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Flush kacpi_notify_wq before notify handler is removed,
this can fix a bug which the deferred notify handler is executed
after the notify_handler has already been removed.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9772
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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ACPI currently emulates a timeout for semaphores with calls to
down_trylock and sleep. This produces horrible behaviour in terms of
fairness and excessive wakeups. Now that we have a unified semaphore
implementation, adding a real down_trylock is almost trivial.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
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This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9adf8ee89e5c96a47222915c5485ac437
("ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override support"), because the code simply
isn't ready.
It did ugly things to the init sequence to populate the rootfs image
early, but that just ended up showing other problems with the whole
approach. The fact is, the VFS layer simply isn't initialized this
early, and the relevant ACPI code should either run much later, or this
shouldn't be done at all.
For 2.6.25, we'll just pick the latter option. We can revisit this
concept later if necessary.
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@gaugusch.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9939
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The raw_pci_read() interface (as the raw_pci_ops->read() before it)
unconditionally fills in a 32-bit integer return value regardless of the
size of the operation requested.
So claiming to take a "void *" is wrong, as is passing in a pointer to
just a byte variable.
Noticed by pageexec when enabling -fstack-protector (which needs other
patches too to actually work, but that's a separate issue).
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We want to allow different implementations of pci_raw_ops for standard
and extended config space on x86. Rather than clutter generic code with
knowledge of this, we make pci_raw_ops private to x86 and use it to
implement the new raw interface -- raw_pci_read() and raw_pci_write().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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also, address some checkpatch.pl violations
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The acpi_no_initrd_override parameter permits to disable the load of an ACPI
table from the initramfs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Conflicts:
drivers/acpi/scan.c
include/linux/acpi.h
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global code static:
- drivers/acpi/bay.c:dev_attr_eject
- drivers/acpi/bay.c:dev_attr_present
- drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_docked
- drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_flags
- drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_uid
- drivers/acpi/dock.c:dev_attr_undock
- drivers/acpi/pci_bind.c:acpi_pci_unbind()
- drivers/acpi/pci_link.c:acpi_link_lock
- drivers/acpi/sbs.c:acpi_sbs_callback()
- drivers/acpi/sbshc.c:acpi_smbus_transaction()
- drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c:acpi_sleep_prepare()
- #if 0 the following unused global functions:
- drivers/acpi/numa.c:acpi_unmap_pxm_to_node()
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- acpi_register_gsi
- acpi_unregister_gsi
- acpi_strict
- acpi_bus_receive_event
- register_acpi_bus_type
- unregister_acpi_bus_type
- acpi_os_printf
- acpi_os_sleep
- acpi_os_stall
- acpi_os_read_pci_configuration
- acpi_os_create_semaphore
- acpi_os_delete_semaphore
- acpi_os_wait_semaphore
- acpi_os_signal_semaphore
- acpi_os_signal
- acpi_pci_irq_enable
- acpi_get_pxm
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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'bugzilla-7186', 'bugzilla-8269', 'bugzilla-8570', 'bugzilla-9139', 'bugzilla-9277', 'bugzilla-9341', 'bugzilla-9444', 'bugzilla-9614', 'bugzilla-9643' and 'bugzilla-9644' into release
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Export acpi_check_resource_conflict(), sometimes drivers already have
a struct resource at hand so no need to use the wrappers to build a new
one.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Small ACPICA extension to be able to store the name of operation regions in osl.c later
In ACPI, AML can define accesses to IO ports and System Memory by Operation
Regions. Those are not registered as done by PNPACPI using resource templates
(and _CRS/_SRS methods).
The IO ports and System Memory regions may get accessed by arbitrary AML code.
When native drivers are accessing the same resources bad things can happen
(e.g. a critical shutdown temperature of 3000 C every 2 months or so).
It is not really possible to register the operation regions via
request_resource, as they often overlap with pnp or other resources (e.g.
statically setup IO resources below 0x100).
This approach stores all Operation Region declarations (IO and System Memory
only) at ACPI table parse time. It offers a similar functionality like
request_region and let drivers which are known to possibly use the same IO
ports and Memory which are also often used by ACPI (hwmon and i2c) check for
ACPI interference.
A boot parameter acpi_enforce_resources=strict/lax/no is provided, which
is default set to lax:
- strict: let conflicting drivers fail to load with an error message
- lax: let conflicting driver work normal with a warning message
- no: no functional change at all
Depending on the feedback and the kind of interferences we see, this
should be set to strict at later time.
Goal of this patch set is:
- Identify ACPI interferences in bug reports (very hard to reproduce
and to identify)
- Find BIOSes for that an ACPI driver should exist for specific HW
instead of a native one.
- stability in general
Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region.
Drivers can additionally check against possible ACPI interference by also
invoking this shortly before they call request_region.
If -EBUSY is returned, the driver must not load.
