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<title>memcg: get rid of swapaccount leftovers</title>
<updated>2013-08-23T16:51:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Hocko</name>
<email>mhocko@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-22T23:35:46+00:00</published>
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The swapaccount kernel parameter without any values has been removed by
commit a2c8990aed5a ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter") but
it seems that we didn't get rid of all the left overs.

Make sure that menuconfig help text and kernel-parameters.txt are clear
about value for the paramter and remove the stalled comment which is not
very much useful on its own.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Gergely Risko &lt;gergely@risko.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The swapaccount kernel parameter without any values has been removed by
commit a2c8990aed5a ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter") but
it seems that we didn't get rid of all the left overs.

Make sure that menuconfig help text and kernel-parameters.txt are clear
about value for the paramter and remove the stalled comment which is not
very much useful on its own.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: Gergely Risko &lt;gergely@risko.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2013-07-11T16:02:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-11T16:02:09+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
  that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
  been marked for stable.

  As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
  about.  These include:

  New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
  ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
  The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
  the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
  dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
  function.

  Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
  "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
  WARN_ON() is triggered.  This is useful if you want to debug what
  caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
  ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it.  There's
  also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
  up called the same thing"

* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
  tracing: Remove ftrace() function
  tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
  tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
  tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
  uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
  tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
  tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
  tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
  tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
  ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
  tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
  tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe-&gt;files into list_head
  tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
  tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
  tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
  tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
  that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
  been marked for stable.

  As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
  about.  These include:

  New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
  ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
  The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
  the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
  dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
  function.

  Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
  "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
  WARN_ON() is triggered.  This is useful if you want to debug what
  caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
  ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it.  There's
  also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
  up called the same thing"

* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
  tracing: Remove ftrace() function
  tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
  tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
  tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
  uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
  tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
  tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
  tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
  tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
  tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
  ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
  tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
  tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
  tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe-&gt;files into list_head
  tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
  tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
  tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
  tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
  ...
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<entry>
<title>reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernel</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T17:33:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robin Holt</name>
<email>holt@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T23:01:42+00:00</published>
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Merge together the unicore32, arm, and x86 reboot= command line
parameter handling.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Russ Anderson &lt;rja@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Merge together the unicore32, arm, and x86 reboot= command line
parameter handling.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Russ Anderson &lt;rja@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Robin Holt &lt;holt@sgi.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata</title>
<updated>2013-07-04T02:49:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-04T02:49:46+00:00</published>
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Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Overview of changes:

   - The rest of maintainer email address updates.

   - Some core updates - more robust default behavior for port
     multipliers, better error reporting for SG_IO commands, and a way
     to better work around now ancient and probably pretty rare PATA -&gt;
     SATA bridges with ATAPI devices.

   - sata_rcar stabilization.

   - Some hardware PCI ID additions and one-off low level driver
     updates."

* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (22 commits)
  AHCI: use ATA_BUSY
  libata-zpodd: must use ata_tf_init()
  ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
  ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
  libata: cleanup SAT error translation
  ahci: sata: add support for exynos5440 sata
  libata: skip SRST for all SIMG [34]7x port-multipliers
  ahci: remove pmp link online check in FBS EH
  sata highbank: add bit-banged SGPIO driver support
  ahci: make ahci_transmit_led_message into a function pointer
  sata_rcar: fix compilation warning in sata_rcar_thaw()
  sata_highbank: increase retry count but shorten duration for Calxeda controller
  ata: use pci_get_drvdata()
  ipr: qc_fill_rtf() method should not store alternate status register
  sata_rcar: add 'base' local variable to some functions
  sata_rcar: correct 'sata_rcar_sht'
  sata_rcar: kill superfluous code in sata_rcar_bmdma_fill_sg()
  libata: do not limit R-Car SATA driver to shmobile
  ata: use platform_{get,set}_drvdata()
  AHCI: Make distinct names for ports in /proc/interrupts
  ...
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<pre>
Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Overview of changes:

   - The rest of maintainer email address updates.

