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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/core.c, branch v3.11-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>driver core: add default groups to struct class</title>
<updated>2013-07-16T17:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-14T23:05:58+00:00</published>
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We should be using groups, not attribute lists, for classes to allow
subdirectories, and soon, binary files.  Groups are just more flexible
overall, so add them.

The dev_attrs list will go away after all in-kernel users are converted
to use dev_groups.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We should be using groups, not attribute lists, for classes to allow
subdirectories, and soon, binary files.  Groups are just more flexible
overall, so add them.

The dev_attrs list will go away after all in-kernel users are converted
to use dev_groups.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: Introduce device_create_groups</title>
<updated>2013-07-16T17:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-14T23:05:57+00:00</published>
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device_create_groups lets callers create devices as well as associated
sysfs attributes with a single call. This avoids race conditions seen
if sysfs attributes on new devices are created later.

[fixed up comment block placement and add checks for printk buffer
formats - gregkh]

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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device_create_groups lets callers create devices as well as associated
sysfs attributes with a single call. This avoids race conditions seen
if sysfs attributes on new devices are created later.

[fixed up comment block placement and add checks for printk buffer
formats - gregkh]

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T21:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T21:35:40+00:00</published>
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Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
  the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
  remains the most active patch submitter.

  To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
  device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
  the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code.  Next are the
  freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
  tasks a bit less heavy weight.

  We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
  issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
  and a bunch of cleanups all over.

  Highlights:

   - Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.

     It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
     gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely.  For example,
     if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
     for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
     desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
     rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
     crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
     hot-removal.  Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
     alternative and it had to be addressed.

     However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
     it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
     processor driver.  It's been split into two parts, a resident one
     handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
     playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
     device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
     processors).  That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
     patient who's riding a bike.

     So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
     regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
     (a month ago), nobody has complained.

     As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
     ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
     code.

   - Lighter weight freezing of tasks.

     These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
     targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
     operation.  They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
     during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
     simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
     to call refrigerator().  The time needed for the freezer to decide
     to report a failure is reduced too.

     Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
     trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
     generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).

   - cpufreq updates

     First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
     introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
     attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume.  The
     fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
     has identified the root cause.

     Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
     acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
     related_cpus.  From Lan Tianyu.

     Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
     CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
     up some code.  The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
     from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
     Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.

   - ACPICA update

     A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.

     During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
     sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
     HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
     to use them without checking that bit.  That caused suspend/resume
     regressions to happen on some systems.  Fix from Lv Zheng causes
     those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.

     Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
     are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
     Zhang Rui.

   - cpuidle updates

     New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.

     Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
     kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
     Lezcano.

   - ACPI power management updates

     Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
     cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
     routine.

   - ACPI documentation updates

     Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
     Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
     uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
     updated by Hanjun Guo.

   - Assorted ACPI updates

     We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
     reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
     against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
     the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
     the core.

     A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
     introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
     fixed on some systems.

     A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
     Mika Westerberg.

     The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
     situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
     returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value.  From
     Jeff Wu.

     Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
     the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
     driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
     Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.

     The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
     put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.

     Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
     Kani.

   - Assorted power management updates

     The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
     values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
     rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
     overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
     necessary any more after that modification).

     The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
     the "runtime idle" behavior change).

     New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
     (&lt;keun-o.park@windriver.com&gt;).

     PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.

     Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
     Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.

   - devfreq updates

     New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.

     Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
     Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.

   - OMAP power management updates

     Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
     updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
  ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
  PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
  cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs-&gt;cur_policy
  acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
  cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
  ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
  ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
  ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
  ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
  cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  ...
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Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
  the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
  remains the most active patch submitter.

  To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
  device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
  the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code.  Next are the
  freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
  tasks a bit less heavy weight.

  We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
  issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
  and a bunch of cleanups all over.

  Highlights:

   - Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.

     It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
     gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely.  For example,
     if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
     for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
     desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
     rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
     crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
     hot-removal.  Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
     alternative and it had to be addressed.

