This patch changes the string based list management to a handle base
implementation to help with the hot path use of pm-qos, it also renames
much of the API to use "request" as opposed to "requirement" that was
used in the initial implementation.  I did this because request more
accurately represents what it actually does.

Also, I added a string based ABI for users wanting to use a string
interface.  So if the user writes 0xDDDDDDDD formatted hex it will be
accepted by the interface.  (someone asked me for it and I don't think
it hurts anything.)

This patch updates some documentation input I got from Randy.

Signed-off-by: markgross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Clemens Ladisch noted for hw_ptr_removal in "cleanup & merge hw_ptr
update functions" commit:

"It is possible for the status/delay ioctls to be called when the sound
card's pointer register alreay shows a position at the beginning of the
new period, but immediately before the interrupt is actually executed.
(This happens regularly on a SMP machine with mplayer.)  When that
happens, the code thinks that the position must be at least one period
ahead of the current position and drops an entire buffer of data."

Return back the hw_ptr_interrupt variable. The last interrupt pointer
is always computed from the latest hw_ptr instead of tracking it
separately (in this case all hw_ptr checks and modifications might
influence also hw_ptr_interrupt and it is difficult to keep it
consistent).

Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

This change fixes the "ALSA: pcm_lib - optimize wake_up() calls for PCM I/O"
commit. New sleeping queue is introduced to separate user space and kernel
space wake_ups. runtime->nowake is renamed to twake (transfer wake).

Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

pgprot_noncached() can be set for vmalloc'ed buffers safely, and we'd
need non-cached behavior more or less, even for the intermediate ring-
buffers.

Now snd_pcm_lib_mmap_vmalloc() is added as the common PCM mmap callback
that is coupled with snd_pcm_lib_alloc_vmalloc_buffer() & co.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Conflicts:
	include/sound/version.h

As noted by pl bossart <bossart.nospam@gmail.com>, the PCM I/O routines
(snd_pcm_lib_write1, snd_pcm_lib_read1) should block wake_up() calls
until all samples are not processed.

Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>

Do general cleanup in snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr*() routines and merge them.
The main change is hw_ptr_interrupt variable removal to simplify code
logic. This variable can be computed directly from hw_ptr.

Ensure that updated hw_ptr is not lower than previous one (it was possible
with old code in some obscure situations when interrupt was delayed or
the lowlevel driver returns wrong ring buffer position value).

Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>