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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/acpi/Makefile, branch v2.6.32.15</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'acpi-pad' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-10-04T22:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2009-10-04T22:03:00+00:00</published>
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* 'acpi-pad' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  acpi_pad: build only on X86
  ACPI: create Processor Aggregator Device driver

Fixup trivial conflicts in MAINTAINERS file.
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* 'acpi-pad' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  acpi_pad: build only on X86
  ACPI: create Processor Aggregator Device driver

Fixup trivial conflicts in MAINTAINERS file.
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<title>hwmon driver for ACPI 4.0 power meters</title>
<updated>2009-09-19T05:30:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@us.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2009-09-18T19:41:09+00:00</published>
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This driver exposes ACPI 4.0 compliant power meters as hardware monitoring
devices.  This second revision of the driver also exports the ACPI string
info as sysfs attributes, a list of the devices that the meter measures,
and will send ACPI notifications over the ACPI netlink socket.  This
latest revision only enables the power capping controls if it can be
confirmed that the power cap can be enforced by the hardware and explains
how the notification interfaces work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove default-y]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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This driver exposes ACPI 4.0 compliant power meters as hardware monitoring
devices.  This second revision of the driver also exports the ACPI string
info as sysfs attributes, a list of the devices that the meter measures,
and will send ACPI notifications over the ACPI netlink socket.  This
latest revision only enables the power capping controls if it can be
confirmed that the power cap can be enforced by the hardware and explains
how the notification interfaces work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove default-y]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>ACPI: create Processor Aggregator Device driver</title>
<updated>2009-07-31T22:23:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaohua Li</name>
<email>shaohua.li@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-27T22:11:02+00:00</published>
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ACPI 4.0 created the logical "processor aggregator device" as
a mechinism for platforms to ask the OS to force otherwise busy
processors to enter (power saving) idle.

The intent is to lower power consumption to ride-out
transient electrical and thermal emergencies,
rather than powering off the server.

On platforms that can save more power/performance via P-states,
the platform will first exhaust P-states before forcing idle.
However, the relative benefit of P-states vs. idle states
is platform dependent, and thus this driver need not know
or care about it.

This driver does not use the kernel's CPU hot-plug mechanism
because after the transient emergency is over, the system must
be returned to its normal state, and hotplug would permanently
break both cpusets and binding.

So to force idle, the driver creates a power saving thread.
The scheduler will migrate the thread to the preferred CPU.
The thread has max priority and has SCHED_RR policy,
so it can occupy one CPU.  To save power, the thread will
invoke the deep C-state entry instructions.

To avoid starvation, the thread will sleep 5% of the time
time for every second (current RT scheduler has threshold
to avoid starvation, but if other CPUs are idle,
the CPU can borrow CPU timer from other,
which makes the mechanism not work here)

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan has proposed scheduler enhancements
to allow injecting idle time into the system.  This driver doesn't
depend on those enhancements, but could cut over to them
when they are available.

Peter Z. does not favor upstreaming this driver until
the those scheduler enhancements are in place.  However,
we favor upstreaming this driver now because it is useful
now, and can be enhanced over time.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
NACKed-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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ACPI 4.0 created the logical "processor aggregator device" as
a mechinism for platforms to ask the OS to force otherwise busy
processors to enter (power saving) idle.

The intent is to lower power consumption to ride-out
transient electrical and thermal emergencies,
rather than powering off the server.

On platforms that can save more power/performance via P-states,
the platform will first exhaust P-states before forcing idle.
However, the relative benefit of P-states vs. idle states
is platform dependent, and thus this driver need not know
or care about it.

This driver does not use the kernel's CPU hot-plug mechanism
because after the transient emergency is over, the system must
be returned to its normal state, and hotplug would permanently
break both cpusets and binding.

So to force idle, the driver creates a power saving thread.
The scheduler will migrate the thread to the preferred CPU.
The thread has max priority and has SCHED_RR policy,
so it can occupy one CPU.  To save power, the thread will
invoke the deep C-state entry instructions.

