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Corey Minyard
1c9f98d1bf ipmi: Make IPMI panic strings always available
They were set by config items, but people complained that they were
never turned on.  So have them always available and enabled by a
module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
2017-09-27 16:03:45 -05:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f5981a5c59 IPMI.txt: standardize document format
Each text file under Documentation follows a different
format. Some doesn't even have titles!

Change its representation to follow the adopted standard,
using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx:

- fix document type;
- add missing markups for subitems;
- mark literal blocks;
- add whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- use bulleted list markups where neded.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-07-14 13:51:40 -06:00
Rami Rosen
08f6cd01fe Documentation: Fix a typo in IPMI.txt.
This patch fixes a trivial type in IPMI.txt.

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
2017-01-05 15:01:54 -06:00
Corey Minyard
c11daf6a8f ipmi: Update documentation
The documentation has some information that was old and needed
some things added that are new.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
2016-11-07 12:16:06 -06:00
Jean-Yves Faye
c7f42c6390 ipmi watchdog : add panic_wdt_timeout parameter
In order to allow panic actions to be processed, the ipmi watchdog
driver sets a new timeout value on panic. The 255s timeout
was designed to allow kdump and others actions on panic, as in
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0711.3/0258.html

This is counter-intuitive for a end-user who sets watchdog timeout
value to something like 30s and who expects BMC to reset the system
within 30s of a panic.

This commit allows user to configure the timeout on panic.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Yves Faye <jean-yves.faye@c-s.fr>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
2015-11-16 06:28:43 -06:00
Corey Minyard
b0e9aaa99d ipmi:ssif: Ignore spaces when comparing I2C adapter names
Some of the adapters have spaces in their names, but that's really
hard to pass in as a module or kernel parameters.  So ignore the
spaces.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
2015-05-05 14:24:45 -05:00
Corey Minyard
259307074b ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF)
This patch adds the SMBus interface to the IPMI driver.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

 Documentation/IPMI.txt       |   32
 drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig    |   11
 drivers/char/ipmi/Makefile   |    1
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_smb.c | 1737 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 1769 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
2014-12-11 15:04:11 -06:00
Corey Minyard
f2afae4629 ipmi: add options to disable openfirmware and PCI scanning
Add try...  parameters to disable pci and platform (openfirmware) device
scanning for IPMI.  Also add docs for all the try...  parameters.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:21 -08:00
Corey Minyard
d1bdc40b33 IPMI: Remove SMBus driver info from the docs
Some documentation for the SMBus driver is in the IPMI docs, but that
code is not in the kernel tree at this point.  So remove the docs to
avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-16 18:07:12 -07:00
Zhao Yakui
37bf501bdd IPMI: Add the document description of ipmi_get_smi_info
Add the document description about how to use ipmi_get_smi_info.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-12-14 00:22:00 -05:00
Martin Wilck
ae74e823cb ipmi: add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid
In some cases kipmid can use a lot of CPU.  This adds a way to tune the
CPU used by kipmid to help in those cases.  By setting kipmid_max_busy_us
to a value between 100 and 500, it is possible to bring down kipmid CPU
load to practically 0 without loosing too much ipmi throughput
performance.  Not setting the value, or setting the value to zero,
operation is unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-12 15:52:39 -08:00
Corey Minyard
612b5a8d3a IPMI: new NMI handling
Convert over to the new NMI handling for getting IPMI watchdog timeouts via an
NMI.  This add config options to know if there is the ability to receive NMIs
and if it has an NMI post processing call.  Then it modifies the IPMI watchdog
to take advantage of this so that it can know if an NMI comes in.

It also adds testing that the IPMI NMI watchdog works.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
Corey Minyard
650dd0c7fa IPMI: documentation fixes
Clean up IPMI documentation to remove references to high-res timers and add
info about the polling thread.  Also fix an doc error for a parameter.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:32 -07:00
Corey Minyard
b361e27bba [PATCH] IPMI: system interface hotplug
Add the ability to hot add and remove interfaces in the ipmi_si driver.  Any
users who have the device open will get errors if they try to send a message.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:47 -08:00
Corey Minyard
b2c03941b5 [PATCH] IPMI: Allow hot system interface remove
This modifies the IPMI driver so that a lower-level interface can be
dynamically removed while in use so it can support hot-removal of hardware.

It also adds the ability to specify and dynamically change the IPMI interface
the watchdog timer and the poweroff code use.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:47 -08:00
Matt LaPlante
6c28f2c0f2 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'B'-'C'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some
words starting with the letters 'B'-'C'.  There are also a few grammar fixes
thrown in for Randy. ;)

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:46:31 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
3f6dee9b2a Fix some typos in Documentation/: 'A'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:45:33 +02:00
Corey Minyard
a51f4a81e7 [PATCH] IPMI: allow user to override the kernel IPMI daemon enable
After the previous patch to disable the kernel IPMI daemon if interrupts
were available, the issue of broken hardware was raised, and a reasonable
request to add an override was mode.  So here it is.

Allow the user to force the kernel ipmi daemon on or off.  This way,
hardware with broken interrupts or users that are not concerned with
performance can turn it on or off to their liking.

[akpm@osdl.org: save 4 bytes in vmlinux]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:03:42 -07:00
Corey Minyard
c69c31270c [PATCH] IPMI: per-channel command registration
This patch adds the ability to register for a command per-channel in the
IPMI driver.

If your BMC supports multiple channels, incoming messages can be useful to
have the ability to register to receive commands on a specific channel
instead the current behaviour of all channels.

Signed-off-by: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:23 -07:00
Matt LaPlante
dc474c891c [PATCH] Documentation/IPMI typos
Two typos in Documentation/IPMI.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:39 -07:00
Corey Minyard
8c702e1620 [PATCH] ipmi poweroff: fix chassis control
The IPMI power control function proc_write_chassctrl was badly written, it
directly used userspace pointers, it assumed that strings were NULL
terminated, and it used the evil sscanf function.  This converts over to
using the sysctl interface for this data and changes the semantics to be a
little more logical.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:49 -07:00
Corey Minyard
3b6259432d [PATCH] ipmi: add power cycle capability
This patch to adds "power cycle" functionality to the IPMI power off module
ipmi_poweroff.  It also contains changes to support procfs control of the
feature.

The power cycle action is considered an optional chassis control in the IPMI
specification.  However, it is definitely useful when the hardware supports
it.  A power cycle is usually required in order to reset a firmware in a bad
state.  This action is critical to allow remote management of servers.

The implementation adds power cycle as optional to the ipmi_poweroff module.
It can be modified dynamically through the proc entry mentioned above.  During
a power down and enabled, the power cycle command is sent to the BMC firmware.
 If it fails either due to non-support or some error, it will retry to send
the command as power off.

Signed-off-by: Christopher A. Poblete <Chris_Poblete@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:23 -07:00
Corey Minyard
845e78a157 [PATCH] ipmi: doc updates
This cleans up the IPMI documentation to fix some problems and make it more
accurate for the current drivers.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:05:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00