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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/acpi/Makefile, branch v2.6.35-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support</title>
<updated>2010-05-20T02:40:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T06:35:17+00:00</published>
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Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) is used to report some hardware errors
notified via SCI, mainly the corrected errors. Some APEI Generic
Hardware Error Source (GHES) may use SCI on hardware error device to
notify hardware error to kernel.

After receiving notification from ACPI core, it is forwarded to all
listeners via a notifier chain. The listener such as APEI GHES should
check corresponding error source for new events when notified.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) is used to report some hardware errors
notified via SCI, mainly the corrected errors. Some APEI Generic
Hardware Error Source (GHES) may use SCI on hardware error device to
notify hardware error to kernel.

After receiving notification from ACPI core, it is forwarded to all
listeners via a notifier chain. The listener such as APEI GHES should
check corresponding error source for new events when notified.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI, APEI, PCIE AER, use general HEST table parsing in AER firmware_first setup</title>
<updated>2010-05-20T02:40:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T06:35:16+00:00</published>
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Now, a dedicated HEST tabling parsing code is used for PCIE AER
firmware_first setup. It is rebased on general HEST tabling parsing
code of APEI. The firmware_first setup code is moved from PCI core to
AER driver too, because it is only AER related.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Now, a dedicated HEST tabling parsing code is used for PCIE AER
firmware_first setup. It is rebased on general HEST tabling parsing
code of APEI. The firmware_first setup code is moved from PCI core to
AER driver too, because it is only AER related.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI, APEI, APEI supporting infrastructure</title>
<updated>2010-05-20T02:34:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T06:35:12+00:00</published>
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APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which allows to report
errors (for example from the chipset) to the operating system. This
improves NMI handling especially. In addition it supports error
serialization and error injection.

For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
version 4.0, chapter 17.

This patch provides some common functions used by more than one APEI
tables, mainly framework of interpreter for EINJ and ERST.

A machine readable language is defined for EINJ and ERST for OS to
execute, and so to drive the firmware to fulfill the corresponding
functions. The machine language for EINJ and ERST is compatible, so a
common framework is defined for them.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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APEI stands for ACPI Platform Error Interface, which allows to report
errors (for example from the chipset) to the operating system. This
improves NMI handling especially. In addition it supports error
serialization and error injection.

For more information about APEI, please refer to ACPI Specification
version 4.0, chapter 17.

This patch provides some common functions used by more than one APEI
tables, mainly framework of interpreter for EINJ and ERST.

A machine readable language is defined for EINJ and ERST for OS to
execute, and so to drive the firmware to fulfill the corresponding
functions. The machine language for EINJ and ERST is compatible, so a
common framework is defined for them.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI, IO memory pre-mapping and atomic accessing</title>
<updated>2010-05-19T15:40:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huang Ying</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T06:35:11+00:00</published>
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Some ACPI IO accessing need to be done in atomic context. For example,
APEI ERST operations may be used for permanent storage in hardware
error handler. That is, it may be called in atomic contexts such as
IRQ or NMI, etc. And, ERST/EINJ implement their operations via IO
memory/port accessing.  But the IO memory accessing method provided by
ACPI (acpi_read/acpi_write) maps the IO memory during it is accessed,
so it can not be used in atomic context. To solve the issue, the IO
memory should be pre-mapped during EINJ/ERST initializing. A linked
list is used to record which memory area has been mapped, when memory
is accessed in hardware error handler, search the linked list for the
mapped virtual address from the given physical address.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Some ACPI IO accessing need to be done in atomic context. For example,
APEI ERST operations may be used for permanent storage in hardware
error handler. That is, it may be called in atomic contexts such as
IRQ or NMI, etc. And, ERST/EINJ implement their operations via IO
memory/port accessing.  But the IO memory accessing method provided by
ACPI (acpi_read/acpi_write) maps the IO memory during it is accessed,
so it can not be used in atomic context. To solve the issue, the IO
memory should be pre-mapped during EINJ/ERST initializing. A linked
list is used to record which memory area has been mapped, when memory
is accessed in hardware error handler, search the linked list for the
mapped virtual address from the given physical address.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: processor: mv processor_pdc.c processor_core.c</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T01:17:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Chiang</name>
<email>achiang@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-22T19:11:14+00:00</published>
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We've renamed the old processor_core.c to processor_driver.c, to
convey the idea that it can be built modular and has driver-like
bits.

Now let's re-create a processor_core.c for the bits needed
statically by the rest of the kernel. The contents of processor_pdc.c
are a good starting spot, so let's just rename that file and
complete our three card monte.

Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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We've renamed the old processor_core.c to processor_driver.c, to
convey the idea that it can be built modular and has driver-like
bits.

Now let's re-create a processor_core.c for the bits needed
statically by the rest of the kernel. The contents of processor_pdc.c
are a good starting spot, so let's just rename that file and
complete our three card monte.

Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: processor: mv processor_core.c processor_driver.c</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T01:17:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Chiang</name>
<email>achiang@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-22T19:11:08+00:00</published>
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The ACPI processor driver can be built as a module. But it has
pieces of code that should always be built statically into the
kernel.

The plan is for processor_core.c to contain the static bits while
processor_driver.c contains the module-like bits.

Since the bulk of the code in the current processor_core.c is
module-like, first step is to rename the file to processor_driver.c

Next step will re-create processor_core.c and cherry-pick out
the static bits.

Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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The ACPI processor driver can be built as a module. But it has
pieces of code that should always be built statically into the
kernel.

The plan is for processor_core.c to contain the static bits while
processor_driver.c contains the module-like bits.

Since the bulk of the code in the current processor_core.c is
module-like, first step is to rename the file to processor_driver.c

Next step will re-create processor_core.c and cherry-pick out
the static bits.

Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI: processor: call _PDC early</title>
<updated>2009-12-22T08:24:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Chiang</name>
<email>achiang@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-20T19:19:09+00:00</published>
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We discovered that at least one machine (HP Envy), methods in the DSDT
attempt to call external methods defined in a dynamically loaded SSDT.

Unfortunately, the DSDT methods we are trying to call are part of the
EC initialization, which happens very early, and the the dynamic SSDT
is only loaded when a processor _PDC method runs much later.

This results in namespace lookup errors for the (as of yet) undefined
methods.

Since Windows doesn't have any issues with this machine, we take it
as a hint that they must be evaluating _PDC much earlier than we are.

Thus, the proper thing for Linux to do should be to match the Windows
implementation more closely.

Provide a mechanism to call _PDC before we enable the EC. Doing so loads
the dynamic tables, and allows the EC to be enabled correctly.

The ACPI processor driver will still evaluate _PDC in its .add() method
to cover the hotplug case.

Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14824

Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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We discovered that at least one machine (HP Envy), methods in the DSDT
attempt to call external methods defined in a dynamically loaded SSDT.

Unfortunately, the DSDT methods we are trying to call are part of the
EC initialization, which happens very early, and the the dynamic SSDT
is only loaded when a processor _PDC method runs much later.

This results in namespace lookup errors for the (as of yet) undefined
methods.

Since Windows doesn't have any issues with this machine, we take it
as a hint that they must be evaluating _PDC much earlier than we are.

Thus, the proper thing for Linux to do should be to match the Windows
implementation more closely.

Provide a mechanism to call _PDC before we enable the EC. Doing so loads
the dynamic tables, and allows the EC to be enabled correctly.

The ACPI processor driver will still evaluate _PDC in its .add() method
to cover the hotplug case.

Resolves: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14824

Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: PCIe AER: honor ACPI HEST FIRMWARE FIRST mode</title>
<updated>2009-11-04T21:06:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Domsch</name>
<email>Matt_Domsch@dell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-02T17:51:24+00:00</published>
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Feedback from Hidetoshi Seto and Kenji Kaneshige incorporated.  This
correctly handles PCI-X bridges, PCIe root ports and endpoints, and
prints debug messages when invalid/reserved types are found in the
HEST.  PCI devices not in domain/segment 0 are not represented in
HEST, thus will be ignored.

Today, the PCIe Advanced Error Reporting (AER) driver attaches itself
to every PCIe root port for which BIOS reports it should, via ACPI
_OSC.

However, _OSC alone is insufficient for newer BIOSes.  Part of ACPI
4.0 is the new APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interfaces) which is a way
for OS and BIOS to handshake over which errors for which components
each will handle.  One table in ACPI 4.0 is the Hardware Error Source
Table (HEST), where BIOS can define that errors for certain PCIe
devices (or all devices), should be handled by BIOS ("Firmware First
mode"), rather than be handled by the OS.

Dell PowerEdge 11G server BIOS defines Firmware First mode in HEST, so
that it may manage such errors, log them to the System Event Log, and
possibly take other actions.  The aer driver should honor this, and
not attach itself to devices noted as such.

Furthermore, Kenji Kaneshige reminded us to disallow changing the AER
registers when respecting Firmware First mode.  Platform firmware is
expected to manage these, and if changes to them are allowed, it could
break that firmware's behavior.

The HEST parsing code may be replaced in the future by a more
feature-rich implementation.  This patch provides the minimum needed
to prevent breakage until that implementation is available.

Reviewed-by: Kenji Kaneshige &lt;kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
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Feedback from Hidetoshi Seto and Kenji Kaneshige incorporated.  This
correctly handles PCI-X bridges, PCIe root ports and endpoints, and
prints debug messages when invalid/reserved types are found in the
HEST.  PCI devices not in domain/segment 0 are not represented in
HEST, thus will be ignored.

Today, the PCIe Advanced Error Reporting (AER) driver attaches itself
to every PCIe root port for which BIOS reports it should, via ACPI
_OSC.

However, _OSC alone is insufficient for newer BIOSes.  Part of ACPI
4.0 is the new APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interfaces) which is a way
for OS and BIOS to handshake over which errors for which components
each will handle.  One table in ACPI 4.0 is the Hardware Error Source
Table (HEST), where BIOS can define that errors for certain PCIe
devices (or all devices), should be handled by BIOS ("Firmware First
mode"), rather than be handled by the OS.

Dell PowerEdge 11G server BIOS defines Firmware First mode in HEST, so
that it may manage such errors, log them to the System Event Log, and
possibly take other actions.  The aer driver should honor this, and
not attach itself to devices noted as such.

Furthermore, Kenji Kaneshige reminded us to disallow changing the AER
registers when respecting Firmware First mode.  Platform firmware is
expected to manage these, and if changes to them are allowed, it could
break that firmware's behavior.

The HEST parsing code may be replaced in the future by a more
feature-rich implementation.  This patch provides the minimum needed
to prevent breakage until that implementation is available.

Reviewed-by: Kenji Kaneshige &lt;kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto &lt;seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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;
</pre>
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