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2009-02-07Merge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', ↵Len Brown
'ec', 'misc', 'printk' and 'processor' into release
2009-02-07ACPI: add missing KERN_* constants to printksFrank Seidel
According to kerneljanitors todo list all printk calls (beginning a new line) should have an according KERN_* constant. Those are the missing peaces here for the acpi subsystem. Signed-off-by: Frank Seidel <frank@f-seidel.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-03ACPI: make some IO ports off-limits to AMLLen Brown
ACPICA exports acpi_os_validate_address() so the OS can prevent BIOS AML from accessing specified addresses. Start using this interface to prevent AML from accessing some well known IO addresses that the OS "owns". Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-31ACPI: osl.c: replace return_ACPI_STATUS with returnLin Ming
return_ACPI_STATUS is an internal acpica function, replace it with return. acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap moved from acglobal.h to acpixf.h for external use Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-27ACPI: delete OSI(Linux) DMI dmesg spamLen Brown
Linux will continue to ignore OSI(Linux), except for a white-list containing a few systems. So delete the black-list, and stop soliciting user-feedback on the console. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22Merge branch 'ull' into testLen Brown
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/bay.c drivers/acpi/dock.c drivers/ata/libata-acpi.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22Merge branch 'dock' into testLen Brown
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/osl.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPI: replace ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_ERROR, ...) with printkLin Ming
ACPI_DB_ERROR and ACPI_DB_WARN were removed from ACPICA core. So replace ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_ERROR, ...) with printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX ...) and ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_WARN, ...) with printk(KERN_WARNING PREFIX ...) We do not use ACPI_ERROR/ACPI_WARNING since they're not exported, see ------------------------------------------------------------- commit 6468463abd7051fcc29f3ee7c931f9bbbb26f5a4 Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Mon Jun 26 23:41:38 2006 -0400 ACPI: un-export ACPI_ERROR() -- use printk(KERN_ERR...) Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-11ACPI: Change acpi_evaluate_integer to support 64-bit on 32-bit kernelsMatthew Wilcox
As of version 2.0, ACPI can return 64-bit integers. The current acpi_evaluate_integer only supports 64-bit integers on 64-bit platforms. Change the argument to take a pointer to an acpi_integer so we support 64-bit integers on all platforms. lenb: replaced use of "acpi_integer" with "unsigned long long" lenb: fixed bug in acpi_thermal_trips_update() Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-09-23ACPI: fix hotplug raceZhang Rui
The hotplug notification handler and drivers' notification handler all run in one workqueue. Before hotplug removes an acpi device, the device driver's notification handler is already be recorded to run just after global notification handler. After hotplug notification handler runs, acpica will notice a NULL notification handler and crash. So now we run run hotplug in another workqueue and wait for all acpi notication handlers finish. This was found in battery hotplug, but actually all hotplug can be affected. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-29flush kacpi_notify_wq before removing notify handlerZhang Rui
Flush kacpi_notify_wq before notify handler is removed, this can fix a bug which the deferred notify handler is executed after the notify_handler has already been removed. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9772 Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-04-17Add down_timeout and change ACPI to use itMatthew Wilcox
ACPI currently emulates a timeout for semaphores with calls to down_trylock and sleep. This produces horrible behaviour in terms of fairness and excessive wakeups. Now that we have a unified semaphore implementation, adding a real down_trylock is almost trivial. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-03-15ACPI: Remove ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD optionLinus Torvalds
This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9adf8ee89e5c96a47222915c5485ac437 ("ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override support"), because the code simply isn't ready. It did ugly things to the init sequence to populate the rootfs image early, but that just ended up showing other problems with the whole approach. The fact is, the VFS layer simply isn't initialized this early, and the relevant ACPI code should either run much later, or this shouldn't be done at all. For 2.6.25, we'll just pick the latter option. We can revisit this concept later if necessary. Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@gaugusch.at> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-11ACPI: Fix a duplicate log levelJean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-14Merge branches 'release', 'dmi', 'idle' and 'misc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-14ACPI: DMI: quirk for FSC ESPRIMO Mobile V5505Len Brown
