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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86 idle: Repair large-server 50-watt idle-power regression</title>
<updated>2014-01-09T20:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-18T21:44:57+00:00</published>
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commit 40e2d7f9b5dae048789c64672bf3027fbb663ffa upstream.

Linux 3.10 changed the timing of how thread_info-&gt;flags is touched:

	x86: Use generic idle loop
	(7d1a941731fabf27e5fb6edbebb79fe856edb4e5)

This caused Intel NHM-EX and WSM-EX servers to experience a large number
of immediate MONITOR/MWAIT break wakeups, which caused cpuidle to demote
from deep C-states to shallow C-states, which caused these platforms
to experience a significant increase in idle power.

Note that this issue was already present before the commit above,
however, it wasn't seen often enough to be noticed in power measurements.

Here we extend an errata workaround from the Core2 EX "Dunnington"
to extend to NHM-EX and WSM-EX, to prevent these immediate
returns from MWAIT, reducing idle power on these platforms.

While only acpi_idle ran on Dunnington, intel_idle
may also run on these two newer systems.
As of today, there are no other models that are known
to need this tweak.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJvTdK=%2BaNN66mYpCGgbHGCHhYQAKx-vB0kJSWjVpsNb_hOAtQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baff264285f6e585df757d58b17788feabc68918.1387403066.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 40e2d7f9b5dae048789c64672bf3027fbb663ffa upstream.

Linux 3.10 changed the timing of how thread_info-&gt;flags is touched:

	x86: Use generic idle loop
	(7d1a941731fabf27e5fb6edbebb79fe856edb4e5)

This caused Intel NHM-EX and WSM-EX servers to experience a large number
of immediate MONITOR/MWAIT break wakeups, which caused cpuidle to demote
from deep C-states to shallow C-states, which caused these platforms
to experience a significant increase in idle power.

Note that this issue was already present before the commit above,
however, it wasn't seen often enough to be noticed in power measurements.

Here we extend an errata workaround from the Core2 EX "Dunnington"
to extend to NHM-EX and WSM-EX, to prevent these immediate
returns from MWAIT, reducing idle power on these platforms.

While only acpi_idle ran on Dunnington, intel_idle
may also run on these two newer systems.
As of today, there are no other models that are known
to need this tweak.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJvTdK=%2BaNN66mYpCGgbHGCHhYQAKx-vB0kJSWjVpsNb_hOAtQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baff264285f6e585df757d58b17788feabc68918.1387403066.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sched, idle: Fix the idle polling state logic</title>
<updated>2013-11-29T19:11:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-11T10:43:13+00:00</published>
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commit ea8117478918a4734586d35ff530721b682425be upstream.

Mike reported that commit 7d1a9417 ("x86: Use generic idle loop")
regressed several workloads and caused excessive reschedule
interrupts.

The patch in question failed to notice that the x86 code had an
inverted sense of the polling state versus the new generic code (x86:
default polling, generic: default !polling).

Fix the two prominent x86 mwait based idle drivers and introduce a few
new generic polling helpers (fixing the wrong smp_mb__after_clear_bit
usage).

Also switch the idle routines to using tif_need_resched() which is an
immediate TIF_NEED_RESCHED test as opposed to need_resched which will
end up being slightly different.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;bitbucket@online.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nc03imb0etuefmzybzj7sprf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ea8117478918a4734586d35ff530721b682425be upstream.

Mike reported that commit 7d1a9417 ("x86: Use generic idle loop")
regressed several workloads and caused excessive reschedule
interrupts.

The patch in question failed to notice that the x86 code had an
inverted sense of the polling state versus the new generic code (x86:
default polling, generic: default !polling).

Fix the two prominent x86 mwait based idle drivers and introduce a few
new generic polling helpers (fixing the wrong smp_mb__after_clear_bit
usage).

Also switch the idle routines to using tif_need_resched() which is an
immediate TIF_NEED_RESCHED test as opposed to need_resched which will
end up being slightly different.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith &lt;bitbucket@online.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nc03imb0etuefmzybzj7sprf@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux</title>
<updated>2013-05-11T22:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-11T22:23:17+00:00</published>
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Pull idle update from Len Brown:
 "Add support for new Haswell-ULT CPU idle power states"

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  intel_idle: initial C8, C9, C10 support
  tools/power turbostat: display C8, C9, C10 residency
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Pull idle update from Len Brown:
 "Add support for new Haswell-ULT CPU idle power states"

