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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/cpufreq, branch v3.10.56</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: Makefile: fix compilation for davinci platform</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T22:58:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prabhakar Lad</name>
<email>prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-08T15:25:38+00:00</published>
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commit 5a90af67c2126fe1d04ebccc1f8177e6ca70d3a9 upstream.

Since commtit 8a7b1227e303 (cpufreq: davinci: move cpufreq driver to
drivers/cpufreq) this added dependancy only for CONFIG_ARCH_DAVINCI_DA850
where as davinci_cpufreq_init() call is used by all davinci platform.

This patch fixes following build error:

arch/arm/mach-davinci/built-in.o: In function `davinci_init_late':
:(.init.text+0x928): undefined reference to `davinci_cpufreq_init'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Fixes: 8a7b1227e303 (cpufreq: davinci: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq)
Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar &lt;prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 5a90af67c2126fe1d04ebccc1f8177e6ca70d3a9 upstream.

Since commtit 8a7b1227e303 (cpufreq: davinci: move cpufreq driver to
drivers/cpufreq) this added dependancy only for CONFIG_ARCH_DAVINCI_DA850
where as davinci_cpufreq_init() call is used by all davinci platform.

This patch fixes following build error:

arch/arm/mach-davinci/built-in.o: In function `davinci_init_late':
:(.init.text+0x928): undefined reference to `davinci_cpufreq_init'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Fixes: 8a7b1227e303 (cpufreq: davinci: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq)
Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar &lt;prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption due to double queueing</title>
<updated>2014-04-14T13:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-27T18:47:29+00:00</published>
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commit 3617f2ca6d0eba48114308532945a7f1577816a4 upstream.

When a CPU is hot removed we'll cancel all the delayed work items
via gov_cancel_work(). Normally this will just cancels a delayed
timer on each CPU that the policy is managing and the work won't
run, but if the work is already running the workqueue code will
wait for the work to finish before continuing to prevent the
work items from re-queuing themselves like they normally do. This
scheme will work most of the time, except for the case where the
work function determines that it should adjust the delay for all
other CPUs that the policy is managing. If this scenario occurs,
the canceling CPU will cancel its own work but queue up the other
CPUs works to run. For example:

 CPU0                                        CPU1
 ----                                        ----
 cpu_down()
  ...
  __cpufreq_remove_dev()
   cpufreq_governor_dbs()
    case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP:
     gov_cancel_work(dbs_data, policy);
      cpu0 work is canceled
       timer is canceled
       cpu1 work is canceled                    &lt;work runs&gt;
       &lt;waits for cpu1&gt;                         od_dbs_timer()
                                                 gov_queue_work(*, *, true);
 						  cpu0 work queued
 						  cpu1 work queued
						  cpu2 work queued
						  ...
       cpu1 work is canceled
       cpu2 work is canceled
       ...

At the end of the GOV_STOP case cpu0 still has a work queued to
run although the code is expecting all of the works to be
canceled. __cpufreq_remove_dev() will then proceed to
re-initialize all the other CPUs works except for the CPU that is
going down. The CPUFREQ_GOV_START case in cpufreq_governor_dbs()
will trample over the queued work and debugobjects will spit out
a warning:

WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc()
ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x10
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1491 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W    3.10.0 #19
[&lt;c010c178&gt;] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x11c) from [&lt;c0109dec&gt;] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[&lt;c0109dec&gt;] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [&lt;c01904cc&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x6c)
[&lt;c01904cc&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x6c) from [&lt;c019056c&gt;] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2c/0x3c)
[&lt;c019056c&gt;] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2c/0x3c) from [&lt;c0388a7c&gt;] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc)
[&lt;c0388a7c&gt;] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc) from [&lt;c0388e34&gt;] (__debug_object_init+0x2d0/0x340)
[&lt;c0388e34&gt;] (__debug_object_init+0x2d0/0x340) from [&lt;c019e3b0&gt;] (init_timer_key+0x14/0xb0)
[&lt;c019e3b0&gt;] (init_timer_key+0x14/0xb0) from [&lt;c0635f78&gt;] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x3e8/0x5f8)
[&lt;c0635f78&gt;] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x3e8/0x5f8) from [&lt;c06325a0&gt;] (__cpufreq_governor+0xdc/0x1a4)
[&lt;c06325a0&gt;] (__cpufreq_governor+0xdc/0x1a4) from [&lt;c0633704&gt;] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.10+0x3b4/0x434)
[&lt;c0633704&gt;] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.10+0x3b4/0x434) from [&lt;c08989f4&gt;] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x60/0x80)
[&lt;c08989f4&gt;] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x60/0x80) from [&lt;c08a43c0&gt;] (notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x68)
[&lt;c08a43c0&gt;] (notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x68) from [&lt;c01938e0&gt;] (__cpu_notify+0x28/0x40)
[&lt;c01938e0&gt;] (__cpu_notify+0x28/0x40) from [&lt;c0892ad4&gt;] (_cpu_down+0x7c/0x2c0)
[&lt;c0892ad4&gt;] (_cpu_down+0x7c/0x2c0) from [&lt;c0892d3c&gt;] (cpu_down+0x24/0x40)
[&lt;c0892d3c&gt;] (cpu_down+0x24/0x40) from [&lt;c0893ea8&gt;] (store_online+0x2c/0x74)
[&lt;c0893ea8&gt;] (store_online+0x2c/0x74) from [&lt;c04519d8&gt;] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24)
[&lt;c04519d8&gt;] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24) from [&lt;c02a69d4&gt;] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x148)
[&lt;c02a69d4&gt;] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x148) from [&lt;c0255c18&gt;] (vfs_write+0xcc/0x174)
[&lt;c0255c18&gt;] (vfs_write+0xcc/0x174) from [&lt;c0255f70&gt;] (SyS_write+0x38/0x64)
[&lt;c0255f70&gt;] (SyS_write+0x38/0x64) from [&lt;c0106120&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3617f2ca6d0eba48114308532945a7f1577816a4 upstream.

When a CPU is hot removed we'll cancel all the delayed work items
via gov_cancel_work(). Normally this will just cancels a delayed
timer on each CPU that the policy is managing and the work won't
run, but if the work is already running the workqueue code will
wait for the work to finish before continuing to prevent the
work items from re-queuing themselves like they normally do. This
scheme will work most of the time, except for the case where the
work function determines that it should adjust the delay for all
other CPUs that the policy is managing. If this scenario occurs,
the canceling CPU will cancel its own work but queue up the other
CPUs works to run. For example:

 CPU0                                        CPU1
 ----                                        ----
 cpu_down()
  ...
  __cpufreq_remove_dev()
   cpufreq_governor_dbs()
    case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP:
     gov_cancel_work(dbs_data, policy);
      cpu0 work is canceled
       timer is canceled
       cpu1 work is canceled                    &lt;work runs&gt;
       &lt;waits for cpu1&gt;                         od_dbs_timer()
                                                 gov_queue_work(*, *, true);
 						  cpu0 work queued
 						  cpu1 work queued
						  cpu2 work queued
						  ...
       cpu1 work is canceled
       cpu2 work is canceled
       ...

At the end of the GOV_STOP case cpu0 still has a work queued to
run although the code is expecting all of the works to be
canceled. __cpufreq_remove_dev() will then proceed to
re-initialize all the other CPUs works except for the CPU that is
going down. The CPUFREQ_GOV_START case in cpufreq_governor_dbs()
will trample over the queued work and debugobjects will spit out
a warning:

WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc()
ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x10
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1491 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W    3.10.0 #19
[&lt;c010c178&gt;] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x11c) from [&lt;c0109dec&gt;] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[&lt;c0109dec&gt;] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [&lt;c01904cc&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x6c)
[&lt;c01904cc&gt;] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x6c) from [&lt;c019056c&gt;] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2c/0x3c)
[&lt;c019056c&gt;] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2c/0x3c) from [&lt;c0388a7c&gt;] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc)
[&lt;c0388a7c&gt;] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc) from [&lt;c0388e34&gt;] (__debug_object_init+0x2d0/0x340)
[&lt;c0388e34&gt;] (__debug_object_init+0x2d0/0x340) from [&lt;c019e3b0&gt;] (init_timer_key+0x14/0xb0)
[&lt;c019e3b0&gt;] (init_timer_key+0x14/0xb0) from [&lt;c0635f78&gt;] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x3e8/0x5f8)
[&lt;c0635f78&gt;] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x3e8/0x5f8) from [&lt;c06325a0&gt;] (__cpufreq_governor+0xdc/0x1a4)
[&lt;c06325a0&gt;] (__cpufreq_governor+0xdc/0x1a4) from [&lt;c0633704&gt;] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.10+0x3b4/0x434)
[&lt;c0633704&gt;] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.10+0x3b4/0x434) from [&lt;c08989f4&gt;] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x60/0x80)
[&lt;c08989f4&gt;] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x60/0x80) from [&lt;c08a43c0&gt;] (notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x68)
[&lt;c08a43c0&gt;] (notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x68) from [&lt;c01938e0&gt;] (__cpu_notify+0x28/0x40)
[&lt;c01938e0&gt;] (__cpu_notify+0x28/0x40) from [&lt;c0892ad4&gt;] (_cpu_down+0x7c/0x2c0)
[&lt;c0892ad4&gt;] (_cpu_down+0x7c/0x2c0) from [&lt;c0892d3c&gt;] (cpu_down+0x24/0x40)
[&lt;c0892d3c&gt;] (cpu_down+0x24/0x40) from [&lt;c0893ea8&gt;] (store_online+0x2c/0x74)
[&lt;c0893ea8&gt;] (store_online+0x2c/0x74) from [&lt;c04519d8&gt;] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24)
[&lt;c04519d8&gt;] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24) from [&lt;c02a69d4&gt;] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x148)
[&lt;c02a69d4&gt;] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x148) from [&lt;c0255c18&gt;] (vfs_write+0xcc/0x174)
[&lt;c0255c18&gt;] (vfs_write+0xcc/0x174) from [&lt;c0255f70&gt;] (SyS_write+0x38/0x64)
[&lt;c0255f70&gt;] (SyS_write+0x38/0x64) from [&lt;c0106120&gt;] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: Fix governor start/stop race condition</title>
<updated>2014-04-14T13:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiaoguang Chen</name>
<email>chenxg@marvell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-19T07:00:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=ba17ca46b968001df16f672ffe694fd0a12512f2'/>
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commit 95731ebb114c5f0c028459388560fc2a72fe5049 upstream.

Cpufreq governors' stop and start operations should be carried out
in sequence.  Otherwise, there will be unexpected behavior, like in
the example below.

Suppose there are 4 CPUs and policy-&gt;cpu=CPU0, CPU1/2/3 are linked
to CPU0.  The normal sequence is:

 1) Current governor is userspace.  An application tries to set the
    governor to ondemand.  It will call __cpufreq_set_policy() in
    which it will stop the userspace governor and then start the
    ondemand governor.

 2) Current governor is userspace.  The online of CPU3 runs on CPU0.
    It will call cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() in which it will first
    stop the userspace governor, and then start it again.

If the sequence of the above two cases interleaves, it becomes:

 1) Application stops userspace governor
 2)                                  Hotplug stops userspace governor

which is a problem, because the governor shouldn't be stopped twice
in a row.  What happens next is:

 3) Application starts ondemand governor
 4)                                  Hotplug starts a governor

In step 4, the hotplug is supposed to start the userspace governor,
but now the governor has been changed by the application to ondemand,
so the ondemand governor is started once again, which is incorrect.

The solution is to prevent policy governors from being stopped
multiple times in a row.  A governor should only be stopped once for
one policy.  After it has been stopped, no more governor stop
operations should be executed.

Also add a mutex to serialize governor operations.

[rjw: Changelog.  And you owe me a beverage of my choice.]
Signed-off-by: Xiaoguang Chen &lt;chenxg@marvell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 95731ebb114c5f0c028459388560fc2a72fe5049 upstream.