To avoid starvation, the thread will sleep 5% of the time
time for every second (current RT scheduler has threshold
to avoid starvation, but if other CPUs are idle,
the CPU can borrow CPU timer from other,
which makes the mechanism not work here)

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan has proposed scheduler enhancements
to allow injecting idle time into the system.  This driver doesn't
depend on those enhancements, but could cut over to them
when they are available.

Peter Z. does not favor upstreaming this driver until
the those scheduler enhancements are in place.  However,
we favor upstreaming this driver now because it is useful
now, and can be enhanced over time.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li &lt;shaohua.li@intel.com&gt;
NACKed-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'async-battery' into release</title>
<updated>2009-04-05T05:48:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-05T05:48:46+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'acpi-modparam' into release</title>
<updated>2009-04-05T05:45:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-05T05:45:50+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: battery: asynchronous init</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T16:51:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-10T19:19:05+00:00</published>
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The battery driver tends to take quite some time to initialize
(100ms-300ms is quite typical).
This patch initializes the batter driver asynchronously, so that other
things in the kernel can initialize in parallel to this 300 msec.

As part of this, the battery driver had to move to the back
of the ACPI init order (hence the Makefile change).
Without this move, the next ACPI driver would just block
on the ACPI/devicee layer semaphores until the battery driver was
done anyway, not gaining any boot time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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The battery driver tends to take quite some time to initialize
(100ms-300ms is quite typical).
This patch initializes the batter driver asynchronously, so that other
things in the kernel can initialize in parallel to this 300 msec.

As part of this, the battery driver had to move to the back
of the ACPI init order (hence the Makefile change).
Without this move, the next ACPI driver would just block
on the ACPI/devicee layer semaphores until the battery driver was
done anyway, not gaining any boot time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: simplify processor lines in Makefile</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T02:49:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-03T02:49:43+00:00</published>
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Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: simplify module_param namespace</title>
<updated>2009-04-02T20:38:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-11T22:37:19+00:00</published>
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Impact: cleanup

Rather than overriding MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, build via acpi.o so
KBUILD_MODNAME is set to "acpi".

This is the logical way to do it, even though acpi cannot be a module
due to these config options being bool.  Those parts of ACPI which can
be modular are not built into the acpi "module".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Impact: cleanup

Rather than overriding MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, build via acpi.o so
KBUILD_MODNAME is set to "acpi".

This is the logical way to do it, even though acpi cannot be a module
due to these config options being bool.  Those parts of ACPI which can
be modular are not built into the acpi "module".

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>ACPI: tidy up makefile</title>
<updated>2009-03-27T16:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bjorn.helgaas@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-24T22:50:24+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the suggestion that ec.o link order is important,
because it doesn't matter since acpi_ec_init() is no longer an initcall.
And it puts together most of the core modules that are not configurable.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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This patch removes the suggestion that ec.o link order is important,
because it doesn't matter since acpi_ec_init() is no longer an initcall.
And it puts together most of the core modules that are not configurable.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>ACPI: remove CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM</title>
<updated>2009-02-22T02:59:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bjorn.helgaas@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-19T19:56:16+00:00</published>
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Remove CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM.  It was always set the same as CONFIG_ACPI,
and it had no menu label, so there was no way to set it to anything
other than "y".

Some things under CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM (acpi_irq_handled, acpi_os_gpe_count(),
event_is_open, register_acpi_notifier(), etc.) are used unconditionally
by the CA, the OSPM, and drivers, so we depend on them always being
present.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Remove CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM.  It was always set the same as CONFIG_ACPI,
and it had no menu label, so there was no way to set it to anything
other than "y".

Some things under CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM (acpi_irq_handled, acpi_os_gpe_count(),
event_is_open, register_acpi_notifier(), etc.) are used unconditionally
by the CA, the OSPM, and drivers, so we depend on them always being
present.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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