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  intel_idle: initial C8, C9, C10 support
  tools/power turbostat: display C8, C9, C10 residency
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'pm-cpuidle'</title>
<updated>2013-04-27T23:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-27T23:54:49+00:00</published>
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* pm-cpuidle: (51 commits)
  cpuidle: add maintainer entry
  ARM: s3c64xx: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  SH: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  cpuidle: fix comment format
  ARM: imx: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: davinci: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: kirkwood: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: calxeda: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: tegra: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine for tegra3
  ARM: tegra: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine for tegra2
  ARM: OMAP4: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: shmobile: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: tegra: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: OMAP3: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: at91: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: ux500: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  cpuidle: make a single register function for all
  ARM: ux500: cpuidle: replace for_each_online_cpu by for_each_possible_cpu
  cpuidle: remove en_core_tk_irqen flag
  ARM: OMAP3: remove cpuidle_wrap_enter
  ...
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* pm-cpuidle: (51 commits)
  cpuidle: add maintainer entry
  ARM: s3c64xx: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  SH: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  cpuidle: fix comment format
  ARM: imx: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: davinci: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: kirkwood: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: calxeda: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: tegra: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine for tegra3
  ARM: tegra: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine for tegra2
  ARM: OMAP4: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: shmobile: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: tegra: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: OMAP3: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: at91: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  ARM: ux500: cpuidle: use init/exit common routine
  cpuidle: make a single register function for all
  ARM: ux500: cpuidle: replace for_each_online_cpu by for_each_possible_cpu
  cpuidle: remove en_core_tk_irqen flag
  ARM: OMAP3: remove cpuidle_wrap_enter
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: remove en_core_tk_irqen flag</title>
<updated>2013-04-23T11:45:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Lezcano</name>
<email>daniel.lezcano@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-23T08:54:31+00:00</published>
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The en_core_tk_irqen flag is set in all the cpuidle driver which
means it is not necessary to specify this flag.

Remove the flag and the code related to it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;  # for mach-omap2/*
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The en_core_tk_irqen flag is set in all the cpuidle driver which
means it is not necessary to specify this flag.

Remove the flag and the code related to it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman &lt;khilman@linaro.org&gt;  # for mach-omap2/*
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_idle: remove stop/start critical timings</title>
<updated>2013-04-21T22:21:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Lezcano</name>
<email>daniel.lezcano@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-21T22:21:29+00:00</published>
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The start/stop_critical_timings are called from arch/x86/kernel/process.c
in the cpu_idle loop function.

Remove the ones in the cpuidle driver.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The start/stop_critical_timings are called from arch/x86/kernel/process.c
in the cpu_idle loop function.

Remove the ones in the cpuidle driver.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_idle: initial C8, C9, C10 support</title>
<updated>2013-04-17T23:23:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-27T18:18:50+00:00</published>
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Allow intel_idle and cpuidle to utilize C8, C9, C10
when they are present on...
"Fourth Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processors",
which are based on Intel(R) microarchitecture code name Haswell.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Allow intel_idle and cpuidle to utilize C8, C9, C10
when they are present on...
"Fourth Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) Processors",
which are based on Intel(R) microarchitecture code name Haswell.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel_idle: additional Haswell CPU-id</title>
<updated>2013-03-15T14:55:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-15T14:55:31+00:00</published>
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There is an additional HSW CPU-id, 0x46,
which has C-states exactly like CPU-id 0x45.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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There is an additional HSW CPU-id, 0x46,
which has C-states exactly like CPU-id 0x45.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T03:25:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T03:25:09+00:00</published>
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Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the
  assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants.

  The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation
  to be based on the seqcount infrastructure.

  The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt
  locking changes."

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
  generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg
  lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock
  seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure
  seqlock: Remove unused functions
  ntp: Make ntp_lock raw
  intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock
  locking: Various static lock initializer fixes
  lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded
  rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set
  watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()
  lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug()
  locking/stat: Fix a typo
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Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the
  assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants.

  The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation
  to be based on the seqcount infrastructure.

  The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt
  locking changes."

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
  generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg
  lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock
  seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure
  seqlock: Remove unused functions
  ntp: Make ntp_lock raw
  intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock
  locking: Various static lock initializer fixes
  lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded
  rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
  lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set
  watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()
  lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug()
  locking/stat: Fix a typo
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2013-02-21T20:05:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-21T20:05:51+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is the big driver core merge for 3.9-rc1

  There are two major series here, both of which touch lots of drivers
  all over the kernel, and will cause you some merge conflicts:

   - add a new function called devm_ioremap_resource() to properly be
     able to check return values.

   - remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

  Other than those patches, there's not much here, some minor fixes and
  updates"

Fix up trivial conflicts

* tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (221 commits)
  base: memory: fix soft/hard_offline_page permissions
  drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls
  backlight: fix class_find_device() arguments
  TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values
  driver-core: constify data for class_find_device()
  firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is used
  firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
  firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
  firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code
  Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices
  watchdog: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  thermal: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  spi: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  power: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mtd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mmc: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mfd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  media: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  iommu: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  drm: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  ...
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Pull driver core patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is the big driver core merge for 3.9-rc1

  There are two major series here, both of which touch lots of drivers
  all over the kernel, and will cause you some merge conflicts:

   - add a new function called devm_ioremap_resource() to properly be
     able to check return values.

   - remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

  Other than those patches, there's not much here, some minor fixes and
  updates"

Fix up trivial conflicts

* tag 'driver-core-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (221 commits)
  base: memory: fix soft/hard_offline_page permissions
  drivercore: Fix ordering between deferred_probe and exiting initcalls
  backlight: fix class_find_device() arguments
  TTY: mark tty_get_device call with the proper const values
  driver-core: constify data for class_find_device()
  firmware: Ignore abort check when no user-helper is used
  firmware: Reduce ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
  firmware: Make user-mode helper optional
  firmware: Refactoring for splitting user-mode helper code
  Driver core: treat unregistered bus_types as having no devices
  watchdog: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  thermal: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  spi: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  power: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mtd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mmc: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  mfd: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  media: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  iommu: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  drm: Convert to devm_ioremap_resource()
  ...
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