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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>arch/ia64: Define early_memunmap()</title>
<updated>2020-05-22T20:19:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kiper</name>
<email>daniel.kiper@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-30T17:52:55+00:00</published>
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commit 4fa62481e231111373418f0d95dd1f24f6e83321 upstream.

This is odd to use early_iounmap() function do tear down mapping
created by early_memremap() function, even if it works right now,
because they belong to different set of functions. The former is
I/O related function and the later is memory related. So, create
early_memunmap() macro which in real is early_iounmap(). This
thing will help to not confuse code readers longer by mixing
functions from different classes.

EFI patches following this patch uses that functionality.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 4fa62481e231111373418f0d95dd1f24f6e83321 upstream.

This is odd to use early_iounmap() function do tear down mapping
created by early_memremap() function, even if it works right now,
because they belong to different set of functions. The former is
I/O related function and the later is memory related. So, create
early_memunmap() macro which in real is early_iounmap(). This
thing will help to not confuse code readers longer by mixing
functions from different classes.

EFI patches following this patch uses that functionality.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures</title>
<updated>2018-10-21T07:46:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-29T16:48:40+00:00</published>
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commit a6e2f029ae34f41adb6ae3812c32c5d326e1abd2 upstream.

Added the x86 implementation of word-at-a-time to the
generic version, which previously only supported big-endian.

Omitted the x86-specific load_unaligned_zeropad(), which in
any case is also not present for the existing BE-only
implementation of a word-at-a-time, and is only used under
CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS.

Added as a "generic-y" to the Kbuilds of all architectures
that didn't previously have it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop change in arch/nios2
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a6e2f029ae34f41adb6ae3812c32c5d326e1abd2 upstream.

Added the x86 implementation of word-at-a-time to the
generic version, which previously only supported big-endian.

Omitted the x86-specific load_unaligned_zeropad(), which in
any case is also not present for the existing BE-only
implementation of a word-at-a-time, and is only used under
CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS.

Added as a "generic-y" to the Kbuilds of all architectures
that didn't previously have it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - Drop change in arch/nios2
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: drop _PAGE_FILE and pte_file()-related helpers</title>
<updated>2018-10-03T03:09:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T22:10:36+00:00</published>
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commit 636a002b704e0a36cefb5f4cf0293fab858fc46c upstream.

We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

This patch also increase number of bits availble for swap offset.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 636a002b704e0a36cefb5f4cf0293fab858fc46c upstream.

We've replaced remap_file_pages(2) implementation with emulation.  Nobody
creates non-linear mapping anymore.

This patch also increase number of bits availble for swap offset.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: copy_from_user() should zero the destination on access_ok() failure</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:17:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-19T01:31:41+00:00</published>
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commit a5e541f796f17228793694d64b507f5f57db4cd7 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: no calls to check_object_size()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a5e541f796f17228793694d64b507f5f57db4cd7 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: no calls to check_object_size()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ia64: arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h needs personality.h</title>
<updated>2014-06-23T23:47:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-23T20:22:07+00:00</published>
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fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c: In function 'SYSC_fanotify_init':
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: implicit declaration of function 'personality'
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: 'PER_LINUX32' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: for each function it appears in.)

Reported-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Woods &lt;wwoods@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.15.x]
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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fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c: In function 'SYSC_fanotify_init':
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: implicit declaration of function 'personality'
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: 'PER_LINUX32' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:726: error: for each function it appears in.)

Reported-by: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Will Woods &lt;wwoods@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Luck, Tony" &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.15.x]
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 branch 'akpm' (patchbomb from Andrew) into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:55:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:55:13+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few fixes for 3.16.  Cc'ed to stable so they'll get there somehow.

 - various misc fixes and cleanups

 - most of the ocfs2 queue.  Review is slow...

 - most of MM.  The MM queue is pretty huge this time, but not much in
   the way of feature work.

 - some tweaks under kernel/

 - printk maintenance work

 - updates to lib/

 - checkpatch updates

 - tweaks to init/

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (276 commits)
  fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c: add __init to autofs_dev_ioctl_init
  fs/ncpfs/getopt.c: replace simple_strtoul by kstrtoul
  init/main.c: remove an ifdef
  kthreads: kill CLONE_KERNEL, change kernel_thread(kernel_init) to avoid CLONE_SIGHAND
  init/main.c: add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter
  init/main.c: don't use pr_debug()
  fs/binfmt_flat.c: make old_reloc() static
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bool assignements
  fs/efs: convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
  fs/efs: add pr_fmt / use __func__
  fs/efs: convert printk to pr_foo()
  scripts/checkpatch.pl: device_initcall is not the only __initcall substitute
  checkpatch: check stable email address
  checkpatch: warn on unnecessary void function return statements
  checkpatch: prefer kstrto&lt;foo&gt; to sscanf(buf, "%&lt;lhuidx&gt;", &amp;bar);
  checkpatch: add warning for kmalloc/kzalloc with multiply
  checkpatch: warn on #defines ending in semicolon
  checkpatch: make --strict a default for files in drivers/net and net/
  checkpatch: always warn on missing blank line after variable declaration block
  checkpatch: fix wildcard DT compatible string checking
  ...
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few fixes for 3.16.  Cc'ed to stable so they'll get there somehow.

 - various misc fixes and cleanups

 - most of the ocfs2 queue.  Review is slow...

 - most of MM.  The MM queue is pretty huge this time, but not much in
   the way of feature work.

 - some tweaks under kernel/

 - printk maintenance work

 - updates to lib/

 - checkpatch updates

 - tweaks to init/

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (276 commits)
  fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c: add __init to autofs_dev_ioctl_init
  fs/ncpfs/getopt.c: replace simple_strtoul by kstrtoul
  init/main.c: remove an ifdef
  kthreads: kill CLONE_KERNEL, change kernel_thread(kernel_init) to avoid CLONE_SIGHAND
  init/main.c: add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter
  init/main.c: don't use pr_debug()
  fs/binfmt_flat.c: make old_reloc() static
  fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bool assignements
  fs/efs: convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug
  fs/efs: add pr_fmt / use __func__
  fs/efs: convert printk to pr_foo()
  scripts/checkpatch.pl: device_initcall is not the only __initcall substitute
  checkpatch: check stable email address
  checkpatch: warn on unnecessary void function return statements
  checkpatch: prefer kstrto&lt;foo&gt; to sscanf(buf, "%&lt;lhuidx&gt;", &amp;bar);
  checkpatch: add warning for kmalloc/kzalloc with multiply
  checkpatch: warn on #defines ending in semicolon
  checkpatch: make --strict a default for files in drivers/net and net/
  checkpatch: always warn on missing blank line after variable declaration block
  checkpatch: fix wildcard DT compatible string checking
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by default</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:07:14+00:00</published>
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When it was introduced, zone_reclaim_mode made sense as NUMA distances
punished and workloads were generally partitioned to fit into a NUMA
node.  NUMA machines are now common but few of the workloads are
NUMA-aware and it's routine to see major performance degradation due to
zone_reclaim_mode being enabled but relatively few can identify the
problem.

Those that require zone_reclaim_mode are likely to be able to detect
when it needs to be enabled and tune appropriately so lets have a
sensible default for the bulk of users.

This patch (of 2):

zone_reclaim_mode causes processes to prefer reclaiming memory from
local node instead of spilling over to other nodes.  This made sense
initially when NUMA machines were almost exclusively HPC and the
workload was partitioned into nodes.  The NUMA penalties were
sufficiently high to justify reclaiming the memory.  On current machines
and workloads it is often the case that zone_reclaim_mode destroys
performance but not all users know how to detect this.  Favour the
common case and disable it by default.  Users that are sophisticated
enough to know they need zone_reclaim_mode will detect it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&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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When it was introduced, zone_reclaim_mode made sense as NUMA distances
punished and workloads were generally partitioned to fit into a NUMA
node.  NUMA machines are now common but few of the workloads are
NUMA-aware and it's routine to see major performance degradation due to
zone_reclaim_mode being enabled but relatively few can identify the
problem.

