linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds 1fe43114ea More power management updates for 4.17-rc1
- Rework the idle loop in order to prevent CPUs from spending too
    much time in shallow idle states by making it stop the scheduler
    tick before putting the CPU into an idle state only if the idle
    duration predicted by the idle governor is long enough.  That
    required the code to be reordered to invoke the idle governor
    before stopping the tick, among other things (Rafael Wysocki,
    Frederic Weisbecker, Arnd Bergmann).
 
  - Add the missing description of the residency sysfs attribute to
    the cpuidle documentation (Prashanth Prakash).
 
  - Finalize the cpufreq cleanup moving frequency table validation
    from drivers to the core (Viresh Kumar).
 
  - Fix a clock leak regression in the armada-37xx cpufreq driver
    (Gregory Clement).
 
  - Fix the initialization of the CPU performance data structures
    for shared policies in the CPPC cpufreq driver (Shunyong Yang).
 
  - Clean up the ti-cpufreq, intel_pstate and CPPC cpufreq drivers
    a bit (Viresh Kumar, Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Mark the expected switch fall-throughs in the PM QoS core (Gustavo
    Silva).
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Merge tag 'pm-4.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These include one big-ticket item which is the rework of the idle loop
  in order to prevent CPUs from spending too much time in shallow idle
  states. It reduces idle power on some systems by 10% or more and may
  improve performance of workloads in which the idle loop overhead
  matters. This has been in the works for several weeks and it has been
  tested and reviewed quite thoroughly.

  Also included are changes that finalize the cpufreq cleanup moving
  frequency table validation from drivers to the core, a few fixes and
  cleanups of cpufreq drivers, a cpuidle documentation update and a PM
  QoS core update to mark the expected switch fall-throughs in it.

  Specifics:

   - Rework the idle loop in order to prevent CPUs from spending too
     much time in shallow idle states by making it stop the scheduler
     tick before putting the CPU into an idle state only if the idle
     duration predicted by the idle governor is long enough.

     That required the code to be reordered to invoke the idle governor
     before stopping the tick, among other things (Rafael Wysocki,
     Frederic Weisbecker, Arnd Bergmann).

   - Add the missing description of the residency sysfs attribute to the
     cpuidle documentation (Prashanth Prakash).

   - Finalize the cpufreq cleanup moving frequency table validation from
     drivers to the core (Viresh Kumar).

   - Fix a clock leak regression in the armada-37xx cpufreq driver
     (Gregory Clement).

   - Fix the initialization of the CPU performance data structures for
     shared policies in the CPPC cpufreq driver (Shunyong Yang).

   - Clean up the ti-cpufreq, intel_pstate and CPPC cpufreq drivers a
     bit (Viresh Kumar, Rafael Wysocki).

   - Mark the expected switch fall-throughs in the PM QoS core (Gustavo
     Silva)"