Use acpi_enforce_resources=strict/lax/no options to:
- strict: let conflicting drivers fail to load with an error message
- lax: let conflicting driver work normal with a warning message
- no: no functional change at all
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
Based-on-original-patch-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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When an ACPI table is overridden (for now this can happen only for DSDT)
display a big warning and taint the kernel with flag A.
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The basics of DSDT from initramfs. In case this option is selected,
populate_rootfs() is called a bit earlier to have the initramfs content
available during ACPI initialization.
This is a very similar path to the one available at
http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml but with some update in the
documentation, default set to No and the change of populate_rootfs() the
"Jeff Mahony way" (which avoids reading the initramfs twice).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Use existing dmi_get_system_info(),
Delete duplicate dmi_get_slot()
Spotted-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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If BIOS invokes _OSI(Linux), the kernel response
depends on what the ACPI DMI list knows about the system,
and that is reflectd in dmesg:
1) System unknown to DMI:
ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
ACPI: DMI System Vendor: LENOVO
ACPI: DMI Product Name: 7661W1P
ACPI: DMI Product Version: ThinkPad T61
ACPI: DMI Board Name: 7661W1P
ACPI: DMI BIOS Vendor: LENOVO
ACPI: DMI BIOS Date: 10/18/2007
ACPI: Please send DMI info above to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
2) System known to DMI, but effect of OSI(Linux) unknown:
ACPI: DMI detected: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
...
ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored via DMI
ACPI: If "acpi_osi=Linux" works better, please notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
3) System known to DMI, which disables _OSI(Linux):
ACPI: DMI detected: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
...
ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored via DMI
4) System known to DMI, which enable _OSI(Linux):
ACPI: DMI detected: Lenovo ThinkPad T61
ACPI: Added _OSI(Linux)
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ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query honored via DMI
cmdline overrides take precidence over the built-in
default and the DMI prescribed default.
cmdline "acpi_osi=Linux" results in:
ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query honored via cmdline
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Linux does not want BIOS writers to invoke _OSI(Linux) -
for in the field it causes more Windows incompatibility problems
than it solves.
So when it is seen in the BIOS for an Intel Customer Reference Board,
Linux should ignore its effect by default, and should complain loudly.
Otherwise, the reference BIOS will go unfixed, and the bad BIOS
will spread to the field.
Users of this board can get the old behavior with "acpi_osi=Linux"
As this was the only entry, delete acpi_osl_dmi_table[].
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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A utility routine to print common entries used
for ACPI-related DMI blacklist entries.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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ACPI tables follow a tree structure in memory.
The root of the tree is the RSDP (Root System Description Pointer).
To find the RSDP, the OS searches for the signature "RSD PTR "
in well known physical memory locations. Then the OS computes
a table checksum to verify that the signature is really part
of a valid table header.
Some systems have a proper signature but an invalid checksum;
followed elsewhere by a proper signature with valid checksum.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9444
The Linux RSDP scanning code bailed out on those systems
and as a result they booted with ACPI disabled.
Fix this by deleting the Linux RSDP scanning code and
plugging in the ACPICA RSDP scanning code.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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.. as it it used only during early boot.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 4 ++--
drivers/acpi/osl.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Level GPE should not be enabled until all work caused by it is done,
e.g. all Notify() methods are completed.
This can be accomplished by appending enable_gpe function to the end
of notify queue.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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We've run into BIOS that hand us 4-bit access width requests
for T-state control when the code expected only multipls of 8-bits.
Round up.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (41 commits)
ACPICA: hw: Don't carry spinlock over suspend
ACPICA: hw: remove use_lock flag from acpi_hw_register_{read, write}
ACPI: cpuidle: port idle timer suspend/resume workaround to cpuidle
ACPI: clean up acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep
Hibernation: Make sure that ACPI is enabled in acpi_hibernation_finish
ACPI: suppress uninitialized var warning
cpuidle: consolidate 2.6.22 cpuidle branch into one patch
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: skip blanks before the data when parsing sysfs
ACPI: AC: Add sysfs interface
ACPI: SBS: Add sysfs alarm
ACPI: SBS: Add ACPI_PROCFS around procfs handling code.
ACPI: SBS: Add support for power_supply class (and sysfs)
ACPI: SBS: Make SBS reads table-driven.
ACPI: SBS: Simplify data structures in SBS
ACPI: SBS: Split host controller (ACPI0001) from SBS driver (ACPI0002)
ACPI: EC: Add new query handler to list head.
ACPI: Add acpi_bus_generate_event4() function
ACPI: Battery: add sysfs alarm
ACPI: Battery: Add sysfs support
ACPI: Battery: Misc clean-ups, no functional changes
...
Fix up conflicts in drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.[ch] manually
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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 âacpi_integerâ
include/acpi/processor.h:106: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before âacpi_integerâ
include/acpi/processor.h:168: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before âacpi_handleâ
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>
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Three main sets of changes:
1) dmi_get_system_info() return value should have been marked const,
since callers should not be changing that data.