Those that require zone_reclaim_mode are likely to be able to detect
when it needs to be enabled and tune appropriately so lets have a
sensible default for the bulk of users.

This patch (of 2):

zone_reclaim_mode causes processes to prefer reclaiming memory from
local node instead of spilling over to other nodes.  This made sense
initially when NUMA machines were almost exclusively HPC and the
workload was partitioned into nodes.  The NUMA penalties were
sufficiently high to justify reclaiming the memory.  On current machines
and workloads it is often the case that zone_reclaim_mode destroys
performance but not all users know how to detect this.  Favour the
common case and disable it by default.  Users that are sophisticated
enough to know they need zone_reclaim_mode will detect it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei &lt;zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&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 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T22:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T22:59:13+00:00</published>
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Pull core irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The irq department delivers:

   - Another tree wide update to get rid of the horrible create_irq
     interface along with its even more horrible variants.  That also
     gets rid of the last leftovers of the initial sparse irq hackery.
     arch/driver specific changes have been either acked or ignored.

   - A fix for the spurious interrupt detection logic with threaded
     interrupts.

   - A new ARM SoC interrupt controller

   - The usual pile of fixes and improvements all over the place"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  Documentation: brcmstb-l2: Add Broadcom STB Level-2 interrupt controller binding
  irqchip: brcmstb-l2: Add Broadcom Set Top Box Level-2 interrupt controller
  genirq: Improve documentation to match current implementation
  ARM: iop13xx: fix msi support with sparse IRQ
  genirq: Provide !SMP stub for irq_set_affinity_notifier()
  irqchip: armada-370-xp: Move the devicetree binding documentation
  irqchip: gic: Use mask field in GICC_IAR
  genirq: Remove dynamic_irq mess
  ia64: Use irq_init_desc
  genirq: Replace dynamic_irq_init/cleanup
  genirq: Remove irq_reserve_irq[s]
  genirq: Replace reserve_irqs in core code
  s390: Avoid call to irq_reserve_irqs()
  s390: Remove pointless arch_show_interrupts()
  s390: pci: Check return value of alloc_irq_desc() proper
  sh: intc: Remove pointless irq_reserve_irqs() invocation
  x86, irq: Remove pointless irq_reserve_irqs() call
  genirq: Make create/destroy_irq() ia64 private
  tile: Use SPARSE_IRQ
  tile: pci: Use irq_alloc/free_hwirq()
  ...
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Pull core irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The irq department delivers:

   - Another tree wide update to get rid of the horrible create_irq
     interface along with its even more horrible variants.  That also
     gets rid of the last leftovers of the initial sparse irq hackery.
     arch/driver specific changes have been either acked or ignored.

   - A fix for the spurious interrupt detection logic with threaded
     interrupts.

   - A new ARM SoC interrupt controller

   - The usual pile of fixes and improvements all over the place"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  Documentation: brcmstb-l2: Add Broadcom STB Level-2 interrupt controller binding
  irqchip: brcmstb-l2: Add Broadcom Set Top Box Level-2 interrupt controller
  genirq: Improve documentation to match current implementation
  ARM: iop13xx: fix msi support with sparse IRQ
  genirq: Provide !SMP stub for irq_set_affinity_notifier()
  irqchip: armada-370-xp: Move the devicetree binding documentation
  irqchip: gic: Use mask field in GICC_IAR
  genirq: Remove dynamic_irq mess
  ia64: Use irq_init_desc
  genirq: Replace dynamic_irq_init/cleanup
  genirq: Remove irq_reserve_irq[s]
  genirq: Replace reserve_irqs in core code
  s390: Avoid call to irq_reserve_irqs()
  s390: Remove pointless arch_show_interrupts()
  s390: pci: Check return value of alloc_irq_desc() proper
  sh: intc: Remove pointless irq_reserve_irqs() invocation
  x86, irq: Remove pointless irq_reserve_irqs() call
  genirq: Make create/destroy_irq() ia64 private
  tile: Use SPARSE_IRQ
  tile: pci: Use irq_alloc/free_hwirq()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T15:57:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T15:57:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4dc4226f994db264c844a5fcf556935c66f963a5'/>
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "ACPICA is the leader this time (63 commits), followed by cpufreq (28
  commits), devfreq (15 commits), system suspend/hibernation (12
  commits), ACPI video and ACPI device enumeration (10 commits each).

