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Dwaipayan Ray 6d79e36c9e ACPI: Use DEVICE_ATTR_<RW|RO|WO> macros
[ Upstream commit 0f39ee8324e75c9d370e84a61323ceb194641a18 ]

Instead of open coding DEVICE_ATTR(), use the
DEVICE_ATTR_RW(), DEVICE_ATTR_RO() and DEVICE_ATTR_WO()
macros wherever possible.

This required a few functions to be renamed but the
functionality itself is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-07-14 16:53:25 +02:00
Tony W Wang-oc 773b2f30a3 ACPI, x86: Add Zhaoxin processors support for NONSTOP TSC
Zhaoxin CPUs have NONSTOP TSC feature, so enable the ACPI
driver support for it.

Signed-off-by: Tony W Wang-oc <TonyWWang-oc@zhaoxin.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "rjw@rjwysocki.net" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: David Wang <DavidWang@zhaoxin.com>
Cc: "Cooper Yan(BJ-RD)" <CooperYan@zhaoxin.com>
Cc: "Qiyuan Wang(BJ-RD)" <QiyuanWang@zhaoxin.com>
Cc: "Herry Yang(BJ-RD)" <HerryYang@zhaoxin.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d1cfd937dabc44518d42038b55522c53@zhaoxin.com
2019-06-22 11:45:57 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 2025cf9e19 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 288
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms and conditions of the gnu general public license
  version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program
  is distributed in the hope it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 263 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141901.208660670@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-06-05 17:36:37 +02:00
Pu Wen 7377ed4bd5 ACPI: Add Hygon Dhyana support
The Hygon Dhyana CPU has NONSTOP TSC feature, so enable the ACPI driver
support to it.

Signed-off-by: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: rafael@kernel.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cce6ee26f4e2ebbab493433264d89d7cea661284.1537533369.git.puwen@hygon.cn
2018-09-27 18:29:00 +02:00
Lenny Szubowicz 8b29d29abc ACPI: acpi_pad: Fix memory leak in power saving threads
Fix once per second (round_robin_time) memory leak of about 1 KB in
each acpi_pad kernel idling thread that is activated.

Found by testing with kmemleak.

Signed-off-by: Lenny Szubowicz <lszubowi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-03-30 12:04:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ae7e81c077 sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>
We are going to move scheduler ABI details to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>,
which will be used from a number of .c files.

Create empty placeholder header that maps to <linux/types.h>.

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 08:42:27 +01:00
Juergen Gross e311404f79 ACPI / PAD: don't register acpi_pad driver if running as Xen dom0
When running as Xen dom0 a special processor_aggregator driver is
needed.  Don't register the standard driver in this case.

Without that check an error message:

"Error: Driver 'processor_aggregator' is already registered,
aborting..."

will be displayed.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
[ rjw: Minor fixups ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2016-10-12 21:44:04 +02:00
Jiri Kosina 2165747168 ACPI / PAD: power_saving_thread() is not freezable
power_saving_thread() calls try_to_freeze(), but the thread doesn't mark
itself freezable through set_freezable(), so the try_to_freeze()
call is useless.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-10-26 04:42:54 +01:00
Jarkko Nikula 4c62dbbce9 ACPI: Remove FSF mailing addresses
There is no need to carry potentially outdated Free Software Foundation
mailing address in file headers since the COPYING file includes it.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-07-08 02:27:32 +02:00
Bartosz Golaszewski 06931e6224 sched/topology: Rename topology_thread_cpumask() to topology_sibling_cpumask()
Rename topology_thread_cpumask() to topology_sibling_cpumask()
for more consistency with scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Benoit Cousson <bcousson@baylibre.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432645896-12588-2-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-27 15:22:15 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner c79521354e ACPI/PAD: Use explicit broadcast oneshot 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: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1552509.UntNmyqF5v@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:34 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 979081e744 ACPI/PAD: 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: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1521832.mm0ZfkTzTA@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:32 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 3ff70551a9 ACPI/PAD: Remove the local APIC nonsense
While looking through the (ab)use of the clockevents_notify()
function I stumbled over the following gem in the acpi_pad code:

  if (lapic_detected_unstable && !lapic_marked_unstable) {
     /* LAPIC could halt in idle, so notify users */
     for_each_online_cpu(i)
       clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ON, &i);
     lapic_marked_unstable = 1;
  }

This code calls on the cpu which detects the lapic unstable
condition first clockevents_notify() to tell the core code that
the broadcast should be enabled on all online cpus. Brilliant
stuff that as it notifies the core code a num_online_cpus()
times that the broadcast should be enabled on the current cpu.

