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Linus Torvalds 3c00303206 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
  cpuidle: Single/Global registration of idle states
  cpuidle: Split cpuidle_state structure and move per-cpu statistics fields
  cpuidle: Remove CPUIDLE_FLAG_IGNORE and dev->prepare()
  cpuidle: Move dev->last_residency update to driver enter routine; remove dev->last_state
  ACPI: Fix CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK=n compiler warning
  ACPI: Export FADT pm_profile integer value to userspace
  thermal: Prevent polling from happening during system suspend
  ACPI: Drop ACPI_NO_HARDWARE_INIT
  ACPI atomicio: Convert width in bits to bytes in __acpi_ioremap_fast()
  PNPACPI: Simplify disabled resource registration
  ACPI: Fix possible recursive locking in hwregs.c
  ACPI: use kstrdup()
  mrst pmu: update comment
  tools/power turbostat: less verbose debugging
2011-11-07 10:13:52 -08:00
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
Deepthi Dharwar b25edc42bf cpuidle: Remove CPUIDLE_FLAG_IGNORE and dev->prepare()
The cpuidle_device->prepare() mechanism causes updates to the
cpuidle_state[].flags, setting and clearing CPUIDLE_FLAG_IGNORE
to tell the governor not to chose a state on a per-cpu basis at
run-time. State demotion is now handled by the driver and it returns
the actual state entered. Hence, this mechanism is not required.
Also this removes per-cpu flags from cpuidle_state enabling
it to be made global.

Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/25/52

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-11-06 21:13:43 -05:00
Deepthi Dharwar e978aa7d7d cpuidle: Move dev->last_residency update to driver enter routine; remove dev->last_state
Cpuidle governor only suggests the state to enter using the
governor->select() interface, but allows the low level driver to
override the recommended state. The actual entered state
may be different because of software or hardware demotion. Software
demotion is done by the back-end cpuidle driver and can be accounted
correctly. Current cpuidle code uses last_state field to capture the
actual state entered and based on that updates the statistics for the
state entered.

Ideally the driver enter routine should update the counters,
and it should return the state actually entered rather than the time
spent there. The generic cpuidle code should simply handle where
the counters live in the sysfs namespace, not updating the counters.

Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/25/52

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 21:13:30 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker 70e522a028 cpuidle: ladder.c needs module.h and not just moduleparam.h
This file has module_init/exit and MODULE_LICENSE, and so it
needs the full module.h header.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:31:31 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker 884b17e109 cpuidle: Add module.h to drivers/cpuidle files as required.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:31:30 -04:00
Jean Pihet e8db0be124 PM QoS: Move and rename the implementation files
The PM QoS implementation files are better named
kernel/power/qos.c and include/linux/pm_qos.h.

The PM QoS support is compiled under the CONFIG_PM option.

Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com>
Acked-by: markgross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-08-25 15:35:03 +02:00
Tero Kristo 7467571f44 cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
Cpuidle menu governor is using u32 as a temporary datatype for storing
nanosecond values which wrap around at 4.294 seconds. This causes errors
in predicted sleep times resulting in higher than should be C state
selection and increased power consumption. This also breaks cpuidle
state residency statistics.

cc: stable@kernel.org # .32.x through .39.x
Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo <tero.kristo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 00:35:47 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi 20e3341bb1 cpuidle: Fix typos
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-09-28 23:30:38 -04:00
Ai Li 71abbbf856 cpuidle: extend cpuidle and menu governor to handle dynamic states
On some SoC chips, HW resources may be in use during any particular idle
period.  As a consequence, the cpuidle states that the SoC is safe to
enter can change from idle period to idle period.  In addition, the
latency and threshold of each cpuidle state can vary, depending on the
operating condition when the CPU becomes idle, e.g.  the current cpu
frequency, the current state of the HW blocks, etc.

cpuidle core and the menu governor, in the current form, are geared
towards cpuidle states that are static, i.e.  the availabiltiy of the
states, their latencies, their thresholds are non-changing during run
time.  cpuidle does not provide any hook that cpuidle drivers can use to
adjust those values on the fly for the current idle period before the menu
governor selects the target cpuidle state.

This patch extends cpuidle core and the menu governor to handle states
that are dynamic.  There are three additions in the patch and the patch
maintains backwards-compatibility with existing cpuidle drivers.

1) add prepare() to struct cpuidle_device.  A cpuidle driver can hook
   into the callback and cpuidle will call prepare() before calling the
   governor's select function.  The callback gives the cpuidle driver a
   chance to update the dynamic information of the cpuidle states for the
   current idle period, e.g.  state availability, latencies, thresholds,
   power values, etc.

2) add CPUIDLE_FLAG_IGNORE as one of the state flags.  In the prepare()
   function, a cpuidle driver can set/clear the flag to indicate to the
   menu governor whether a cpuidle state should be ignored, i.e.  not
   available, during the current idle period.

