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<title>litmus-rt.git/arch/x86/kernel/acpi, branch test</title>
<subtitle>The LITMUS^RT kernel.</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2015-04-24T15:23:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-24T15:23:45+00:00</published>
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Pull initial ACPI support for arm64 from Will Deacon:
 "This series introduces preliminary ACPI 5.1 support to the arm64
  kernel using the "hardware reduced" profile.  We don't support any
  peripherals yet, so it's fairly limited in scope:

   - MEMORY init (UEFI)

   - ACPI discovery (RSDP via UEFI)

   - CPU init (FADT)

   - GIC init (MADT)

   - SMP boot (MADT + PSCI)

   - ACPI Kconfig options (dependent on EXPERT)

  ACPI for arm64 has been in development for a while now and hardware
  has been available that can boot with either FDT or ACPI tables.  This
  has been made possible by both changes to the ACPI spec to cater for
  ARM-based machines (known as "hardware-reduced" in ACPI parlance) but
  also a Linaro-driven effort to get this supported on top of the Linux
  kernel.  This pull request is the result of that work.

  These changes allow us to initialise the CPUs, interrupt controller,
  and timers via ACPI tables, with memory information and cmdline coming
  from EFI.  We don't support a hybrid ACPI/FDT scheme.  Of course,
  there is still plenty of work to do (a serial console would be nice!)
  but I expect that to happen on a per-driver basis after this core
  series has been merged.

  Anyway, the diff stat here is fairly horrible, but splitting this up
  and merging it via all the different subsystems would have been
  extremely painful.  Instead, we've got all the relevant Acks in place
  and I've not seen anything other than trivial (Kconfig) conflicts in
  -next (for completeness, I've included my resolution below).  Nearly
  half of the insertions fall under Documentation/.

  So, we'll see how this goes.  Right now, it all depends on EXPERT and
  I fully expect people to use FDT by default for the immediate future"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (31 commits)
  ARM64 / ACPI: make acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface() as void function
  ARM64 / ACPI: Ignore the return error value of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface()
  ARM64 / ACPI: fix usage of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface
  ARM64: kernel: acpi: honour acpi=force command line parameter
  ARM64: kernel: acpi: refactor ACPI tables init and checks
  ARM64: kernel: psci: let ACPI probe PSCI version
  ARM64: kernel: psci: factor out probe function
  ACPI: move arm64 GSI IRQ model to generic GSI IRQ layer
  ARM64 / ACPI: Don't unflatten device tree if acpi=force is passed
  ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64
  Documentation: ACPI for ARM64
  ARM64 / ACPI: Enable ARM64 in Kconfig
  XEN / ACPI: Make XEN ACPI depend on X86
  ARM64 / ACPI: Select ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE_ONLY if ACPI is enabled on ARM64
  clocksource / arch_timer: Parse GTDT to initialize arch timer
  irqchip: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support
  ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_GIC and register device's gsi
  ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get CPU hardware ID via GICC
  ACPI / processor: Introduce phys_cpuid_t for CPU hardware ID
  ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT for SMP initialization
  ...
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Pull initial ACPI support for arm64 from Will Deacon:
 "This series introduces preliminary ACPI 5.1 support to the arm64
  kernel using the "hardware reduced" profile.  We don't support any
  peripherals yet, so it's fairly limited in scope:

   - MEMORY init (UEFI)

   - ACPI discovery (RSDP via UEFI)

   - CPU init (FADT)

   - GIC init (MADT)

   - SMP boot (MADT + PSCI)

   - ACPI Kconfig options (dependent on EXPERT)

  ACPI for arm64 has been in development for a while now and hardware
  has been available that can boot with either FDT or ACPI tables.  This
  has been made possible by both changes to the ACPI spec to cater for
  ARM-based machines (known as "hardware-reduced" in ACPI parlance) but
  also a Linaro-driven effort to get this supported on top of the Linux
  kernel.  This pull request is the result of that work.

