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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq</title>
<updated>2010-04-24T18:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-04-24T18:35:21+00:00</published>
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] use max load in conservative governor
  [CPUFREQ] fix a lockdep warning
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* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] use max load in conservative governor
  [CPUFREQ] fix a lockdep warning
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<entry>
<title>[CPUFREQ] use max load in conservative governor</title>
<updated>2010-03-31T16:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-26T09:01:34+00:00</published>
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Instead of using the load of the last CPU in a package, use the
maximum load of all CPUs in a package.

Reported-by: Jean-Christian Goussard &lt;jeanchristian.goussard@sfr.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Instead of using the load of the last CPU in a package, use the
maximum load of all CPUs in a package.

Reported-by: Jean-Christian Goussard &lt;jeanchristian.goussard@sfr.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[CPUFREQ] fix a lockdep warning</title>
<updated>2010-03-31T16:00:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amerigo Wang</name>
<email>amwang@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-04T08:23:46+00:00</published>
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There is no need to do sysfs_remove_link() or kobject_put() etc.
when policy_rwsem_write is held, move them after releasing the lock.

This fixes the lockdep warning:

halt/4071 is trying to acquire lock:
 (s_active){++++.+}, at: [&lt;c0000000001ef868&gt;] .sysfs_addrm_finish+0x58/0xc0

but task is already holding lock:
 (&amp;per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c0000000004cd6ac&gt;] .lock_policy_rwsem_write+0x84/0xf4

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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There is no need to do sysfs_remove_link() or kobject_put() etc.
when policy_rwsem_write is held, move them after releasing the lock.

This fixes the lockdep warning:

halt/4071 is trying to acquire lock:
 (s_active){++++.+}, at: [&lt;c0000000001ef868&gt;] .sysfs_addrm_finish+0x58/0xc0

but task is already holding lock:
 (&amp;per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu)){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c0000000004cd6ac&gt;] .lock_policy_rwsem_write+0x84/0xf4

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong &lt;amwang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.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>Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emese Revfy</name>
<email>re.emese@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-19T01:58:23+00:00</published>
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Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski &lt;maciej.sosnowski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch &lt;hjk@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;shemminger@vyatta.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits</title>
<updated>2010-01-13T15:55:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com</name>
<email>Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-21T22:40:52+00:00</published>
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Dominik said:
target_freq cannot be below policy-&gt;min or above policy-&gt;max.
If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken.

But (answer):
I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is
below policy-&gt;min.
...
A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency
requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check:

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;

# diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
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Dominik said:
target_freq cannot be below policy-&gt;min or above policy-&gt;max.
If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken.

But (answer):
I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is
below policy-&gt;min.
...
A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency
requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check:

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;

# diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-14T17:58:24+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[ACPI/CPUFREQ] Introduce bios_limit per cpu cpufreq sysfs interface</title>
<updated>2009-11-24T18:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Renninger</name>
<email>trenn@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-19T11:31:01+00:00</published>
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This interface is mainly intended (and implemented) for ACPI _PPC BIOS
frequency limitations, but other cpufreq drivers can also use it for
similar use-cases.

Why is this needed:

Currently it's not obvious why cpufreq got limited.
People see cpufreq/scaling_max_freq reduced, but this could have
happened by:
  - any userspace prog writing to scaling_max_freq
  - thermal limitations
  - hardware (_PPC in ACPI case) limitiations

Therefore export bios_limit (in kHz) to:
  - Point the user that it's the BIOS (broken or intended) which limits
    frequency
  - Export it as a sysfs interface for userspace progs.
    While this was a rarely used feature on laptops, there will appear
    more and more server implemenations providing "Green IT" features like
    allowing the service processor to limit the frequency. People want
    to know about HW/BIOS frequency limitations.

All ACPI P-state driven cpufreq drivers are covered with this patch:
  - powernow-k8
  - powernow-k7
  - acpi-cpufreq

Tested with a patched DSDT which limits the first two cores (_PPC returns 1)
via _PPC, exposed by bios_limit:
# echo 2200000 &gt;cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
# cat cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
2600000
2600000
2200000
2200000
# #scaling_max_freq shows general user/thermal/BIOS limitations

# cat cpu*/cpufreq/bios_limit
2600000
2600000
2800000
2800000
# #bios_limit only shows the HW/BIOS limitation

CC: Pallipadi Venkatesh &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
CC: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
CC: davej@codemonkey.org.uk
CC: linux@dominikbrodowski.net

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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This interface is mainly intended (and implemented) for ACPI _PPC BIOS
frequency limitations, but other cpufreq drivers can also use it for
similar use-cases.

Why is this needed:

Currently it's not obvious why cpufreq got limited.
People see cpufreq/scaling_max_freq reduced, but this could have
happened by:
  - any userspace prog writing to scaling_max_freq
  - thermal limitations
  - hardware (_PPC in ACPI case) limitiations

Therefore export bios_limit (in kHz) to:
  - Point the user that it's the BIOS (broken or intended) which limits
    frequency
  - Export it as a sysfs interface for userspace progs.
    While this was a rarely used feature on laptops, there will appear
    more and more server implemenations providing "Green IT" features like
    allowing the service processor to limit the frequency. People want
    to know about HW/BIOS frequency limitations.

All ACPI P-state driven cpufreq drivers are covered with this patch:
  - powernow-k8
  - powernow-k7
  - acpi-cpufreq

Tested with a patched DSDT which limits the first two cores (_PPC returns 1)
via _PPC, exposed by bios_limit:
# echo 2200000 &gt;cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
# cat cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
2600000
2600000
2200000
2200000
# #scaling_max_freq shows general user/thermal/BIOS limitations

# cat cpu*/cpufreq/bios_limit
2600000
2600000
2800000
2800000
# #bios_limit only shows the HW/BIOS limitation

CC: Pallipadi Venkatesh &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
CC: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
CC: davej@codemonkey.org.uk
CC: linux@dominikbrodowski.net

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>[CPUFREQ] make internal cpufreq_add_dev_* static</title>
<updated>2009-11-24T18:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Chiang</name>
<email>achiang@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-11-18T03:27:08+00:00</published>
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No need to export these symbols; make them static.

	cpufreq_add_dev_policy
	cpufreq_add_dev_symlink
	cpufreq_add_dev_interface

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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No need to export these symbols; make them static.

	cpufreq_add_dev_policy
	cpufreq_add_dev_symlink
	cpufreq_add_dev_interface

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang &lt;achiang@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>[CPUFREQ] Use global sysfs cpufreq structure for conservative governor tunings</title>
<updated>2009-11-24T18:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Renninger</name>
<email>trenn@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-01T17:49:28+00:00</published>
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Same adustments that have been added to the ondemand recently.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Same adustments that have been added to the ondemand recently.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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