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Rafael J. Wysocki 1b39e3f813 cpuidle: Make drivers initialize polling state
Make the drivers that want to include the polling state into their
states table initialize it explicitly and drop the initialization of
it (which in fact is conditional, but that is not obvious from the
code) from the core.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-08-30 03:06:33 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 34c2f65b71 cpuidle: Move polling state initialization code to separate file
Move the polling state initialization code to a separate file built
conditionally on CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CPU_RELAX to get rid of the #ifdef
in driver.c.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-08-30 03:06:27 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki dc2251bf98 cpuidle: Eliminate the CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START symbol
On some architectures the first (index 0) idle state is a polling
one and it doesn't really save energy, so there is the
CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START symbol allowing some pieces of
cpuidle code to avoid using that state.

However, this makes the code rather hard to follow.  It is better
to explicitly avoid the polling state, so add a new cpuidle state
flag CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING to mark it and make the relevant code
check that flag for the first state instead of using the
CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START symbol.

In the ACPI processor driver that cannot always rely on the state
flags (like before the states table has been set up) define
a new internal symbol ACPI_IDLE_STATE_START equivalent to the
CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START one and drop the latter.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-08-30 03:05:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 4c822698cb sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/idle.h>
We are going to split  <linux/sched/idle.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/idle.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:26 +01:00
Chris Metcalf 6727ad9e20 nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus
When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
Xunlei Pang abceaa9cde cpuidle/coupled: Add sanity check for safe_state_index
Since we are using cpuidle_driver::safe_state_index directly as the
target state index, it is better to add the sanity check at the point
of registering the driver.

Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang <pang.xunlei@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-09-03 03:05:47 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner ee7a1438b5 cpuidle: Use explicit broadcast control function
Replace the clockevents_notify() call with an explicit function call.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2106401.cYdJzzA6Ic@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:32 +02:00
Daniel Lezcano b82b6cca48 cpuidle: Invert CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID logic
The only place where the time is invalid is when the ACPI_CSTATE_FFH entry
method is not set. Otherwise for all the drivers, the time can be correctly
measured.

Instead of duplicating the CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID flag in all the drivers
for all the states, just invert the logic by replacing it by the flag
CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_INVALID, hence we can set this flag only for the acpi idle
driver, remove the former flag from all the drivers and invert the logic with
this flag in the different governor.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-11-12 21:17:27 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano dd38c9d35b cpuidle: Remove time measurement in poll state
The time measurement is already done in the cpuidle framework in the
'cpuidle_enter_state' function.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-07-29 01:37:57 +02:00
Andy Lutomirski 84c4070841 cpuidle: Set polling in poll_idle
poll_idle is the archetypal polling idle loop; tell the core idle
code about it.

This avoids pointless IPIs when all of the other cpuidle states are
disabled.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c65ce49615d338bae8fb79df5daffab19353c900.1401902905.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-05 12:09:49 +02:00
tuukka.tikkanen@linaro.org 4b2f0b033a cpuidle: poll state can measure residency
For some platforms, a poll state is inserted in the cpuidle driver states.
The flags for the state do not indicate that timekeeping is not affected.
As the state does not do anything apart from calling cpu_relax(), the
times returned by ktime_get should remain valid. Add the missing flag.

Signed-off-by: Tuukka Tikkanen <tuukka.tikkanen@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-03-07 12:55:17 +01:00
Viresh Kumar d7c7f10326 cpuidle: don't call poll_idle_init() for every cpu
poll_idle_init() just initializes drv->states[0] and so that is
required to be done only once for each driver.  Currently, it is
called from cpuidle_enable_device() which is called for every CPU
that the driver supports.  That is not required, so move it to a
better place and call it from __cpuidle_register_driver() so that
the initialization is carried out only once.

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-10-30 01:21:23 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 0d09d31256 cpuidle: call cpuidle_get_driver() from after taking cpuidle_driver_lock
There are a few cpuidle_get_driver() calls that aren't made under
cpuidle_driver_lock which is incorrect.

Fix them by calling cpuidle_get_driver() after taking cpuidle_driver_lock.

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-10-30 01:21:23 +01:00
Viresh Kumar b171a85648 cpuidle: rearrange code in __cpuidle_driver_init()
This is trivial patch that just reorders a few statements in
__cpuidle_driver_init() routine so that we don't need both 'continue'
and 'break' in the for loop. Functionally it shouldn't change anything.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-10-30 01:21:22 +01:00
Viresh Kumar e437f3e373 cpuidle: make __cpuidle_driver_init() return void
The only value returned by __cpuidle_driver_init() is 0, so it
very well may be a void function.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-10-30 01:21:22 +01:00
Viresh Kumar caf4a36e81 cpuidle: Fix comments in cpuidle core
Some comments in cpuidle core files contain trivial mistakes.
This patch fixes them.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-10-30 01:21:21 +01:00
Daniel Fu 3b9c10e980 cpuidle: Check the result of cpuidle_get_driver() against NULL
If the current CPU has no cpuidle driver, drv will be NULL in
cpuidle_driver_ref().  Check if that is the case before trying
to bump up the driver's refcount to prevent the kernel from
crashing.