  These changes allow us to initialise the CPUs, interrupt controller,
  and timers via ACPI tables, with memory information and cmdline coming
  from EFI.  We don't support a hybrid ACPI/FDT scheme.  Of course,
  there is still plenty of work to do (a serial console would be nice!)
  but I expect that to happen on a per-driver basis after this core
  series has been merged.

  Anyway, the diff stat here is fairly horrible, but splitting this up
  and merging it via all the different subsystems would have been
  extremely painful.  Instead, we've got all the relevant Acks in place
  and I've not seen anything other than trivial (Kconfig) conflicts in
  -next (for completeness, I've included my resolution below).  Nearly
  half of the insertions fall under Documentation/.

  So, we'll see how this goes.  Right now, it all depends on EXPERT and
  I fully expect people to use FDT by default for the immediate future"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (31 commits)
  ARM64 / ACPI: make acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface() as void function
  ARM64 / ACPI: Ignore the return error value of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface()
  ARM64 / ACPI: fix usage of acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface
  ARM64: kernel: acpi: honour acpi=force command line parameter
  ARM64: kernel: acpi: refactor ACPI tables init and checks
  ARM64: kernel: psci: let ACPI probe PSCI version
  ARM64: kernel: psci: factor out probe function
  ACPI: move arm64 GSI IRQ model to generic GSI IRQ layer
  ARM64 / ACPI: Don't unflatten device tree if acpi=force is passed
  ARM64 / ACPI: additions of ACPI documentation for arm64
  Documentation: ACPI for ARM64
  ARM64 / ACPI: Enable ARM64 in Kconfig
  XEN / ACPI: Make XEN ACPI depend on X86
  ARM64 / ACPI: Select ACPI_REDUCED_HARDWARE_ONLY if ACPI is enabled on ARM64
  clocksource / arch_timer: Parse GTDT to initialize arch timer
  irqchip: Add GICv2 specific ACPI boot support
  ARM64 / ACPI: Introduce ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_GIC and register device's gsi
  ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get CPU hardware ID via GICC
  ACPI / processor: Introduce phys_cpuid_t for CPU hardware ID
  ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT for SMP initialization
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / processor: Introduce phys_cpuid_t for CPU hardware ID</title>
<updated>2015-03-26T15:12:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-24T14:02:46+00:00</published>
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CPU hardware ID (phys_id) is defined as u32 in structure acpi_processor,
but phys_id is used as int in acpi processor driver, so it will lead to
some inconsistence for the drivers.

Furthermore, to cater for ACPI arch ports that implement 64 bits CPU
ids a generic CPU physical id type is required.

So introduce typedef u32 phys_cpuid_t in a common file, and introduce
a macro PHYS_CPUID_INVALID as (phys_cpuid_t)(-1) if it's not defined
by other archs, this will solve the inconsistence in acpi processor driver,
and will prepare for the ACPI on ARM64 for the 64 bit CPU hardware ID
in the following patch.

CC: Rafael J Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[hj: reworked cpu physid map return codes]
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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CPU hardware ID (phys_id) is defined as u32 in structure acpi_processor,
but phys_id is used as int in acpi processor driver, so it will lead to
some inconsistence for the drivers.

Furthermore, to cater for ACPI arch ports that implement 64 bits CPU
ids a generic CPU physical id type is required.

So introduce typedef u32 phys_cpuid_t in a common file, and introduce
a macro PHYS_CPUID_INVALID as (phys_cpuid_t)(-1) if it's not defined
by other archs, this will solve the inconsistence in acpi processor driver,
and will prepare for the ACPI on ARM64 for the 64 bit CPU hardware ID
in the following patch.

CC: Rafael J Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Suggested-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla &lt;sudeep.holla@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi &lt;lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
[hj: reworked cpu physid map return codes]
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/platform, acpi: Bypass legacy PIC and PIT in ACPI hardware reduced mode</title>
<updated>2015-03-12T11:07:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li, Aubrey</name>
<email>aubrey.li@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-11T08:09:00+00:00</published>
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On a platform in ACPI Hardware-reduced mode, the legacy PIC and
PIT may not be initialized even though they may be present in
silicon. Touching these legacy components causes unexpected
results on the system.

