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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/cpuidle, branch v2.6.25.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: fix 100% C0 statistics regression</title>
<updated>2008-03-26T04:58:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venki Pallipadi</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-29T18:24:32+00:00</published>
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commit 9b12e18cdc1553de62d931e73443c806347cd974
'ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting'
was implicated in a 100% C0 idle regression.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10076

It pointed out a potential problem where the menu governor
may get confused by the C-state residency time from poll
idle or C1 idle, where this timing info is not accurate.
This inaccuracy is due to interrupts being handled
before we account for C-state exit.

Do not mark TIME_VALID for CO poll state.
Mark C1 time as valid only with the MWAIT (CSTATE_FFH) entry method.

This makes governors use the timing information only when it is correct and
eliminates any wrong policy decisions that may result from invalid timing
information.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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commit 9b12e18cdc1553de62d931e73443c806347cd974
'ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting'
was implicated in a 100% C0 idle regression.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10076

It pointed out a potential problem where the menu governor
may get confused by the C-state residency time from poll
idle or C1 idle, where this timing info is not accurate.
This inaccuracy is due to interrupts being handled
before we account for C-state exit.

Do not mark TIME_VALID for CO poll state.
Mark C1 time as valid only with the MWAIT (CSTATE_FFH) entry method.

This makes governors use the timing information only when it is correct and
eliminates any wrong policy decisions that may result from invalid timing
information.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: fix cpuidle time and usage overflow</title>
<updated>2008-03-26T04:45:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yi Yang</name>
<email>yi.y.yang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-25T00:46:12+00:00</published>
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cpuidle C-state sysfs node time and usage are very easy to overflow because
they are all of unsigned int type, time will overflow within about two hours,
usage will take longer time to overflow, but they are increasing for ever.

This patch will convert them to unsigned long long.

Signed-off-by: Yi Yang &lt;yi.y.yang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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cpuidle C-state sysfs node time and usage are very easy to overflow because
they are all of unsigned int type, time will overflow within about two hours,
usage will take longer time to overflow, but they are increasing for ever.

This patch will convert them to unsigned long long.

Signed-off-by: Yi Yang &lt;yi.y.yang@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI, cpuidle: Clarify C-state description in sysfs</title>
<updated>2008-02-14T05:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venkatesh Pallipadi</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-12T01:46:31+00:00</published>
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Add a new sysfs entry under cpuidle states. desc - can be used by driver to
communicate to userspace any specific information about the state.
This helps in identifying the exact hardware C-states behind the ACPI C-state
definition.

Idea is to export this through powertop, which will help to map the C-state
reported by powertop to actual hardware C-state.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Add a new sysfs entry under cpuidle states. desc - can be used by driver to
communicate to userspace any specific information about the state.
This helps in identifying the exact hardware C-states behind the ACPI C-state
definition.

Idea is to export this through powertop, which will help to map the C-state
reported by powertop to actual hardware C-state.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: build fix for non-x86</title>
<updated>2008-02-09T08:33:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venki Pallipadi</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-09T01:05:44+00:00</published>
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The last posted version of this patch gave compile error
on IA64. So, here goes yet another rewrite of the patch.

Convert cpu_idle_wait() to cpuidle_kick_cpus() which is
SMP-only, and gives error on non supported CPU.

Changes from last patch sent by Kevin:
Moved the definition of kick_cpus back to cpuidle.c from cpuidle.h:
* Having it in .h gives #error on archs which includes the header file without
  actually having CPU_IDLE configured. To make it work in .h, we need one more
  #ifdef around that code which makes it messy.
* Also, the function is only called from one file. So, it can be in declared
  statically in .c rather than making it available to everyone who includes
  the .h file.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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The last posted version of this patch gave compile error
on IA64. So, here goes yet another rewrite of the patch.

Convert cpu_idle_wait() to cpuidle_kick_cpus() which is
SMP-only, and gives error on non supported CPU.