* tag 'pm-4.17-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (23 commits)
  tick-sched: avoid a maybe-uninitialized warning
  cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_table_validate_and_show()
  cpufreq: SCMI: Don't validate the frequency table twice
  cpufreq: CPPC: Initialize shared perf capabilities of CPUs
  cpufreq: armada-37xx: Fix clock leak
  cpufreq: CPPC: Don't set transition_latency
  cpufreq: ti-cpufreq: Use builtin_platform_driver()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not include debugfs.h
  PM / QoS: mark expected switch fall-throughs
  cpuidle: Add definition of residency to sysfs documentation
  time: hrtimer: Use timerqueue_iterate_next() to get to the next timer
  nohz: Avoid duplication of code related to got_idle_tick
  nohz: Gather tick_sched booleans under a common flag field
  cpuidle: menu: Avoid selecting shallow states with stopped tick
  cpuidle: menu: Refine idle state selection for running tick
  sched: idle: Select idle state before stopping the tick
  time: hrtimer: Introduce hrtimer_next_event_without()
  time: tick-sched: Split tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
  cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select()
  jiffies: Introduce USER_TICK_USEC and redefine TICK_USEC
  ...
2018-04-11 17:03:20 -07:00
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ABI RTC for 4.17 2018-04-10 10:22:27 -07:00
accelerators ocxl: Document the OCXL_IOCTL_GET_METADATA IOCTL 2018-03-02 13:02:15 +11:00
accounting
acpi ACPI / LPIT: Add Low Power Idle Table (LPIT) support 2017-10-11 15:38:10 +02:00
admin-guide ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
aoe
arm MTD changes: 2018-04-06 12:15:41 -07:00
arm64 ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
auxdisplay
backlight
block block, bfq: move debug blkio stats behind CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP 2017-11-14 20:13:33 -07:00
blockdev SCSI misc on 20170907 2017-09-07 21:11:05 -07:00
bpf bpf, doc: add description wrt native/bpf clang target and pointer size 2018-03-20 15:47:45 -07:00
bus-devices
cdrom Documentation/cdrom: fix German sharp s in LaTex 2018-03-08 19:35:29 -07:00
cgroup-v1 page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
cma
connector
console
core-api Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval 2018-03-23 12:42:18 -06:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_table_validate_and_show() 2018-04-10 08:40:45 +02:00
cpuidle cpuidle: Add definition of residency to sysfs documentation 2018-04-09 13:44:37 +02:00
crypto crypto: doc - clarify hash callbacks state machine 2018-03-31 01:33:02 +08:00
dev-tools There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time around: 2018-04-03 13:35:51 -07:00
device-mapper dm verity: add 'check_at_most_once' option to only validate hashes once 2018-04-03 15:04:29 -04:00
devicetree DMAengine updates for v4.17-rc1 2018-04-10 12:14:37 -07:00
doc-guide doc-guide: kernel-doc: add comment about formatting verification 2018-02-23 08:06:15 -07:00
driver-api MTD changes: 2018-04-06 12:15:41 -07:00
driver-model serdev: Introduce devm_serdev_device_open() 2018-01-08 10:08:34 +00:00
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection Documentation: nvme: Documentation for nvme fault injection 2018-03-26 08:53:43 -06:00
fb documentation: fb: update list of available compiled-in fonts 2017-11-08 03:39:52 -07:00
features arch: remove obsolete architecture ports 2018-04-02 20:20:12 -07:00
filesystems The big ticket items are: 2018-04-10 12:25:30 -07:00
firmware_class
fmc
fpga fpga: mgr: separate getting/locking FPGA manager 2017-11-28 16:30:37 +01:00
gpio Documentation: gpio: Move drivers-on-gpio.txt to driver-api 2018-03-23 04:22:29 +01:00
gpu Linux 4.16-rc7 2018-03-28 14:30:41 +10:00
hid Documentation: fix input related doc refs 2017-10-12 11:14:06 -06:00
hwmon hwmon: (lm92) Add max6635 to lm92_id[] 2018-03-22 09:33:24 -07:00
i2c i2c: i801: Add missing documentation entries for Braswell and Kaby Lake 2018-02-21 09:17:20 +01:00
ia64 ia64: doc: tweak whitespace for 'console=' parameter 2018-03-05 14:41:38 -08:00
ide
iio
infiniband Documentation/ABI: update infiniband sysfs interfaces 2018-02-23 08:18:33 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2018-04-05 13:21:57 -07:00
ioctl arch: remove tile port 2018-03-16 10:56:03 +01:00
isdn Documentation/isdn: check and fix dead links ... 2018-03-26 12:31:13 -04:00
kbuild Kconfig updates for v4.17 2018-04-03 16:28:01 -07:00
kdump
kernel-hacking Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if 2018-01-17 16:45:01 -07:00
laptops Documentation: fix admin-guide doc refs 2017-10-12 11:13:28 -06:00
leds Documentation: leds: Update 00-INDEX file 2017-10-23 20:17:03 +02:00
lightnvm
livepatch livepatch: Remove immediate feature 2018-01-11 10:58:03 +01:00
locking Linux 4.16-rc2 2018-02-21 09:57:55 +01:00
m68k
maintainer docs: Add an intro note to the maintainers handbook 2017-12-11 14:46:10 -07:00
md raid5-ppl: PPL support for disks with write-back cache enabled 2018-01-15 14:29:42 -08:00
media media: extended-controls.rst: transmitter -> receiver 2018-04-04 08:05:20 -04:00
memory-devices
mic
mips Documentation: mips: Update AU1xxx_IDE Kconfig dependencies 2018-02-01 12:45:35 -07:00
misc-devices
mmc
mtd mtd: spi-nor: add an API to restore the status of SPI flash chip 2017-12-13 00:36:00 +01:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking Staging/IIO patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 18:56:27 -07:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm
nvmem NVMEM documentation fix: A minor typo 2017-08-24 13:31:58 -06:00
openrisc Documentation: openrisc: Updates to README 2017-10-30 21:37:53 +09:00
parisc
PCI PCI: Update location of pci.ids file 2018-02-22 15:00:43 -06:00
pcmcia
perf drivers/bus: Move Arm CCN PMU driver 2018-03-06 17:26:15 +01:00
phy
platform
power PM / hibernate: Make passing hibernate offsets more friendly 2018-03-30 12:01:20 +02:00
powerpc
pps drivers/pps: aesthetic tweaks to PPS-related content 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
process clang-format: add configuration file 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
pti
ptp ptp: Fix documentation to match code. 2018-03-26 12:13:21 -04:00
rapidio Documentation: rapidio: move sysfs interface to ABI 2018-02-23 08:25:45 -07:00
RCU Merge branches 'cond_resched.2017.12.04a', 'dyntick.2017.11.28a', 'fixes.2017.12.11a', 'srbd.2017.12.05a' and 'torture.2017.12.11a' into HEAD 2017-12-11 09:21:58 -08:00
s390 vfio-ccw: update documentation 2018-03-01 17:32:14 +01:00
scheduler sched/deadline: Fix the description of runtime accounting in the documentation 2017-11-16 09:00:35 +01:00
scsi scsi: documentation: Obsolete documentation references 2018-03-21 18:34:20 -04:00
security selinux: Update SELinux SCTP documentation 2018-03-20 16:26:15 -04:00
serial
sh
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
sparc sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity) 2018-03-18 07:38:48 -07:00
sphinx Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error 2018-03-09 10:46:14 -07:00
sphinx-static
spi
sysctl taint: add taint for randstruct 2018-04-11 10:28:35 -07:00
target
thermal cpu_cooling: Remove static-power related documentation 2018-01-03 13:11:48 +01:00
timers sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL 2018-02-15 15:40:37 -08:00
trace New features: 2018-04-10 11:27:30 -07:00
translations Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2018-02-01 13:36:15 -08:00
usb Documentation updates for 4.16. New stuff includes refcount_t 2018-01-31 19:25:25 -08:00
userspace-api seccomp: Implement SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS action 2017-08-14 13:46:50 -07:00
virtual KVM: trivial documentation cleanups 2018-03-28 22:47:06 +02:00
vm page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
w1 Documentation updates for 4.16. New stuff includes refcount_t 2018-01-31 19:25:25 -08:00
watchdog watchdog: remove bfin_wdt driver 2018-03-26 15:57:04 +02:00
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2018-04-05 11:56:35 -07:00
xtensa xtensa: add support for KASAN 2017-12-16 22:37:12 -08:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX CRIS: Drop support for the CRIS port 2018-03-16 10:56:05 +01:00
atomic_bitops.txt locking/atomic/bitops: Document and clarify ordering semantics for failed test_and_{}_bit() 2018-02-13 14:55:53 +01:00
atomic_t.txt Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document... 2017-08-25 11:06:33 +02:00
bcache.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
cachetlb.txt
cgroup-v2.txt cgroup, docs: document the root cgroup behavior of cpu and io controllers 2018-01-16 08:07:09 -08:00
Changes
circular-buffers.txt doc: De-emphasize smp_read_barrier_depends 2017-12-05 11:57:53 -08:00
clearing-warn-once.txt kernel debug: support resetting WARN*_ONCE 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
clk.txt
CodingStyle
conf.py docs: Remove "could not extract kernel version" warning 2017-12-11 15:20:04 -07:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
DMA-API.txt dma-coherent: remove the DMA_MEMORY_MAP and DMA_MEMORY_IO flags 2017-09-01 11:59:17 +02:00
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
docutils.conf
dontdiff Remove gperf usage from toolchain 2017-08-19 11:02:53 -07:00
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcc-plugins.txt
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst Documentation: add Linux tracing to Sphinx TOC tree 2018-03-07 10:22:53 -07:00
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt ipmi: Make IPMI panic strings always available 2017-09-27 16:03:45 -05:00
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt irqdomain: Kill CONFIG_IRQ_DOMAIN_DEBUG 2018-01-24 12:32:58 +01:00
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isa.txt
isapnp.txt
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt kprobes/docs: Remove jprobes related documents 2017-10-20 11:02:55 +02:00
kref.txt
ldm.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
lsm.txt
lzo.txt
mailbox.txt
Makefile Documentation: add script and build target to check for broken file references 2017-10-12 11:07:42 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt locking/memory-barriers: De-emphasize smp_read_barrier_depends() some more 2018-03-10 10:22:22 +01:00
memory-hotplug.txt
men-chameleon-bus.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt
numastat.txt
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt Documentation: fix locking rt-mutex doc refs 2017-10-19 12:56:44 -06:00
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
pwm.txt
rbtree.txt rbtree: cache leftmost node internally 2017-09-08 18:26:48 -07:00
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt Documentation: rtc: move iotcl interface documentation to ABI 2018-01-12 00:20:41 +01:00
SAK.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
siphash.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
speculation.txt Documentation: Document array_index_nospec 2018-01-30 21:54:28 +01:00
static-keys.txt jump_label: Provide hotplug context variants 2017-08-10 12:28:59 +02:00
SubmittingPatches
svga.txt documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file 2017-11-20 10:45:50 -07:00
switchtec.txt NTB: switchtec_ntb: Update switchtec documentation with notes for NTB 2017-11-18 20:37:13 -05:00
sync_file.txt
tee.txt
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt
vfio-mediated-device.txt
vfio.txt
video-output.txt
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt