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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/acpi, branch v2.6.36.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ACPI: Fix typos</title>
<updated>2010-09-29T01:38:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-07T16:49:45+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-09-07T23:00:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-07T23:00:17+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: bus speed strings should be const
  PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
  PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
  PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
  PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
  PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
  ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
  ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
  ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
  ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
  PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
  PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
  x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
  PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI: bus speed strings should be const
  PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
  PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
  PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
  PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
  PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
  ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
  ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
  ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
  ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
  PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
  PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
  x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
  PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
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<title>ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query </title>
<updated>2010-08-24T20:44:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-23T21:55:59+00:00</published>
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There is the assumption in acpi_pci_osc_control_set() that it is
always sufficient to compare the mask of _OSC control bits to be
requested with the result of an _OSC query where all of the known
control bits have been checked.  However, in general, that need not
be the case.  For example, if an _OSC feature A depends on an _OSC
feature B and control of A, B plus another _OSC feature C is
requested simultaneously, the BIOS may return A, B, C, while it would
only return C if A and C were requested without B.

That may result in passing a wrong mask of _OSC control bits to an
_OSC control request, in which case the BIOS may only grant control
of a subset of the requested features.  Moreover, acpi_pci_run_osc()
will return error code if that happens and the caller of
acpi_pci_osc_control_set() will not know that it's been granted
control of some _OSC features.  Consequently, the system will
generally not work as expected.

Apart from this acpi_pci_osc_control_set() always uses the mask
of _OSC control bits returned by the very first invocation of
acpi_pci_query_osc(), but that is done with the second argument
equal to OSC_PCI_SEGMENT_GROUPS_SUPPORT which generally happens
to affect the returned _OSC control bits.

For these reasons, make acpi_pci_osc_control_set() always check if
control of the requested _OSC features will be granted before making
the final control request.  As a result, the osc_control_qry and
osc_queried members of struct acpi_pci_root are not necessary any
more, so drop them and remove the remaining code referring to them.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
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There is the assumption in acpi_pci_osc_control_set() that it is
always sufficient to compare the mask of _OSC control bits to be
requested with the result of an _OSC query where all of the known
control bits have been checked.  However, in general, that need not
be the case.  For example, if an _OSC feature A depends on an _OSC
feature B and control of A, B plus another _OSC feature C is
requested simultaneously, the BIOS may return A, B, C, while it would
only return C if A and C were requested without B.

That may result in passing a wrong mask of _OSC control bits to an
_OSC control request, in which case the BIOS may only grant control
of a subset of the requested features.  Moreover, acpi_pci_run_osc()
will return error code if that happens and the caller of
acpi_pci_osc_control_set() will not know that it's been granted
control of some _OSC features.  Consequently, the system will
generally not work as expected.

Apart from this acpi_pci_osc_control_set() always uses the mask
of _OSC control bits returned by the very first invocation of
acpi_pci_query_osc(), but that is done with the second argument
equal to OSC_PCI_SEGMENT_GROUPS_SUPPORT which generally happens
to affect the returned _OSC control bits.

For these reasons, make acpi_pci_osc_control_set() always check if
control of the requested _OSC features will be granted before making
the final control request.  As a result, the osc_control_qry and
osc_queried members of struct acpi_pci_root are not necessary any
more, so drop them and remove the remaining code referring to them.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into release</title>
<updated>2010-08-15T05:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-15T05:06:31+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/debug.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Conflicts:
	drivers/acpi/debug.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI processor: remove deprecated ACPI procfs I/F</title>
<updated>2010-08-15T04:31:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Rui</name>
<email>rui.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-15T02:46:41+00:00</published>
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Remove deprecated ACPI processor procfs I/F, including:
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/power
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/limit
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/info

/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/throttling still exists,
as we don't have sysfs I/F available for now.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Remove deprecated ACPI processor procfs I/F, including:
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/power
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/limit
/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/info

/proc/acpi/processor/CPUX/throttling still exists,
as we don't have sysfs I/F available for now.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpica-gpe' into release</title>
<updated>2010-08-15T04:25:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-15T04:25:40+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output</title>
<updated>2010-08-15T03:02:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Rui</name>
<email>rui.zhang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-15T02:46:17+00:00</published>
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Introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output.

With acpi.aml_debug_output set, we can get AML debug object output
(Store (AAA, Debug)), even with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG cleared.

Together with the runtime custom method mechanism,
we can debug AML code problems without rebuilding the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output.

With acpi.aml_debug_output set, we can get AML debug object output
(Store (AAA, Debug)), even with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG cleared.

Together with the runtime custom method mechanism,
we can debug AML code problems without rebuilding the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui &lt;rui.zhang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>acpi: fix bogus preemption logic</title>
<updated>2010-08-12T15:43:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T21:17:29+00:00</published>
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The ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() logic was introduced in commit 8bd108d
(ACPICA: add preemption point after each opcode parse).  The follow up
commits abe1dfab6, 138d15692, c084ca70 tried to fix the preemption logic
back and forth, but nobody noticed that the usage of
in_atomic_preempt_off() in that context is wrong.

The check which guards the call of cond_resched() is:

    if (!in_atomic_preempt_off() &amp;&amp; !irqs_disabled())

in_atomic_preempt_off() is not intended for general use as the comment
above the macro definition clearly says:

 * Check whether we were atomic before we did preempt_disable():
 * (used by the scheduler, *after* releasing the kernel lock)

On a CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel the usage of in_atomic_preempt_off() works by
accident, but with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y it's just broken.