Changes from last patch sent by Kevin:
Moved the definition of kick_cpus back to cpuidle.c from cpuidle.h:
* Having it in .h gives #error on archs which includes the header file without
  actually having CPU_IDLE configured. To make it work in .h, we need one more
  #ifdef around that code which makes it messy.
* Also, the function is only called from one file. So, it can be in declared
  statically in .c rather than making it available to everyone who includes
  the .h file.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@mvista.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "cpuidle: build fix for non-x86"</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T09:16:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T09:16:34+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit f757397097d0713c949af76dccabb65a2785782e.
which ironically broke the ia64 build
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This reverts commit f757397097d0713c949af76dccabb65a2785782e.
which ironically broke the ia64 build
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'release', 'cpuidle-2.6.25' and 'idle' into release</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T08:11:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T08:11:05+00:00</published>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: Add a poll_idle method</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T07:20:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-01T01:35:06+00:00</published>
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Add a default poll idle state with 0 latency. Provides an option to users
to use poll_idle by using 0 as the latency requirement.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Add a default poll idle state with 0 latency. Provides an option to users
to use poll_idle by using 0 as the latency requirement.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pm qos infrastructure and interface</title>
<updated>2008-02-05T17:44:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gross</name>
<email>mgross@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-05T06:30:08+00:00</published>
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The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done
by Arjan last year.  It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter,
and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos
expectations of processes.

This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering
performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on
one of the parameters.

Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as
the initial set of pm_qos parameters.

The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented
parameter.  The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init()
and pm_qos_params.h.  This is done because having the available parameters
being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to
abuse.

For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with
an aggregated target value.  The aggregated target value is updated with
changes to the requirement list or elements of the list.  Typically the
aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values
held in the parameter list elements.

&gt;From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple:

pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value):

  Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS
  parameter with the target value.  Upon change to this list the new target is
  recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value
  is now different.

pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value):

  Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element
  and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the
  aggregated target is changed.  with that name is already registered.

pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name):

  Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after
  removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree
  if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement.

&gt;From user mode:

  Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement.  To provide for
  automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register
  its parameter requirements in the following way:

  To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the
  process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency,
  network_throughput]

  As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered
  requirement on the parameter.  The name of the requirement is
  "process_&lt;PID&gt;" derived from the current-&gt;pid from within the open system
  call.

  To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32
  value to the open device node.  This translates to a
  pm_qos_update_requirement call.

  To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device
  node.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: mark gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Venki Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Adam Belay &lt;abelay@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done
by Arjan last year.  It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter,
and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos
expectations of processes.

This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering
performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on
one of the parameters.

Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as
the initial set of pm_qos parameters.

The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented
parameter.  The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init()
and pm_qos_params.h.  This is done because having the available parameters
being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to
abuse.

For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with
an aggregated target value.  The aggregated target value is updated with
changes to the requirement list or elements of the list.  Typically the
aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values
held in the parameter list elements.

&gt;From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple:

pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value):

  Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS
  parameter with the target value.  Upon change to this list the new target is
  recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value
  is now different.

pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value):

  Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element
  and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the
  aggregated target is changed.  with that name is already registered.

pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name):

  Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after
  removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree
  if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement.

&gt;From user mode:

  Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement.  To provide for
  automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register
  its parameter requirements in the following way:

  To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the
  process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency,
  network_throughput]

  As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered
  requirement on the parameter.  The name of the requirement is
  "process_&lt;PID&gt;" derived from the current-&gt;pid from within the open system
  call.

  To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32
  value to the open device node.  This translates to a
  pm_qos_update_requirement call.

  To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device
  node.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: mark gross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "John W. Linville" &lt;linville@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Venki Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Adam Belay &lt;abelay@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: build fix for non-x86</title>
<updated>2008-02-01T03:50:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hilman</name>
<email>khilman@mvista.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-01T01:28:18+00:00</published>
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Convert cpu_idle_wait() to cpuidle_kick_cpus() macro which is
SMP-only, and gives error on non supported CPU.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Convert cpu_idle_wait() to cpuidle_kick_cpus() macro which is
SMP-only, and gives error on non supported CPU.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Kobject: convert drivers/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()</title>
<updated>2008-01-25T04:40:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-20T16:13:05+00:00</published>
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There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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