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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Modify UEFI anti-bricking code</title>
<updated>2013-06-20T19:01:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Garrett</name>
<email>matthew.garrett@nebula.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-01T20:06:20+00:00</published>
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commit f8b8404337de4e2466e2e1139ea68b1f8295974f upstream.

This patch reworks the UEFI anti-bricking code, including an effective
reversion of cc5a080c and 31ff2f20. It turns out that calling
QueryVariableInfo() from boot services results in some firmware
implementations jumping to physical addresses even after entering virtual
mode, so until we have 1:1 mappings for UEFI runtime space this isn't
going to work so well.

Reverting these gets us back to the situation where we'd refuse to create
variables on some systems because they classify deleted variables as "used"
until the firmware triggers a garbage collection run, which they won't do
until they reach a lower threshold. This results in it being impossible to
install a bootloader, which is unhelpful.

Feedback from Samsung indicates that the firmware doesn't need more than
5KB of storage space for its own purposes, so that seems like a reasonable
threshold. However, there's still no guarantee that a platform will attempt
garbage collection merely because it drops below this threshold. It seems
that this is often only triggered if an attempt to write generates a
genuine EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error. We can force that by attempting to
create a variable larger than the remaining space. This should fail, but if
it somehow succeeds we can then immediately delete it.

I've tested this on the UEFI machines I have available, but I don't have
a Samsung and so can't verify that it avoids the bricking problem.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;matthew.garrett@nebula.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Y &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt; [ dummy variable cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit f8b8404337de4e2466e2e1139ea68b1f8295974f upstream.

This patch reworks the UEFI anti-bricking code, including an effective
reversion of cc5a080c and 31ff2f20. It turns out that calling
QueryVariableInfo() from boot services results in some firmware
implementations jumping to physical addresses even after entering virtual
mode, so until we have 1:1 mappings for UEFI runtime space this isn't
going to work so well.

Reverting these gets us back to the situation where we'd refuse to create
variables on some systems because they classify deleted variables as "used"
until the firmware triggers a garbage collection run, which they won't do
until they reach a lower threshold. This results in it being impossible to
install a bootloader, which is unhelpful.

Feedback from Samsung indicates that the firmware doesn't need more than
5KB of storage space for its own purposes, so that seems like a reasonable
threshold. However, there's still no guarantee that a platform will attempt
garbage collection merely because it drops below this threshold. It seems
that this is often only triggered if an attempt to write generates a
genuine EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES error. We can force that by attempting to
create a variable larger than the remaining space. This should fail, but if
it somehow succeeds we can then immediately delete it.

I've tested this on the UEFI machines I have available, but I don't have
a Samsung and so can't verify that it avoids the bricking problem.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;matthew.garrett@nebula.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Y &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt; [ dummy variable cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'efi/urgent' into x86/urgent</title>
<updated>2013-04-20T00:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-20T00:09:03+00:00</published>
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Matt Fleming (1):
      x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform
      code

Matthew Garrett (3):
      Move utf16 functions to kernel core and rename
      efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code
      efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used
      space

Richard Weinberger (2):
      x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero.
      x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter

Sergey Vlasov (2):
      x86/Kconfig: Make EFI select UCS2_STRING
      efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Matt Fleming (1):
      x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform
      code

Matthew Garrett (3):
      Move utf16 functions to kernel core and rename
      efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code
      efi: Distinguish between "remaining space" and actually used
      space

Richard Weinberger (2):
      x86,efi: Check max_size only if it is non-zero.
      x86,efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter

Sergey Vlasov (2):
      x86/Kconfig: Make EFI select UCS2_STRING
      efi: Export efi_query_variable_store() for efivars.ko

