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Linus Torvalds 277edbabf6 Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1
- Redesign of cpufreq governors and the intel_pstate driver to
    make them use callbacks invoked by the scheduler to trigger CPU
    frequency evaluation instead of using per-CPU deferrable timers
    for that purpose (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Reorganization and cleanup of cpufreq governor code to make it
    more straightforward and fix some concurrency problems in it
    (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar).
 
  - Cleanup and improvements of locking in the cpufreq core (Viresh
    Kumar).
 
  - Assorted cleanups in the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh
    Kumar, Eric Biggers).
 
  - intel_pstate driver updates including fixes, optimizations and a
    modification to make it enable enable hardware-coordinated P-state
    selection (HWP) by default if supported by the processor (Philippe
    Longepe, Srinivas Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar, Felipe
    Franciosi).
 
  - Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework updates to improve
    its handling of voltage regulators and device clocks and updates
    of the cpufreq-dt driver on top of that (Viresh Kumar, Jon Hunter).
 
  - Updates of the powernv cpufreq driver to fix initialization
    and cleanup problems in it and correct its worker thread handling
    with respect to CPU offline, new powernv_throttle tracepoint
    (Shilpasri Bhat).
 
  - ACPI cpufreq driver optimization and cleanup (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - ACPICA updates including one fix for a regression introduced
    by previos changes in the ACPICA code (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng,
    David Box, Colin Ian King).
 
  - Support for installing ACPI tables from initrd (Lv Zheng).
 
  - Optimizations of the ACPI CPPC code (Prashanth Prakash, Ashwin
    Chaugule).
 
  - Support for _HID(ACPI0010) devices (ACPI processor containers)
    and ACPI processor driver cleanups (Sudeep Holla).
 
  - Support for ACPI-based enumeration of the AMBA bus (Graeme Gregory,
    Aleksey Makarov).
 
  - Modification of the ACPI PCI IRQ management code to make it treat
    255 in the Interrupt Line register as "not connected" on x86 (as
    per the specification) and avoid attempts to use that value as
    a valid interrupt vector (Chen Fan).
 
  - ACPI APEI fixes related to resource leaks (Josh Hunt).
 
  - Removal of modularity from a few ACPI drivers (BGRT, GHES,
    intel_pmic_crc) that cannot be built as modules in practice (Paul
    Gortmaker).
 
  - PNP framework update to make it treat ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_SERIAL_BUS
    as a valid resource type (Harb Abdulhamid).
 
  - New device ID (future AMD I2C controller) in the ACPI driver for
    AMD SoCs (APD) and in the designware I2C driver (Xiangliang Yu).
 
  - Assorted ACPI cleanups (Colin Ian King, Kaiyen Chang, Oleg Drokin).
 
  - cpuidle menu governor optimization to avoid a square root
    computation in it (Rasmus Villemoes).
 
  - Fix for potential use-after-free in the generic device properties
    framework (Heikki Krogerus).
 
  - Updates of the generic power domains (genpd) framework including
    support for multiple power states of a domain, fixes and debugfs
    output improvements (Axel Haslam, Jon Hunter, Laurent Pinchart,
    Geert Uytterhoeven).
 
  - Intel RAPL power capping driver updates to reduce IPI overhead in
    it (Jacob Pan).
 
  - System suspend/hibernation code cleanups (Eric Biggers, Saurabh
    Sengar).
 
  - Year 2038 fix for the process freezer (Abhilash Jindal).
 
  - turbostat utility updates including new features (decoding of more
    registers and CPUID fields, sub-second intervals support, GFX MHz
    and RC6 printout, --out command line option), fixes (syscall jitter
    detection and workaround, reductioin of the number of syscalls made,
    fixes related to Xeon x200 processors, compiler warning fixes) and
    cleanups (Len Brown, Hubert Chrzaniuk, Chen Yu).
 
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.6-rc1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This time the majority of changes go into cpufreq and they are
  significant.

  First off, the way CPU frequency updates are triggered is different
  now.  Instead of having to set up and manage a deferrable timer for
  each CPU in the system to evaluate and possibly change its frequency
  periodically, cpufreq governors set up callbacks to be invoked by the
  scheduler on a regular basis (basically on utilization updates).  The
  "old" governors, "ondemand" and "conservative", still do all of their
  work in process context (although that is triggered by the scheduler
  now), but intel_pstate does it all in the callback invoked by the
  scheduler with no need for any additional asynchronous processing.

  Of course, this eliminates the overhead related to the management of
  all those timers, but also it allows the cpufreq governor code to be
  simplified quite a bit.  On top of that, the common code and data
  structures used by the "ondemand" and "conservative" governors are
  cleaned up and made more straightforward and some long-standing and
  quite annoying problems are addressed.  In particular, the handling of
  governor sysfs attributes is modified and the related locking becomes
  more fine grained which allows some concurrency problems to be avoided
  (particularly deadlocks with the core cpufreq code).

  In principle, the new mechanism for triggering frequency updates
  allows utilization information to be passed from the scheduler to
  cpufreq.  Although the current code doesn't make use of it, in the
  works is a new cpufreq governor that will make decisions based on the
  scheduler's utilization data.  That should allow the scheduler and
  cpufreq to work more closely together in the long run.

  In addition to the core and governor changes, cpufreq drivers are
  updated too.  Fixes and optimizations go into intel_pstate, the
  cpufreq-dt driver is updated on top of some modification in the
  Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework and there are fixes and
  other updates in the powernv cpufreq driver.