[rjw: Subject and changelog]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Fu <danifu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-30 21:53:41 +02:00
Daniel Lezcano 6d19cb93d6 cpuidle: Comment the driver's framework code
Add kerneldoc (and other) comments to the cpuidle driver's framework
code.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-06-11 14:18:33 +02:00
Daniel Lezcano 82467a5a88 cpuidle: simplify multiple driver support
Commit bf4d1b5 (cpuidle: support multiple drivers) introduced support
for using multiple cpuidle drivers at the same time.  It added a
couple of new APIs to register the driver per CPU, but that led to
some unnecessary code complexity related to the kernel config options
deciding whether or not the multiple driver support is enabled.  The
code has to work as it did before when the multiple driver support is
not enabled and the multiple driver support has to be compatible with
the previously existing API.

Remove the new API, not used by any driver in the tree yet (but
needed for the HMP cpuidle drivers that will be submitted soon), and
add a new cpumask pointer to the cpuidle driver structure that will
point to the mask of CPUs handled by the given driver.  That will
allow the cpuidle_[un]register_driver() API to be used for the
multiple driver support along with the cpuidle_[un]register()
functions added recently.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-06-11 13:42:38 +02:00
Daniel Lezcano a06df062a1 cpuidle: initialize the broadcast timer framework
The commit 89878baa73f0f1c679355006bd8632e5d78f96c2 introduced
the CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP flag where we specify a specific idle
state stops the local timer.

Now use this flag to check at init time if one state will need
the broadcast timer and, in this case, setup the broadcast timer
framework. That prevents multiple code duplication in the drivers.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-04-01 01:10:28 +02:00
Daniel Lezcano 8aef33a7cf cpuidle: remove the power_specified field in the driver
We realized that the power usage field is never filled and when it
is filled for tegra, the power_specified flag is not set causing all
of these values to be reset when the driver is initialized with
set_power_state().

However, the power_specified flag can be simply removed under the
assumption that the states are always backward sorted, which is the
case with the current code.

This change allows the menu governor select function and the
cpuidle_play_dead() to be simplified.  Moreover, the
set_power_states() function can removed as it does not make sense
any more.

Drop the power_specified flag from struct cpuidle_driver and make
the related changes as described above.

As a consequence, this also fixes the bug where on the dynamic
C-states system, the power fields are not initialized.

[rjw: Changelog]
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42870
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43349
References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/16/518
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-01-15 14:18:04 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano ac34d7c8c8 cpuidle: fix lock contention in the idle path
Commit bf4d1b5 (cpuidle: support multiple drivers) introduced
locking in cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(), which is used in the
idle_call() function.

This leads to a contention problem with a large number of CPUs,
because they all try to run the idle routine at the same time.

The lock can be safely removed because of how is used the cpuidle
API.  Namely, cpuidle_register_driver() is called first, but the
cpuidle idle function is not entered before cpuidle_register_device()
is called, because the cpuidle device is not enabled then. Moreover,
cpuidle_unregister_driver(), which would reset the driver value to
NULL, is not called before cpuidle_unregister_device().

All of the cpuidle drivers use the API in the same way.

In general, a cleanup around the lock is necessary and a proper
refcounting mechanism should be used to ensure the consistency in the
API (for example, cpuidle_unregister_driver() should fail if the
driver's refcount is not 0). However, these modifications will require
some code reorganization and rewrite which will be too intrusive for
a fix.

For this reason, fix the contention problem introduced by commit
bf4d1b5 by simply removing the locking from cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(),
which restores the original behavior of that routine.

[rjw: Changelog.]
Reported-and-tested-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-01-03 13:11:06 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano bf4d1b5ddb cpuidle: support multiple drivers
With the tegra3 and the big.LITTLE [1] new architectures, several cpus
with different characteristics (latencies and states) can co-exists on the
system.

The cpuidle framework has the limitation of handling only identical cpus.

This patch removes this limitation by introducing the multiple driver support
for cpuidle.

This option is configurable at compile time and should be enabled for the
architectures mentioned above. So there is no impact for the other platforms
if the option is disabled. The option defaults to 'n'. Note the multiple drivers
support is also compatible with the existing drivers, even if just one driver is
needed, all the cpu will be tied to this driver using an extra small chunk of
processor memory.

