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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/acpi/Kconfig, branch v4.4.73</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'acpica', 'acpi-video' and 'device-properties'</title>
<updated>2015-12-04T13:01:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-04T13:01:17+00:00</published>
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* acpica:
  ACPI: Better describe ACPI_DEBUGGER

* acpi-video:
  MAINTAINERS: ACPI / video: update a file name in drivers/acpi/

* device-properties:
  ACPI / property: fix compile error for acpi_node_get_property_reference() when CONFIG_ACPI=n
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* acpica:
  ACPI: Better describe ACPI_DEBUGGER

* acpi-video:
  MAINTAINERS: ACPI / video: update a file name in drivers/acpi/

* device-properties:
  ACPI / property: fix compile error for acpi_node_get_property_reference() when CONFIG_ACPI=n
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Better describe ACPI_DEBUGGER</title>
<updated>2015-11-30T21:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-30T21:32:15+00:00</published>
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Hi,

For a brief moment I was tricked into thinking that:

  In-kernel debugger (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_DEBUGGER) [N/y/?] (NEW)

might be something useful. Better describe the feature to reduce
such confusion.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Hi,

For a brief moment I was tricked into thinking that:

  In-kernel debugger (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_DEBUGGER) [N/y/?] (NEW)

might be something useful. Better describe the feature to reduce
such confusion.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpi-processor'</title>
<updated>2015-11-01T23:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-01T23:50:37+00:00</published>
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* acpi-processor:
  ACPI / CPPC: Fix potential memory leak
  ACPI / CPPC: signedness bug in register_pcc_channel()
  ACPI: Allow selection of the ACPI processor driver for ARM64
  CPPC: Probe for CPPC tables for each ACPI Processor object
  ACPI: Add weak routines for ACPI CPU Hotplug
  ACPI / CPPC: Add a CPUFreq driver for use with CPPC
  ACPI: Introduce CPU performance controls using CPPC
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* acpi-processor:
  ACPI / CPPC: Fix potential memory leak
  ACPI / CPPC: signedness bug in register_pcc_channel()
  ACPI: Allow selection of the ACPI processor driver for ARM64
  CPPC: Probe for CPPC tables for each ACPI Processor object
  ACPI: Add weak routines for ACPI CPU Hotplug
  ACPI / CPPC: Add a CPUFreq driver for use with CPPC
  ACPI: Introduce CPU performance controls using CPPC
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Enable build of AML interpreter debugger</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T00:05:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lv Zheng</name>
<email>lv.zheng@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-19T02:25:56+00:00</published>
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This patch enables ACPICA debugger files using a configurable
CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER configuration item. Those debugger related code that
was originally masked as ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE now gets unmasked.

Necessary OSL stubs are also added in this patch:
1. acpi_os_readable(): This should be arch specific in Linux, while this
    patch doesn't introduce real implementation and a complex mechanism to
    allow architecture specific acpi_os_readable() to be implemented to
    validate the address. It may be done by future commits.
2. acpi_os_get_line(): This is used to obtain debugger command input. This
    patch only introduces a simple KDB concept example in it and the
    example should be co-working with the code implemented in
    acpi_os_printf(). Since this KDB example won't be compiled unless
    ENABLE_DEBUGGER is defined and it seems Linux has already stopped to
    use ENABLE_DEBUGGER, thus do not expect it can work properly.

This patch also cleans up all other ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE surroundings
accordingly.
1. Since linkage error can be automatically detected, declaration in the
   headers needn't be surrounded by ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE.
   So only the following separate exported fuction bodies are masked by
   this macro (other exported fucntions may have already been masked at
   entire module level via drivers/acpi/acpica/Makefile):
     acpi_install_exception_handler()
     acpi_subsystem_status()
     acpi_get_system_info()
     acpi_get_statistics()
     acpi_install_initialization_handler()
2. Since strip can automatically zap the no-user functions, functions that
   are not marked with ACPI_EXPORT_SYMBOL() needn't get surrounded by
   ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE.
   So the following function which is not used by Linux kernel now won't
   get surrounded by this macro:
     acpi_ps_get_name()

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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This patch enables ACPICA debugger files using a configurable
CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER configuration item. Those debugger related code that
was originally masked as ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE now gets unmasked.