  Apart from the cpufreq updates there is some new ACPICA material,
  including a fix for a problem introduced by previous ACPICA updates,
  and some less significant changes in the ACPI code, like CPPC code
  optimizations, ACPI processor driver cleanups and support for loading
  ACPI tables from initrd.

  Also updated are the generic power domains framework, the Intel RAPL
  power capping driver and the turbostat utility and we have a bunch of
  traditional assorted fixes and cleanups.

  Specifics:

   - Redesign of cpufreq governors and the intel_pstate driver to make
     them use callbacks invoked by the scheduler to trigger CPU
     frequency evaluation instead of using per-CPU deferrable timers for
     that purpose (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Reorganization and cleanup of cpufreq governor code to make it more
     straightforward and fix some concurrency problems in it (Rafael
     Wysocki, Viresh Kumar).

   - Cleanup and improvements of locking in the cpufreq core (Viresh
     Kumar).

   - Assorted cleanups in the cpufreq core (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh
     Kumar, Eric Biggers).

   - intel_pstate driver updates including fixes, optimizations and a
     modification to make it enable enable hardware-coordinated P-state
     selection (HWP) by default if supported by the processor (Philippe
     Longepe, Srinivas Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar, Felipe
     Franciosi).

   - Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework updates to improve its
     handling of voltage regulators and device clocks and updates of the
     cpufreq-dt driver on top of that (Viresh Kumar, Jon Hunter).

   - Updates of the powernv cpufreq driver to fix initialization and
     cleanup problems in it and correct its worker thread handling with
     respect to CPU offline, new powernv_throttle tracepoint (Shilpasri
     Bhat).

   - ACPI cpufreq driver optimization and cleanup (Rafael Wysocki).

   - ACPICA updates including one fix for a regression introduced by
     previos changes in the ACPICA code (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, David Box,
     Colin Ian King).

   - Support for installing ACPI tables from initrd (Lv Zheng).

   - Optimizations of the ACPI CPPC code (Prashanth Prakash, Ashwin
     Chaugule).

   - Support for _HID(ACPI0010) devices (ACPI processor containers) and
     ACPI processor driver cleanups (Sudeep Holla).

   - Support for ACPI-based enumeration of the AMBA bus (Graeme Gregory,
     Aleksey Makarov).

   - Modification of the ACPI PCI IRQ management code to make it treat
     255 in the Interrupt Line register as "not connected" on x86 (as
     per the specification) and avoid attempts to use that value as a
     valid interrupt vector (Chen Fan).

   - ACPI APEI fixes related to resource leaks (Josh Hunt).

   - Removal of modularity from a few ACPI drivers (BGRT, GHES,
     intel_pmic_crc) that cannot be built as modules in practice (Paul
     Gortmaker).

   - PNP framework update to make it treat ACPI_RESOURCE_TYPE_SERIAL_BUS
     as a valid resource type (Harb Abdulhamid).

   - New device ID (future AMD I2C controller) in the ACPI driver for
     AMD SoCs (APD) and in the designware I2C driver (Xiangliang Yu).

   - Assorted ACPI cleanups (Colin Ian King, Kaiyen Chang, Oleg Drokin).

   - cpuidle menu governor optimization to avoid a square root
     computation in it (Rasmus Villemoes).

   - Fix for potential use-after-free in the generic device properties
     framework (Heikki Krogerus).

   - Updates of the generic power domains (genpd) framework including
     support for multiple power states of a domain, fixes and debugfs
     output improvements (Axel Haslam, Jon Hunter, Laurent Pinchart,
     Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - Intel RAPL power capping driver updates to reduce IPI overhead in
     it (Jacob Pan).

   - System suspend/hibernation code cleanups (Eric Biggers, Saurabh
     Sengar).

   - Year 2038 fix for the process freezer (Abhilash Jindal).

   - turbostat utility updates including new features (decoding of more
     registers and CPUID fields, sub-second intervals support, GFX MHz
     and RC6 printout, --out command line option), fixes (syscall jitter
     detection and workaround, reductioin of the number of syscalls
     made, fixes related to Xeon x200 processors, compiler warning
     fixes) and cleanups (Len Brown, Hubert Chrzaniuk, Chen Yu)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-4.6-rc1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (182 commits)
  tools/power turbostat: bugfix: TDP MSRs print bits fixing
  tools/power turbostat: correct output for MSR_NHM_SNB_PKG_CST_CFG_CTL dump
  tools/power turbostat: call __cpuid() instead of __get_cpuid()
  tools/power turbostat: indicate SMX and SGX support
  tools/power turbostat: detect and work around syscall jitter
  tools/power turbostat: show GFX%rc6
  tools/power turbostat: show GFXMHz
  tools/power turbostat: show IRQs per CPU
  tools/power turbostat: make fewer systems calls
  tools/power turbostat: fix compiler warnings
  tools/power turbostat: add --out option for saving output in a file
  tools/power turbostat: re-name "%Busy" field to "Busy%"
  tools/power turbostat: Intel Xeon x200: fix turbo-ratio decoding
  tools/power turbostat: Intel Xeon x200: fix erroneous bclk value
  tools/power turbostat: allow sub-sec intervals
  ACPI / APEI: ERST: Fixed leaked resources in erst_init
  ACPI / APEI: Fix leaked resources
  intel_pstate: Do not skip samples partially
  intel_pstate: Remove freq calculation from intel_pstate_calc_busy()
  intel_pstate: Move intel_pstate_calc_busy() into get_target_pstate_use_performance()
  ...
2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
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asm Power management and ACPI material for v4.6-rc1, part 1 2016-03-16 14:10:53 -07:00
uapi/asm One of the largest releases for KVM... Hardly any generic improvement, 2016-03-16 09:55:35 -07:00