This probably has never been noticed because that code got never
tested with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES_TIMER=n or it just worked by
chance because one of the other mechanisms told the core in the
right way that the local apic timer is wreckaged.

Sigh, this is:

 - The 4th incarnation of idle drivers which has their own mechanism
   to detect and deal with X86_FEATURE_ARAT.

 - The 2nd incarnation of fake idle mechanisms with a different set of
   brainmelting bugs.

 - Has been merged against an explicit NAK of the scheduler
   maintainer with the promise to improve it over time.

 - Another example of featuritis driven trainwreck engineering.

 - Another pointless waste of my time.

Fix this nonsense by removing that lapic detection and
notification logic and simply call into the clockevents code
unconditonally. The ARAT feature is marked in the lapic
clockevent already so the core code will just ignore the
requests and return.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1887788.RObRuI4tSv@vostro.rjw.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-03 08:44:31 +02:00
Sudeep Holla 5aaba36318 cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function
Many sysfs *_show function use cpu{list,mask}_scnprintf to copy cpumap
to the buffer aligned to PAGE_SIZE, append '\n' and '\0' to return null
terminated buffer with newline.

This patch creates a new helper function cpumap_print_to_pagebuf in
cpumask.h using newly added bitmap_print_to_pagebuf and consolidates
most of those sysfs functions using the new helper function.

Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07 11:45:00 -08:00
Manuel Schölling 4ff248f3bf ACPI / PAD: Use time_before() for time comparison
To be future-proof and for better readability the time comparisons are
modified to use time_before() instead of plain, error-prone math.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-05-27 01:38:23 +02:00
Tony Camuso 5b59c69ec5 ACPI / PAD: call schedule() when need_resched() is true
The purpose of the acpi_pad driver is to implement the "processor power
aggregator" device as described in the ACPI 4.0 spec section 8.5. It
takes requests from the BIOS (via ACPI) to put a specified number of
CPUs into idle, in order to save power, until further notice.

It does this by creating high-priority threads that try to keep the CPUs
in a high C-state (using the monitor/mwait CPU instructions). The
mwait() call is in a loop that checks periodically if the thread should
end and a few other things.

It was discovered through testing that the power_saving threads were
causing the system to consume more power than the system was consuming
before the threads were created. A counter in the main loop of
power_saving_thread() revealed that it was spinning. The mwait()
instruction was not keeping the CPU in a high C state very much if at
all.

Here is a simplification of the loop in function power_saving_thread() in
drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c

    while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
         :
        try_to_freeze()
         :
        while (!need_resched()) {
             :
            if (!need_resched())
                __mwait(power_saving_mwait_eax, 1);
             :
            if (jiffies > expire_time) {
                do_sleep = 1;
                break;
            }
        }
    }

If need_resched() returns true, then mwait() is not called. It was
returning true because of things like timer interrupts, as in the
following sequence.

hrtimer_interrupt->__run_hrtimer->tick_sched_timer-> update_process_times->
rcu_check_callbacks->rcu_pending->__rcu_pending->set_need_resched

Kernels 3.5.0-rc2+ do not exhibit this problem, because a patch to
try_to_freeze() in include/linux/freezer.h introduces a call to
might_sleep(), which ultimately calls schedule() to clear the reschedule
flag and allows the the loop to execute the call to mwait().

However, the changes to try_to_freeze are unrelated to acpi_pad, and it
does not seem like a good idea to rely on an unrelated patch in a
function that could later be changed and reintroduce this bug.

