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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-14 13:41:48 +0900
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-14 13:41:48 +0900
commitf9300eaaac1ca300083ad41937923a90cc3a2394 (patch)
tree724b72ad729a8b85c09d2d54f8ca7d8ba22d774f /Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt
parent7f2dc5c4bcbff035b0d03f7aa78a182664b21e47 (diff)
parentfaddf2f5d278f1656e9444961bdd8d9db4deb5bf (diff)
Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael J Wysocki: - New power capping framework and the the Intel Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) driver using it from Srinivas Pandruvada and Jacob Pan. - Addition of the in-kernel switching feature to the arm_big_little cpufreq driver from Viresh Kumar and Nicolas Pitre. - cpufreq support for iMac G5 from Aaro Koskinen. - Baytrail processors support for intel_pstate from Dirk Brandewie. - cpufreq support for Midway/ECX-2000 from Mark Langsdorf. - ARM vexpress/TC2 cpufreq support from Sudeep KarkadaNagesha. - ACPI power management support for the I2C and SPI bus types from Mika Westerberg and Lv Zheng. - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Srivatsa S Bhat, Stratos Karafotis, Xiaoguang Chen, Lan Tianyu. - cpufreq drivers updates (mostly fixes and cleanups) from Viresh Kumar, Aaro Koskinen, Jungseok Lee, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha, Lukasz Majewski, Manish Badarkhe, Hans-Christian Egtvedt, Evgeny Kapaev. - intel_pstate updates from Dirk Brandewie and Adrian Huang. - ACPICA update to version 20130927 includig fixes and cleanups and some reduction of divergences between the ACPICA code in the kernel and ACPICA upstream in order to improve the automatic ACPICA patch generation process. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, Tomasz Nowicki, Naresh Bhat, Bjorn Helgaas, David E Box. - ACPI IPMI driver fixes and cleanups from Lv Zheng. - ACPI hotplug fixes and cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas, Toshi Kani, Zhang Yanfei, Rafael J Wysocki. - Conversion of the ACPI AC driver to the platform bus type and multiple driver fixes and cleanups related to ACPI from Zhang Rui. - ACPI processor driver fixes and cleanups from Hanjun Guo, Jiang Liu, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Mathieu Rhéaume, Rafael J Wysocki. - Fixes and cleanups and new blacklist entries related to the ACPI video support from Aaron Lu, Felipe Contreras, Lennart Poettering, Kirill Tkhai. - cpuidle core cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Lorenzo Pieralisi. - cpuidle drivers fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano, Jingoo Han, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Prarit Bhargava. - devfreq updates from Sachin Kamat, Dan Carpenter, Manish Badarkhe. - Operation Performance Points (OPP) core updates from Nishanth Menon. - Runtime power management core fix from Rafael J Wysocki and update from Ulf Hansson. - Hibernation fixes from Aaron Lu and Rafael J Wysocki. - Device suspend/resume lockup detection mechanism from Benoit Goby. - Removal of unused proc directories created for various ACPI drivers from Lan Tianyu. - ACPI LPSS driver fix and new device IDs for the ACPI platform scan handler from Heikki Krogerus and Jarkko Nikula. - New ACPI _OSI blacklist entry for Toshiba NB100 from Levente Kurusa. - Assorted fixes and cleanups related to ACPI from Andy Shevchenko, Al Stone, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Felipe Contreras, Jianguo Wu, Lan Tianyu, Yinghai Lu, Mathias Krause, Liu Chuansheng. - Assorted PM fixes and cleanups from Andy Shevchenko, Thierry Reding, Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard. * tag 'pm+acpi-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (386 commits) cpufreq: conservative: fix requested_freq reduction issue ACPI / hotplug: Consolidate deferred execution of ACPI hotplug routines PM / runtime: Use pm_runtime_put_sync() in __device_release_driver() ACPI / event: remove unneeded NULL pointer check Revert "ACPI / video: Ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP 250 G1" ACPI / video: Quirk initial backlight level 0 ACPI / video: Fix initial level validity test intel_pstate: skip the driver if ACPI has power mgmt option PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory() ACPI / hotplug: Do not execute "insert in progress" _OST ACPI / hotplug: Carry out PCI root eject directly ACPI / hotplug: Merge device hot-removal routines ACPI / hotplug: Make acpi_bus_hot_remove_device() internal ACPI / hotplug: Simplify device ejection routines ACPI / hotplug: Fix handle_root_bridge_removal() ACPI / hotplug: Refuse to hot-remove all objects with disabled hotplug ACPI / scan: Start matching drivers after trying scan handlers ACPI: Remove acpi_pci_slot_init() headers from internal.h ACPI / blacklist: fix name of ThinkPad Edge E530 PowerCap: Fix build error with option -Werror=format-security ... Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-omap2/opp.c drivers/Kconfig drivers/spi/spi.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt27
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt
index 40282e617913..8b1a4451422e 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpu-drivers.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ Contents:
1.1 Initialization
1.2 Per-CPU Initialization
1.3 verify
-1.4 target or setpolicy?
-1.5 target
+1.4 target/target_index or setpolicy?
+1.5 target/target_index
1.6 setpolicy
2. Frequency Table Helpers
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ cpufreq_driver.init - A pointer to the per-CPU initialization
cpufreq_driver.verify - A pointer to a "verification" function.
cpufreq_driver.setpolicy _or_
-cpufreq_driver.target - See below on the differences.
+cpufreq_driver.target/
+target_index - See below on the differences.
And optionally
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ cpufreq_driver.resume - A pointer to a per-CPU resume function
which is called with interrupts disabled
and _before_ the pre-suspend frequency
and/or policy is restored by a call to
- ->target or ->setpolicy.
+ ->target/target_index or ->setpolicy.
cpufreq_driver.attr - A pointer to a NULL-terminated list of
"struct freq_attr" which allow to
@@ -103,8 +104,8 @@ policy->governor must contain the "default policy" for
this CPU. A few moments later,
cpufreq_driver.verify and either
cpufreq_driver.setpolicy or
- cpufreq_driver.target is called with
- these values.
+ cpufreq_driver.target/target_index is called
+ with these values.
For setting some of these values (cpuinfo.min[max]_freq, policy->min[max]), the
frequency table helpers might be helpful. See the section 2 for more information
@@ -133,20 +134,28 @@ range) is within policy->min and policy->max. If necessary, increase
policy->max first, and only if this is no solution, decrease policy->min.
-1.4 target or setpolicy?
+1.4 target/target_index or setpolicy?
----------------------------
Most cpufreq drivers or even most cpu frequency scaling algorithms
only allow the CPU to be set to one frequency. For these, you use the
-->target call.
+->target/target_index call.
Some cpufreq-capable processors switch the frequency between certain
limits on their own. These shall use the ->setpolicy call
-1.4. target
+1.4. target/target_index
-------------
+The target_index call has two arguments: struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
+and unsigned int index (into the exposed frequency table).
+
+The CPUfreq driver must set the new frequency when called here. The
+actual frequency must be determined by freq_table[index].frequency.
+
+Deprecated:
+----------
The target call has three arguments: struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
unsigned int target_frequency, unsigned int relation.