ACPI 4.0 created the logical "processor aggregator device" as
a mechinism for platforms to ask the OS to force otherwise busy
processors to enter (power saving) idle.
The intent is to lower power consumption to ride-out
transient electrical and thermal emergencies,
rather than powering off the server.
On platforms that can save more power/performance via P-states,
the platform will first exhaust P-states before forcing idle.
However, the relative benefit of P-states vs. idle states
is platform dependent, and thus this driver need not know
or care about it.
This driver does not use the kernel's CPU hot-plug mechanism
because after the transient emergency is over, the system must
be returned to its normal state, and hotplug would permanently
break both cpusets and binding.
So to force idle, the driver creates a power saving thread.
The scheduler will migrate the thread to the preferred CPU.
The thread has max priority and has SCHED_RR policy,
so it can occupy one CPU. To save power, the thread will
invoke the deep C-state entry instructions.
To avoid starvation, the thread will sleep 5% of the time
time for every second (current RT scheduler has threshold
to avoid starvation, but if other CPUs are idle,
the CPU can borrow CPU timer from other,
which makes the mechanism not work here)
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan has proposed scheduler enhancements
to allow injecting idle time into the system. This driver doesn't
depend on those enhancements, but could cut over to them
when they are available.
Peter Z. does not favor upstreaming this driver until
the those scheduler enhancements are in place. However,
we favor upstreaming this driver now because it is useful
now, and can be enhanced over time.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
NACKed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (37 commits)
sky2: Avoid races in sky2_down
drivers/net/mlx4: Adjust constant
drivers/net: Move a dereference below a NULL test
drivers/net: Move a dereference below a NULL test
connector: maintainer/mail update.
USB host CDC Phonet network interface driver
macsonic, jazzsonic: fix oops on module unload
macsonic: move probe function to .devinit.text
can: switch carrier on if device was stopped while in bus-off state
can: restart device even if dev_alloc_skb() fails
can: sja1000: remove duplicated includes
New device ID for sc92031 [1088:2031]
3c589_cs: re-initialize the multicast in the tc589_reset
Fix error return for setsockopt(SO_TIMESTAMPING)
netxen: fix thermal check and shutdown
netxen: fix deadlock on dev close
netxen: fix context deletion sequence
net: Micrel KS8851 SPI network driver
tcp: Use correct peer adr when copying MD5 keys
tcp: Fix MD5 signature checking on IPv4 mapped sockets
...
The kernel has used a stale email address of Andreas for a few years.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The web server does no longer exist, it's not on archive.org nor does there
seem to be any mirror.
MAINTAINERS | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
JFS hasn't really been supported for a while. It's still maintained,
but saying it's supported is a stretch. Updating my preferred email
address as well.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBIFS: fix corruption dump
UBIFS: clean up free space checking
UBIFS: small amendments in the LEB scanning code
UBIFS: dump a little more in case of corruptions
MAINTAINERS: update ahunter's e-mail address
UBIFS: allow more than one volume to be mounted
UBIFS: fix assertion warning
UBIFS: minor spelling and grammar fixes
UBIFS: fix 64-bit divisions in debug print
UBIFS: few spelling fixes
UBIFS: set write-buffer timout to 3-5 seconds
UBIFS: slightly optimize write-buffer timer usage
UBIFS: improve debugging messaged
UBIFS: fix integer overflow warning
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
osdblk: Adjust queue limits to lower device's limits
osdblk: a Linux block device for OSD objects
MAINTAINERS: Add osd maintained files (F:)
exofs: Avoid using file_fsync()
exofs: Remove IBM copyrights
exofs: Fix bio leak in error handling path (sync read)
Move tty entries to tty not trivial. Noted by David Brownell.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
Add Fenghua Yu as temporary co-maintainer for ia64
[IA64] address compiler warnings perfmon.c/salinfo.c
[IA64] Remove unnecessary semicolons
[IA64] sprintf should not be used with same source & destination address
I'm taking my sabbatical from Intel for July/August 2009.
Fenghua Yu will handle ia64 architecture while I'm gone.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
New MAINTAINERS entry for twl4030 series soc codec driver
with Peter Ujfalusi as maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Posting to the dev-etrax mailing list is only allowed for subscribers,
and the list is more geared toward user applications than kernel
developers.
Change to newly created mailing list for CRIS.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The bug tracker have moved from sourceforge to
http://dev.iksaif.net . The homepage of the project
is now http://acpi4asus.sf.net with links to the new
bug tracker. No change for the mailing list.
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acerhdf is a driver for Acer Aspire One netbooks. It allows
to access the temperature sensor and to control the fan.