  We have no major new features this time, but there are a few
  significant changes of how things work.  The most visible one will
  probably be that we are now going to create platform devices rather
  than PNP devices by default for ACPI device objects with _HID.  That
  was long overdue and will be really necessary to be able to use the
  same drivers for the same hardware blocks on ACPI and DT-based systems
  going forward.  We're not expecting fallout from this one (as usual),
  but it's something to watch nevertheless.

  The second change having a chance to be visible is that ACPI video
  will now default to using native backlight rather than the ACPI
  backlight interface which should generally help systems with broken
  Win8 BIOSes.  We're hoping that all problems with the native backlight
  handling that we had previously have been addressed and we are in a
  good enough shape to flip the default, but this change should be easy
  enough to revert if need be.

  In addition to that, the system suspend core has a new mechanism to
  allow runtime-suspended devices to stay suspended throughout system
  suspend/resume transitions if some extra conditions are met
  (generally, they are related to coordination within device hierarchy).
  However, enabling this feature requires cooperation from the bus type
  layer and for now it has only been implemented for the ACPI PM domain
  (used by ACPI-enumerated platform devices mostly today).

  Also, the acpidump utility that was previously shipped as a separate
  tool will now be provided by the upstream ACPICA along with the rest
  of ACPICA code, which will allow it to be more up to date and better
  supported, and we have one new cpuidle driver (ARM clps711x).

  The rest is improvements related to certain specific use cases,
  cleanups and fixes all over the place.

  Specifics:

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20140424.  That includes a number
     of fixes and improvements related to things like GPE handling,
     table loading, headers, memory mapping and unmapping, DSDT/SSDT
     overriding, and the Unload() operator.  The acpidump utility from
     upstream ACPICA is included too.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, David
     Box, David Binderman, and Colin Ian King.

   - Fixes and cleanups related to ACPI video and backlight interfaces
     from Hans de Goede.  That includes blacklist entries for some new
     machines and using native backlight by default.

   - ACPI device enumeration changes to create platform devices rather
     than PNP devices for ACPI device objects with _HID by default.  PNP
     devices will still be created for the ACPI device object with
     device IDs corresponding to real PNP devices, so that change should
     not break things left and right, and we're expecting to see more
     and more ACPI-enumerated platform devices in the future.  From
     Zhang Rui and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - Updates for the ACPI LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver allowing it
     to handle system suspend/resume on Asus T100 correctly.  From
     Heikki Krogerus and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - PM core update introducing a mechanism to allow runtime-suspended
     devices to stay suspended over system suspend/resume transitions if
     certain additional conditions related to coordination within device
     hierarchy are met.  Related PM documentation update and ACPI PM
     domain support for the new feature.  From Rafael J Wysocki.

   - Fixes and improvements related to the "freeze" sleep state.  They
     affect several places including cpuidle, PM core, ACPI core, and
     the ACPI battery driver.  From Rafael J Wysocki and Zhang Rui.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and updates of the ACPI core from Aaron Lu,
     Bjørn Mork, Hanjun Guo, Lan Tianyu, and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - Fixes and cleanups for the ACPI processor and ACPI PAD (Processor
     Aggregator Device) drivers from Baoquan He, Manuel Schölling, Tony
     Camuso, and Toshi Kani.

   - System suspend/resume optimization in the ACPI battery driver from
     Lan Tianyu.

   - OPP (Operating Performance Points) subsystem updates from Chander
     Kashyap, Mark Brown, and Nishanth Menon.

   - cpufreq core fixes, updates and cleanups from Srivatsa S Bhat,
     Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.

