kernel/linux.git/drivers/cpuidle, branch linux-2.6.35.y

cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds

2011-08-01T20:54:53+00:00

commit 7467571f4480b273007517b26297c07154c73924 upstream. 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. Signed-off-by: Tero Kristo Signed-off-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users

2010-07-01T07:39:48+00:00

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 Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Maxim Levitsky Cc: Len Brown Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Jiri Slaby Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org LKML-Reference: <1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6

2010-05-28T23:14:17+00:00

* '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

cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static

2010-05-28T01:06:58+00:00

cpuidle_register_driver() sets cpuidle_curr_driver cpuidle_unregister_driver() clears cpuidle_curr_driver We should't expose cpuidle_curr_driver to potential modification except via these interfaces. So make it static and create cpuidle_get_driver() to observe it. Signed-off-by: Len Brown

cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check

2010-05-27T17:04:04+00:00

Assure that cpuidle_unregister_driver() will not clobber the registered driver if unregistered by somebody else. Signed-off-by: Len Brown

cpuidle: add a repeating pattern detector to the menu governor

2010-05-25T15:07:02+00:00

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 Cc: Corrado Zoccolo Cc: Frank Rowand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

PM QOS update

2010-05-10T21:08:19+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

cpuidle: Fix incorrect optimization

2010-05-10T01:35:36+00:00

commit 672917dcc78 ("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 Cc: Corrado Zoccolo Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

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 Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00

Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman