* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (73 commits)
  arm: fix up some samsung merge sysdev conversion problems
  firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file
  Drivers:hv: Fix a bug in vmbus_driver_unregister()
  driver core: remove __must_check from device_create_file
  debugfs: add missing #ifdef HAS_IOMEM
  arm: time.h: remove device.h #include
  driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage.
  clockevents: remove sysdev.h
  arm: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  arm: leds: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted()
  m86k: gpio - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  mips: txx9_sram - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  mips: 7segled - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  sh: dma - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  sh: intc - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: suspend - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: qe_ic - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  power: cmm - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  s390: time - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem
  ...

Fix up conflicts with 'struct sysdev' removal from various platform
drivers that got changed:
 - arch/arm/mach-exynos/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-exynos/irq-eint.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/common.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s5p64x0/cpu.c
 - arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/common.c
 - arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/plat/cpu.h
 - arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
and fix up cpu_is_hotpluggable() as per Greg in include/linux/cpu.h

This moves the 'memory sysdev_class' over to a regular 'memory' subsystem
and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
implemented as subsystem interfaces now.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This moves the 'cpu sysdev_class' over to a regular 'cpu' subsystem
and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
implemented as subsystem interfaces now.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem infrastructure
from sysdev devices, which are made available with this conversion.

Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch implements a back-end cpuidle driver for pSeries
based on pseries_dedicated_idle_loop and pseries_shared_idle_loop
routines.  The driver is built only if CONFIG_CPU_IDLE is set. This
cpuidle driver uses global registration of idle states and
not per-cpu.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:17:55AM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> >
> > At this rate we're going to end up with no bits left for CPU features
> > way too quickly... Especially for something we only care about once at
> > boot time.
> >
> > Wouldn't CPU_FTR_PPCAS_ARCH_V2 be a good enough test ?
>
> /me checks Cell manuals... yes, that test would be good enough. I will
> cook up a patch to use this.

Here it is...

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

All these files were including module.h just for the basic
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.  We can shift them off to the
export.h header which is a way smaller footprint and thus
realize some compile time gains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

The DSCR (aka Data Stream Control Register) is supported on some
server PowerPC chips and allow some control over the prefetch
of data streams.

This patch allows the value to be specified per thread by emulating
the corresponding mfspr and mtspr instructions. Children of such
threads inherit the value. Other threads use a default value that
can be specified in sysfs - /sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default.

If a thread starts with non default value in the sysfs entry,
all children threads inherit this non default value even if
the sysfs value is changed later.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Right now if we want to busy loop and not give up any time to the hypervisor
we put a very large value into smt_snooze_delay. This is sometimes useful
when running a single partition and you want to avoid any latencies due
to the hypervisor or CPU power state transitions. While this works, it's a bit
ugly - how big a number is enough now we have NO_HZ and can be idle for a very
long time.

The patch below makes smt_snooze_delay signed, and a negative value means loop
forever:

echo -1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/smt_snooze_delay

This change shouldn't affect the existing userspace tools (eg ppc64_cpu), but
I'm cc-ing Nathan just to be sure.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

I'm not sure why we have code for parsing an ibm,smt-snooze-delay OF
property. Since we have a smt-snooze-delay= boot option and we can
also set it at runtime via sysfs, it should be safe to get rid of
this code.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to
Documentation/ABI.  There are no changes to any of the C code from v2
of the patch.

In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
cpu probe/release.  The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
and removing cpus to/from the system.

This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts
from writes to the sysfs files.

The creation and use of these files is regulated by the
CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the
capability will have the files created.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>