   - Updates, fixes and cleanups for the Tegra, powernow-k8, imx6q,
     s5pv210, nforce2, and powernv cpufreq drivers from Brian Norris,
     Jingoo Han, Paul Bolle, Philipp Zabel, Stratos Karafotis, and
     Viresh Kumar.

   - intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups from Dirk Brandewie, Doug
     Smythies, and Stratos Karafotis.

   - Enabling the big.LITTLE cpufreq driver on arm64 from Mark Brown.

   - Fix for the cpuidle menu governor from Chander Kashyap.

   - New ARM clps711x cpuidle driver from Alexander Shiyan.

   - Hibernate core fixes and cleanups from Chen Gang, Dan Carpenter,
     Fabian Frederick, Pali Rohár, and Sebastian Capella.

   - Intel RAPL (Running Average Power Limit) driver updates from Jacob
     Pan.

   - PNP subsystem updates from Bjorn Helgaas and Fabian Frederick.

   - devfreq core updates from Chanwoo Choi and Paul Bolle.

   - devfreq updates for exynos4 and exynos5 from Chanwoo Choi and
     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.

   - turbostat tool fix from Jean Delvare.

   - cpupower tool updates from Prarit Bhargava, Ramkumar Ramachandra
     and Thomas Renninger.

   - New ACPI ec_access.c tool for poking at the EC in a safe way from
     Thomas Renninger"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (187 commits)
  ACPICA: Namespace: Remove _PRP method support.
  intel_pstate: Improve initial busy calculation
  intel_pstate: add sample time scaling
  intel_pstate: Correct rounding in busy calculation
  intel_pstate: Remove C0 tracking
  PM / hibernate: fixed typo in comment
  ACPI: Fix x86 regression related to early mapping size limitation
  ACPICA: Tables: Add mechanism to control early table checksum verification.
  ACPI / scan: use platform bus type by default for _HID enumeration
  ACPI / scan: always register ACPI LPSS scan handler
  ACPI / scan: always register memory hotplug scan handler
  ACPI / scan: always register container scan handler
  ACPI / scan: Change the meaning of missing .attach() in scan handlers
  ACPI / scan: introduce platform_id device PNP type flag
  ACPI / scan: drop unsupported serial IDs from PNP ACPI scan handler ID list
  ACPI / scan: drop IDs that do not comply with the ACPI PNP ID rule
  ACPI / PNP: use device ID list for PNPACPI device enumeration
  ACPI / scan: .match() callback for ACPI scan handlers
  ACPI / battery: wakeup the system only when necessary
  power_supply: allow power supply devices registered w/o wakeup source
  ...
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "ACPICA is the leader this time (63 commits), followed by cpufreq (28
  commits), devfreq (15 commits), system suspend/hibernation (12
  commits), ACPI video and ACPI device enumeration (10 commits each).

  We have no major new features this time, but there are a few
  significant changes of how things work.  The most visible one will
  probably be that we are now going to create platform devices rather
  than PNP devices by default for ACPI device objects with _HID.  That
  was long overdue and will be really necessary to be able to use the
  same drivers for the same hardware blocks on ACPI and DT-based systems
  going forward.  We're not expecting fallout from this one (as usual),
  but it's something to watch nevertheless.

  The second change having a chance to be visible is that ACPI video
  will now default to using native backlight rather than the ACPI
  backlight interface which should generally help systems with broken
  Win8 BIOSes.  We're hoping that all problems with the native backlight
  handling that we had previously have been addressed and we are in a
  good enough shape to flip the default, but this change should be easy
  enough to revert if need be.

  In addition to that, the system suspend core has a new mechanism to
  allow runtime-suspended devices to stay suspended throughout system
  suspend/resume transitions if some extra conditions are met
  (generally, they are related to coordination within device hierarchy).
  However, enabling this feature requires cooperation from the bus type
  layer and for now it has only been implemented for the ACPI PM domain
  (used by ACPI-enumerated platform devices mostly today).