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9939 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-14ACPI: static acpi_find_dsdt_initrd()Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-14ACPI: static acpi_no_initrd_override_setup()Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-13acpi: fix acpi_os_read_pci_configuration() misuse of raw_pci_read()Linus Torvalds
The raw_pci_read() interface (as the raw_pci_ops->read() before it) unconditionally fills in a 32-bit integer return value regardless of the size of the operation requested. So claiming to take a "void *" is wrong, as is passing in a pointer to just a byte variable. Noticed by pageexec when enabling -fstack-protector (which needs other patches too to actually work, but that's a separate issue). Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-10Change pci_raw_ops to pci_raw_read/writeMatthew Wilcox
We want to allow different implementations of pci_raw_ops for standard and extended config space on x86. Rather than clutter generic code with knowledge of this, we make pci_raw_ops private to x86 and use it to implement the new raw interface -- raw_pci_read() and raw_pci_write(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07ACPI: add newline to printkLen Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release' and 'dsdt-override' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-07ACPI: update intrd DSDT override console messagesLen Brown
also, address some checkpatch.pl violations Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameterÉric Piel
The acpi_no_initrd_override parameter permits to disable the load of an ACPI table from the initramfs. Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release' and 'fluff' into releaseLen Brown
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/scan.c include/linux/acpi.h Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07ACPI: misc cleanupsAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make the following needlessly global code static: - drivers/acpi/bay.c:dev_attr_eject - drivers/acpi/bay.c:dev_attr_present - drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_docked - drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_flags - drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_uid - drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_undock - drivers/acpi/pci_bind.c:acpi_pci_unbind() - drivers/acpi/pci_link.c:acpi_link_lock - drivers/acpi/sbs.c:acpi_sbs_callback() - drivers/acpi/sbshc.c:acpi_smbus_transaction() - drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c:acpi_sleep_prepare() - #if 0 the following unused global functions: - drivers/acpi/numa.c:acpi_unmap_pxm_to_node() - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - acpi_register_gsi - acpi_unregister_gsi - acpi_strict - acpi_bus_receive_event - register_acpi_bus_type - unregister_acpi_bus_type - acpi_os_printf - acpi_os_sleep - acpi_os_stall - acpi_os_read_pci_configuration - acpi_os_create_semaphore - acpi_os_delete_semaphore - acpi_os_wait_semaphore - acpi_os_signal_semaphore - acpi_os_signal - acpi_pci_irq_enable - acpi_get_pxm Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release' and 'hwmon-conflicts' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release' and 'stats' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release', 'misc' and 'misc-2.6.25' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release' and 'gpe-ack' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release' and 'dmi' into releaseLen Brown
2008-02-07Merge branches 'release', 'bugzilla-6217', 'bugzilla-6629', 'bugzilla-6933', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-7186', 'bugzilla-8269', 'bugzilla-8570', 'bugzilla-9139', 'bugzilla-9277', 'bugzilla-9341', 'bugzilla-9444', 'bugzilla-9614', 'bugzilla-9643' and 'bugzilla-9644' into release
2008-02-07ACPI: Export acpi_check_resource_conflictThomas Renninger
Export acpi_check_resource_conflict(), sometimes drivers already have a struct resource at hand so no need to use the wrappers to build a new one. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-07ACPI: track opregion names to avoid driver resource conflicts.Thomas Renninger
Small ACPICA extension to be able to store the name of operation regions in osl.c later In ACPI, AML can define accesses to IO ports and System Memory by Operation Regions. Those are not registered as done by PNPACPI using resource templates (and _CRS/_SRS methods). The IO ports and System Memory regions may get accessed by arbitrary AML code. When native drivers are accessing the same resources bad things can happen (e.g. a critical shutdown temperature of 3000 C every 2 months or so). It is not really possible to register the operation regions via request_resource, as they often overlap with pnp or other resources (e.g. statically setup IO resources below 0x100). This approach stores all Operation Region declarations (IO and System Memory only) at ACPI table parse time. It offers a similar functionality like request_region and let drivers which are known to possibly use the same IO ports and Memory which are also often used by ACPI (hwmon and i2c) check for ACPI interference. A boot parameter acpi_enforce_resources=strict/lax/no is provided, which is default set to lax: - strict: let conflicting drivers fail to load with an error message - lax: let conflicting driver work normal with a warning message - no: no functional change at all Depending on the feedback and the kind of interferences we see, this should be set to strict at later time. Goal of this patch set is: - Identify ACPI interferences in bug reports (very hard to reproduce and to identify) - Find BIOSes for that an ACPI driver should exist for specific HW instead of a native one. - stability in general Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region. Drivers can additionally check against possible ACPI interference by also invoking this shortly before they call request_region. If -EBUSY is returned, the driver must not load. Use acpi_enforce_resources=strict/lax/no options to: - strict: let conflicting drivers fail to load with an error message - lax: let conflicting driver work normal with a warning message - no: no functional change at all Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-06ACPI: create /sys/firmware/acpi/interruptsLen Brown