The multiple driver support use a per-cpu driver pointer instead of a global
variable and the accessor to this variable are done from a cpu context.

In order to keep the compatibility with the existing drivers, the function
'cpuidle_register_driver' and 'cpuidle_unregister_driver' will register
the specified driver for all the cpus.

The semantic for the output of /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/current_driver
remains the same except the driver name will be related to the current cpu.

The /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu[0-9]/cpuidle/driver/name files are added
allowing to read the per cpu driver name.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/481055/

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-11-15 00:34:23 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 13dd52f11a cpuidle: prepare the cpuidle core to handle multiple drivers
This patch is a preparation for the multiple cpuidle drivers support.

As the next patch will introduce the multiple drivers with the Kconfig
option and we want to keep the code clean and understandable, this patch
defines a set of functions for encapsulating some common parts and splits
what should be done under a lock from the rest.

[rjw: Modified the subject and changelog slightly.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-11-15 00:34:22 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 4168203271 cpuidle: move driver checking within the lock section
The code is racy and the check with cpuidle_curr_driver should be
done under the lock.

I don't find a path in the different drivers where that could happen
because the arch specific drivers are written in such way it is not
possible to register a driver while it is unregistered, except maybe
in a very improbable case when "intel_idle" and "processor_idle" are
competing. One could unregister a driver, while the other one is
registering.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-11-15 00:34:22 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano 42f67f2aca cpuidle: move driver's refcount to cpuidle
We want to support different cpuidle drivers co-existing together.
In this case we should move the refcount to the cpuidle_driver
structure to handle several drivers at a time.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Peter De Schrijver <pdeschrijver@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-11-15 00:34:22 +01:00
Daniel Lezcano ed953472d1 cpuidle: rename function name "__cpuidle_register_driver", v2
The function __cpuidle_register_driver name is confusing because it
suggests, conforming to the coding style of the kernel, it registers
the driver without taking a lock. Actually, it just fill the different
power field states with a decresing value if the power has not been
specified.

Clarify the purpose of the function by changing its name and
move the condition out of this function.

This patch fix nothing and does not change the behavior of the
function. It is just for the sake of clarity.

IHMO, reading in the code:

+       if (!drv->power_specified)
+               set_power_states(drv);

is much more explicit than:

-       __cpuidle_register_driver(drv);

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-09-22 00:38:32 +02:00
Daniel Lezcano a77de28662 cpuidle: remove some empty lines
This mindless patch is just about removing some trailing
carriage returns.

[rjw: Changed the subject.]

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-09-19 21:59:42 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 6e797a0788 PM / cpuidle: Add driver reference counter
Add a reference counter for the cpuidle driver, so that it can't
be unregistered when it is in use.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2012-07-03 19:06:25 +02:00
Daniel Lezcano fc850f39ea cpuidle: use the driver's state_count as default
If the state_count is not initialized for the device use
the driver's state count as the default. That will prevent
to add it manually in the cpuidle driver initialization
routine and will save us from duplicate line of code.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-03-30 01:55:04 -04:00
Deepthi Dharwar 46bcfad7a8 cpuidle: Single/Global registration of idle states
This patch makes the cpuidle_states structure global (single copy)
instead of per-cpu. The statistics needed on per-cpu basis
by the governor are kept per-cpu. This simplifies the cpuidle
subsystem as state registration is done by single cpu only.
Having single copy of cpuidle_states saves memory. Rare case
of asymmetric C-states can be handled within the cpuidle driver
and architectures such as POWER do not have asymmetric C-states.

Having single/global registration of all the idle states,
dynamic C-state transitions on x86 are handled by
the boot cpu. Here, the boot cpu  would disable all the devices,
re-populate the states and later enable all the devices,
irrespective of the cpu that would receive the notification first.

Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/25/83

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-11-06 21:13:58 -05:00
Len Brown 62027aea23 cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
useful for disabling cpuidle to fall back
to architecture-default idle loop

cpuidle drivers and governors will fail to register.
on x86 they'll say so:

intel_idle: intel_idle yielding to (null)
ACPI: acpi_idle yielding to (null)

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-03 19:06:36 -04:00
Len Brown 752138df0d cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static
cpuidle_register_driver() sets cpuidle_curr_driver
cpuidle_unregister_driver() clears cpuidle_curr_driver

We should't expose cpuidle_curr_driver to
potential modification except via these interfaces.
So make it static and create cpuidle_get_driver() to observe it.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-27 21:06:58 -04:00
Len Brown c0d64cb031 cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check
Assure that cpuidle_unregister_driver() will not clobber
the registered driver if unregistered by somebody else.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-27 13:04:04 -04:00
Len Brown 4f86d3a8e2 cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch
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>
2007-10-10 00:12:41 -04:00