Cpufreq governors' stop and start operations should be carried out
in sequence.  Otherwise, there will be unexpected behavior, like in
the example below.

Suppose there are 4 CPUs and policy-&gt;cpu=CPU0, CPU1/2/3 are linked
to CPU0.  The normal sequence is:

 1) Current governor is userspace.  An application tries to set the
    governor to ondemand.  It will call __cpufreq_set_policy() in
    which it will stop the userspace governor and then start the
    ondemand governor.

 2) Current governor is userspace.  The online of CPU3 runs on CPU0.
    It will call cpufreq_add_policy_cpu() in which it will first
    stop the userspace governor, and then start it again.

If the sequence of the above two cases interleaves, it becomes:

 1) Application stops userspace governor
 2)                                  Hotplug stops userspace governor

which is a problem, because the governor shouldn't be stopped twice
in a row.  What happens next is:

 3) Application starts ondemand governor
 4)                                  Hotplug starts a governor

In step 4, the hotplug is supposed to start the userspace governor,
but now the governor has been changed by the application to ondemand,
so the ondemand governor is started once again, which is incorrect.

The solution is to prevent policy governors from being stopped
multiple times in a row.  A governor should only be stopped once for
one policy.  After it has been stopped, no more governor stop
operations should be executed.

Also add a mutex to serialize governor operations.

[rjw: Changelog.  And you owe me a beverage of my choice.]
Signed-off-by: Xiaoguang Chen &lt;chenxg@marvell.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powernow-k6: reorder frequencies</title>
<updated>2014-04-14T13:42:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T00:39:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=45deaa3ba8c4e0767d35e979507e312ed60f17de'/>
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commit 22c73795b101597051924556dce019385a1e2fa0 upstream.

This patch reorders reported frequencies from the highest to the lowest,
just like in other frequency drivers.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit 22c73795b101597051924556dce019385a1e2fa0 upstream.

This patch reorders reported frequencies from the highest to the lowest,
just like in other frequency drivers.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powernow-k6: correctly initialize default parameters</title>
<updated>2014-04-14T13:42:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T00:38:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=59b61f4dd5ff067928db50270fedeef365f721de'/>
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commit d82b922a4acc1781d368aceac2f9da43b038cab2 upstream.

The powernow-k6 driver used to read the initial multiplier from the
powernow register. However, there is a problem with this:

* If there was a frequency transition before, the multiplier read from the
  register corresponds to the current multiplier.
* If there was no frequency transition since reset, the field in the
  register always reads as zero, regardless of the current multiplier that
  is set using switches on the mainboard and that the CPU is running at.

The zero value corresponds to multiplier 4.5, so as a consequence, the
powernow-k6 driver always assumes multiplier 4.5.

For example, if we have 550MHz CPU with bus frequency 100MHz and
multiplier 5.5, the powernow-k6 driver thinks that the multiplier is 4.5
and bus frequency is 122MHz. The powernow-k6 driver then sets the
multiplier to 4.5, underclocking the CPU to 450MHz, but reports the
current frequency as 550MHz.

There is no reliable way how to read the initial multiplier. I modified
the driver so that it contains a table of known frequencies (based on
parameters of existing CPUs and some common overclocking schemes) and sets
the multiplier according to the frequency. If the frequency is unknown
(because of unusual overclocking or underclocking), the user must supply
the bus speed and maximum multiplier as module parameters.

This patch should be backported to all stable kernels. If it doesn't
apply cleanly, change it, or ask me to change it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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commit d82b922a4acc1781d368aceac2f9da43b038cab2 upstream.

The powernow-k6 driver used to read the initial multiplier from the
powernow register. However, there is a problem with this:

* If there was a frequency transition before, the multiplier read from the
  register corresponds to the current multiplier.
* If there was no frequency transition since reset, the field in the
  register always reads as zero, regardless of the current multiplier that
  is set using switches on the mainboard and that the CPU is running at.