3) add power_specified bit to struct cpuidle_device.  The menu governor
   currently assumes that the cpuidle states are arranged in the order of
   increasing latency, threshold, and power savings.  This is true or can
   be made true for static states.  Once the state parameters are dynamic,
   the latencies, thresholds, and power savings for the cpuidle states can
   increase or decrease by different amounts from idle period to idle
   period.  So the assumption of increasing latency, threshold, and power
   savings from Cn to C(n+1) can no longer be guaranteed.

It can be straightforward to calculate the power consumption of each
available state and to specify it in power_usage for the idle period.
Using the power_usage fields, the menu governor then selects the state
that has the lowest power consumption and that still satisfies all other
critieria.  The power_specified bit defaults to 0.  For existing cpuidle
drivers, cpuidle detects that power_specified is 0 and fills in a dummy
set of power_usage values.

Signed-off-by: Ai Li <aili@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09 20:45:04 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 8c215bd389 sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users
Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us())
broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled
by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of
the current cpu.

This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making
nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass
in the right number.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-01 09:39:48 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 1f85f87d4f cpuidle: add a repeating pattern detector to the menu governor
Currently, the menu governor uses the (corrected) next timer as key item
for predicting the idle duration.

It turns out that there are specific cases where this breaks down: There
are cases where we have a very repetitive pattern of idle durations, where
the idle period is pretty much the same, for reasons completely unrelated
to the next timer event.  Examples of such repeating patterns are network
loads with irq mitigation, the mouse moving but in theory also the wifi
beacons.

This patch adds a relatively simple detector for such repeating patterns,
where the standard deviation of the last 8 idle periods is compared to a
threshold.

With this extra predictor in place, measurements show that the DECAY
factor can now be increased (the decaying average will now decay slower)
to get an even more stable result.

[arjan@infradead.org: fix bug identified by Frank]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
Mark Gross ed77134bfc PM QOS update
This patch changes the string based list management to a handle base
implementation to help with the hot path use of pm-qos, it also renames
much of the API to use "request" as opposed to "requirement" that was
used in the initial implementation.  I did this because request more
accurately represents what it actually does.

Also, I added a string based ABI for users wanting to use a string
interface.  So if the user writes 0xDDDDDDDD formatted hex it will be
accepted by the interface.  (someone asked me for it and I don't think
it hurts anything.)

This patch updates some documentation input I got from Randy.

Signed-off-by: markgross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-05-10 23:08:19 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 1c6fe0364f cpuidle: Fix incorrect optimization
commit 672917dcc7 ("cpuidle: menu governor: reduce latency on exit")
added an optimization, where the analysis on the past idle period moved
from the end of idle, to the beginning of the new idle.

Unfortunately, this optimization had a bug where it zeroed one key
variable for new use, that is needed for the analysis.  The fix is
simple, zero the variable after doing the work from the previous idle.

During the audit of the code that found this issue, another issue was
also found; the ->measured_us data structure member is never set, a
local variable is always used instead.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-09 18:35:36 -07:00
Richard Kennedy 56e6943b41 cpuidle menu: remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds
Reorder struct menu_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds.
Size drops from 136 to 128 bytes, so possibly needing one fewer cache
lines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:28 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger 5787536edf drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c: fix undefined reference to `__udivdi3'
menu: use proper 64 bit math

The new menu governor is incorrectly doing a 64 bit divide.  Compile
tested only

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-11 09:34:07 -08:00
Julia Lawall faa7b7ddca drivers/cpuidle: Move dereference after NULL test
It does not seem possible that ldev can be NULL, so drop the unnecessary
test.  If ldev can somehow be NULL, then the initialization of last_idx
should be moved below the test.

A simplified version of the semantic match that detects this problem is as
follows (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/):

// <smpl>
@match exists@
expression x, E;
identifier fld;
@@

* x->fld
  ... when != \(x = E\|&x\)
* x == NULL
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:25 -08:00
Corrado Zoccolo 672917dcc7 cpuidle: menu governor: reduce latency on exit
Move the state residency accounting and statistics computation off the hot
exit path.

On exit, the need to recompute statistics is recorded, and new statistics
will be computed when menu_select is called again.

The expected effect is to reduce processor wakeup latency from sleep
(C-states).  We are speaking of few hundreds of cycles reduction out of a
several microseconds latency (determined by the hardware transition), so
it is difficult to measure.

Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:45 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 69d25870f2 cpuidle: fix the menu governor to boost IO performance
Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy efficiency
and performance impact.

The reason for a reworked governor is that there have been serious
performance issues reported with the existing code on Nehalem server
systems.