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efi: Pass boot services variable info to runtime code</title>
<updated>2013-04-15T20:31:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Garrett</name>
<email>matthew.garrett@nebula.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-15T20:09:46+00:00</published>
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EFI variables can be flagged as being accessible only within boot services.
This makes it awkward for us to figure out how much space they use at
runtime. In theory we could figure this out by simply comparing the results
from QueryVariableInfo() to the space used by all of our variables, but
that fails if the platform doesn't garbage collect on every boot. Thankfully,
calling QueryVariableInfo() while still inside boot services gives a more
reliable answer. This patch passes that information from the EFI boot stub
up to the efi platform code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;matthew.garrett@nebula.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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EFI variables can be flagged as being accessible only within boot services.
This makes it awkward for us to figure out how much space they use at
runtime. In theory we could figure this out by simply comparing the results
from QueryVariableInfo() to the space used by all of our variables, but
that fails if the platform doesn't garbage collect on every boot. Thankfully,
calling QueryVariableInfo() while still inside boot services gives a more
reliable answer. This patch passes that information from the EFI boot stub
up to the efi platform code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;matthew.garrett@nebula.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>intel-pstate: Use #defines instead of hard-coded values.</title>
<updated>2013-03-25T14:13:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:21:10+00:00</published>
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They are defined in coreboot (MSR_PLATFORM) and the other
one is already defined in msr-index.h.

Let's use those.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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They are defined in coreboot (MSR_PLATFORM) and the other
one is already defined in msr-index.h.

Let's use those.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie &lt;dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kvm-3.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2013-02-24T21:07:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-24T21:07:18+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti:
 "KVM updates for the 3.9 merge window, including x86 real mode
  emulation fixes, stronger memory slot interface restrictions, mmu_lock
  spinlock hold time reduction, improved handling of large page faults
  on shadow, initial APICv HW acceleration support, s390 channel IO
  based virtio, amongst others"

* tag 'kvm-3.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (143 commits)
  Revert "KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte"
  x86: pvclock kvm: align allocation size to page size
  KVM: nVMX: Remove redundant get_vmcs12 from nested_vmx_exit_handled_msr
  x86 emulator: fix parity calculation for AAD instruction
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Handle alignment interrupts
  booke: Added DBCR4 SPR number
  KVM: PPC: booke: Allow multiple exception types
  KVM: PPC: booke: use vcpu reference from thread_struct
  KVM: Remove user_alloc from struct kvm_memory_slot
  KVM: VMX: disable apicv by default
  KVM: s390: Fix handling of iscs.
  KVM: MMU: cleanup __direct_map
  KVM: MMU: remove pt_access in mmu_set_spte
  KVM: MMU: cleanup mapping-level
  KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte
  KVM: VMX: cleanup vmx_set_cr0().
  KVM: VMX: add missing exit names to VMX_EXIT_REASONS array
  KVM: VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode
  KVM: Remove duplicate text in api.txt
  Revert "KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page"
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti:
 "KVM updates for the 3.9 merge window, including x86 real mode
  emulation fixes, stronger memory slot interface restrictions, mmu_lock
  spinlock hold time reduction, improved handling of large page faults
  on shadow, initial APICv HW acceleration support, s390 channel IO
  based virtio, amongst others"

* tag 'kvm-3.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (143 commits)
  Revert "KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte"
  x86: pvclock kvm: align allocation size to page size
  KVM: nVMX: Remove redundant get_vmcs12 from nested_vmx_exit_handled_msr
  x86 emulator: fix parity calculation for AAD instruction
  KVM: PPC: BookE: Handle alignment interrupts
  booke: Added DBCR4 SPR number
  KVM: PPC: booke: Allow multiple exception types
  KVM: PPC: booke: use vcpu reference from thread_struct
  KVM: Remove user_alloc from struct kvm_memory_slot
  KVM: VMX: disable apicv by default
  KVM: s390: Fix handling of iscs.
  KVM: MMU: cleanup __direct_map
  KVM: MMU: remove pt_access in mmu_set_spte
  KVM: MMU: cleanup mapping-level
  KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte
  KVM: VMX: cleanup vmx_set_cr0().
  KVM: VMX: add missing exit names to VMX_EXIT_REASONS array
  KVM: VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode
  KVM: Remove duplicate text in api.txt
  Revert "KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page"
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2013-02-24T02:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-24T02:50:11+00:00</published>
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Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
  contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.

   - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
     unified.

   - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
     (fixing several potential problems with missing argument
     validation, while we are at it)

   - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed

   - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
     altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
     (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.

   - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once

   - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
     architectures switched to using those."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
  x86: convert to ksignal
  sparc: convert to ksignal
  arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
  alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
  burying unused conditionals
  make do_sigaltstack() static
  arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
  arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
  arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
  sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
  sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
  sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
  kill sparc32_open()
  sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
  sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
  ...
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Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
 "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
  contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.

   - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
     unified.

   - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
     (fixing several potential problems with missing argument
     validation, while we are at it)

   - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed

   - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
     altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
     (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.

   - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once

   - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
     architectures switched to using those."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
  x86: convert to ksignal
  sparc: convert to ksignal
  arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
  alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
  burying unused conditionals
  make do_sigaltstack() static
  arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
  arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
  arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
  arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
  sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
  sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
  sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
  kill sparc32_open()
  sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
  sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T02:03:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T02:03:39+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a corrected attempt at the x86/cpu branch, this time with the
  fixes in that makes it not break on KVM (current or past), or any
  other virtualizer which traps on this configuration.

  Again, the biggest change here is enabling the WC+ memory type on AMD
  processors, if the BIOS doesn't."

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kvm: Add MSR_AMD64_BU_CFG2 to the list of ignored MSRs
  x86, cpu, amd: Fix WC+ workaround for older virtual hosts
  x86, AMD: Enable WC+ memory type on family 10 processors
  x86, AMD: Clean up init_amd()
  x86/process: Change %8s to %s for pr_warn() in release_thread()
  x86/cpu/hotplug: Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency
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Pull x86 cpu updates from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a corrected attempt at the x86/cpu branch, this time with the
  fixes in that makes it not break on KVM (current or past), or any
  other virtualizer which traps on this configuration.

  Again, the biggest change here is enabling the WC+ memory type on AMD
  processors, if the BIOS doesn't."

* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kvm: Add MSR_AMD64_BU_CFG2 to the list of ignored MSRs
  x86, cpu, amd: Fix WC+ workaround for older virtual hosts
  x86, AMD: Enable WC+ memory type on family 10 processors
  x86, AMD: Clean up init_amd()
  x86/process: Change %8s to %s for pr_warn() in release_thread()
  x86/cpu/hotplug: Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2013-02-20T19:26:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-20T19:26:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8793422fd9ac5037f5047f80473007301df3689f'/>
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:

 - Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J.  Wysocki
   with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg,
   Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu.

 - ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael
   J Wysocki.

 - ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with
   contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner.

 - Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg.

 - cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1
   state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle.

 - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.

 - cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with
   contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson.

 - Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk
   Brandewie.

 - cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn.

 - cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and
   powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett.

 - cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf
   and Rob Herring.

 - cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update
   from Shawn Guo.

 - cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat,
   and Inderpal Singh.

 - Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui.

 - Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker.

 - Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso,
   Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu,
   Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki
   Ishimatsu.

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits)
  PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle
  unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment
  openrisc idle: delete pm_idle
  mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle
  microblaze idle: delete pm_idle
  m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code
  ia64 idle: delete pm_idle
  cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle
  ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle
  ARM idle: delete pm_idle
  blackfin idle: delete pm_idle
  sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle
  sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle
  x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle
  APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
  tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default
  intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks
  ...
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:

 - Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J.  Wysocki
   with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg,
   Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu.

 - ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael
   J Wysocki.

 - ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with
   contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner.

 - Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg.

 - cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1
   state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle.

 - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.

 - cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with
   contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson.

 - Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk
   Brandewie.

 - cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn.

 - cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and
   powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett.

 - cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf
   and Rob Herring.

 - cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update
   from Shawn Guo.

 - cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat,
   and Inderpal Singh.

 - Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui.

 - Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker.

 - Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso,
   Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu,
   Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki
   Ishimatsu.

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits)
  PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle
  unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment
  openrisc idle: delete pm_idle
  mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle
  microblaze idle: delete pm_idle
  m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code
  ia64 idle: delete pm_idle
  cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle
  ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle
  ARM idle: delete pm_idle
  blackfin idle: delete pm_idle
  sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle
  sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle
  x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle
  APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
  tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default
  intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-20T01:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-20T01:49:41+00:00</published>
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:

  Main kernel side changes:

   - Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
     Oleg Nesterov.

   - Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
     done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

   - tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
     improvements.

   - Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
     Tony Luck.

   - Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
     Shin.

   - This tracing commit:

        tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events

     changes the ABI.  All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
     seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
     libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...

  Main tooling side changes:

   - Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:

     To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording.  And
     then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
     and prints them together if --group option is provided.  You can
     use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:

        $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
        [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
        [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]

        $ perf evlist --group
        {ref-cycles,cycles}

     With this example, default perf report will show you each event
     separately.

     You can use --group option to enable event group view:

        $ perf report --group
        ...
        # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
        # ========
        # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
        # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
        #
        #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
        # ................  .......  .................  ..........................
            99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
             0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
             0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
             0.03%   0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
             0.02%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
             0.01%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
             0.00%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
             0.00%   0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
             0.00%   0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time

     As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
     and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
     group { ref-cycles, cycles }'.  The output is sorted by period of
     group leader first.

   - Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
     just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
     directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.

   - Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
     Stephane Eranian.

   - Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.

   - 'perf test' improvements

   - Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.

   - perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
     that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
     put in place by organizations such as Fedora.

   - perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
     'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
     snapshots, etc.

   - perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

   - Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

   - 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite

   - ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
     improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
     details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
  perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
  perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
  perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
  perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
  perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
  perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
  perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
  perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
  perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
  perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
  perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
  uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
  uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
  perf: Introduce hw_perf_event-&gt;tp_target and -&gt;tp_list
  uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe-&gt;nhit
  uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
  ...
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:

  Main kernel side changes:

   - Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
     Oleg Nesterov.

   - Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
     done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

   - tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
     improvements.

   - Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
     Tony Luck.

   - Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
     Shin.

   - This tracing commit:

        tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events

     changes the ABI.  All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
     seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
     libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...

  Main tooling side changes:

   - Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:

     To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording.  And
     then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
     and prints them together if --group option is provided.  You can
     use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:

        $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
        [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
        [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]

        $ perf evlist --group
        {ref-cycles,cycles}

     With this example, default perf report will show you each event
     separately.

     You can use --group option to enable event group view:

        $ perf report --group
        ...
        # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
        # ========
        # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
        # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
        #
        #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
        # ................  .......  .................  ..........................
            99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
             0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
             0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
             0.03%   0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
             0.02%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
             0.01%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
             0.00%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
             0.00%   0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
             0.00%   0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time

     As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
     and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
     group { ref-cycles, cycles }'.  The output is sorted by period of
     group leader first.

   - Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
     just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
     directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.

   - Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
     Stephane Eranian.

   - Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.

   - 'perf test' improvements

   - Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.

   - perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
     that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
     put in place by organizations such as Fedora.

   - perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
     'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
     snapshots, etc.

   - perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

   - Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

   - 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite

   - ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
     improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
     details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
  perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
  perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
  perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
  perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
  perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
  perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
  perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
  perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
  perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
  perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
  perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
  uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
  uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
  perf: Introduce hw_perf_event-&gt;tp_target and -&gt;tp_list
  uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe-&gt;nhit
  uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h</title>
<updated>2013-02-16T08:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jacob Shin</name>
<email>jacob.shin@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-06T17:26:29+00:00</published>
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On AMD family 15h processors, there are 4 new performance
counters (in addition to 6 core performance counters) that can
be used for counting northbridge events (i.e. DRAM accesses).

Their bit fields are almost identical to the core performance
counters. However, unlike the core performance counters, these
MSRs are shared between multiple cores (that share the same
northbridge).

We will reuse the same code path as existing family 10h
northbridge event constraints handler logic to enforce
this sharing.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.shin@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.shin@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-7-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
On AMD family 15h processors, there are 4 new performance
counters (in addition to 6 core performance counters) that can
be used for counting northbridge events (i.e. DRAM accesses).

Their bit fields are almost identical to the core performance
counters. However, unlike the core performance counters, these
MSRs are shared between multiple cores (that share the same
northbridge).

We will reuse the same code path as existing family 10h
northbridge event constraints handler logic to enforce
this sharing.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.shin@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jacob Shin &lt;jacob.shin@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360171589-6381-7-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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