The zero value corresponds to multiplier 4.5, so as a consequence, the
powernow-k6 driver always assumes multiplier 4.5.

For example, if we have 550MHz CPU with bus frequency 100MHz and
multiplier 5.5, the powernow-k6 driver thinks that the multiplier is 4.5
and bus frequency is 122MHz. The powernow-k6 driver then sets the
multiplier to 4.5, underclocking the CPU to 450MHz, but reports the
current frequency as 550MHz.

There is no reliable way how to read the initial multiplier. I modified
the driver so that it contains a table of known frequencies (based on
parameters of existing CPUs and some common overclocking schemes) and sets
the multiplier according to the frequency. If the frequency is unknown
(because of unusual overclocking or underclocking), the user must supply
the bus speed and maximum multiplier as module parameters.

This patch should be backported to all stable kernels. If it doesn't
apply cleanly, change it, or ask me to change it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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<entry>
<title>powernow-k6: disable cache when changing frequency</title>
<updated>2014-04-14T13:42:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T00:38:32+00:00</published>
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commit e20e1d0ac02308e2211306fc67abcd0b2668fb8b upstream.

I found out that a system with k6-3+ processor is unstable during network
server load. The system locks up or the network card stops receiving. The
reason for the instability is the CPU frequency scaling.

During frequency transition the processor is in "EPM Stop Grant" state.
The documentation says that the processor doesn't respond to inquiry
requests in this state. Consequently, coherency of processor caches and
bus master devices is not maintained, causing the system instability.

This patch flushes the cache during frequency transition. It fixes the
instability.

Other minor changes:
* u64 invalue changed to unsigned long because the variable is 32-bit
* move the logic to set the multiplier to a separate function
  powernow_k6_set_cpu_multiplier
* preserve lower 5 bits of the powernow port instead of 4 (the voltage
  field has 5 bits)
* mask interrupts when reading the multiplier, so that the port is not
  open during other activity (running other kernel code with the port open
  shouldn't cause any misbehavior, but we should better be safe and keep
  the port closed)

This patch should be backported to all stable kernels. If it doesn't
apply cleanly, change it, or ask me to change it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e20e1d0ac02308e2211306fc67abcd0b2668fb8b upstream.

I found out that a system with k6-3+ processor is unstable during network
server load. The system locks up or the network card stops receiving. The
reason for the instability is the CPU frequency scaling.

During frequency transition the processor is in "EPM Stop Grant" state.
The documentation says that the processor doesn't respond to inquiry
requests in this state. Consequently, coherency of processor caches and
bus master devices is not maintained, causing the system instability.

This patch flushes the cache during frequency transition. It fixes the
instability.

Other minor changes:
* u64 invalue changed to unsigned long because the variable is 32-bit
* move the logic to set the multiplier to a separate function
  powernow_k6_set_cpu_multiplier
* preserve lower 5 bits of the powernow port instead of 4 (the voltage
  field has 5 bits)
* mask interrupts when reading the multiplier, so that the port is not
  open during other activity (running other kernel code with the port open
  shouldn't cause any misbehavior, but we should better be safe and keep
  the port closed)

This patch should be backported to all stable kernels. If it doesn't
apply cleanly, change it, or ask me to change it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: powernow-k8: Initialize per-cpu data-structures properly</title>
<updated>2014-03-07T05:30:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-17T10:48:21+00:00</published>
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commit c3274763bfc3bf1ececa269ed6e6c4d7ec1c3e5e upstream.

The powernow-k8 driver maintains a per-cpu data-structure called
powernow_data that is used to perform the frequency transitions.
It initializes this data structure only for the policy-&gt;cpu. So,
accesses to this data structure by other CPUs results in various
problems because they would have been uninitialized.

Specifically, if a cpu (!= policy-&gt;cpu) invokes the drivers' -&gt;get()
function, it returns 0 as the KHz value, since its per-cpu memory
doesn't point to anything valid. This causes problems during
suspend/resume since cpufreq_update_policy() tries to enforce this
(0 KHz) as the current frequency of the CPU, and this madness gets
propagated to adjust_jiffies() as well. Eventually, lots of things
start breaking down, including the r8169 ethernet card, in one
particularly interesting case reported by Pierre Ossman.