   - Some core updates - more robust default behavior for port
     multipliers, better error reporting for SG_IO commands, and a way
     to better work around now ancient and probably pretty rare PATA -&gt;
     SATA bridges with ATAPI devices.

   - sata_rcar stabilization.

   - Some hardware PCI ID additions and one-off low level driver
     updates."

* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (22 commits)
  AHCI: use ATA_BUSY
  libata-zpodd: must use ata_tf_init()
  ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
  ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
  libata: cleanup SAT error translation
  ahci: sata: add support for exynos5440 sata
  libata: skip SRST for all SIMG [34]7x port-multipliers
  ahci: remove pmp link online check in FBS EH
  sata highbank: add bit-banged SGPIO driver support
  ahci: make ahci_transmit_led_message into a function pointer
  sata_rcar: fix compilation warning in sata_rcar_thaw()
  sata_highbank: increase retry count but shorten duration for Calxeda controller
  ata: use pci_get_drvdata()
  ipr: qc_fill_rtf() method should not store alternate status register
  sata_rcar: add 'base' local variable to some functions
  sata_rcar: correct 'sata_rcar_sht'
  sata_rcar: kill superfluous code in sata_rcar_bmdma_fill_sg()
  libata: do not limit R-Car SATA driver to shmobile
  ata: use platform_{get,set}_drvdata()
  AHCI: Make distinct names for ports in /proc/interrupts
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T21:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T21:35:40+00:00</published>
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Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
  the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
  remains the most active patch submitter.

  To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
  device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
  the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code.  Next are the
  freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
  tasks a bit less heavy weight.

  We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
  issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
  and a bunch of cleanups all over.

  Highlights:

   - Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.

     It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
     gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely.  For example,
     if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
     for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
     desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
     rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
     crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
     hot-removal.  Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
     alternative and it had to be addressed.

     However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
     it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
     processor driver.  It's been split into two parts, a resident one
     handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
     playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
     device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
     processors).  That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
     patient who's riding a bike.

     So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
     regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
     (a month ago), nobody has complained.

     As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
     ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
     code.

   - Lighter weight freezing of tasks.

     These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
     targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
     operation.  They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
     during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
     simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
     to call refrigerator().  The time needed for the freezer to decide
     to report a failure is reduced too.

     Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
     trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
     generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).

   - cpufreq updates

     First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
     introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
     attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume.  The
     fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
     has identified the root cause.

     Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
     acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
     related_cpus.  From Lan Tianyu.

     Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
     CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
     up some code.  The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
     from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
     Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.

   - ACPICA update

     A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.

     During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
     sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
     HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
     to use them without checking that bit.  That caused suspend/resume
     regressions to happen on some systems.  Fix from Lv Zheng causes
     those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.

     Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
     are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
     Zhang Rui.

   - cpuidle updates

     New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.

     Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
     kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
     Lezcano.

   - ACPI power management updates

     Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
     cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
     routine.

   - ACPI documentation updates

     Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
     Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
     uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
     updated by Hanjun Guo.

   - Assorted ACPI updates

     We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
     reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
     against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
     the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
     the core.

     A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
     introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
     fixed on some systems.

     A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
     Mika Westerberg.

     The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
     situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
     returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value.  From
     Jeff Wu.

     Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
     the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
     driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
     Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.

     The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
     put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.

     Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
     Kani.

   - Assorted power management updates

     The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
     values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
     rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
     overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
     necessary any more after that modification).

     The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
     the "runtime idle" behavior change).

     New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
     (&lt;keun-o.park@windriver.com&gt;).

     PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.

     Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
     Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.

   - devfreq updates

     New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.

     Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
     Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.

   - OMAP power management updates

     Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
     updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
  ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
  PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
  cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs-&gt;cur_policy
  acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
  cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
  ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
  ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
  ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
  ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
  cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  ...
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<pre>
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
  the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
  remains the most active patch submitter.