Necessary OSL stubs are also added in this patch:
1. acpi_os_readable(): This should be arch specific in Linux, while this
    patch doesn't introduce real implementation and a complex mechanism to
    allow architecture specific acpi_os_readable() to be implemented to
    validate the address. It may be done by future commits.
2. acpi_os_get_line(): This is used to obtain debugger command input. This
    patch only introduces a simple KDB concept example in it and the
    example should be co-working with the code implemented in
    acpi_os_printf(). Since this KDB example won't be compiled unless
    ENABLE_DEBUGGER is defined and it seems Linux has already stopped to
    use ENABLE_DEBUGGER, thus do not expect it can work properly.

This patch also cleans up all other ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE surroundings
accordingly.
1. Since linkage error can be automatically detected, declaration in the
   headers needn't be surrounded by ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE.
   So only the following separate exported fuction bodies are masked by
   this macro (other exported fucntions may have already been masked at
   entire module level via drivers/acpi/acpica/Makefile):
     acpi_install_exception_handler()
     acpi_subsystem_status()
     acpi_get_system_info()
     acpi_get_statistics()
     acpi_install_initialization_handler()
2. Since strip can automatically zap the no-user functions, functions that
   are not marked with ACPI_EXPORT_SYMBOL() needn't get surrounded by
   ACPI_FUTURE_USAGE.
   So the following function which is not used by Linux kernel now won't
   get surrounded by this macro:
     acpi_ps_get_name()

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Allow selection of the ACPI processor driver for ARM64</title>
<updated>2015-10-12T21:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashwin Chaugule</name>
<email>ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-09T20:27:08+00:00</published>
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Now that the ACPI processor driver has been decoupled from
the C states and P states functionality, make it selectable on
ARM64 so that it can be used by others e.g. CPPC.

The C states and P states code is selected only on X86 or
IA64 until the relevant support is added on ARM64.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Now that the ACPI processor driver has been decoupled from
the C states and P states functionality, make it selectable on
ARM64 so that it can be used by others e.g. CPPC.

The C states and P states code is selected only on X86 or
IA64 until the relevant support is added on ARM64.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Introduce CPU performance controls using CPPC</title>
<updated>2015-10-12T20:49:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashwin Chaugule</name>
<email>ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-02T14:01:19+00:00</published>
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CPPC stands for Collaborative Processor Performance Controls
and is defined in the ACPI v5.0+ spec. It describes CPU
performance controls on an abstract and continuous scale
allowing the platform (e.g. remote power processor) to flexibly
optimize CPU performance with its knowledge of power budgets
and other architecture specific knowledge.

This patch adds a shim which exports commonly used functions
to get and set CPPC specific controls for each CPU. This enables
CPUFreq drivers to gather per CPU performance data and use
with exisiting governors or even allows for customized governors
which are implemented inside CPUFreq drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Al Stone &lt;al.stone@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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CPPC stands for Collaborative Processor Performance Controls
and is defined in the ACPI v5.0+ spec. It describes CPU
performance controls on an abstract and continuous scale
allowing the platform (e.g. remote power processor) to flexibly
optimize CPU performance with its knowledge of power budgets
and other architecture specific knowledge.

This patch adds a shim which exports commonly used functions
to get and set CPPC specific controls for each CPU. This enables
CPUFreq drivers to gather per CPU performance data and use
with exisiting governors or even allows for customized governors
which are implemented inside CPUFreq drivers.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Al Stone &lt;al.stone@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T21:35:59+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "This update has successfully completed a 0day-kbuild run and has
  appeared in a linux-next release.  The changes outside of the typical
  drivers/nvdimm/ and drivers/acpi/nfit.[ch] paths are related to the
  removal of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE, the introduction of memremap(), and
  the introduction of ZONE_DEVICE + devm_memremap_pages().