The whole purpose of the ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() is to reduce the latency
on a CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel, so make ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() depend on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and remove the in_atomic_preempt_off() check.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16210

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Francois Valenduc &lt;francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be&gt;
Cc: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&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 ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() logic was introduced in commit 8bd108d
(ACPICA: add preemption point after each opcode parse).  The follow up
commits abe1dfab6, 138d15692, c084ca70 tried to fix the preemption logic
back and forth, but nobody noticed that the usage of
in_atomic_preempt_off() in that context is wrong.

The check which guards the call of cond_resched() is:

    if (!in_atomic_preempt_off() &amp;&amp; !irqs_disabled())

in_atomic_preempt_off() is not intended for general use as the comment
above the macro definition clearly says:

 * Check whether we were atomic before we did preempt_disable():
 * (used by the scheduler, *after* releasing the kernel lock)

On a CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel the usage of in_atomic_preempt_off() works by
accident, but with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y it's just broken.

The whole purpose of the ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() is to reduce the latency
on a CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel, so make ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() depend on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and remove the in_atomic_preempt_off() check.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16210

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Francois Valenduc &lt;francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be&gt;
Cc: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-08-08T00:08:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-08T00:08:30+00:00</published>
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* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (27 commits)
  ACPI / ACPICA: Simplify acpi_ev_initialize_gpe_block()
  ACPI / ACPICA: Fail acpi_gpe_wakeup() if ACPI_GPE_CAN_WAKE is unset
  ACPI / ACPICA: Do not execute _PRW methods during initialization
  ACPI: Fix bogus GPE test in acpi_bus_set_run_wake_flags()
  ACPICA: Update version to 20100702
  ACPICA: Fix for Alias references within Package objects
  ACPICA: Fix lint warning for 64-bit constant
  ACPICA: Remove obsolete GPE function
  ACPICA: Update debug output components
  ACPICA: Add support for WDDT - Watchdog Descriptor Table
  ACPICA: Drop acpi_set_gpe
  ACPICA: Use low-level GPE enable during GPE block initialization
  ACPI / EC: Do not use acpi_set_gpe
  ACPI / EC: Drop suspend and resume routines
  ACPICA: Remove wakeup GPE reference counting which is not used
  ACPICA: Introduce acpi_gpe_wakeup()
  ACPICA: Rename acpi_hw_gpe_register_bit
  ACPICA: Update version to 20100528
  ACPICA: Add signatures for undefined tables: ATKG, GSCI, IEIT
  ACPICA: Optimization: Reduce the number of namespace walks
  ...
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* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (27 commits)
  ACPI / ACPICA: Simplify acpi_ev_initialize_gpe_block()
  ACPI / ACPICA: Fail acpi_gpe_wakeup() if ACPI_GPE_CAN_WAKE is unset
  ACPI / ACPICA: Do not execute _PRW methods during initialization
  ACPI: Fix bogus GPE test in acpi_bus_set_run_wake_flags()
  ACPICA: Update version to 20100702
  ACPICA: Fix for Alias references within Package objects
  ACPICA: Fix lint warning for 64-bit constant
  ACPICA: Remove obsolete GPE function
  ACPICA: Update debug output components
  ACPICA: Add support for WDDT - Watchdog Descriptor Table
  ACPICA: Drop acpi_set_gpe
  ACPICA: Use low-level GPE enable during GPE block initialization
  ACPI / EC: Do not use acpi_set_gpe
  ACPI / EC: Drop suspend and resume routines
  ACPICA: Remove wakeup GPE reference counting which is not used
  ACPICA: Introduce acpi_gpe_wakeup()
  ACPICA: Rename acpi_hw_gpe_register_bit
  ACPICA: Update version to 20100528
  ACPICA: Add signatures for undefined tables: ATKG, GSCI, IEIT
  ACPICA: Optimization: Reduce the number of namespace walks
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: skip checking BM_STS if the BIOS doesn't ask for it</title>
<updated>2010-07-22T20:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-22T20:54:27+00:00</published>
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It turns out that there is a bit in the _CST for Intel FFH C3
that tells the OS if we should be checking BM_STS or not.

Linux has been unconditionally checking BM_STS.
If the chip-set is configured to enable BM_STS,
it can retard or completely prevent entry into
deep C-states -- as illustrated by turbostat:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools/turbostat/

ref: Intel Processor Vendor-Specific ACPI Interface Specification
table 4 "_CST FFH GAS Field Encoding"
Bit 1: Set to 1 if OSPM should use Bus Master avoidance for this C-state

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15886

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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It turns out that there is a bit in the _CST for Intel FFH C3
that tells the OS if we should be checking BM_STS or not.

Linux has been unconditionally checking BM_STS.
If the chip-set is configured to enable BM_STS,
it can retard or completely prevent entry into
deep C-states -- as illustrated by turbostat:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools/turbostat/

ref: Intel Processor Vendor-Specific ACPI Interface Specification
table 4 "_CST FFH GAS Field Encoding"
Bit 1: Set to 1 if OSPM should use Bus Master avoidance for this C-state

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15886

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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