  To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
  device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
  the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code.  Next are the
  freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
  tasks a bit less heavy weight.

  We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
  issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
  and a bunch of cleanups all over.

  Highlights:

   - Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.

     It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
     gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely.  For example,
     if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
     for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
     desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
     rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
     crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
     hot-removal.  Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
     alternative and it had to be addressed.

     However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
     it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
     processor driver.  It's been split into two parts, a resident one
     handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
     playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
     device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
     processors).  That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
     patient who's riding a bike.

     So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
     regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
     (a month ago), nobody has complained.

     As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
     ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
     code.

   - Lighter weight freezing of tasks.

     These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
     targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
     operation.  They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
     during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
     simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
     to call refrigerator().  The time needed for the freezer to decide
     to report a failure is reduced too.

     Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
     trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
     generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).

   - cpufreq updates

     First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
     introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
     attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume.  The
     fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
     has identified the root cause.

     Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
     acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
     related_cpus.  From Lan Tianyu.

     Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
     CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
     up some code.  The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
     from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
     Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.

   - ACPICA update

     A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.

     During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
     sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
     HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
     to use them without checking that bit.  That caused suspend/resume
     regressions to happen on some systems.  Fix from Lv Zheng causes
     those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.

     Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
     are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
     Zhang Rui.

   - cpuidle updates

     New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.

     Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
     kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
     Lezcano.

   - ACPI power management updates

     Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
     Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
     cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
     routine.

   - ACPI documentation updates

     Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
     Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
     uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
     updated by Hanjun Guo.

   - Assorted ACPI updates

     We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
     reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
     against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
     the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
     the core.

     A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
     introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
     fixed on some systems.

     A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
     Mika Westerberg.

     The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
     situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
     returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value.  From
     Jeff Wu.

     Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
     the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
     driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
     Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.

     The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
     put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.

     Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
     Kani.

   - Assorted power management updates

     The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
     values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
     rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
     overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
     necessary any more after that modification).

     The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
     the "runtime idle" behavior change).

     New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
     (&lt;keun-o.park@windriver.com&gt;).

     PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.

     Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
     Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.

   - devfreq updates

     New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.

     Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
     Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.

   - OMAP power management updates

     Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
     updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
  ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
  PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
  cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs-&gt;cur_policy
  acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
  cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
  ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
  ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
  ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
  ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
  cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T21:04:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T21:04:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f39d420f672f99ad9a0fe7deb951a0030d4f0d9e'/>
<id>f39d420f672f99ad9a0fe7deb951a0030d4f0d9e</id>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "In this update, Smack learns to love IPv6 and to mount a filesystem
  with a transmutable hierarchy (i.e.  security labels are inherited
  from parent directory upon creation rather than creating process).

  The rest of the changes are maintenance"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
  tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Remove unused header file
  tpm: tpm_i2c_infinion: Don't modify i2c_client-&gt;driver
  evm: audit integrity metadata failures
  integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()
  evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs
  maintainers:  add Dmitry Kasatkin
  Smack: Fix the bug smackcipso can't set CIPSO correctly
  Smack: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference at smk_netlbl_mls()
  Smack: Add smkfstransmute mount option
  Smack: Improve access check performance
  Smack: Local IPv6 port based controls
  tpm: fix regression caused by section type conflict of tpm_dev_release() in ppc builds
  maintainers: Remove Kent from maintainers
  tpm: move TPM_DIGEST_SIZE defintion
  tpm_tis: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in init_tis()
  security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description
  apparmor: no need to delay vfree()
  apparmor: fix fully qualified name parsing
  apparmor: fix setprocattr arg processing for onexec
  apparmor: localize getting the security context to a few macros
  ...
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<pre>
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "In this update, Smack learns to love IPv6 and to mount a filesystem
  with a transmutable hierarchy (i.e.  security labels are inherited
  from parent directory upon creation rather than creating process).