  Summary:

   - Introduce ZONE_DEVICE and devm_memremap_pages() as a generic
     mechanism for adding device-driver-discovered memory regions to the
     kernel's direct map.

     This facility is used by the pmem driver to enable pfn_to_page()
     operations on the page frames returned by DAX ('direct_access' in
     'struct block_device_operations').

     For now, the 'memmap' allocation for these "device" pages comes
     from "System RAM".  Support for allocating the memmap from device
     memory will arrive in a later kernel.

   - Introduce memremap() to replace usages of ioremap_cache() and
     ioremap_wt().  memremap() drops the __iomem annotation for these
     mappings to memory that do not have i/o side effects.  The
     replacement of ioremap_cache() with memremap() is limited to the
     pmem driver to ease merging the api change in v4.3.

     Completion of the conversion is targeted for v4.4.

   - Similar to the usage of memcpy_to_pmem() + wmb_pmem() in the pmem
     driver, update the VFS DAX implementation and PMEM api to provide
     persistence guarantees for kernel operations on a DAX mapping.

   - Convert the ACPI NFIT 'BLK' driver to map the block apertures as
     cacheable to improve performance.

   - Miscellaneous updates and fixes to libnvdimm including support for
     issuing "address range scrub" commands, clarifying the optimal
     'sector size' of pmem devices, a clarification of the usage of the
     ACPI '_STA' (status) property for DIMM devices, and other minor
     fixes"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (34 commits)
  libnvdimm, pmem: direct map legacy pmem by default
  libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem
  libnvdimm, pfn: 'struct page' provider infrastructure
  x86, pmem: clarify that ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API implies PMEM mapped WB
  add devm_memremap_pages
  mm: ZONE_DEVICE for "device memory"
  mm: move __phys_to_pfn and __pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h
  dax: drop size parameter to -&gt;direct_access()
  nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB
  nvdimm: change to use generic kvfree()
  pmem, dax: have direct_access use __pmem annotation
  dax: update I/O path to do proper PMEM flushing
  pmem: add copy_from_iter_pmem() and clear_pmem()
  pmem, x86: clean up conditional pmem includes
  pmem: remove layer when calling arch_has_wmb_pmem()
  pmem, x86: move x86 PMEM API to new pmem.h header
  libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option
  pmem: switch to devm_ allocations
  devres: add devm_memremap
  libnvdimm, btt: write and validate parent_uuid
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nd_blk: change aperture mapping from WC to WB</title>
<updated>2015-08-27T23:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-27T19:14:20+00:00</published>
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This should result in a pretty sizeable performance gain for reads.  For
rough comparison I did some simple read testing using PMEM to compare
reads of write combining (WC) mappings vs write-back (WB).  This was
done on a random lab machine.

PMEM reads from a write combining mapping:
	# dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=100000
	100000+0 records in
	100000+0 records out
	409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 9.2855 s, 44.1 MB/s

PMEM reads from a write-back mapping:
	# dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=1000000
	1000000+0 records in
	1000000+0 records out
	4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 3.44034 s, 1.2 GB/s

To be able to safely support a write-back aperture I needed to add
support for the "read flush" _DSM flag, as outlined in the DSM spec:

http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

This flag tells the ND BLK driver that it needs to flush the cache lines
associated with the aperture after the aperture is moved but before any
new data is read.  This ensures that any stale cache lines from the
previous contents of the aperture will be discarded from the processor
cache, and the new data will be read properly from the DIMM.  We know
that the cache lines are clean and will be discarded without any
writeback because either a) the previous aperture operation was a read,
and we never modified the contents of the aperture, or b) the previous
aperture operation was a write and we must have written back the dirtied
contents of the aperture to the DIMM before the I/O was completed.

In order to add support for the "read flush" flag I needed to add a
generic routine to invalidate cache lines, mmio_flush_range().  This is
protected by the ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH Kconfig variable, and is currently
only supported on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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This should result in a pretty sizeable performance gain for reads.  For
rough comparison I did some simple read testing using PMEM to compare
reads of write combining (WC) mappings vs write-back (WB).  This was
done on a random lab machine.

