Processor Clocking Control (PCC) is an interface between the BIOS and OSPM.
Based on the server workload, OSPM can request what frequency it expects
from a logical CPU, and the BIOS will achieve that frequency transparently.
This patch introduces driver support for PCC. OSPM uses the PCC driver to
communicate with the BIOS via the PCC interface.
There is a Documentation file that provides a link to the PCC
Specification, and also provides a summary of the PCC interface.
Currently, certain HP ProLiant platforms implement the PCC interface. However,
any platform whose BIOS implements the PCC Specification, can utilize this
driver.
V2 --> V1 changes (based on Dominik's suggestions):
- Removed the dependency on CPU_FREQ_TABLE
- "cpufreq_stats" will no longer PANIC. Actually, it will not load anymore
because it is not applicable.
- Removed the sanity check for target frequency in the ->target routine.
NOTE: A patch to sanitize the target frequency requested by "ondemand" is
needed to ensure that the target freq < policy->min.
Can this driver be queued up for the 2.6.33 tree?
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Dominik said:
target_freq cannot be below policy->min or above policy->max.
If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken.
But (answer):
I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is
below policy->min.
...
A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency
requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check:
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
# diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
Easy fix for a regression introduced in 2.6.31.
On managed CPUs the cpufreq.c core will call driver->exit(cpu) on the
managed cpus and powernow_k8 will free the core's data.
Later driver->get(cpu) function might get called trying to read out the
current freq of a managed cpu and the NULL pointer check does not work on
the freed object -> better set it to NULL.
->get() is unsigned and must return 0 as invalid frequency.
Reference:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14391
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://gitserver.sunplusct.com/linux-2.6-score:
score: include asm-generic/param.h in asm/delay.h.
score: fixed pfn_valid define.
score: add flush_dcahce_page and PG_dcache_dirty define
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lrg/voltage-2.6: (27 commits)
regulator: wm831x_reg_read() failure unnoticed in wm831x_aldo_get_mode()
twl-regulator: Fix reg_disable functionality for 4030 and 6030
twl-regulator: Add turnon delay to reg_enable
twl-regulator: Restore REMAP configuration in regulator probe
twl-regulator: Add turnon-delay and REMAP config to twlreg_info struct
twl-regulator: Define critical regulators as always_on
twl-regulator: Add all twl4030 regulators to twlreg_info
regulator: mc13783-regulator: correct the probing time.
regulator: Fix unbalanced disables/enables in regulator_bulk_{enable,disable} error path
regulator: core.c: Small coding style cleanup (indentation fixup)
drivers/regulator: use PTR_ERR to get error code
regulator: consumer.h - fix build when consumer.h is #included first.
regulator/mc13783: various cleanups
regulator/mc13783: rename source file to match other drivers
Fix some AB3100 regulator issues
regulator: keep index within bounds in da9034_get_ldo12_voltage()
regulator: Ensure val is initialised in 88pm8607 choose_voltage()
regulator: Remove duplicate consts from ab3100
regulator: Handle regulators without suspend mode configuration
regulator: Factor out regulator name pretty printing
...
After I_SYNC was split from I_LOCK the leftover is always used together with
I_NEW and thus superflous.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We recently go rid of all callers of do_sync_file_range as they're better
served with vfs_fsync or the filemap_write_and_wait. Now that
do_sync_file_range is down to a single caller fold it into it so that people
don't start using it again accidentally. While at it also switch it from
using __filemap_fdatawrite_range(..., WB_SYNC_ALL) to the more clear
filemap_fdatawrite_range().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Proper Posix O_SYNC handling only made it into 2.6.33, not 2.6.32.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Copy the inode size and blocks from one inode to another correctly on 32-bit
systems with CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_PREEMPT, or CONFIG_LBDAF. Use proper inode
spinlocks only when i_size/i_blocks cannot fit in one 32-bit word.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Filesystems outside the regular namespace do not have to clear DCACHE_UNHASHED
in order to have a working /proc/$pid/fd/XXX. Nothing in proc prevents the
fd link from being used if its dentry is not in the hash.
Also, it does not get put into the dcache hash if DCACHE_UNHASHED is clear;
that depends on the filesystem calling d_add or d_rehash.
So delete the misleading comments and needless code.
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
Kbuild: clean up marker
net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
drop explicit include of autoconf.h
kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
kbuild: drop include/asm
kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
...
Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
This reverts commit 8546e3ce6e, as it's a
partial duplicate of commit 2f390380ca
("fbdev: add palette register check to several drivers").
The former went in first through the m68k tree, the latter through Andrew
Morton.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The loop condition is fragile: we compare an unsigned value to zero, and
then decrement it by something larger than one in the loop. All the
callers should be passing in appropriately aligned buffer lengths, but
it's better to just not rely on it, and have some appropriate defensive
loop limits.
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This change implements a basic turnon delay in the regulator enable function
to make it less probable that reg_enable returns before the regulator
output is at target level
Signed-off-by: Juha Keski-Saari <ext-juha.1.keski-saari@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
This change ensures the regulator REMAP register configuration is in a known
state so state transitions will function as intended regardless of
possible bootloader effects on it
Signed-off-by: Juha Keski-Saari <ext-juha.1.keski-saari@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Naga Chumbalkar
Thomas Renninger
Mike Frysinger
Linus Torvalds
Christoph Hellwig
Erez Zadok
Jeff Layton
Nick Piggin
Geert Uytterhoeven
Chen Liqin
Roel Kluin
Juha Keski-Saari