Therefore, it seems better to make an explicit call to schedule() in the
outer loop when the need_resched flag is set.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-04-28 12:26:00 +02:00
Jiang Liu 8b296d9412 ACPI / PAD: use acpi_evaluate_ost() to replace open-coded version
Use public function acpi_evaluate_ost() to replace open-coded
version of evaluating ACPI _OST method.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-02-21 00:27:47 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 09da8dfa98 ACPI and power management updates for 3.14-rc1
- ACPI core changes to make it create a struct acpi_device object for every
    device represented in the ACPI tables during all namespace scans regardless
    of the current status of that device.  In accordance with this, ACPI hotplug
    operations will not delete those objects, unless the underlying ACPI tables
    go away.
 
  - On top of the above, new sysfs attribute for ACPI device objects allowing
    user space to check device status by triggering the execution of _STA for
    its ACPI object.  From Srinivas Pandruvada.
 
  - ACPI core hotplug changes reducing code duplication, integrating the
    PCI root hotplug with the core and reworking container hotplug.
 
  - ACPI core simplifications making it use ACPI_COMPANION() in the code
    "glueing" ACPI device objects to "physical" devices.
 
  - ACPICA update to upstream version 20131218.  This adds support for the
    DBG2 and PCCT tables to ACPICA, fixes some bugs and improves debug
    facilities.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng and Betty Dall.
 
  - Init code change to carry out the early ACPI initialization earlier.
    That should allow us to use ACPI during the timekeeping initialization
    and possibly to simplify the EFI initialization too.  From Chun-Yi Lee.
 
  - Clenups of the inclusions of ACPI headers in many places all over from
    Lv Zheng and Rashika Kheria (work in progress).
 
  - New helper for ACPI _DSM execution and rework of the code in drivers
    that uses _DSM to execute it via the new helper.  From Jiang Liu.
 
  - New Win8 OSI blacklist entries from Takashi Iwai.
 
  - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Emil Goode, Hanjun Guo,
    Lan Tianyu, Masanari Iida, Oliver Neukum, Prarit Bhargava, Rashika Kheria,
    Tang Chen, Zhang Rui.
 
  - intel_pstate driver updates, including proper Baytrail support, from
    Dirk Brandewie and intel_pstate documentation from Ramkumar Ramachandra.
 
  - Generic CPU boost ("turbo") support for cpufreq from Lukasz Majewski.
 
  - powernow-k6 cpufreq driver fixes from Mikulas Patocka.
 
  - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jane Li, Mark Brown.
 
  - Assorted cpufreq drivers fixes and cleanups from Anson Huang, John Tobias,
    Paul Bolle, Paul Walmsley, Sachin Kamat, Shawn Guo, Viresh Kumar.
 
  - cpuidle cleanups from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.
 
  - Support for hibernation APM events from Bin Shi.
 
  - Hibernation fix to avoid bringing up nonboot CPUs with ACPI EC disabled
    during thaw transitions from Bjørn Mork.
 
  - PM core fixes and cleanups from Ben Dooks, Leonardo Potenza, Ulf Hansson.
 
  - PNP subsystem fixes and cleanups from Dmitry Torokhov, Levente Kurusa,
    Rashika Kheria.
 
  - New tool for profiling system suspend from Todd E Brandt and a cpupower
    tool cleanup from One Thousand Gnomes.
 
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "As far as the number of commits goes, the top spot belongs to ACPI
  this time with cpufreq in the second position and a handful of PM
  core, PNP and cpuidle updates.  They are fixes and cleanups mostly, as
  usual, with a couple of new features in the mix.

  The most visible change is probably that we will create struct
  acpi_device objects (visible in sysfs) for all devices represented in
  the ACPI tables regardless of their status and there will be a new
  sysfs attribute under those objects allowing user space to check that
  status via _STA.

  Consequently, ACPI device eject or generally hot-removal will not
  delete those objects, unless the table containing the corresponding
  namespace nodes is unloaded, which is extremely rare.  Also ACPI
  container hotplug will be handled quite a bit differently and cpufreq
  will support CPU boost ("turbo") generically and not only in the
  acpi-cpufreq driver.