To show this I'm sure Andrew wants to see benchmark results:
(benchmark is "fio", "no cstates" is using "idle=poll")

		no cstates	current linux	new algorithm
1 disk		107 Mb/s	85 Mb/s		105 Mb/s
2 disks		215 Mb/s	123 Mb/s	209 Mb/s
12 disks	590 Mb/s	320 Mb/s	585 Mb/s

In various power benchmark measurements, no degredation was found by our
measurement&diagnostics team.  Obviously a small percentage more power was
used in the "fio" benchmark, due to the much higher performance.

While it would be a novel idea to describe the new algorithm in this
commit message, I cheaped out and described it in comments in the code
instead.

[changes since first post: spelling fixes from akpm, review feedback,
folded menu-tng into menu.c]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:45 -07:00
Pallipadi, Venkatesh 816bb611e4 cpuidle: Add decaying history logic to menu idle predictor
Add decaying history of predicted idle time, instead of using the last early
wakeup. This logic helps menu governor do better job of predicting idle time.

With this change, we also measured noticable (~8%) power savings on
a DP server system with CPUs supporting deep C states, when system
was lightly loaded. There was no change to power or perf on other load
conditions.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-30 18:48:01 -05:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 06d9e908b2 cpuidle: Make ladder governor honor latency requirements fully
ladder governor only honored latency requirement when promoting C-states.
Instead. it should check for latency requirement on each idle call,
and demote to appropriate C-state when there is a latency requirement change.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-08-15 21:25:35 +02:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com 320eee7763 cpuidle: Menu governor fix wrong usage of measured_us
There is a bug in menu governor where we have
		if (data->elapsed_us < data->elapsed_us + measured_us)

with measured_us already having elapsed_us added in tickless case here
	unsigned int measured_us =
		cpuidle_get_last_residency(dev) + data->elapsed_us;

Also, it should be last_residency, not measured_us, that need to be used to
do comparing and distinguish between expected & non-expected events.

Refactor menu_reflect() to fix these two problems.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Gang <gang.wei@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-08-15 21:25:25 +02:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com a2bd920233 cpuidle: Do not use poll_idle unless user asks for it
poll_idle was added to CPUIDLE, just as a low latency idle handler, to be
used in cases when user desires CPUs not to enter any idle state at all. It
was supposed to be a run time idle=poll option to the user. But, it was indeed
getting used during normal menu and ladder governor default case, with no
special user setting (Reported by Linus Torvalds).

Change below ensures that poll_idle will not be used unless user explicitly
asks pm_qos infrastructure for zero latency requirement.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2008-08-15 21:25:25 +02:00
Mark Gross d82b35186e pm qos infrastructure and interface
The following patch is a generalization of the latency.c implementation done
by Arjan last year.  It provides infrastructure for more than one parameter,
and exposes a user mode interface for processes to register pm_qos
expectations of processes.

This interface provides a kernel and user mode interface for registering
performance expectations by drivers, subsystems and user space applications on
one of the parameters.

Currently we have {cpu_dma_latency, network_latency, network_throughput} as
the initial set of pm_qos parameters.

The infrastructure exposes multiple misc device nodes one per implemented
parameter.  The set of parameters implement is defined by pm_qos_power_init()
and pm_qos_params.h.  This is done because having the available parameters
being runtime configurable or changeable from a driver was seen as too easy to
abuse.

For each parameter a list of performance requirements is maintained along with
an aggregated target value.  The aggregated target value is updated with
changes to the requirement list or elements of the list.  Typically the
aggregated target value is simply the max or min of the requirement values
held in the parameter list elements.

>From kernel mode the use of this interface is simple:

pm_qos_add_requirement(param_id, name, target_value):

  Will insert a named element in the list for that identified PM_QOS
  parameter with the target value.  Upon change to this list the new target is
  recomputed and any registered notifiers are called only if the target value
  is now different.

pm_qos_update_requirement(param_id, name, new_target_value):

  Will search the list identified by the param_id for the named list element
  and then update its target value, calling the notification tree if the
  aggregated target is changed.  with that name is already registered.

pm_qos_remove_requirement(param_id, name):

  Will search the identified list for the named element and remove it, after
  removal it will update the aggregate target and call the notification tree
  if the target was changed as a result of removing the named requirement.

>From user mode:

  Only processes can register a pm_qos requirement.  To provide for
  automatic cleanup for process the interface requires the process to register
  its parameter requirements in the following way:

  To register the default pm_qos target for the specific parameter, the
  process must open one of /dev/[cpu_dma_latency, network_latency,
  network_throughput]

  As long as the device node is held open that process has a registered
  requirement on the parameter.  The name of the requirement is
  "process_<PID>" derived from the current->pid from within the open system
  call.

  To change the requested target value the process needs to write a s32
  value to the open device node.  This translates to a
  pm_qos_update_requirement call.

  To remove the user mode request for a target value simply close the device
  node.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build again]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:22 -08:00
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