See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi Based-on-original-patch-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-06ACPI: Taint kernel on ACPI table override (format corrected)Éric Piel
When an ACPI table is overridden (for now this can happen only for DSDT) display a big warning and taint the kernel with flag A. Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-06ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override supportMarkus Gaugusch
The basics of DSDT from initramfs. In case this option is selected, populate_rootfs() is called a bit earlier to have the initramfs content available during ACPI initialization. This is a very similar path to the one available at http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml but with some update in the documentation, default set to No and the change of populate_rootfs() the "Jeff Mahony way" (which avoids reading the initramfs twice). Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-03ACPI: make struct osi_linux staticAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-03ACPI: make acpi_dmi_dump() staticAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-03DMI: remove duplicate helper routineLen Brown
Use existing dmi_get_system_info(), Delete duplicate dmi_get_slot() Spotted-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-01-23ACPI: make _OSI(Linux) console messages smarterLen Brown
If BIOS invokes _OSI(Linux), the kernel response depends on what the ACPI DMI list knows about the system, and that is reflectd in dmesg: 1) System unknown to DMI: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored ACPI: DMI System Vendor: LENOVO ACPI: DMI Product Name: 7661W1P ACPI: DMI Product Version: ThinkPad T61 ACPI: DMI Board Name: 7661W1P ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: LENOVO ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 10/18/2007 ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 2) System known to DMI, but effect of OSI(Linux) unknown: ACPI: DMI detected: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 ... ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored via DMI ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 3) System known to DMI, which disables _OSI(Linux): ACPI: DMI detected: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 ... ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored via DMI 4) System known to DMI, which enable _OSI(Linux): ACPI: DMI detected: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux) ... ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query honored via DMI cmdline overrides take precidence over the built-in default and the DMI prescribed default. cmdline "acpi_osi=Linux" results in: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query honored via cmdline Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-01-23ACPI: Delete Intel Customer Reference Board (CRB) from OSI(Linux) DMI listLen Brown
Linux does not want BIOS writers to invoke _OSI(Linux) - for in the field it causes more Windows incompatibility problems than it solves. So when it is seen in the BIOS for an Intel Customer Reference Board, Linux should ignore its effect by default, and should complain loudly. Otherwise, the reference BIOS will go unfixed, and the bad BIOS will spread to the field. Users of this board can get the old behavior with "acpi_osi=Linux" As this was the only entry, delete acpi_osl_dmi_table[]. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-01-23ACPI: on OSI(Linux), print needed DMI rather than requesting dmidecode outputLen Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-01-23ACPI: create acpi_dmi_dump()Len Brown
A utility routine to print common entries used for ACPI-related DMI blacklist entries. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-12-14ACPI: tables: complete searching upon RSDP w/ bad checksum.Len Brown
ACPI tables follow a tree structure in memory. The root of the tree is the RSDP (Root System Description Pointer). To find the RSDP, the OS searches for the signature "RSD PTR " in well known physical memory locations. Then the OS computes a table checksum to verify that the signature is really part of a valid table header. Some systems have a proper signature but an invalid checksum; followed elsewhere by a proper signature with valid checksum. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9444 The Linux RSDP scanning code bailed out on those systems and as a result they booted with ACPI disabled. Fix this by deleting the Linux RSDP scanning code and plugging in the ACPICA RSDP scanning code. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-12-13acpi: make __acpi_map_table() and __init functionJan Beulich