  Specifics:

   - ACPI core changes to make it create a struct acpi_device object for
     every device represented in the ACPI tables during all namespace
     scans regardless of the current status of that device.  In
     accordance with this, ACPI hotplug operations will not delete those
     objects, unless the underlying ACPI tables go away.

   - On top of the above, new sysfs attribute for ACPI device objects
     allowing user space to check device status by triggering the
     execution of _STA for its ACPI object.  From Srinivas Pandruvada.

   - ACPI core hotplug changes reducing code duplication, integrating
     the PCI root hotplug with the core and reworking container hotplug.

   - ACPI core simplifications making it use ACPI_COMPANION() in the
     code "glueing" ACPI device objects to "physical" devices.

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20131218.  This adds support for
     the DBG2 and PCCT tables to ACPICA, fixes some bugs and improves
     debug facilities.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng and Betty Dall.

   - Init code change to carry out the early ACPI initialization
     earlier.  That should allow us to use ACPI during the timekeeping
     initialization and possibly to simplify the EFI initialization too.
     From Chun-Yi Lee.

   - Clenups of the inclusions of ACPI headers in many places all over
     from Lv Zheng and Rashika Kheria (work in progress).

   - New helper for ACPI _DSM execution and rework of the code in
     drivers that uses _DSM to execute it via the new helper.  From
     Jiang Liu.

   - New Win8 OSI blacklist entries from Takashi Iwai.

   - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Emil Goode, Hanjun
     Guo, Lan Tianyu, Masanari Iida, Oliver Neukum, Prarit Bhargava,
     Rashika Kheria, Tang Chen, Zhang Rui.

   - intel_pstate driver updates, including proper Baytrail support,
     from Dirk Brandewie and intel_pstate documentation from Ramkumar
     Ramachandra.

   - Generic CPU boost ("turbo") support for cpufreq from Lukasz
     Majewski.

   - powernow-k6 cpufreq driver fixes from Mikulas Patocka.

   - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jane Li, Mark
     Brown.

   - Assorted cpufreq drivers fixes and cleanups from Anson Huang, John
     Tobias, Paul Bolle, Paul Walmsley, Sachin Kamat, Shawn Guo, Viresh
     Kumar.

   - cpuidle cleanups from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.

   - Support for hibernation APM events from Bin Shi.

   - Hibernation fix to avoid bringing up nonboot CPUs with ACPI EC
     disabled during thaw transitions from Bjørn Mork.

   - PM core fixes and cleanups from Ben Dooks, Leonardo Potenza, Ulf
     Hansson.

   - PNP subsystem fixes and cleanups from Dmitry Torokhov, Levente
     Kurusa, Rashika Kheria.

   - New tool for profiling system suspend from Todd E Brandt and a
     cpupower tool cleanup from One Thousand Gnomes"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (153 commits)
  thermal: exynos: boost: Automatic enable/disable of BOOST feature (at Exynos4412)
  cpufreq: exynos4x12: Change L0 driver data to CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ
  Documentation: cpufreq / boost: Update BOOST documentation
  cpufreq: exynos: Extend Exynos cpufreq driver to support boost
  cpufreq / boost: Kconfig: Support for software-managed BOOST
  acpi-cpufreq: Adjust the code to use the common boost attribute
  cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
  intel_pstate: Add trace point to report internal state.
  cpufreq: introduce cpufreq_generic_get() routine
  ARM: SA1100: Create dummy clk_get_rate() to avoid build failures
  cpufreq: stats: create sysfs entries when cpufreq_stats is a module
  cpufreq: stats: free table and remove sysfs entry in a single routine
  cpufreq: stats: remove hotplug notifiers
  cpufreq: stats: handle cpufreq_unregister_driver() and suspend/resume properly
  cpufreq: speedstep: remove unused speedstep_get_state
  platform: introduce OF style 'modalias' support for platform bus
  PM / tools: new tool for suspend/resume performance optimization
  ACPI: fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: add module autoloading support for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: fix create_modalias() return value handling
  ...
2014-01-24 15:51:02 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra 1682425539 x86, acpi, idle: Restructure the mwait idle routines
People seem to delight in writing wrong and broken mwait idle routines;
collapse the lot.