  Also, the acpidump utility that was previously shipped as a separate
  tool will now be provided by the upstream ACPICA along with the rest
  of ACPICA code, which will allow it to be more up to date and better
  supported, and we have one new cpuidle driver (ARM clps711x).

  The rest is improvements related to certain specific use cases,
  cleanups and fixes all over the place.

  Specifics:

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20140424.  That includes a number
     of fixes and improvements related to things like GPE handling,
     table loading, headers, memory mapping and unmapping, DSDT/SSDT
     overriding, and the Unload() operator.  The acpidump utility from
     upstream ACPICA is included too.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, David
     Box, David Binderman, and Colin Ian King.

   - Fixes and cleanups related to ACPI video and backlight interfaces
     from Hans de Goede.  That includes blacklist entries for some new
     machines and using native backlight by default.

   - ACPI device enumeration changes to create platform devices rather
     than PNP devices for ACPI device objects with _HID by default.  PNP
     devices will still be created for the ACPI device object with
     device IDs corresponding to real PNP devices, so that change should
     not break things left and right, and we're expecting to see more
     and more ACPI-enumerated platform devices in the future.  From
     Zhang Rui and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - Updates for the ACPI LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver allowing it
     to handle system suspend/resume on Asus T100 correctly.  From
     Heikki Krogerus and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - PM core update introducing a mechanism to allow runtime-suspended
     devices to stay suspended over system suspend/resume transitions if
     certain additional conditions related to coordination within device
     hierarchy are met.  Related PM documentation update and ACPI PM
     domain support for the new feature.  From Rafael J Wysocki.

   - Fixes and improvements related to the "freeze" sleep state.  They
     affect several places including cpuidle, PM core, ACPI core, and
     the ACPI battery driver.  From Rafael J Wysocki and Zhang Rui.

   - Miscellaneous fixes and updates of the ACPI core from Aaron Lu,
     Bjørn Mork, Hanjun Guo, Lan Tianyu, and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - Fixes and cleanups for the ACPI processor and ACPI PAD (Processor
     Aggregator Device) drivers from Baoquan He, Manuel Schölling, Tony
     Camuso, and Toshi Kani.

   - System suspend/resume optimization in the ACPI battery driver from
     Lan Tianyu.

   - OPP (Operating Performance Points) subsystem updates from Chander
     Kashyap, Mark Brown, and Nishanth Menon.

   - cpufreq core fixes, updates and cleanups from Srivatsa S Bhat,
     Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.

   - Updates, fixes and cleanups for the Tegra, powernow-k8, imx6q,
     s5pv210, nforce2, and powernv cpufreq drivers from Brian Norris,
     Jingoo Han, Paul Bolle, Philipp Zabel, Stratos Karafotis, and
     Viresh Kumar.

   - intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups from Dirk Brandewie, Doug
     Smythies, and Stratos Karafotis.

   - Enabling the big.LITTLE cpufreq driver on arm64 from Mark Brown.

   - Fix for the cpuidle menu governor from Chander Kashyap.

   - New ARM clps711x cpuidle driver from Alexander Shiyan.

   - Hibernate core fixes and cleanups from Chen Gang, Dan Carpenter,
     Fabian Frederick, Pali Rohár, and Sebastian Capella.

   - Intel RAPL (Running Average Power Limit) driver updates from Jacob
     Pan.

   - PNP subsystem updates from Bjorn Helgaas and Fabian Frederick.

   - devfreq core updates from Chanwoo Choi and Paul Bolle.

   - devfreq updates for exynos4 and exynos5 from Chanwoo Choi and
     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.

   - turbostat tool fix from Jean Delvare.

   - cpupower tool updates from Prarit Bhargava, Ramkumar Ramachandra
     and Thomas Renninger.

