n\n [AK: needs limiting to 5-10% of max memory]\n ]\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ab9b32ee626e9b6df4ce2560a70ae15e62423cf4", "tree": "4bae7b0a38b9e69d33dc7b80ad434274019d9e38", "parents": [ "e8b917775b572bc27de105f1317c2de4335db5b3" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Sun Feb 26 04:18:52 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Feb 26 09:53:31 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Better ATI timer fix\n\nThe previous experiment for using apicmaintimer on ATI systems didn\u0027t\nwork out very well. In particular laptops with C2/C3 support often\ndon\u0027t let it tick during idle, which makes it useless. There were also\nsome other bugs that made the apicmaintimer often not used at all.\n\nI tried some other experiments - running timer over RTC and some other\nthings but they didn\u0027t really work well neither.\n\nI rechecked the specs now and it turns out this simple change is\nactually enough to avoid the double ticks on the ATI systems. We just\nturn off IRQ 0 in the 8254 and only route it directly using the IO-APIC.\n\nI tested it on a few ATI systems and it worked there. In fact it worked\non all chipsets (NVidia, Intel, AMD, ATI) I tried it on.\n\nAccording to the ACPI spec routing should always work through the\nIO-APIC so I think it\u0027s the correct thing to do anyways (and most of the\nold gunk in check_timer should be thrown away for x86-64).\n\nBut for 2.6.16 it\u0027s best to do a fairly minimal change:\n - Use the known to be working everywhere-but-ATI IRQ0 both over 8254\n and IO-APIC setup everywhere\n - Except on ATI disable IRQ0 in the 8254\n - Remove the code to select apicmaintimer on ATI chipsets\n - Add some boot options to allow to override this (just paranoia)\n\nIn 2.6.17 I hope to switch the default over to this for everybody.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0c3749c41f5eee0da36bbf92b2793338b4d8574f", "tree": "3af004c5533ab04297004f5ec40da4c6801b8fda", "parents": [ "099f318b8d97490e58c595eb1b6d3415da5ccc03" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Fri Feb 03 21:51:41 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Feb 04 16:43:15 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Calibrate APIC timer using PM timer\n\nOn some broken motherboards (at least one NForce3 based AMD64 laptop)\nthe PIT timer runs at a incorrect frequency. This patch adds a new\noption \"apicpmtimer\" that allows to use the APIC timer and calibrate it\nusing the PMTimer. It requires the earlier patch that allows to run the\nmain timer from the APIC.\n\nSpecifying apicpmtimer implies apicmaintimer.\n\nThe option defaults to off for now.\n\nI tested it on a few systems and the resulting APIC timer frequencies\nwere usually a bit off, but always \u003c1%, which should be tolerable.\n\nTBD figure out heuristic to enable this automatically on the affected\nsystems TBD perhaps do it on all NForce3s or using DMI?\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "73dea47faeb96d54a984b9d7f4de564816966354", "tree": "6b1f090e9071e281367bc106c1b2ab05cb43e459", "parents": [ "76b461c21468f41837283b7888d55f1c0671f719" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Fri Feb 03 21:50:50 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Feb 04 16:43:13 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Allow to run main time keeping from the local APIC interrupt\n\nAnother piece from the no-idle-tick patch.\n\nThis can be enabled with the \"apicmaintimer\" option.\n\nThis is mainly useful when the PIT/HPET interrupt is unreliable.\nNote there are some systems that are known to stop the APIC\ntimer in C3. For those it will never work, but this case\nshould be automatically detected.\n\nIt also only works with PM timer right now. When HPET is used\nthe way the main timer handler computes the delay doesn\u0027t work.\n\nIt should be a bit more efficient because there is one less\nregular interrupt to process on the boot processor.\n\nRequires earlier bugfix from Venkatesh\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "575c96871832e91983248aebb02fc072e5fd17c9", "tree": "2de2ce229506f1e0e866ef00c9cf7e43489e295b", "parents": [ "a8e82ef97a1d1227575698935ec86ae4d02c372c" ], "author": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@stusta.de", "time": "Sun Jan 15 02:00:17 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Adrian Bunk", "email": "bunk@r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de", "time": "Sun Jan 15 02:00:17 2006 +0100" }, "message": "spelling: s/appropiate/appropriate/\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7eb903f4a5c35c8310f0aa7b0e94aae0b826d837", "tree": "39489c4edd583ae398d7987019a4ba7315bdfcee", "parents": [ "f62a91f6911479642c0018290d4248ace4287648" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Wed Jan 11 22:42:39 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jan 11 19:01:11 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Add documentation for CPU hotplug ACPI extension\n\nCc: len.brown@intel.com, ashok.ray@intel.com\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f62a91f6911479642c0018290d4248ace4287648", "tree": "f5d941d1f1dab0bf462795c47fa8b616d31a833f", "parents": [ "92934bcbf96bc9dc931c40ca5f1a57685b7b813b" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Wed Jan 11 22:42:35 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Wed Jan 11 19:01:11 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Don\u0027t reserve hotplug CPUs by default\n\nMost users don\u0027t need it so no need to waste memory.\nThis means an user has to specify the appropiate number of\nhotplug CPUs on the command line with additional_cpus\u003d...