This leaves mwait_play_dead() the sole remaining user of __mwait() and
new __mwait() users are probably doing it wrong.

Also remove __sti_mwait() as its unused.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Jun Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Zhang <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131212141654.616820819@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-12-19 11:54:44 -08:00
Lv Zheng 8b48463f89 ACPI: Clean up inclusions of ACPI header files
Replace direct inclusions of <acpi/acpi.h>, <acpi/acpi_bus.h> and
<acpi/acpi_drivers.h>, which are incorrect, with <linux/acpi.h>
inclusions and remove some inclusions of those files that aren't
necessary.

First of all, <acpi/acpi.h>, <acpi/acpi_bus.h> and <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
should not be included directly from any files that are built for
CONFIG_ACPI unset, because that generally leads to build warnings about
undefined symbols in !CONFIG_ACPI builds.  For CONFIG_ACPI set,
<linux/acpi.h> includes those files and for CONFIG_ACPI unset it
provides stub ACPI symbols to be used in that case.

Second, there are ordering dependencies between those files that always
have to be met.  Namely, it is required that <acpi/acpi_bus.h> be included
prior to <acpi/acpi_drivers.h> so that the acpi_pci_root declarations the
latter depends on are always there.  And <acpi/acpi.h> which provides
basic ACPICA type declarations should always be included prior to any other
ACPI headers in CONFIG_ACPI builds.  That also is taken care of including
<linux/acpi.h> as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> (drivers/pci stuff)
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> (Xen stuff)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-12-07 01:03:14 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 27703bb4a6 PTR_RET() is a weird name, and led to some confusing usage. We ended
up with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(), and replacing or fixing all the usages.
 
 This has been sitting in linux-next for a whole cycle.
 
 Thanks,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'PTR_RET-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull PTR_RET() removal patches from Rusty Russell:
 "PTR_RET() is a weird name, and led to some confusing usage.  We ended
  up with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(), and replacing or fixing all the usages.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for a whole cycle"

[ There are still some PTR_RET users scattered about, with some of them
  possibly being new, but most of them existing in Rusty's tree too.  We
  have that

      #define PTR_RET(p) PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(p)

  thing in <linux/err.h>, so they continue to work for now  - Linus ]

* tag 'PTR_RET-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  GFS2: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  Btrfs: volume: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  drm/cma: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  sh_veu: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  dma-buf: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  drivers/rtc: Replace PTR_RET with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  mm/oom_kill: remove weird use of ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR().
  staging/zcache: don't use PTR_RET().
  remoteproc: don't use PTR_RET().
  pinctrl: don't use PTR_RET().
  acpi: Replace weird use of PTR_RET.
  s390: Replace weird use of PTR_RET.
  PTR_RET is now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(): Replace most.
  PTR_RET is now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
2013-09-04 17:31:11 -07:00
Thomas Renninger 1696d9dc57 ACPI: Remove the old /proc/acpi/event interface
It is quite some time that this one has been deprecated.
Get rid of it.

Should some really important user be overseen, it may be reverted and
the userspace program worked on first, but it is time to do something
to get rid of this old stuff...

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-15 13:56:36 +02:00
Rusty Russell 5d7e438629 acpi: Replace weird use of PTR_RET.
This functions is really weird.  It sets rc to -ENOMEM, then overrides
it.  It was converted to PTR_RET in a1458187 when it should have
simply been rewritten.

This version makes it more explicit, with a single IS_ERR() test.

Cc: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-15 11:25:02 +09:30
Alexandru Gheorghiu a1458187ae ACPI / acpi_pad: Used PTR_RET
Use PTR_RET instead of explicit checking with IS_ERR.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-03-25 00:13:15 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 51fac8388a ACPI: Remove useless type argument of driver .remove() operation
The second argument of ACPI driver .remove() operation is only used
by the ACPI processor driver and the value passed to that driver
through it is always available from the given struct acpi_device
object's removal_type field.  For this reason, the second ACPI driver
.remove() argument is in fact useless, so drop it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
2013-01-26 00:37:24 +01:00
Josh 73d4511a5f ACPI: strict_strtoul() and printk() cleanup in acpi_pad
Replace a few calls to strict_strtoul() in acpi_pad.c with kstrtoul()
and use pr_warn() instead of printk() in the same file.