On the Bay Trail-T(ASUS-T100) platform, touching these legacy
components blocks platform hardware low idle power state(S0ix)
during system suspend. So we should bypass them in ACPI hardware
reduced mode.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Aubrey &lt;aubrey.li@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54FFF81C.20703@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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On a platform in ACPI Hardware-reduced mode, the legacy PIC and
PIT may not be initialized even though they may be present in
silicon. Touching these legacy components causes unexpected
results on the system.

On the Bay Trail-T(ASUS-T100) platform, touching these legacy
components blocks platform hardware low idle power state(S0ix)
during system suspend. So we should bypass them in ACPI hardware
reduced mode.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Li Aubrey &lt;aubrey.li@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54FFF81C.20703@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus' and 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-02-21T18:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-21T18:36:06+00:00</published>
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Pull rcu fix and x86 irq fix from Ingo Molnar:

 - Fix a bug that caused an RCU warning splat.

 - Two x86 irq related fixes: a hotplug crash fix and an ACPI IRQ
   registry fix.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu: Clear need_qs flag to prevent splat

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/irq: Check for valid irq descriptor in check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable()
  x86/irq: Fix regression caused by commit b568b8601f05
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Pull rcu fix and x86 irq fix from Ingo Molnar:

 - Fix a bug that caused an RCU warning splat.

 - Two x86 irq related fixes: a hotplug crash fix and an ACPI IRQ
   registry fix.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu: Clear need_qs flag to prevent splat

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/irq: Check for valid irq descriptor in check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable()
  x86/irq: Fix regression caused by commit b568b8601f05
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/irq: Fix regression caused by commit b568b8601f05</title>
<updated>2015-02-18T14:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiang Liu</name>
<email>jiang.liu@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-16T02:11:13+00:00</published>
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Commit b568b8601f05 ("Treat SCI interrupt as normal GSI interrupt")
accidently removes support of legacy PIC interrupt when fixing a
regression for Xen, which causes a nasty regression on HP/Compaq
nc6000 where we fail to register the ACPI interrupt, and thus
lose eg. thermal notifications leading a potentially overheated
machine.

So reintroduce support of legacy PIC based ACPI SCI interrupt.

Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;syrjala@sci.fi&gt;
Tested-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;syrjala@sci.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.19+
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom &lt;linux@eikelenboom.it&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424052673-22974-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit b568b8601f05 ("Treat SCI interrupt as normal GSI interrupt")
accidently removes support of legacy PIC interrupt when fixing a
regression for Xen, which causes a nasty regression on HP/Compaq
nc6000 where we fail to register the ACPI interrupt, and thus
lose eg. thermal notifications leading a potentially overheated
machine.

So reintroduce support of legacy PIC based ACPI SCI interrupt.

Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;syrjala@sci.fi&gt;
Tested-by: Ville Syrjälä &lt;syrjala@sci.fi&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 3.19+
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Sander Eikelenboom &lt;linux@eikelenboom.it&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424052673-22974-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-02-16T22:58:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-16T22:58:12+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This series tightens up RDPMC permissions: currently even highly
  sandboxed x86 execution environments (such as seccomp) have permission
  to execute RDPMC, which may leak various perf events / PMU state such
  as timing information and other CPU execution details.

  This 'all is allowed' RDPMC mode is still preserved as the
  (non-default) /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 setting.  The new default is
  that RDPMC access is only allowed if a perf event is mmap-ed (which is
  needed to correctly interpret RDPMC counter values in any case).

  As a side effect of these changes CR4 handling is cleaned up in the
  x86 code and a shadow copy of the CR4 value is added.

  The extra CR4 manipulation adds ~ &lt;50ns to the context switch cost
  between rdpmc-capable and rdpmc-non-capable mms"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks
  perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped
  perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage()
  perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping
  x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching
  x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4
  x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
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Pull x86 perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This series tightens up RDPMC permissions: currently even highly
  sandboxed x86 execution environments (such as seccomp) have permission
  to execute RDPMC, which may leak various perf events / PMU state such
  as timing information and other CPU execution details.