.. as it it used only during early boot. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 4 ++-- drivers/acpi/osl.c | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-12-06ACPI: Defer enabling of level GPE until all pending notifies doneAlexey Starikovskiy
Level GPE should not be enabled until all work caused by it is done, e.g. all Notify() methods are completed. This can be accomplished by appending enable_gpe function to the end of notify queue. Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-11-16ACPI: Handle I/O access width requestst that are not a multiple of 8 bits.Zhao Yakui
We've run into BIOS that hand us 4-bit access width requests for T-state control when the code expected only multipls of 8-bits. Round up. Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-10-19Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits) ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write} ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code. ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs) ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven. ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002) ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head. ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes ... Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually
2007-10-10cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patchLen Brown
commit e5a16b1f9eec0af7cfa0830304b41c1c0833cf9f Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Tue Oct 2 23:44:44 2007 -0400 cpuidle: shrink diff processor_idle.c | 440 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 429 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit dfbb9d5aedfb18848a3e0d6f6e3e4969febb209c Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Wed Sep 26 02:17:55 2007 -0400 cpuidle: reduce diff size Reduces the cpuidle processor_idle.c diff vs 2.6.22 from this processor_idle.c | 2006 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 1219 insertions(+), 787 deletions(-) to this: processor_idle.c | 502 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 458 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) ...for the purpose of making the cpuilde patch less invasive and easier to review. no functional changes. build tested only. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 889172fc915f5a7fe20f35b133cbd205ce69bf6c Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Sep 13 13:40:05 2007 -0700 cpuidle: Retain old ACPI policy for !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE Retain the old policy in processor_idle, so that when CPU_IDLE is not configured, old C-state policy will still be used. This provides a clean gradual migration path from old ACPI policy to new cpuidle based policy. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 9544a8181edc7ecc33b3bfd69271571f98ed08bc Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Sep 13 13:39:17 2007 -0700 cpuidle: Configure governors by default Quoting Len "Do not give an option to users to shoot themselves in the foot". Remove the configurability of ladder and menu governors as they are needed for default policy of cpuidle. That way users will not be able to have cpuidle without any policy loosing all C-state power savings. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 8975059a2c1e56cfe83d1bcf031bcf4cb39be743 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:27:07 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: load ACPI properly when CPUIDLE is disabled Change the registration return codes for when CPUIDLE support is not compiled into the kernel. As a result, the ACPI processor driver will load properly even if CPUIDLE is unavailable. However, it may be possible to cleanup the ACPI processor driver further and eliminate some dead code paths. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit e0322e2b58dd1b12ec669bf84693efe0dc2414a8 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:26:06 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: remove cpuidle_get_bm_activity() Remove cpuidle_get_bm_activity() and updates governors accordingly. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 18a6e770d5c82ba26653e53d240caa617e09e9ab Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:58 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: max_cstate fix Currently max_cstate is limited to 0, resulting in no idle processor power management on ACPI platforms. This patch restores the value to the array size. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 1fdc0887286179b40ce24bcdbde663172e205ef0 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:40 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: handle BM detection inside the ACPI Processor driver Update the ACPI processor driver to detect BM activity and limit state entry depth internally, rather than exposing such requirements to CPUIDLE. As a result, CPUIDLE can drop this ACPI-specific interface and become more platform independent. BM activity is now handled much more aggressively than it was in the original implementation, so some testing coverage may be needed to verify that this doesn't introduce any DMA buffer under-run issues. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0ef38840db666f48e3cdd2b769da676c57228dd9 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:25:14 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: menu governor updates Tweak the menu governor to more effectively handle non-timer break events. Non-timer break events are detected by comparing the actual sleep time to the expected sleep time. In future revisions, it may be more reliable to use the timer data structures directly. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit bb4d74fca63fa96cf3ace644b15ae0f12b7df5a1 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Tue Aug 21 18:24:40 2007 -0400 CPUIDLE: fix 'current_governor' sysfs entry Allow the "current_governor" sysfs entry to properly handle input terminated with '\n'. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit df3c71559bb69b125f1a48971bf0d17f78bbdf47 Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 02:00:45 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix IA64 build (again) Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit a02064579e3f9530fd31baae16b1fc46b5a7bca8 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 01:39:27 2007 -0400 cpuidle: Remove support for runtime changing of max_cstate Remove support for runtime changeability of max_cstate. Drivers can use use latency APIs. max_cstate can still be used as a boot time option and dmi override. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0912a44b13adf22f5e3f607d263aed23b4910d7e Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 01:39:16 2007 -0400 cpuidle: Remove ACPI cstate_limit calls from ipw2100 ipw2100 already has code to use accetable_latency interfaces to limit the C-state. Remove the calls to acpi_set_cstate_limit and acpi_get_cstate_limit as they are redundant. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit c649a76e76be6bff1fd770d0a775798813a3f6e0 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Sun Aug 12 01:35:39 2007 -0400 cpuidle: compile fix for pause and resume functions Fix the compilation failure when cpuidle is not compiled in. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: Adam Belay <adam.belay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 2305a5920fb8ee6ccec1c62ade05aa8351091d71 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Thu Jul 19 00:49:00 2007 -0400 cpuidle: re-write Some portions have been rewritten to make the code cleaner and lighter weight. The following is a list of changes: 1.) the state name is now included in the sysfs interface 2.) detection, hotplug, and available state modifications are handled by CPUIDLE drivers directly 3.) the CPUIDLE idle handler is only ever installed when at least one cpuidle_device is enabled and ready 4.) the menu governor BM code no longer overflows 5.) the sysfs attributes are now printed as unsigned integers, avoiding negative values 6.) a variety of other small cleanups Also, Idle drivers are no longer swappable during runtime through the CPUIDLE sysfs inteface. On i386 and x86_64 most idle handlers (e.g. poll, mwait, halt, etc.) don't benefit from an infrastructure that supports multiple states, so I think using a more general case idle handler selection mechanism would be cleaner. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit df25b6b56955714e6e24b574d88d1fd11f0c3ee5 Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 24 17:08:21 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix IA64 buid Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit fd6ada4c14488755ff7068860078c437431fbccd Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Date: Mon Jul 9 11:33:13 2007 -0700 cpuidle: static make cpuidle_replace_governor() static Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit c1d4a2cebcadf2429c0c72e1d29aa2a9684c32e0 Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:54:40 2007 -0400 cpuidle: static This patch makes the needlessly global struct menu_governor static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit dbf8780c6e8d572c2c273da97ed1cca7608fd999 Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:49:14 2007 -0400 export symbol tick_nohz_get_sleep_length ERROR: "tick_nohz_get_sleep_length" [drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.ko] undefined! ERROR: "tick_nohz_get_idle_jiffies" [drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.ko] undefined! And please be sure to get your changes to core kernel suitably reviewed. Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 29f0e248e7017be15f99febf9143a2cef00b2961 Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:43:04 2007 -0400 tick.h needs hrtimer.h It uses hrtimers. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit e40cede7d63a029e92712a3fe02faee60cc38fb4 Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:40:34 2007 -0400 cpuidle: first round of documentation updates Documentation changes based on Pavel's feedback. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 83b42be2efece386976507555c29e7773a0dfcd1 Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:39:25 2007 -0400 cpuidle: add rating to the governors and pick the one with highest rating by default Introduce a governor rating scheme to pick the right governor by default. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit d2a74b8c5e8f22def4709330d4bfc4a29209b71c Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:38:08 2007 -0400 cpuidle: make cpuidle sysfs driver governor switch off by default Make default cpuidle sysfs to show current_governor and current_driver in read-only mode. More elaborate available_governors and available_drivers with writeable current_governor and current_driver interface only appear with "cpuidle_sysfs_switch" boot parameter. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 1f60a0e80bf83cf6b55c8845bbe5596ed8f6307b Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:37:00 2007 -0400 cpuidle: menu governor: change the early break condition Change the C-state early break out algorithm in menu governor. We only look at early breakouts that result in wakeups shorter than idle state's target_residency. If such a breakout is frequent enough, eliminate the particular idle state upto a timeout period. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 45a42095cf64b003b4a69be3ce7f434f97d7af51 Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:35:38 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix uninitialized variable in sysfs routine Fix the uninitialized usage of ret. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 80dca7cdba3e6ee13eae277660873ab9584eb3be Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:34:16 2007 -0400 cpuidle: reenable /proc/acpi//power interface for the time being Keep /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power around for a while as powertop depends on it. It will be marked deprecated and removed in future. powertop can use cpuidle interfaces instead. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 589c37c2646c5e3813a51255a5ee1159cb4c33fc Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Jul 3 00:32:37 2007 -0400 cpuidle: menu governor and hrtimer compile fix Compile fix for menu governor. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0ba80bd9ab3ed304cb4f19b722e4cc6740588b5e Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Thu May 31 22:51:43 2007 -0400 cpuidle: build fix - cpuidle vs ipw2100 module ERROR: "acpi_set_cstate_limit" [drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit d7d8fa7f96a7f7682be7c6cc0cc53fa7a18c3b58 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Sat Mar 24 03:47:07 2007 -0400 cpuidle: add the 'menu' governor Here is my first take at implementing an idle PM governor that takes full advantage of NO_HZ. I call it the 'menu' governor because it considers the full list of idle states before each entry. I've kept the implementation fairly simple. It attempts to guess the next residency time and then chooses a state that would meet at least the break-even point between power savings and entry cost. To this end, it selects the deepest idle state that satisfies the following constraints: 1. If the idle time elapsed since bus master activity was detected is below a threshold (currently 20 ms), then limit the selection to C2-type or above. 2. Do not choose a state with a break-even residency that exceeds the expected time remaining until the next timer interrupt. 3. Do not choose a state with a break-even residency that exceeds the elapsed time between the last pair of break events, excluding timer interrupts. This governor has an advantage over "ladder" governor because it proactively checks how much time remains until the next timer interrupt using the tick infrastructure. Also, it handles device interrupt activity more intelligently by not including timer interrupts in break event calculations. Finally, it doesn't make policy decisions using the number of state entries, which can have variable residency times (NO_HZ makes these potentially very large), and instead only considers sleep time deltas. The menu governor can be selected during runtime using the cpuidle sysfs interface like so: "echo "menu" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_governor" Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit a4bec7e65aa3b7488b879d971651cc99a6c410fe Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Sat Mar 24 03:47:03 2007 -0400 cpuidle: export time until next timer interrupt using NO_HZ Expose information about the time remaining until the next timer interrupt expires by utilizing the dynticks infrastructure. Also modify the main idle loop to allow dynticks to handle non-interrupt break events (e.g. DMA). Finally, expose sleep ticks information to external code. Thomas Gleixner is responsible for much of the code in this patch. However, I've made some additional changes, so I'm probably responsible if there are any bugs or oversights :) Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 2929d8996fbc77f41a5ff86bb67cdde3ca7d2d72 Author: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Date: Sat Mar 24 03:46:58 2007 -0400 cpuidle: governor API changes This patch prepares cpuidle for the menu governor. It adds an optional stage after idle state entry to give the governor an opportunity to check why the state was exited. Also it makes sure the idle loop returns after each state entry, allowing the appropriate dynticks code to run. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 3a7fd42f9825c3b03e364ca59baa751bb350775f Author: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 00:03:59 2007 -0700 cpuidle: hang fix Prevent hang on x86-64, when ACPI processor driver is added as a module on a system that does not support C-states. x86-64 expects all idle handlers to enable interrupts before returning from idle handler. This is due to enter_idle(), exit_idle() races. Make cpuidle_idle_call() confirm to this when there is no pm_idle_old. Also, cpuidle look at the return values of attch_driver() and set current_driver to NULL if attach fails on all CPUs. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 4893339a142afbd5b7c01ffadfd53d14746e858e Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:09 2007 +0800 cpuidle: add support for max_cstate limit With CPUIDLE framework, the max_cstate (to limit max cpu c-state) parameter is ingored. Some systems require it to ignore C2/C3 and some drivers like ipw require it too. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 43bbbbe1cb998cbd2df656f55bb3bfe30f30e7d1 Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:13 2007 +0800 cpuidle: add cpuidle_fore_redetect_devices API add cpuidle_force_redetect_devices API, which forces all CPU redetect idle states. Next patch will use it. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit d1edadd608f24836def5ec483d2edccfb37b1d19 Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Thu Apr 26 10:40:01 2007 +0800 cpuidle: fix sysfs related issue Fix the cpuidle sysfs issue. a. make kobject dynamicaly allocated b. fixed sysfs init issue to avoid suspend/resume issue Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 7169a5cc0d67b263978859672e86c13c23a5570d Author: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Date: Wed Mar 28 22:52:53 2007 -0400 cpuidle: 1-bit field must be unsigned A 1-bit bitfield has no room for a sign bit. drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c:54:16: error: dubious bitfield without explicit `signed' or `unsigned' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 4658620158dc2fbd9e4bcb213c5b6fb5d05ba7d4 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Wed Mar 28 22:52:41 2007 -0400 cpuidle: fix boot hang Patch for cpuidle boot hang reported by Larry Finger here. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.2/2025.html Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit c17e168aa6e5fe3851baaae8df2fbc1cf11443a9 Author: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Date: Wed Mar 7 04:37:53 2007 -0500 cpuidle: ladder does not depend on ACPI build fix for CONFIG_ACPI=n In file included from drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c:21: include/acpi/processor.h:88: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘acpi_integer’ include/acpi/processor.h:106: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘acpi_integer’ include/acpi/processor.h:168: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘acpi_handle’ Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 8c91d958246bde68db0c3f0c57b535962ce861cb Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Date: Tue Mar 6 02:29:40 2007 -0800 cpuidle: make code static This patch makes the following needlessly global code static: - driver.c: __cpuidle_find_driver() - governor.c: __cpuidle_find_governor() - ladder.c: struct ladder_governor Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 0c39dc3187094c72c33ab65a64d2017b21f372d2 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Wed Mar 7 02:38:22 2007 -0500 cpu_idle: fix build break This patch fixes a build breakage with !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and CONFIG_CPU_IDLE. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 8112e3b115659b07df340ef170515799c0105f82 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Tue Mar 6 02:29:39 2007 -0800 cpuidle: build fix for !CPU_IDLE Fix the compile issues when CPU_IDLE is not configured. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 1eb4431e9599cd25e0d9872f3c2c8986821839dd Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Feb 22 13:54:57 2007 -0800 cpuidle take2: Basic documentation for cpuidle Documentation for cpuidle infrastructure Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit ef5f15a8b79123a047285ec2e3899108661df779 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Feb 22 13:54:03 2007 -0800 cpuidle take2: Hookup ACPI C-states driver with cpuidle Hookup ACPI C-states onto generic cpuidle infrastructure. drivers/acpi/procesor_idle.c is now a ACPI C-states driver that registers as a driver in cpuidle infrastructure and the policy part is removed from drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c. We use governor in cpuidle instead. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> commit 987196fa82d4db52c407e8c9d5dec884ba602183 Author: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Date: Thu Feb 22 13:52:57 2007 -0800 cpuidle take2: Core cpuidle infrastructure Announcing 'cpuidle', a new CPU power management infrastructure to manage idle CPUs in a clean and efficient manner. cpuidle separates out the drivers that can provide support for multiple types of idle states and policy governors that decide on what idle state to use at run time. A cpuidle driver can support multiple idle states based on parameters like varying power consumption, wakeup latency, etc (ACPI C-states for example). A cpuidle governor can be usage model specific (laptop, server, laptop on battery etc). Main advantage of the infrastructure being, it allows independent development of drivers and governors and allows for better CPU power management. A huge thanks to Adam Belay and Shaohua Li who were part of this mini-project since its beginning and are greatly responsible for this patchset. This patch: Core cpuidle infrastructure. Introduces a new abstraction layer for cpuidle: * which manages drivers that can support multiple idles states. Drivers can be generic or particular to specific hardware/platform * allows pluging in multiple policy governors that can take idle state policy decision * The core also has a set of sysfs interfaces with which administrato can know about supported drivers and governors and switch them at run time. Signed-off-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>