     However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
     it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
     processor driver.  It's been split into two parts, a resident one
     handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
     playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
     device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
     processors).  That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
     patient who's riding a bike.

     So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
     regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
     (a month ago), nobody has complained.

     As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
     ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
     code.

   - Lighter weight freezing of tasks.

     These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
     targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
     operation.  They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
     during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
     simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
     to call refrigerator().  The time needed for the freezer to decide
     to report a failure is reduced too.

     Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
     trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
     generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).

   - cpufreq updates

     First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
     introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
     attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume.  The
     fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
     has identified the root cause.

     Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
     acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
     related_cpus.  From Lan Tianyu.

     Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
     CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
     up some code.  The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
     from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
     Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.

   - ACPICA update

     A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.

     During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
     sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
     HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
     to use them without checking that bit.  That caused suspend/resume
     regressions to happen on some systems.  Fix from Lv Zheng causes
     those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.

     Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
     are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
     Zhang Rui.

   - cpuidle updates

     New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.

     Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
     kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
     Lezcano.

   - ACPI power management updates

     Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
     cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
     routine.

   - ACPI documentation updates

     Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
     Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
     uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
     updated by Hanjun Guo.

   - Assorted ACPI updates

     We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
     reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
     against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
     the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
     the core.

     A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
     introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
     fixed on some systems.

     A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
     Mika Westerberg.

     The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
     situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
     returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value.  From
     Jeff Wu.

     Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
     the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
     driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
     Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.

     The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
     put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.

     Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
     Kani.

   - Assorted power management updates

     The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
     values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
     rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
     overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
     necessary any more after that modification).

     The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
     the "runtime idle" behavior change).

     New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
     (&lt;keun-o.park@windriver.com&gt;).

     PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.

     Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
     Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.

   - devfreq updates

     New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.

     Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
     Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.

   - OMAP power management updates

     Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
     updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
  ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
  PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
  cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs-&gt;cur_policy
  acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
  cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
  ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
  ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
  ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
  ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
  cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpi-hotplug'</title>
<updated>2013-06-28T10:58:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-28T10:58:05+00:00</published>
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* acpi-hotplug:
  ACPI: Do not use CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY_MODULE
  ACPI / cpufreq: Add ACPI processor device IDs to acpi-cpufreq
  Memory hotplug: Move alternative function definitions to header
  ACPI / processor: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in acpi_processor_add()
  Memory hotplug / ACPI: Simplify memory removal
  ACPI / scan: Add second pass of companion offlining to hot-remove code
  Driver core / MM: Drop offline_memory_block()
  ACPI / processor: Pass processor object handle to acpi_bind_one()
  ACPI: Drop removal_type field from struct acpi_device
  Driver core / memory: Simplify __memory_block_change_state()
  ACPI / processor: Initialize per_cpu(processors, pr-&gt;id) properly
  CPU: Fix sysfs cpu/online of offlined CPUs
  Driver core: Introduce offline/online callbacks for memory blocks
  ACPI / memhotplug: Bind removable memory blocks to ACPI device nodes
  ACPI / processor: Use common hotplug infrastructure
  ACPI / hotplug: Use device offline/online for graceful hot-removal
  Driver core: Use generic offline/online for CPU offline/online
  Driver core: Add offline/online device operations
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* acpi-hotplug:
  ACPI: Do not use CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY_MODULE
  ACPI / cpufreq: Add ACPI processor device IDs to acpi-cpufreq
  Memory hotplug: Move alternative function definitions to header
  ACPI / processor: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in acpi_processor_add()
  Memory hotplug / ACPI: Simplify memory removal
  ACPI / scan: Add second pass of companion offlining to hot-remove code
  Driver core / MM: Drop offline_memory_block()
  ACPI / processor: Pass processor object handle to acpi_bind_one()
  ACPI: Drop removal_type field from struct acpi_device
  Driver core / memory: Simplify __memory_block_change_state()
  ACPI / processor: Initialize per_cpu(processors, pr-&gt;id) properly
  CPU: Fix sysfs cpu/online of offlined CPUs
  Driver core: Introduce offline/online callbacks for memory blocks
  ACPI / memhotplug: Bind removable memory blocks to ACPI device nodes
  ACPI / processor: Use common hotplug infrastructure
  ACPI / hotplug: Use device offline/online for graceful hot-removal
  Driver core: Use generic offline/online for CPU offline/online
  Driver core: Add offline/online device operations
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: Tidy up some drivers/base/core.c kerneldoc content.</title>
<updated>2013-06-03T21:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert P. J. Day</name>
<email>rpjday@crashcourse.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-02T00:17:34+00:00</published>
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Standardize the indentation, and switch the order of a couple
kerneldoc entries to match the parameter order. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day &lt;rpjday@crashcourse.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Standardize the indentation, and switch the order of a couple
kerneldoc entries to match the parameter order. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day &lt;rpjday@crashcourse.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge 3.10-rc3 into driver-core-next</title>
<updated>2013-05-27T01:42:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-27T01:42:53+00:00</published>
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We want the changes here.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We want the changes here.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>base/core.c: improve comment of the function device_find_child()</title>
<updated>2013-05-21T16:29:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Federico Vaga</name>
<email>federico.vaga@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-15T09:18:11+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga &lt;federico.vaga@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga &lt;federico.vaga@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>driver core: print sysfs attribute name when warning about bogus permissions</title>
<updated>2013-05-21T16:05:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>dyoung@redhat.com</name>
<email>dyoung@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-16T06:31:30+00:00</published>
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Make it obvious to see what attribute is using bogus permissions.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Make it obvious to see what attribute is using bogus permissions.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Driver core: Add offline/online device operations</title>
<updated>2013-05-12T12:14:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-02T20:15:29+00:00</published>
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In some cases, graceful hot-removal of devices is not possible,
although in principle the devices in question support hotplug.
For example, that may happen for the last CPU in the system or
for memory modules holding kernel memory.

In those cases it is nice to be able to check if the given device
can be gracefully hot-removed before triggering a removal procedure
that cannot be aborted or reversed.  Unfortunately, however, the
kernel currently doesn't provide any support for that.

To address that deficiency, introduce support for offline and
online operations that can be performed on devices, respectively,
before a hot-removal and in case when it is necessary (or convenient)
to put a device back online after a successful offline (that has not
been followed by removal).  The idea is that the offline will fail
whenever the given device cannot be gracefully removed from the
system and it will not be allowed to use the device after a
successful offline (until a subsequent online) in analogy with the
existing CPU offline/online mechanism.

For now, the offline and online operations are introduced at the
bus type level, as that should be sufficient for the most urgent use
cases (CPUs and memory modules).  In the future, however, the
approach may be extended to cover some more complicated device
offline/online scenarios involving device drivers etc.

The lock_device_hotplug() and unlock_device_hotplug() functions are
introduced because subsequent patches need to put larger pieces of
code under device_hotplug_lock to prevent race conditions between
device offline and removal from happening.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
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In some cases, graceful hot-removal of devices is not possible,
although in principle the devices in question support hotplug.
For example, that may happen for the last CPU in the system or
for memory modules holding kernel memory.

In those cases it is nice to be able to check if the given device
can be gracefully hot-removed before triggering a removal procedure
that cannot be aborted or reversed.  Unfortunately, however, the
kernel currently doesn't provide any support for that.

To address that deficiency, introduce support for offline and
online operations that can be performed on devices, respectively,
before a hot-removal and in case when it is necessary (or convenient)
to put a device back online after a successful offline (that has not
been followed by removal).  The idea is that the offline will fail
whenever the given device cannot be gracefully removed from the
system and it will not be allowed to use the device after a
successful offline (until a subsequent online) in analogy with the
existing CPU offline/online mechanism.

For now, the offline and online operations are introduced at the
bus type level, as that should be sufficient for the most urgent use
cases (CPUs and memory modules).  In the future, however, the
approach may be extended to cover some more complicated device
offline/online scenarios involving device drivers etc.