2) const-ify DMI internals, since DMI firmware tables should,
whenever possible, be marked const to ensure we never ever write to
that data area.
3) const-ify DMI API, to enable marking tables const where possible
in low-level drivers.
And if we're really lucky, this might enable some additional
optimizations on the part of the compiler.
The bulk of the changes are #2 and #3, which are interrelated. #1 could
have been a separate patch, but it was so small compared to the others,
it was easier to roll it into this changeset.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.
This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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make the needlessly global osi_linux 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>
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Need to check for special case "acpi_osi=!Linux" before handling the
general case "acpi_osi=!*", or it will have no effect.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In Linux-2.6.22 we expanded the boot parameter osi=
so that it can enable and !enable an OSI string.
_OSI(Linux) is a special case because we know that there
are both systems that require it set, and systems
require that it _not_ to be set. In the long term it can't
be set, for the same reason _OS(Linux) can't be enabled --
it tends to confuse BIOS that are not properly
validated with Linux. Further, the semantics and version
information of _OSI(Linux) were never actually defined.
The kernel prints out a message if it sees _OSI(Linux)
requested, and there is a DMI workaround to invoke
"osi=Linux" automatically for existing systems that need it.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7787
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Add __init to:
acpi_initialize_subsystem() (and un-export it)
acpi_os_initialize()
Add __initdata to:
acpi_osl_dmi_table[]
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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_OSI("Linux") is like _OS("Linux"), it is ill-defined and
virtually no BIOS vendors test interaction with it.
As a result, it can do more damage than good because
it causes the BIOS to follow un-tested paths.
Recently, several machines have turned up that erroneously
test this string in a way which causes them to _not_ test other
compatibility strings, including the ZI9 and Toshiba.
So it appears that this bad code has made it into
a BIOS vendor's reference BIOS.
Linux has no choice but to stop advertising compatibility
with _OSI string "Linux" - as there are an unbounded
number of possible incompatibilities going forward.
But some BIOSes have already shipped which do use it
for things like conditionally re-enabling video on resume
from S3. (Too bad they didn't do that unconditionally)
Add special case code for _OSI(Linux)
Squawk to dmesg if _OSI(Linux) is requested
Add DMI list both to enable and disable _OSI(Linux)
But for now, keep the default enabled via
#define OSI_LINUX_ENABLED.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7787
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The boot option "acpi_osi=" has always disabled Linux _OSI support,
thus disabling all OS Interface strings which are advertised
by Linux to the BIOS.
Now...
acpi_osi="string" adds the interface string, and
acpi_osi="!string" invalidates the pre-defined interface string
eg. acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"
would disable Linux's claim of Vista compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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HP nx6125/nx6325/... machines have a _GPE handler with an infinite
loop sending Notify() events to different ACPI subsystems.
Notify handler in ACPI driver is a C-routine, which may call ACPI
interpreter again to get access to some ACPI variables
(acpi_evaluate_xxx).
On these HP machines such an evaluation changes state of some variable
and lets the loop above break.
In the current ACPI implementation Notify requests are being deferred
to the same kacpid workqueue on which the above GPE handler with
infinite loop is executing. Thus we have a deadlock -- loop will
continue to spin, sending notify events, and at the same time
preventing these notify events from being run on a workqueue. All
notify events are deferred, thus we see increase in memory consumption
noticed by author of the thread. Also as GPE handling is bloked,
machines overheat. Eventually by external poll of the same
acpi_evaluate, kacpid is released and all the queued notify events are
free to run, thus 100% cpu utilization by kacpid for several seconds
or more.
To prevent all these horrors it's needed to not put notify events to
kacpid workqueue by either executing them immediately or putting them
on some other thread. It's dangerous to execute notify events in
place, as it will put several ACPI interpreter stacks on top of each
other (at least 4 in case of nx6125), thus causing kernel stack
overflow.
First attempt to create a new thread was done by Peter Wainwright
He created a bunch of threads, which were stealing work from a kacpid
workqueue.
This patch appeared in 2.6.15 kernel shipped with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
Second attempt was done by me, I created a new thread for each Notify
event. This worked OK on HP nx machines, but broke Linus' Compaq
n620c, by producing threads with a speed what they stopped the machine
completely. Thus this patch was reverted from 18-rc2 as I remember.
I re-made the patch to create second workqueue just for notify events,
thus hopping it will not break Linus' machine. Patch was tested on the
same HP nx machines in #5534 and #7122, but I did not received reply
from Linus on a test patch sent to him.
Patch went to 19-rc and was rejected with much fanfare again.
There was 4th patch, which inserted schedule_timeout(1) into deferred
execution of kacpid, if we had any notify requests pending, but Linus
decided that it was too complex (involved either changes to workqueue
to see if it's empty or atomic inc/dec).
Now you see last variant which adds yield() to every GPE execution.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8385
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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