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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/pnp/isapnp, branch v3.0.75</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'pnp' into release</title>
<updated>2011-01-12T09:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-01-12T09:59:44+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>BKL: remove extraneous #include &lt;smp_lock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2010-11-17T16:59:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T15:26:55+00:00</published>
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.

Remove this too as a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PNP: Compile all pnp built-in stuff in one module namespace</title>
<updated>2010-10-27T06:23:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Renninger</name>
<email>trenn@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-25T19:11:15+00:00</published>
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This is cleanup mostly, nothing urgent.
I came up with it when looking at dynamic debug which can
enable pr_debug messages at runtime or boot param
for a specific module.

Advantages:
  - Any pnp code can make use of the moduleparam.h interface, the modules
    will show up as pnp.param.
  - Passing pnp.ddebug as kernel boot param will enable all pnp debug messages
    with my previous patch and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG enabled.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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This is cleanup mostly, nothing urgent.
I came up with it when looking at dynamic debug which can
enable pr_debug messages at runtime or boot param
for a specific module.

Advantages:
  - Any pnp code can make use of the moduleparam.h interface, the modules
    will show up as pnp.param.
  - Passing pnp.ddebug as kernel boot param will enable all pnp debug messages
    with my previous patch and CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG enabled.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>isapnp: BKL removal</title>
<updated>2010-09-26T14:25:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-05T11:28:09+00:00</published>
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Remove BKL use from isapnp_proc_bus_lseek(), like was done for
proc_bus_pci_lseek() a long time ago and recently for Zorro
by Geert Uytterhoeven.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
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Remove BKL use from isapnp_proc_bus_lseek(), like was done for
proc_bus_pci_lseek() a long time ago and recently for Zorro
by Geert Uytterhoeven.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&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>Merge branch 'linus' into test</title>
<updated>2008-10-23T04:11:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-23T03:57:26+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
	drivers/acpi/Kconfig
	drivers/pnp/Makefile
	drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
	drivers/acpi/Kconfig
	drivers/pnp/Makefile
	drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PNP: remove old CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG option</title>
<updated>2008-10-11T03:35:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bjorn.helgaas@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-19T22:53:52+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is no longer used to turn on dev_dbg() in PNP,
since we have pnp_dbg() which can be enabled at boot-time, so
this patch removes the config option.

Note that pnp_dock_event() checks "#ifdef DEBUG".  But there's
never been a clear path for enabling that via configgery.  It
happened that CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG enabled it after 1bd17e63a068db6,
but that was accidental and only in 2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is no longer used to turn on dev_dbg() in PNP,
since we have pnp_dbg() which can be enabled at boot-time, so
this patch removes the config option.

Note that pnp_dock_event() checks "#ifdef DEBUG".  But there's
never been a clear path for enabling that via configgery.  It
happened that CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG enabled it after 1bd17e63a068db6,
but that was accidental and only in 2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PNP: convert to using pnp_dbg()</title>
<updated>2008-10-11T03:34:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bjorn.helgaas@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-19T22:53:47+00:00</published>
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pnp_dbg() is equivalent to dev_dbg() except that we can turn it
on at boot-time with the "pnp.debug" kernel parameter, so we don't
have to build a new kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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pnp_dbg() is equivalent to dev_dbg() except that we can turn it
on at boot-time with the "pnp.debug" kernel parameter, so we don't
have to build a new kernel image.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc: convert CONFIG_PPC_MERGE to CONFIG_PPC for legacy io checks</title>
<updated>2008-09-23T15:41:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Gala</name>
<email>galak@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-22T21:41:31+00:00</published>
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Now that arch/ppc is dead CONFIG_PPC_MERGE is always defined for all
powerpc platforms and we want to get rid of CONFIG_PPC_MERGE use
CONFIG_PPC instead.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Now that arch/ppc is dead CONFIG_PPC_MERGE is always defined for all
powerpc platforms and we want to get rid of CONFIG_PPC_MERGE use
CONFIG_PPC instead.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala &lt;galak@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PNP: convert resource options to single linked list</title>
<updated>2008-07-16T21:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bjorn Helgaas</name>
<email>bjorn.helgaas@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-27T22:57:17+00:00</published>
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ISAPNP, PNPBIOS, and ACPI describe the "possible resource settings" of
a device, i.e., the possibilities an OS bus driver has when it assigns
I/O port, MMIO, and other resources to the device.