[rjw: Modified the subject and changelog.]
Signed-off-by: Josh Taylor <joshua.taylor0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-11-15 00:16:00 +01:00
Len Brown ec033d0a02 Merge branches 'acpi_pad', 'acpica', 'apei-bugzilla-43282', 'battery', 'cpuidle-coupled', 'cpuidle-tweaks', 'intel_idle-ivb', 'ost', 'red-hat-bz-772730', 'thermal', 'thermal-spear' and 'turbostat-v2' into release 2012-07-26 00:03:58 -04:00
Len Brown fa7584e13a ACPI: acpi_pad: tune round_robin_time
In an effort to be fair to bound processes,
acpi_pad periodically moves its forced-idle threads.

The default interval for moving the threads is 10 seconds.
Measurements show that reducing this to 1 second has no
power or performance impact, so reduce default to 1 second.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-07-14 11:42:56 -04:00
Stuart Hayes 5f16012610 acpi_pad: fix power_saving thread deadlock
The acpi_pad driver can get stuck in destroy_power_saving_task()
waiting for kthread_stop() to stop a power_saving thread.  The problem
is that the isolated_cpus_lock mutex is owned when
destroy_power_saving_task() calls kthread_stop(), which waits for a
power_saving thread to end, and the power_saving thread tries to
acquire the isolated_cpus_lock when it calls round_robin_cpu().  This
patch fixes the issue by making round_robin_cpu() use its own mutex.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42981

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-06-30 00:51:13 -04:00
Len Brown 150ed86fad ACPI: acpi_pad: rename "power_saving" thread to "acpi_pad" thread
"acpi_pad/%d" is a better thread name than
generic "power_saving/%d" because users who see
these threads will know the name of the driver
that caused them.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2012-06-13 22:07:20 -04:00
Naga Chumbalkar cdf2a4eede ACPI: minor printk format change in acpi_pad
Minor format change.

Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-03-23 01:36:45 -04:00
Naga Chumbalkar 32297abd90 ACPI: make acpi_pad /sys output more readable
Make /sys output from acpi_pad more readable.

Before the fix:
# cat idlecpus idlepct rrtime
00000000510

After the fix:
# cat idlecpus idlepct rrtime
00000000
5
10

Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-03-23 01:34:15 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 2a8b67fb72 Merge branch 'x86-idle-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-idle-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hotplug: In the MWAIT case of play_dead, CLFLUSH the cache line
  x86, hotplug: Move WBINVD back outside the play_dead loop
  x86, hotplug: Use mwait to offline a processor, fix the legacy case
  x86, mwait: Move mwait constants to a common header file
2010-10-21 13:45:38 -07:00
Len Brown c9ad8e062e ACPI: acpi_pad: simplify code to avoid false gcc build warning
acpi_pad.c:432: warning: ‘num_cpus’ may be used uninitialized in this function

gcc 4.4.4 was unable to notice that num_cpus is always set.
Re-arrange the code to un-confuse gcc, and also make
it easier for humans to read....

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.browns@intel.com>
2010-09-29 14:08:10 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin bc83cccc76 x86, mwait: Move mwait constants to a common header file
We have MWAIT constants spread across three different .c files, for no
good reason.  Move them all into a common header file.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
2010-09-17 15:36:40 -07:00
John Stultz 592913ecb8 time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
Now that all arches have been converted over to use generic time via
clocksources or arch_gettimeoffset(), we can remove the GENERIC_TIME
config option and simplify the generic code.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
Chen Gong 8aa4b14eb0 ACPI: acpi_pad: Don't needlessly mark LAPIC unstable
As suggested in Venki's suggestion in the commit 0dc698b,
add LAPIC unstable detection in the acpi_pad drvier too.

Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-06-04 03:48:10 -04:00
Linus Torvalds e4f2e5eaac Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors
  ACPI: acpi_idle: touch TS_POLLING only in the non-MWAIT case
  acpi_pad: uses MONITOR/MWAIT, so it doesn't need to clear TS_POLLING
  sched: clarify commment for TS_POLLING
  ACPI: allow a native cpuidle driver to displace ACPI
  cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static
  cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check
  cpuidle: fail to register if !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
2010-05-28 16:14:17 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi 0dc698b93f ACPI: Don't let acpi_pad needlessly mark TSC unstable
acpi pad driver kind of aggressively marks TSC as unstable at init
time, on mwait capable and non X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC systems. This is
irrespective of whether pad driver is ever going to be used on the
system or deep C-states are supported/used. This will affect every user
who just happens to compile in (or get a kernel version which
compiles in) acpi pad driver.

Move mark_tsc_unstable() out of init to the actual idle invocation path
of the pad driver.

There is also another bug/missing_feature in the code that it does not
support 'always running apic timer' and switches to broadcast mode
unconditionally. Shaohua, can you take a look at that please.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-28 15:34:57 -04:00
Len Brown a7d27c3753 acpi_pad: uses MONITOR/MWAIT, so it doesn't need to clear TS_POLLING
api_pad exclusively uses MONITOR/MWAIT to sleep in idle,
so it does not need the wakeup IPI during idle sleep
that is provoked by clearing TS_POLLING.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
2010-05-27 21:07:06 -04:00
Dan Carpenter a40770a953 acpi_pad: "processor_aggregator" name too long
cpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator.

With the current name we get a buffer overflow in acpi_pad_add()
	strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_CLASS);

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: call it acpi_pad, per Shaohua Li]
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-06 02:38:23 -04:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Len Brown 9c6a6b3cbc Merge branch 'acpi-pad' into release 2010-01-20 01:14:30 -05:00
Chen Gong 3b8cb427e9 acpi_pad: fix error checks
There are some fixes listed below:
1. When met a bogus BIOS, the return value of cpu number maybe is
   a negative value so that acpi_pad_pur get an unexpected result.
2. the return value of function acpi_pad_idle_cpus is useless.
3. enhance the process of create_power_saving_task/destroy_power_saving_task
4. Add more error checks when evaluating _PUR object.
5. one typo fix

Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-30 19:24:36 -05:00
Andrew Morton f67538f81e acpi_pad: squish warning
drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c: In function 'power_saving_thread':
drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c:103: warning: 'preferred_cpu' may be used uninitialized in this function

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>
2009-12-16 03:21:22 -05:00
Shaohua Li 8e0af5141a ACPI: create Processor Aggregator Device driver
ACPI 4.0 created the logical "processor aggregator device" as
a mechinism for platforms to ask the OS to force otherwise busy
processors to enter (power saving) idle.

The intent is to lower power consumption to ride-out
transient electrical and thermal emergencies,
rather than powering off the server.

On platforms that can save more power/performance via P-states,
the platform will first exhaust P-states before forcing idle.
However, the relative benefit of P-states vs. idle states
is platform dependent, and thus this driver need not know
or care about it.

This driver does not use the kernel's CPU hot-plug mechanism
because after the transient emergency is over, the system must
be returned to its normal state, and hotplug would permanently
break both cpusets and binding.

So to force idle, the driver creates a power saving thread.
The scheduler will migrate the thread to the preferred CPU.
The thread has max priority and has SCHED_RR policy,
so it can occupy one CPU.  To save power, the thread will
invoke the deep C-state entry instructions.

To avoid starvation, the thread will sleep 5% of the time
time for every second (current RT scheduler has threshold
to avoid starvation, but if other CPUs are idle,
the CPU can borrow CPU timer from other,
which makes the mechanism not work here)

Vaidyanathan Srinivasan has proposed scheduler enhancements
to allow injecting idle time into the system.  This driver doesn't
depend on those enhancements, but could cut over to them
when they are available.

Peter Z. does not favor upstreaming this driver until
the those scheduler enhancements are in place.  However,
we favor upstreaming this driver now because it is useful
now, and can be enhanced over time.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
NACKed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-07-31 18:23:34 -04:00