PMEM reads from a write combining mapping:
	# dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=100000
	100000+0 records in
	100000+0 records out
	409600000 bytes (410 MB) copied, 9.2855 s, 44.1 MB/s

PMEM reads from a write-back mapping:
	# dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/pmem0 bs=4096 count=1000000
	1000000+0 records in
	1000000+0 records out
	4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 3.44034 s, 1.2 GB/s

To be able to safely support a write-back aperture I needed to add
support for the "read flush" _DSM flag, as outlined in the DSM spec:

http://pmem.io/documents/NVDIMM_DSM_Interface_Example.pdf

This flag tells the ND BLK driver that it needs to flush the cache lines
associated with the aperture after the aperture is moved but before any
new data is read.  This ensures that any stale cache lines from the
previous contents of the aperture will be discarded from the processor
cache, and the new data will be read properly from the DIMM.  We know
that the cache lines are clean and will be discarded without any
writeback because either a) the previous aperture operation was a read,
and we never modified the contents of the aperture, or b) the previous
aperture operation was a write and we must have written back the dirtied
contents of the aperture to the DIMM before the I/O was completed.

In order to add support for the "read flush" flag I needed to add a
generic routine to invalidate cache lines, mmio_flush_range().  This is
protected by the ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH Kconfig variable, and is currently
only supported on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: Decouple ACPI idle and ACPI processor drivers</title>
<updated>2015-08-25T01:25:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashwin Chaugule</name>
<email>ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2015-08-05T13:40:26+00:00</published>
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This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol, ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE,
which is auto selected by architectures which support the ACPI
based C states for CPU Idle management.

The processor_idle driver in its present form contains declarations
specific to X86 and IA64. Since there are no reasonable defaults
for other architectures e.g. ARM64, the driver is selected only for
X86 or IA64.

This helps in decoupling the ACPI processor_driver from the ACPI
processor_idle driver which is useful for the upcoming alternative
patchwork for controlling CPU Performance (CPPC) and CPU Idle (LPI).

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol, ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE,
which is auto selected by architectures which support the ACPI
based C states for CPU Idle management.

The processor_idle driver in its present form contains declarations
specific to X86 and IA64. Since there are no reasonable defaults
for other architectures e.g. ARM64, the driver is selected only for
X86 or IA64.

This helps in decoupling the ACPI processor_driver from the ACPI
processor_idle driver which is useful for the upcoming alternative
patchwork for controlling CPU Performance (CPPC) and CPU Idle (LPI).

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<title>ACPI: Split out ACPI PSS from ACPI Processor driver</title>
<updated>2015-08-25T01:25:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ashwin Chaugule</name>
<email>ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-05T13:40:25+00:00</published>
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The ACPI processor driver is currently tied too closely
to the ACPI P-states (PSS) and other related constructs
for controlling CPU performance.

The newer ACPI specification (v5.1 onwards) introduces
alternative methods to PSS. These new mechanisms are
described within each ACPI Processor object and so they
need to be scanned whenever a new Processor object is detected.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol to allow for
finer configurability among the two options for controlling
performance states. There is no change in functionality and
the option is auto-selected by the architectures which support it.

A future commit will introduce support for CPPC: A newer method of
controlling CPU performance. The OS is not expected to support
CPPC and PSS at the same time, so the Kconfig option lets us make
the two mutually exclusive at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The ACPI processor driver is currently tied too closely
to the ACPI P-states (PSS) and other related constructs
for controlling CPU performance.

The newer ACPI specification (v5.1 onwards) introduces
alternative methods to PSS. These new mechanisms are
described within each ACPI Processor object and so they
need to be scanned whenever a new Processor object is detected.
This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol to allow for
finer configurability among the two options for controlling
performance states. There is no change in functionality and
the option is auto-selected by the architectures which support it.

A future commit will introduce support for CPPC: A newer method of
controlling CPU performance. The OS is not expected to support
CPPC and PSS at the same time, so the Kconfig option lets us make
the two mutually exclusive at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule &lt;ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org&gt;
[ rjw: Changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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