Fix this by initializing the per-cpu data-structures of all the CPUs
in the policy appropriately.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70311
Reported-by: Pierre Ossman &lt;pierre@ossman.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c3274763bfc3bf1ececa269ed6e6c4d7ec1c3e5e upstream.

The powernow-k8 driver maintains a per-cpu data-structure called
powernow_data that is used to perform the frequency transitions.
It initializes this data structure only for the policy-&gt;cpu. So,
accesses to this data structure by other CPUs results in various
problems because they would have been uninitialized.

Specifically, if a cpu (!= policy-&gt;cpu) invokes the drivers' -&gt;get()
function, it returns 0 as the KHz value, since its per-cpu memory
doesn't point to anything valid. This causes problems during
suspend/resume since cpufreq_update_policy() tries to enforce this
(0 KHz) as the current frequency of the CPU, and this madness gets
propagated to adjust_jiffies() as well. Eventually, lots of things
start breaking down, including the r8169 ethernet card, in one
particularly interesting case reported by Pierre Ossman.

Fix this by initializing the per-cpu data-structures of all the CPUs
in the policy appropriately.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70311
Reported-by: Pierre Ossman &lt;pierre@ossman.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_pstate: Correct calculation of min pstate value</title>
<updated>2014-02-13T21:48:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dirk Brandewie</name>
<email>dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-21T16:20:33+00:00</published>
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commit 7244cb62d96e735847dc9d08f870550df896898c upstream.

The minimum pstate is supposed to be a percentage of the maximum P
state available.  Calculate min using max pstate and not the
current max which may have been limited by the user

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 7244cb62d96e735847dc9d08f870550df896898c upstream.

The minimum pstate is supposed to be a percentage of the maximum P
state available.  Calculate min using max pstate and not the
current max which may have been limited by the user

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_pstate: Improve accuracy by not truncating until final result</title>
<updated>2014-02-13T21:48:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brennan Shacklett</name>
<email>brennan@genyes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-21T16:20:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=e34ce30f3226936bf8f43dc3d2616acd268a8cd2'/>
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commit d253d2a52676cfa3d89b8f0737a08ce7db665207 upstream.

This patch addresses Bug 60727
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60727)
which was due to the truncation of intermediate values in the
calculations, which causes the code to consistently underestimate the
current cpu frequency, specifically 100% cpu utilization was truncated
down to the setpoint of 97%. This patch fixes the problem by keeping
the results of all intermediate calculations as fixed point numbers
rather scaling them back and forth between integers and fixed point.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60727
Signed-off-by: Brennan Shacklett &lt;bpshacklett@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d253d2a52676cfa3d89b8f0737a08ce7db665207 upstream.

This patch addresses Bug 60727
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60727)
which was due to the truncation of intermediate values in the
calculations, which causes the code to consistently underestimate the
current cpu frequency, specifically 100% cpu utilization was truncated
down to the setpoint of 97%. This patch fixes the problem by keeping
the results of all intermediate calculations as fixed point numbers
rather scaling them back and forth between integers and fixed point.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60727
Signed-off-by: Brennan Shacklett &lt;bpshacklett@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_pstate: fix no_turbo</title>
<updated>2014-02-13T21:48:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srinivas Pandruvada</name>
<email>srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-01T17:28:41+00:00</published>
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commit 1ccf7a1cdafadd02e33e8f3d74370685a0600ec6 upstream.

When sysfs for no_turbo is set, then also some p states in turbo regions
are observed. This patch will set IDA Engage bit when no_turbo is set to
explicitly disengage turbo.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada &lt;srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1ccf7a1cdafadd02e33e8f3d74370685a0600ec6 upstream.

When sysfs for no_turbo is set, then also some p states in turbo regions
are observed. This patch will set IDA Engage bit when no_turbo is set to
explicitly disengage turbo.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada &lt;srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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