  This 'all is allowed' RDPMC mode is still preserved as the
  (non-default) /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 setting.  The new default is
  that RDPMC access is only allowed if a perf event is mmap-ed (which is
  needed to correctly interpret RDPMC counter values in any case).

  As a side effect of these changes CR4 handling is cleaned up in the
  x86 code and a shadow copy of the CR4 value is added.

  The extra CR4 manipulation adds ~ &lt;50ns to the context switch cost
  between rdpmc-capable and rdpmc-non-capable mms"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86: Add /sys/devices/cpu/rdpmc=2 to allow rdpmc for all tasks
  perf/x86: Only allow rdpmc if a perf_event is mapped
  perf: Pass the event to arch_perf_update_userpage()
  perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping
  x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching
  x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4
  x86: Clean up cr4 manipulation
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T23:09:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T23:09:41+00:00</published>
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "We have a few new features this time, including a new SFI-based
  cpufreq driver, a new devfreq driver for Tegra Activity Monitor, a new
  devfreq class for providing its governors with raw utilization data
  and a new ACPI driver for AMD SoCs.

  Still, the majority of changes here are reworks of existing code to
  make it more straightforward or to prepare it for implementing new
  features on top of it.  The primary example is the rework of ACPI
  resources handling from Jiang Liu, Thomas Gleixner and Lv Zheng with
  support for IOAPIC hotplug implemented on top of it, but there is
  quite a number of changes of this kind in the cpufreq core, ACPICA,
  ACPI EC driver, ACPI processor driver and the generic power domains
  core code too.

  The most active developer is Viresh Kumar with his cpufreq changes.

  Specifics:

   - Rework of the core ACPI resources parsing code to fix issues in it
     and make using resource offsets more convenient and consolidation
     of some resource-handing code in a couple of places that have grown
     analagous data structures and code to cover the the same gap in the
     core (Jiang Liu, Thomas Gleixner, Lv Zheng).

   - ACPI-based IOAPIC hotplug support on top of the resources handling
     rework (Jiang Liu, Yinghai Lu).

   - ACPICA update to upstream release 20150204 including an interrupt
     handling rework that allows drivers to install raw handlers for
     ACPI GPEs which then become entirely responsible for the given GPE
     and the ACPICA core code won't touch it (Lv Zheng, David E Box,
     Octavian Purdila).

   - ACPI EC driver rework to fix several concurrency issues and other
     problems related to events handling on top of the ACPICA's new
     support for raw GPE handlers (Lv Zheng).

   - New ACPI driver for AMD SoCs analogous to the LPSS (Low-Power
     Subsystem) driver for Intel chips (Ken Xue).

   - Two minor fixes of the ACPI LPSS driver (Heikki Krogerus, Jarkko
     Nikula).

   - Two new blacklist entries for machines (Samsung 730U3E/740U3E and
     510R) where the native backlight interface doesn't work correctly
     while the ACPI one does (Hans de Goede).

   - Rework of the ACPI processor driver's handling of idle states to
     make the code more straightforward and less bloated overall (Rafael
     J Wysocki).

   - Assorted minor fixes related to ACPI and SFI (Andreas Ruprecht,
     Andy Shevchenko, Hanjun Guo, Jan Beulich, Rafael J Wysocki, Yaowei
     Bai).

   - PCI core power management modification to avoid resuming (some)
     runtime-suspended devices during system suspend if they are in the
     right states already (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - New SFI-based cpufreq driver for Intel platforms using SFI
     (Srinidhi Kasagar).

   - cpufreq core fixes, cleanups and simplifications (Viresh Kumar,
     Doug Anderson, Wolfram Sang).

   - SkyLake CPU support and other updates for the intel_pstate driver
     (Kristen Carlson Accardi, Srinivas Pandruvada).

