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<title>Merge branch 'throttling' into release</title>
<updated>2011-01-12T10:01:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-01-12T10:01:08+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Reevaluate whether the T-state is supported or not after cpu is online/offline</title>
<updated>2011-01-10T17:35:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhao Yakui</name>
<email>yakui.zhao@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-10T08:35:45+00:00</published>
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After one CPU is offlined, it is unnecessary to switch T-state for it.
So it will be better that the throttling is disabled after the cpu
is offline.
At the same time after one cpu is online, we should check whether
the T-state is supported and then set the corresponding T-state
flag.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui &lt;yakui.zhao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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After one CPU is offlined, it is unnecessary to switch T-state for it.
So it will be better that the throttling is disabled after the cpu
is offline.
At the same time after one cpu is online, we should check whether
the T-state is supported and then set the corresponding T-state
flag.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui &lt;yakui.zhao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: Check the returned value of set_cpus_allowed_ptr before T-state operation</title>
<updated>2011-01-10T17:35:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhao Yakui</name>
<email>yakui.zhao@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-10T08:35:44+00:00</published>
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Now before it executes the T-state operation on one CPU, it will try to
migrate to the target CPU. Especially this is required on the system that
uses the MSR_IA32_THERMAL_CONTROL register to switch T-state.
But unfortunately it doesn't check whether the migration is successful or not.
In such case we will get/set the incorrect T-state on the offline CPU as
it fails in the migration to the offline CPU.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui &lt;yakui.zhao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Now before it executes the T-state operation on one CPU, it will try to
migrate to the target CPU. Especially this is required on the system that
uses the MSR_IA32_THERMAL_CONTROL register to switch T-state.
But unfortunately it doesn't check whether the migration is successful or not.
In such case we will get/set the incorrect T-state on the offline CPU as
it fails in the migration to the offline CPU.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui &lt;yakui.zhao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI processor: remove processor throttling control procfs I/F</title>
<updated>2010-12-14T05:02:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Rui</name>
<email>rui.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-06T07:04:15+00:00</published>
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Remove deprecated ACPI process procfs I/F for throttling control.

This is because the t-state control should only be done in kernel,
when system is in a overheating state.

Now users can only change the processor t-state indirectly,
by poking the cooling device sysfs I/F of the processor.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Remove deprecated ACPI process procfs I/F for throttling control.

This is because the t-state control should only be done in kernel,
when system is in a overheating state.

Now users can only change the processor t-state indirectly,
by poking the cooling device sysfs I/F of the processor.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI processor: make /proc/acpi/processor/*/throttle depends on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS</title>
<updated>2010-10-16T02:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Rui</name>
<email>rui.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-08T05:55:15+00:00</published>
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As a feature that would only be used when system is overheating,
the processor t-state control should not be exported to user space.
Make /proc/acpi/processor/*/throttle depends on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS,
which is cleared by default.
And we will remove this I/F in 2.6.38.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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As a feature that would only be used when system is overheating,
the processor t-state control should not be exported to user space.
Make /proc/acpi/processor/*/throttle depends on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS,
which is cleared by default.
And we will remove this I/F in 2.6.38.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI processor: remove deprecated ACPI procfs I/F</title>
<updated>2010-08-15T04:31:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Rui</name>
<email>rui.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-15T02:46:41+00:00</published>
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Remove deprecated ACPI processor procfs I/F, including:
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/power
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/limit
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/info

/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/throttling still exists,
as we don't have sysfs I/F available for now.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Remove deprecated ACPI processor procfs I/F, including:
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/power
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/limit
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/info

/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/throttling still exists,
as we don't have sysfs I/F available for now.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'battery-2.6.34', 'bugzilla-10805', 'bugzilla-14668', 'bugzilla-531916-power-state', 'ht-warn-2.6.34', 'pnp', 'processor-rename', 'sony-2.6.34', 'suse-bugzilla-531547', 'tz-check', 'video' and 'misc-2.6.34' into release</title>
<updated>2010-03-15T01:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-15T01:30:17+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: remove superfluous NULL pointer check from acpi_processor_get_throttling_info()</title>
<updated>2010-02-16T08:17:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz</name>
<email>bzolnier@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-02T22:37:55+00:00</published>
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Dan's list contains:

drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c +1139 acpi_processor_get_throttling_info(11) warning: variable derefenced before check 'pr'

acpi_processor_get_throttling_info() is never called with pr == NULL.

[ bart: the potential NULL pointer dereference was finally fixed in
  (much later than mine) commit 5cfa245 but my patch is still valid ]

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&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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Dan's list contains:

drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c +1139 acpi_processor_get_throttling_info(11) warning: variable derefenced before check 'pr'

acpi_processor_get_throttling_info() is never called with pr == NULL.

[ bart: the potential NULL pointer dereference was finally fixed in
  (much later than mine) commit 5cfa245 but my patch is still valid ]

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&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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<entry>
<title>ACPI: replace acpi_integer by u64</title>
<updated>2010-01-28T06:47:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lin Ming</name>
<email>ming.m.lin@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-28T02:53:19+00:00</published>
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acpi_integer is now obsolete and removed from the ACPICA code base,
replaced by u64.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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acpi_integer is now obsolete and removed from the ACPICA code base,
replaced by u64.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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