Signed-off-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
asm-generic: add dummy pgprot_noncached()
lib/checksum.c: fix endianess bug
asm-generic: hook up new system calls
asm-generic: list Arnd as asm-generic maintainer
asm-generic: drop HARDIRQ_BITS definition from hardirq.h
asm-generic: uaccess: fix up local access_ok() usage
asm-generic: uaccess: add missing access_ok() check to strnlen_user()
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (63 commits)
mtd: OneNAND: Allow setting of boundary information when built as module
jffs2: leaking jffs2_summary in function jffs2_scan_medium
mtd: nand: Fix memory leak on txx9ndfmc probe failure.
mtd: orion_nand: use burst reads with double word accesses
mtd/nand: s3c6400 support for s3c2410 driver
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Use DIV_ROUND_UP
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Deal with unaligned lengths in S3C2440 buffer read/write
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Allow the machine code to get the BBT table from NAND
[MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Added a kerneldoc for s3c2410_nand_set
mtd: physmap_of: Add multiple regions and concatenation support
mtd: nand: max_retries off by one in mxc_nand
mtd: nand: s3c2410_nand_setrate(): use correct macros for 2412/2440
mtd: onenand: add bbt_wait & unlock_all as replaceable for some platform
mtd: Flex-OneNAND support
mtd: nand: add OMAP2/OMAP3 NAND driver
mtd: maps: Blackfin async: fix memory leaks in probe/remove funcs
mtd: uclinux: mark local stuff static
mtd: uclinux: do not allow to be built as a module
mtd: uclinux: allow systems to override map addr/size
mtd: blackfin NFC: fix hang when using NAND on BF527-EZKITs
...
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (49 commits)
[ARM] idle: clean up pm_idle calling, obey hlt_counter
[ARM] S3C: Fix gpio-config off-by-one bug
[ARM] S3C64XX: add to_irq() support for EINT() GPIO
[ARM] S3C64XX: clock.c: fix typo in usb-host clock ctrlbit
[ARM] S3C64XX: fix HCLK gate defines
[ARM] Update mach-types
[ARM] wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open
OMAP2 clock/powerdomain: off by 1 error in loop timeout comparisons
OMAP3 SDRC: set FIXEDDELAY when disabling SDRC DLL
OMAP3: Add support for DPLL3 divisor values higher than 2
OMAP3 SRAM: convert SRAM code to use macros rather than magic numbers
OMAP3 SRAM: add more comments on the SRAM code
OMAP3 clock/SDRC: program SDRC_MR register during SDRC clock change
OMAP3 clock: add a short delay when lowering CORE clk rate
OMAP3 clock: initialize SDRC timings at kernel start
OMAP3 clock: remove wait for DPLL3 M2 clock to stabilize
[ARM] Add old Feroceon support to compressed/head.S
[ARM] 5559/1: Limit the stack unwinding caused by a kthread exit
[ARM] 5558/1: Add extra checks to ARM unwinder to avoid tracing corrupt stacks
[ARM] 5557/1: Discard some ARM.ex*.*exit.text sections when !HOTPLUG or !HOTPLUG_CPU
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (43 commits)
via-velocity: Fix velocity driver unmapping incorrect size.
mlx4_en: Remove redundant refill code on RX
mlx4_en: Removed redundant check on lso header size
mlx4_en: Cancel port_up check in transmit function
mlx4_en: using stop/start_all_queues
mlx4_en: Removed redundant skb->len check
mlx4_en: Counting all the dropped packets on the TX side
usbnet cdc_subset: fix issues talking to PXA gadgets
Net: qla3xxx, remove sleeping in atomic
ipv4: fix NULL pointer + success return in route lookup path
isdn: clean up documentation index
cfg80211: validate station settings
cfg80211: allow setting station parameters in mesh
cfg80211: allow adding/deleting stations on mesh
ath5k: fix beacon_int handling
MAINTAINERS: Fix Atheros pattern paths
ath9k: restore PS mode, before we put the chip into FULL SLEEP state.
ath9k: wait for beacon frame along with CAB
acer-wmi: fix rfkill conversion
ath5k: avoid PCI FATAL interrupts by restoring RETRY_TIMEOUT disabling
...
This adds the via-sdmmc driver for the SD/MMC-controller of VIA,
which is found in a number of recent integrated VIA chipset
products.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
Add MAINTAINERS entry for atmel-mci driver.
This driver was maintained by its author: Haavard Skinnemoen. I take the
maintainance of it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
Add support for the 'HSMMC' block(s) in the Samsung SoC
line. These are compatible with the SDHCI driver so add
the necessary setup and driver binding for the platform
devices.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I've modified about half the code in include/asm-generic now, and
people start sending me patches for it, so I should probably take
the formal responsibility for it.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
IEEE 802.15.4 git tree was moved from my private area to shared one.
Fix address accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