   - cpufreq-dt driver cleanup (Markus Elfring).

   - Init fix for the ARM big.LITTLE cpuidle driver (Sudeep Holla).

   - Generic power domains core code fixes and cleanups (Ulf Hansson).

   - Operating Performance Points (OPP) core code cleanups and kernel
     documentation update (Nishanth Menon).

   - New dabugfs interface to make the list of PM QoS constraints
     available to user space (Nishanth Menon).

   - New devfreq driver for Tegra Activity Monitor (Tomeu Vizoso).

   - New devfreq class (devfreq_event) to provide raw utilization data
     to devfreq governors (Chanwoo Choi).

   - Assorted minor fixes and cleanups related to power management
     (Andreas Ruprecht, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Rickard Strandqvist, Pavel
     Machek, Todd E Brandt, Wonhong Kwon).

   - turbostat updates (Len Brown) and cpupower Makefile improvement
     (Sriram Raghunathan)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (151 commits)
  tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on APERF_MSR
  tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on invariant TSC
  Merge branch 'pci/host-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci into acpi-resources
  tools/power turbostat: decode MSR_*_PERF_LIMIT_REASONS
  tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on root permission
  ACPI / video: Add disable_native_backlight quirk for Samsung 510R
  ACPI / PM: Remove unneeded nested #ifdef
  USB / PM: Remove unneeded #ifdef and associated dead code
  intel_pstate: provide option to only use intel_pstate with HWP
  ACPI / EC: Add GPE reference counting debugging messages
  ACPI / EC: Add query flushing support
  ACPI / EC: Refine command storm prevention support
  ACPI / EC: Add command flushing support.
  ACPI / EC: Introduce STARTED/STOPPED flags to replace BLOCKED flag
  ACPI: add AMD ACPI2Platform device support for x86 system
  ACPI / table: remove duplicate NULL check for the handler of acpi_table_parse()
  ACPI / EC: Update revision due to raw handler mode.
  ACPI / EC: Reduce ec_poll() by referencing the last register access timestamp.
  ACPI / EC: Fix several GPE handling issues by deploying ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode.
  ACPICA: Events: Enable APIs to allow interrupt/polling adaptive request based GPE handling model
  ...
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "We have a few new features this time, including a new SFI-based
  cpufreq driver, a new devfreq driver for Tegra Activity Monitor, a new
  devfreq class for providing its governors with raw utilization data
  and a new ACPI driver for AMD SoCs.

  Still, the majority of changes here are reworks of existing code to
  make it more straightforward or to prepare it for implementing new
  features on top of it.  The primary example is the rework of ACPI
  resources handling from Jiang Liu, Thomas Gleixner and Lv Zheng with
  support for IOAPIC hotplug implemented on top of it, but there is
  quite a number of changes of this kind in the cpufreq core, ACPICA,
  ACPI EC driver, ACPI processor driver and the generic power domains
  core code too.

  The most active developer is Viresh Kumar with his cpufreq changes.

  Specifics:

   - Rework of the core ACPI resources parsing code to fix issues in it
     and make using resource offsets more convenient and consolidation
     of some resource-handing code in a couple of places that have grown
     analagous data structures and code to cover the the same gap in the
     core (Jiang Liu, Thomas Gleixner, Lv Zheng).

   - ACPI-based IOAPIC hotplug support on top of the resources handling
     rework (Jiang Liu, Yinghai Lu).

   - ACPICA update to upstream release 20150204 including an interrupt
     handling rework that allows drivers to install raw handlers for
     ACPI GPEs which then become entirely responsible for the given GPE
     and the ACPICA core code won't touch it (Lv Zheng, David E Box,
     Octavian Purdila).

   - ACPI EC driver rework to fix several concurrency issues and other
     problems related to events handling on top of the ACPICA's new
     support for raw GPE handlers (Lv Zheng).

   - New ACPI driver for AMD SoCs analogous to the LPSS (Low-Power
     Subsystem) driver for Intel chips (Ken Xue).

   - Two minor fixes of the ACPI LPSS driver (Heikki Krogerus, Jarkko
     Nikula).

   - Two new blacklist entries for machines (Samsung 730U3E/740U3E and
     510R) where the native backlight interface doesn't work correctly
     while the ACPI one does (Hans de Goede).

   - Rework of the ACPI processor driver's handling of idle states to
     make the code more straightforward and less bloated overall (Rafael
     J Wysocki).

   - Assorted minor fixes related to ACPI and SFI (Andreas Ruprecht,
     Andy Shevchenko, Hanjun Guo, Jan Beulich, Rafael J Wysocki, Yaowei
     Bai).

   - PCI core power management modification to avoid resuming (some)
     runtime-suspended devices during system suspend if they are in the
     right states already (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - New SFI-based cpufreq driver for Intel platforms using SFI
     (Srinidhi Kasagar).

   - cpufreq core fixes, cleanups and simplifications (Viresh Kumar,
     Doug Anderson, Wolfram Sang).

   - SkyLake CPU support and other updates for the intel_pstate driver
     (Kristen Carlson Accardi, Srinivas Pandruvada).

   - cpufreq-dt driver cleanup (Markus Elfring).

   - Init fix for the ARM big.LITTLE cpuidle driver (Sudeep Holla).

   - Generic power domains core code fixes and cleanups (Ulf Hansson).

   - Operating Performance Points (OPP) core code cleanups and kernel
     documentation update (Nishanth Menon).

   - New dabugfs interface to make the list of PM QoS constraints
     available to user space (Nishanth Menon).

   - New devfreq driver for Tegra Activity Monitor (Tomeu Vizoso).

   - New devfreq class (devfreq_event) to provide raw utilization data
     to devfreq governors (Chanwoo Choi).

   - Assorted minor fixes and cleanups related to power management
     (Andreas Ruprecht, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Rickard Strandqvist, Pavel
     Machek, Todd E Brandt, Wonhong Kwon).

   - turbostat updates (Len Brown) and cpupower Makefile improvement
     (Sriram Raghunathan)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (151 commits)
  tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on APERF_MSR
  tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on invariant TSC
  Merge branch 'pci/host-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci into acpi-resources
  tools/power turbostat: decode MSR_*_PERF_LIMIT_REASONS
  tools/power turbostat: relax dependency on root permission
  ACPI / video: Add disable_native_backlight quirk for Samsung 510R
  ACPI / PM: Remove unneeded nested #ifdef
  USB / PM: Remove unneeded #ifdef and associated dead code
  intel_pstate: provide option to only use intel_pstate with HWP
  ACPI / EC: Add GPE reference counting debugging messages
  ACPI / EC: Add query flushing support
  ACPI / EC: Refine command storm prevention support
  ACPI / EC: Add command flushing support.
  ACPI / EC: Introduce STARTED/STOPPED flags to replace BLOCKED flag
  ACPI: add AMD ACPI2Platform device support for x86 system
  ACPI / table: remove duplicate NULL check for the handler of acpi_table_parse()
  ACPI / EC: Update revision due to raw handler mode.
  ACPI / EC: Reduce ec_poll() by referencing the last register access timestamp.
  ACPI / EC: Fix several GPE handling issues by deploying ACPI_GPE_DISPATCH_RAW_HANDLER mode.
  ACPICA: Events: Enable APIs to allow interrupt/polling adaptive request based GPE handling model
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T00:57:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T00:57:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=9d43bade347143b96671b38a7f81c39a81206675'/>
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Pull x86 APIC updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Continued fallout of the conversion of the x86 IRQ code to the
  hierarchical irqdomain framework: more cleanups, simplifications,
  memory allocation behavior enhancements, mainly in the interrupt
  remapping and APIC code"

* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  x86, init: Fix UP boot regression on x86_64
  iommu/amd: Fix irq remapping detection logic
  x86/acpi: Make acpi_[un]register_gsi_ioapic() depend on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
  x86: Consolidate boot cpu timer setup
  x86/apic: Reuse apic_bsp_setup() for UP APIC setup
  x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init
  x86/smpboot: Move apic init code to apic.c
  init: Get rid of x86isms
  x86/apic: Move apic_init_uniprocessor code
  x86/smpboot: Cleanup ioapic handling
  x86/apic: Sanitize ioapic handling
  x86/ioapic: Add proper checks to setp/enable_IO_APIC()
  x86/ioapic: Provide stub functions for IOAPIC%3Dn
  x86/smpboot: Move smpboot inlines to code
  x86/x2apic: Use state information for disable
  x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function
  x86/x2apic: Disable x2apic from nox2apic setup
  x86/x2apic: Add proper state tracking
  x86/x2apic: Clarify remapping mode for x2apic enablement
  x86/x2apic: Move code in conditional region
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 APIC updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Continued fallout of the conversion of the x86 IRQ code to the
  hierarchical irqdomain framework: more cleanups, simplifications,
  memory allocation behavior enhancements, mainly in the interrupt
  remapping and APIC code"

* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  x86, init: Fix UP boot regression on x86_64
  iommu/amd: Fix irq remapping detection logic
  x86/acpi: Make acpi_[un]register_gsi_ioapic() depend on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
  x86: Consolidate boot cpu timer setup
  x86/apic: Reuse apic_bsp_setup() for UP APIC setup
  x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init
  x86/smpboot: Move apic init code to apic.c
  init: Get rid of x86isms
  x86/apic: Move apic_init_uniprocessor code
  x86/smpboot: Cleanup ioapic handling
  x86/apic: Sanitize ioapic handling
  x86/ioapic: Add proper checks to setp/enable_IO_APIC()
  x86/ioapic: Provide stub functions for IOAPIC%3Dn
  x86/smpboot: Move smpboot inlines to code
  x86/x2apic: Use state information for disable
  x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function
  x86/x2apic: Disable x2apic from nox2apic setup
  x86/x2apic: Add proper state tracking
  x86/x2apic: Clarify remapping mode for x2apic enablement
  x86/x2apic: Move code in conditional region
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / table: remove duplicate NULL check for the handler of acpi_table_parse()</title>
<updated>2015-02-06T00:34:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hanjun Guo</name>
<email>hanjun.guo@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-05T09:33:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=2fad93083e288a7d24bf7284c87f0d80a5a2c599'/>
<id>2fad93083e288a7d24bf7284c87f0d80a5a2c599</id>
<content type='text'>
In acpi_table_parse(), pointer of the table to pass to handler() is
checked before handler() called, so remove all the duplicate NULL
check in the handler function.

CC: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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In acpi_table_parse(), pointer of the table to pass to handler() is
checked before handler() called, so remove all the duplicate NULL
check in the handler function.

CC: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
CC: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Store a per-cpu shadow copy of CR4</title>
<updated>2015-02-04T11:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-24T22:58:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rtsrv.cs.unc.edu/cgit/cgit.cgi/litmus-rt.git/commit/?id=1e02ce4cccdcb9688386e5b8d2c9fa4660b45389'/>
<id>1e02ce4cccdcb9688386e5b8d2c9fa4660b45389</id>
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Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4.
CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a
per-cpu variable.

To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to
cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm.  The heaviest
users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and
__switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context
switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vince@deater.net&gt;
Cc: "hillf.zj" &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Context switches and TLB flushes can change individual bits of CR4.
CR4 reads take several cycles, so store a shadow copy of CR4 in a
per-cpu variable.

To avoid wasting a cache line, I added the CR4 shadow to
cpu_tlbstate, which is already touched in switch_mm.  The heaviest
users of the cr4 shadow will be switch_mm and __switch_to_xtra, and
__switch_to_xtra is called shortly after switch_mm during context
switch, so the cacheline is likely to be hot.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vince@deater.net&gt;
Cc: "hillf.zj" &lt;hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks &lt;Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a54dd3353fffbf84804398e00dfdc5b7c1afd7d.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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