\nor fix their BIOS to follow the convention in\nDocumentation/x86-64/cpu-hotplug-spec\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "9e43e1b7c7c9872da032442d8e4bb112a02d16f4", "tree": "04399c723a8fbd3f859a462add5db34c389ebf45", "parents": [ "ffd10a2b77bca50dd05ba26acd5a6e68bcc8f61f" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Sat Nov 05 17:25:54 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 14 19:55:17 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_CHECKING and add command line option for pagefault tracing\n\nCONFIG_CHECKING covered some debugging code used in the early times\nof the port. But it wasn\u0027t even SMP safe for quite some time\nand the bugs it checked for seem to be gone.\n\nThis patch removes all the code to verify GS at kernel entry. There\nhaven\u0027t been any new bugs in this area for a long time.\n\nPreviously it also covered the sysctl for the page fault tracing.\nThat didn\u0027t make much sense because that code was unconditionally\ncompiled in. I made that a boot option now because it is typically\nonly useful at boot.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "e583538f077d5f70191670b47a046ba436ec3428", "tree": "576298f190ce8a4f321bb84efce2ace41aa12194", "parents": [ "b0bd35e622ffbda2c01dc67a0381c6a18817a29a" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Sat Nov 05 17:25:54 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 14 19:55:17 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Log machine checks from boot on Intel systems\n\nThe logging for boot errors was turned off because it was broken\non some AMD systems. But give Intel EM64T systems a chance because they are\nsupposed to be correct there.\n\nThe advantage is that there is a chance to actually log uncorrected\nmachine checks after the reset.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "420f8f68c9c5148dddf946bebdbc7eacde2172cb", "tree": "59cf49ac38e0c7560bb57d988869f67b1ff20342", "parents": [ "485832a5d928facd82f1525270d9f048da2063a1" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Sat Nov 05 17:25:54 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 14 19:55:15 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: New heuristics to find out hotpluggable CPUs.\n\nWith a NR_CPUS\u003d\u003d128 kernel with CPU hotplug enabled we would waste 4MB\non per CPU data of all possible CPUs. The reason was that HOTPLUG\nalways set up possible map to NR_CPUS cpus and then we need to allocate\nthat much (each per CPU data is roughly ~32k now)\n\nThe underlying problem is that ACPI didn\u0027t tell us how many hotplug CPUs\nthe platform supports. So the old code just assumed all, which would\nlead to this memory wastage.\n\nThis implements some new heuristics:\n\n - If the BIOS specified disabled CPUs in the ACPI/mptables assume they\n can be enabled later (this is bending the ACPI specification a bit,\n but seems like a obvious extension)\n - The user can overwrite it with a new additionals_cpus\u003dNUM option\n - Otherwise use half of the available CPUs or 2, whatever is more.\n\nCc: ashok.raj@intel.com\nCc: len.brown@intel.com\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8315eca25583c369e28f48909d3341dc21d6214d", "tree": "271677ef4bb1159284c0920aabc903218868fc1f", "parents": [ "59170891049cc469777a392e0b3f5aa7aad784a6" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Sat Nov 05 17:25:54 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Nov 14 19:55:15 2005 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Some clarifications for Documention/x86_64/mm.txt\n\nI got some questions on this, so just fix up the documentation.\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "8c566ef5f3eb5d9daf61d0fa31d82c211f601ba0", "tree": "646730e657f27a23b3081fafafe494121e0d8075", "parents": [ "673242c10d535bfe238d9d8e82ac93432d35b88e" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Mon Sep 12 18:49:24 2005 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Mon Sep 12 10:49:57 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86-64: Add command line option to set machine check tolerance level\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "d5172f263f76ca6d588f533c0989b22521fcbac2", "tree": "a4a017f686f101b5817f6c1abbc84518335d497e", "parents": [ "cf7bee5a0bf270a4eace0be39329d6ac0136cc47" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@muc.de", "time": "Sun Aug 07 09:42:07 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Aug 07 10:00:37 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: ignore machine checks from boot time\n\nDon\u0027t log machine check events left over from boot. Too many BIOSes leave\nbogus events in there.\n\nThis unfortunately also makes it impossible to log events that caused a\nreboot. For people with non broken BIOS there is mce\u003dbootlog\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ef4d7cbea773a77b36e732779cab4018ba2c037b", "tree": "c9aeb9e716ee2d83204724d6e2baa2b2e81caf0e", "parents": [ "a54649b801e5fe69755dc55e6589f7a65af25d79" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Thu Jul 28 21:15:34 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Jul 28 21:45:59 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Some updates for boot-options.txt\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "14d98cad82b78956957e95567b8b5fb38ec5859f", "tree": "ab1b15e3a2524805495d21be074551f9e553e270", "parents": [ "607a16858397829806c5a4db999ce6daf327f98c" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Fri May 20 14:27:59 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Fri May 20 15:48:21 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] x86_64: Add option to disable timer check\n\nThis works around the too fast timer seen on some ATI boards.\n\nI don\u0027t feel confident enough about it yet to enable it by default, but give\nusers the option.\n\nPatch and debugging from Christopher Allen Wing \u003cwingc@engin.umich.edu\u003e, with\nminor tweaks (renamed the option and documented it)\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }