* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
  dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
  time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
  time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
  alarmtimers: Fix error handling
  clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
  posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
  s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
  clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
  clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
  nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
  proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
  nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
  nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
  cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
  alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
  alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
  alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
  alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
  alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
  ...

update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in
iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter
(via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get
cumulative time for both idle and iowait times.
The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu
but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading.

Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters
properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well.
If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other
contexts as well and we will get expected values.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

There cannot be any concurrent access to these through
different cpu sysfs files anymore, because these tunables
are now all global (not per cpu).

I still have some doubts whether some of these locks
were needed at all. Anyway, let's get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org

Marked deprecated for quite a whilte now...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org

Marked deprecated for quite a while now...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org

calculate ondemand delay after dbs_check_cpu call because it can
modify rate_mult value

use freq_lo_jiffies value for the sub sample period of powersave_bias mode

Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

With cmwq, there's no reason for cpufreq drivers to use separate
workqueues.  Remove the dedicated workqueues from cpufreq_conservative
and cpufreq_ondemand and use system_wq instead.  The work items are
already sync canceled on stop, so it's already guaranteed that no work
is running on module exit.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org

Adds a new global tunable, sampling_down_factor.  Set to 1 it makes no
changes from existing behavior, but set to greater than 1 (e.g. 100)
it acts as a multiplier for the scheduling interval for reevaluating
load when the CPU is at its top speed due to high load.  This improves
performance by reducing the overhead of load evaluation and helping
the CPU stay at its top speed when truly busy, rather than shifting
back and forth in speed.  This tunable has no effect on behavior at
lower speeds/lower CPU loads.

This patch is against 2.6.36-rc6.

This patch should help solve kernel bug 19672 "ondemand is slow".

Signed-off-by: David Niemi <dniemi@verisign.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
CC: Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher@gmail.com>
CC: <cpufreq-list@vger.kernel.org>
CC: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

For UP systems this is not required, and results in a more consistent
sample interval.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jocelyn Falempe <jocelyn.falempe@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>