The lock_device_hotplug() and unlock_device_hotplug() functions are
introduced because subsequent patches need to put larger pieces of
code under device_hotplug_lock to prevent race conditions between
device offline and removal from happening.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2013-04-30T02:07:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T02:07:40+00:00</published>
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on workqueue side this time.  The changes achieve
  the followings.

   - WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are
     updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools.
     This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually
     neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones.

   - The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are
     used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes.
     Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU
     affinity.  It may be expanded to include cgroup association in
     future.  The attributes can be specified either by calling
     apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if
     the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs.

     The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and
     shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes.  When
     attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the
     worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work
     items which are already executing in its previous worker pools
     alone.

     This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which
     want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues.  The writeback pool
     is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others
     are likely to follow including btrfs io workers.

   - WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used
     to make it NUMA-aware.  Because there's no association between work
     item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before
     this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node
     bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks
     to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly.

     After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple
     NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in
     the same node.  This is turned on by default but can be disabled
     system-wide or for individual workqueues.

     Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across
     different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it
     per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could
     be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have
     idle cycles.

  While the new features required a lot of changes including
  restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much.
  The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the
  new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with
  different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue,
  execution or flush paths.

  As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel
  relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with
  basic correctness of work item execution and handling.  If something
  is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools
  with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being
  changed or during CPU hotplug.

  While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many
  more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique
  combinations of attributes.  Assuming everything else is the same,
  NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online
  CPUs.

  There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the
  workqueue tree.

   - block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker
     pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control
     exposed.  This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers
     NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs.

   - The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association
     between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as
     they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from
     backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted.  This is
     resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is
     printed when the task is dumped.  As this change involves unifying
     implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's
     being routed through Andrew's -mm tree."

* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits)
  workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
  workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue()
  workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity
  workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues
  workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked()
  workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install()
  workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues
  workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq()
  workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues
  workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end
  workqueue: make workqueue-&gt;name[] fixed len
  workqueue: add workqueue-&gt;unbound_attrs
  workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask
  workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools
  workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]
  workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool()
  workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs()
  workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison
  workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path
  workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used
  ...
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on workqueue side this time.  The changes achieve
  the followings.

   - WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are
     updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools.
     This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually
     neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones.

   - The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are
     used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes.
     Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU
     affinity.  It may be expanded to include cgroup association in
     future.  The attributes can be specified either by calling
     apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if
     the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs.

     The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and
     shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes.  When
     attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the
     worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work
     items which are already executing in its previous worker pools
     alone.

     This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which
     want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues.  The writeback pool
     is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others
     are likely to follow including btrfs io workers.

   - WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used
     to make it NUMA-aware.  Because there's no association between work
     item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before
     this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node
     bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks
     to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly.

     After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple
     NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in
     the same node.  This is turned on by default but can be disabled
     system-wide or for individual workqueues.

     Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across
     different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it
     per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could
     be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have
     idle cycles.

  While the new features required a lot of changes including
  restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much.
  The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the
  new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with
  different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue,
  execution or flush paths.

  As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel
  relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with
  basic correctness of work item execution and handling.  If something
  is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools
  with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being
  changed or during CPU hotplug.

  While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many
  more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique
  combinations of attributes.  Assuming everything else is the same,
  NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online
  CPUs.

  There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the
  workqueue tree.

   - block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker
     pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control
     exposed.  This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers
     NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs.

   - The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association
     between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as
     they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from
     backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted.  This is
     resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is
     printed when the task is dumped.  As this change involves unifying
     implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's
     being routed through Andrew's -mm tree."

* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits)
  workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
  workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue()
  workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity
  workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues
  workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked()
  workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install()
  workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues
  workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq()
  workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues
  workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end
  workqueue: make workqueue-&gt;name[] fixed len
  workqueue: add workqueue-&gt;unbound_attrs
  workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask
  workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools
  workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]
  workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool()
  workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs()
  workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison
  workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path
  workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used
  ...
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