  The rest of the changes are maintenance"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
  tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Remove unused header file
  tpm: tpm_i2c_infinion: Don't modify i2c_client-&gt;driver
  evm: audit integrity metadata failures
  integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()
  evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs
  maintainers:  add Dmitry Kasatkin
  Smack: Fix the bug smackcipso can't set CIPSO correctly
  Smack: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference at smk_netlbl_mls()
  Smack: Add smkfstransmute mount option
  Smack: Improve access check performance
  Smack: Local IPv6 port based controls
  tpm: fix regression caused by section type conflict of tpm_dev_release() in ppc builds
  maintainers: Remove Kent from maintainers
  tpm: move TPM_DIGEST_SIZE defintion
  tpm_tis: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in init_tis()
  security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description
  apparmor: no need to delay vfree()
  apparmor: fix fully qualified name parsing
  apparmor: fix setprocattr arg processing for onexec
  apparmor: localize getting the security context to a few macros
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T18:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T18:16:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a9f4a7005fb1a0f6142cbb689e734621c61574d5'/>
<id>a9f4a7005fb1a0f6142cbb689e734621c61574d5</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull thermal power-limit update from Tony Luck:
 "Thermal limit warnings are too scary and cause unnecessary concern"

* tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  x86 thermal: Disable power limit notification interrupt by default
  x86 thermal: Delete power-limit-notification console messages
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Pull thermal power-limit update from Tony Luck:
 "Thermal limit warnings are too scary and cause unnecessary concern"

* tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  x86 thermal: Disable power limit notification interrupt by default
  x86 thermal: Delete power-limit-notification console messages
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T02:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T02:53:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f317ff9eed763e99bd226a447f93d42509434f43'/>
<id>f317ff9eed763e99bd226a447f93d42509434f43</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing
  custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up
  changes necessary at this point.

  The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some
  per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot
  param whose default can be configured via a config option.  This leads
  to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are
  bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in
  certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a
  big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh.

  This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler
  perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on
  them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions
  less effective.

  Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous
  configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made
  automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected
  workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some
  configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes."

* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq
  block: queue work on power efficient wq
  PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
  workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
  workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing
  custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up
  changes necessary at this point.

  The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some
  per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot
  param whose default can be configured via a config option.  This leads
  to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are
  bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in
  certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a
  big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh.

  This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler
  perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on
  them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions
  less effective.

  Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous
  configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made
  automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected
  workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some
  configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes."

* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq
  block: queue work on power efficient wq
  PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
  workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
  workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ACPI / video: add description for brightness_switch_enabled</title>
<updated>2013-06-20T22:13:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaron Lu</name>
<email>aaron.lu@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-20T07:08:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3afe6dab86b669dd5bcef07b67d3ba7fb12a69a0'/>
<id>3afe6dab86b669dd5bcef07b67d3ba7fb12a69a0</id>
<content type='text'>
Add description for video module's parameter brightness_switch_enabled
into kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Add description for video module's parameter brightness_switch_enabled
into kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()</title>
<updated>2013-06-20T11:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mimi Zohar</name>
<email>zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-18T18:48:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d726d8d719b6ac919cc4d5cae73831a2ffe36118'/>
<id>d726d8d719b6ac919cc4d5cae73831a2ffe36118</id>
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This patch moves the integrity_audit_msg() function and defintion to
security/integrity/, the parent directory, renames the 'ima_audit'
boot command line option to 'integrity_audit', and fixes the Kconfig
help text to reflect the actual code.

Changelog:
- Fixed ifdef inclusion of integrity_audit_msg() (Fengguang Wu)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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This patch moves the integrity_audit_msg() function and defintion to
security/integrity/, the parent directory, renames the 'ima_audit'
boot command line option to 'integrity_audit', and fixes the Kconfig
help text to reflect the actual code.

Changelog:
- Fixed ifdef inclusion of integrity_audit_msg() (Fengguang Wu)

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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