   - New ACPI ec_access.c tool for poking at the EC in a safe way from
     Thomas Renninger"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (187 commits)
  ACPICA: Namespace: Remove _PRP method support.
  intel_pstate: Improve initial busy calculation
  intel_pstate: add sample time scaling
  intel_pstate: Correct rounding in busy calculation
  intel_pstate: Remove C0 tracking
  PM / hibernate: fixed typo in comment
  ACPI: Fix x86 regression related to early mapping size limitation
  ACPICA: Tables: Add mechanism to control early table checksum verification.
  ACPI / scan: use platform bus type by default for _HID enumeration
  ACPI / scan: always register ACPI LPSS scan handler
  ACPI / scan: always register memory hotplug scan handler
  ACPI / scan: always register container scan handler
  ACPI / scan: Change the meaning of missing .attach() in scan handlers
  ACPI / scan: introduce platform_id device PNP type flag
  ACPI / scan: drop unsupported serial IDs from PNP ACPI scan handler ID list
  ACPI / scan: drop IDs that do not comply with the ACPI PNP ID rule
  ACPI / PNP: use device ID list for PNPACPI device enumeration
  ACPI / scan: .match() callback for ACPI scan handlers
  ACPI / battery: wakeup the system only when necessary
  power_supply: allow power supply devices registered w/o wakeup source
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'acpica'</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T21:12:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T21:12:27+00:00</published>
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* acpica: (63 commits)
  ACPICA: Namespace: Remove _PRP method support.
  ACPI: Fix x86 regression related to early mapping size limitation
  ACPICA: Tables: Add mechanism to control early table checksum verification.
  ACPICA: acpidump: Fix repetitive table dump in -n mode.
  ACPI: Clean up acpi_os_map/unmap_memory() to eliminate __iomem.
  ACPICA: Clean up redudant definitions already defined elsewhere
  ACPICA: Linux headers: Add &lt;asm/acenv.h&gt; to remove mis-ordered inclusion of &lt;asm/acpi.h&gt;
  ACPICA: Linux headers: Add &lt;acpi/platform/aclinuxex.h&gt;
  ACPICA: Linux headers: Remove ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() due to no usages.
  ACPICA: Update version to 20140424.
  ACPICA: Comment/format update, no functional change.
  ACPICA: Events: Update GPE handling and initialization code.
  ACPICA: Remove extraneous error message for large number of GPEs.
  ACPICA: Tables: Remove old mechanism to validate if XSDT contains NULL entries.
  ACPICA: Tables: Add new mechanism to skip NULL entries in RSDT and XSDT.
  ACPICA: acpidump: Add support to force using RSDT.
  ACPICA: Back port of improvements on exception code.
  ACPICA: Back port of _PRP update.
  ACPICA: acpidump: Fix truncated RSDP signature validation.
  ACPICA: Linux header: Add support for stubbed externals.
  ...
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* acpica: (63 commits)
  ACPICA: Namespace: Remove _PRP method support.
  ACPI: Fix x86 regression related to early mapping size limitation
  ACPICA: Tables: Add mechanism to control early table checksum verification.
  ACPICA: acpidump: Fix repetitive table dump in -n mode.
  ACPI: Clean up acpi_os_map/unmap_memory() to eliminate __iomem.
  ACPICA: Clean up redudant definitions already defined elsewhere
  ACPICA: Linux headers: Add &lt;asm/acenv.h&gt; to remove mis-ordered inclusion of &lt;asm/acpi.h&gt;
  ACPICA: Linux headers: Add &lt;acpi/platform/aclinuxex.h&gt;
  ACPICA: Linux headers: Remove ACPI_PREEMPTION_POINT() due to no usages.
  ACPICA: Update version to 20140424.
  ACPICA: Comment/format update, no functional change.
  ACPICA: Events: Update GPE handling and initialization code.
  ACPICA: Remove extraneous error message for large number of GPEs.
  ACPICA: Tables: Remove old mechanism to validate if XSDT contains NULL entries.
  ACPICA: Tables: Add new mechanism to skip NULL entries in RSDT and XSDT.
  ACPICA: acpidump: Add support to force using RSDT.
  ACPICA: Back port of improvements on exception code.
  ACPICA: Back port of _PRP update.
  ACPICA: acpidump: Fix truncated RSDP signature validation.
  ACPICA: Linux header: Add support for stubbed externals.
  ...
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