PNP used to maintain this "possible resource setting" information in
one independent option structure and a list of dependent option
structures for each device.  Each of these option structures had lists
of I/O, memory, IRQ, and DMA resources, for example:

  dev
    independent options
      ind-io0  -&gt; ind-io1  ...
      ind-mem0 -&gt; ind-mem1 ...
      ...
    dependent option set 0
      dep0-io0  -&gt; dep0-io1  ...
      dep0-mem0 -&gt; dep0-mem1 ...
      ...
    dependent option set 1
      dep1-io0  -&gt; dep1-io1  ...
      dep1-mem0 -&gt; dep1-mem1 ...
      ...
    ...

This data structure was designed for ISAPNP, where the OS configures
device resource settings by writing directly to configuration
registers.  The OS can write the registers in arbitrary order much
like it writes PCI BARs.

However, for PNPBIOS and ACPI devices, the OS uses firmware interfaces
that perform device configuration, and it is important to pass the
desired settings to those interfaces in the correct order.  The OS
learns the correct order by using firmware interfaces that return the
"current resource settings" and "possible resource settings," but the
option structures above doesn't store the ordering information.

This patch replaces the independent and dependent lists with a single
list of options.  For example, a device might have possible resource
settings like this:

  dev
    options
      ind-io0 -&gt; dep0-io0 -&gt; dep1-&gt;io0 -&gt; ind-io1 ...

All the possible settings are in the same list, in the order they
come from the firmware "possible resource settings" list.  Each entry
is tagged with an independent/dependent flag.  Dependent entries also
have a "set number" and an optional priority value.  All dependent
entries must be assigned from the same set.  For example, the OS can
use all the entries from dependent set 0, or all the entries from
dependent set 1, but it cannot mix entries from set 0 with entries
from set 1.

Prior to this patch PNP didn't keep track of the order of this list,
and it assigned all independent options first, then all dependent
ones.  Using the example above, that resulted in a "desired
configuration" list like this:

  ind-&gt;io0 -&gt; ind-&gt;io1 -&gt; depN-io0 ...

instead of the list the firmware expects, which looks like this:

  ind-&gt;io0 -&gt; depN-io0 -&gt; ind-io1 ...

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rene Herman &lt;rene.herman@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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ISAPNP, PNPBIOS, and ACPI describe the "possible resource settings" of
a device, i.e., the possibilities an OS bus driver has when it assigns
I/O port, MMIO, and other resources to the device.

PNP used to maintain this "possible resource setting" information in
one independent option structure and a list of dependent option
structures for each device.  Each of these option structures had lists
of I/O, memory, IRQ, and DMA resources, for example:

  dev
    independent options
      ind-io0  -&gt; ind-io1  ...
      ind-mem0 -&gt; ind-mem1 ...
      ...
    dependent option set 0
      dep0-io0  -&gt; dep0-io1  ...
      dep0-mem0 -&gt; dep0-mem1 ...
      ...
    dependent option set 1
      dep1-io0  -&gt; dep1-io1  ...
      dep1-mem0 -&gt; dep1-mem1 ...
      ...
    ...

This data structure was designed for ISAPNP, where the OS configures
device resource settings by writing directly to configuration
registers.  The OS can write the registers in arbitrary order much
like it writes PCI BARs.

However, for PNPBIOS and ACPI devices, the OS uses firmware interfaces
that perform device configuration, and it is important to pass the
desired settings to those interfaces in the correct order.  The OS
learns the correct order by using firmware interfaces that return the
"current resource settings" and "possible resource settings," but the
option structures above doesn't store the ordering information.

This patch replaces the independent and dependent lists with a single
list of options.  For example, a device might have possible resource
settings like this:

  dev
    options
      ind-io0 -&gt; dep0-io0 -&gt; dep1-&gt;io0 -&gt; ind-io1 ...

All the possible settings are in the same list, in the order they
come from the firmware "possible resource settings" list.  Each entry
is tagged with an independent/dependent flag.  Dependent entries also
have a "set number" and an optional priority value.  All dependent
entries must be assigned from the same set.  For example, the OS can
use all the entries from dependent set 0, or all the entries from
dependent set 1, but it cannot mix entries from set 0 with entries
from set 1.

Prior to this patch PNP didn't keep track of the order of this list,
and it assigned all independent options first, then all dependent
ones.  Using the example above, that resulted in a "desired
configuration" list like this:

  ind-&gt;io0 -&gt; ind-&gt;io1 -&gt; depN-io0 ...

instead of the list the firmware expects, which looks like this:

  ind-&gt;io0 -&gt; depN-io0 -&gt; ind-io1 ...

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rene Herman &lt;rene.herman@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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