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<title>cpuidle: Make cpuidle_enable_device() call poll_idle_init()</title>
<updated>2011-02-17T22:47:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-07T23:29:20+00:00</published>
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commit d8c216cfa57e8a579f41729cbb88c97835d9ac8d upstream.

The following scenario is possible with the current cpuidle code and
the ACPI cpuidle driver:
(1) acpi_processor_cst_has_changed() is called,
(2) cpuidle_disable_device() is called,
(3) cpuidle_remove_state_sysfs() is called to remove the (presumably
    outdated) states info from sysfs,
(3) acpi_processor_get_power_info() is called, the first entry in the
    pr-&gt;power.states[] table is filled with zeros,
(4) acpi_processor_setup_cpuidle() is called and it doesn't fill the
    first entry in pr-&gt;power.states[],
(5) cpuidle_enable_device() is called,
(6) __cpuidle_register_device() is _not_ called, since the device has
    already been registered,
(7) Consequently, poll_idle_init() is _not_ called either,
(8) cpuidle_add_state_sysfs() is called to create the sysfs attributes
    for the new states and it uses the bogus first table entry from
    acpi_processor_get_power_info() for creating state0.

This problem is avoided if cpuidle_enable_device()
unconditionally calls poll_idle_init().

Reported-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit d8c216cfa57e8a579f41729cbb88c97835d9ac8d upstream.

The following scenario is possible with the current cpuidle code and
the ACPI cpuidle driver:
(1) acpi_processor_cst_has_changed() is called,
(2) cpuidle_disable_device() is called,
(3) cpuidle_remove_state_sysfs() is called to remove the (presumably
    outdated) states info from sysfs,
(3) acpi_processor_get_power_info() is called, the first entry in the
    pr-&gt;power.states[] table is filled with zeros,
(4) acpi_processor_setup_cpuidle() is called and it doesn't fill the
    first entry in pr-&gt;power.states[],
(5) cpuidle_enable_device() is called,
(6) __cpuidle_register_device() is _not_ called, since the device has
    already been registered,
(7) Consequently, poll_idle_init() is _not_ called either,
(8) cpuidle_add_state_sysfs() is called to create the sysfs attributes
    for the new states and it uses the bogus first table entry from
    acpi_processor_get_power_info() for creating state0.

This problem is avoided if cpuidle_enable_device()
unconditionally calls poll_idle_init().

Reported-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: Fix typos</title>
<updated>2010-09-29T03:30:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-07T16:53:49+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: extend cpuidle and menu governor to handle dynamic states</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T03:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ai Li</name>
<email>aili@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-10T00:20:13+00:00</published>
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On some SoC chips, HW resources may be in use during any particular idle
period.  As a consequence, the cpuidle states that the SoC is safe to
enter can change from idle period to idle period.  In addition, the
latency and threshold of each cpuidle state can vary, depending on the
operating condition when the CPU becomes idle, e.g.  the current cpu
frequency, the current state of the HW blocks, etc.

cpuidle core and the menu governor, in the current form, are geared
towards cpuidle states that are static, i.e.  the availabiltiy of the
states, their latencies, their thresholds are non-changing during run
time.  cpuidle does not provide any hook that cpuidle drivers can use to
adjust those values on the fly for the current idle period before the menu
governor selects the target cpuidle state.

This patch extends cpuidle core and the menu governor to handle states
that are dynamic.  There are three additions in the patch and the patch
maintains backwards-compatibility with existing cpuidle drivers.

1) add prepare() to struct cpuidle_device.  A cpuidle driver can hook
   into the callback and cpuidle will call prepare() before calling the
   governor's select function.  The callback gives the cpuidle driver a
   chance to update the dynamic information of the cpuidle states for the
   current idle period, e.g.  state availability, latencies, thresholds,
   power values, etc.

2) add CPUIDLE_FLAG_IGNORE as one of the state flags.  In the prepare()
   function, a cpuidle driver can set/clear the flag to indicate to the
   menu governor whether a cpuidle state should be ignored, i.e.  not
   available, during the current idle period.

3) add power_specified bit to struct cpuidle_device.  The menu governor
   currently assumes that the cpuidle states are arranged in the order of
   increasing latency, threshold, and power savings.  This is true or can
   be made true for static states.  Once the state parameters are dynamic,
   the latencies, thresholds, and power savings for the cpuidle states can
   increase or decrease by different amounts from idle period to idle
   period.  So the assumption of increasing latency, threshold, and power
   savings from Cn to C(n+1) can no longer be guaranteed.

It can be straightforward to calculate the power consumption of each
available state and to specify it in power_usage for the idle period.
Using the power_usage fields, the menu governor then selects the state
that has the lowest power consumption and that still satisfies all other
critieria.  The power_specified bit defaults to 0.  For existing cpuidle
drivers, cpuidle detects that power_specified is 0 and fills in a dummy
set of power_usage values.

Signed-off-by: Ai Li &lt;aili@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venki@google.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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On some SoC chips, HW resources may be in use during any particular idle
period.  As a consequence, the cpuidle states that the SoC is safe to
enter can change from idle period to idle period.  In addition, the
latency and threshold of each cpuidle state can vary, depending on the
operating condition when the CPU becomes idle, e.g.  the current cpu
frequency, the current state of the HW blocks, etc.

cpuidle core and the menu governor, in the current form, are geared
towards cpuidle states that are static, i.e.  the availabiltiy of the
states, their latencies, their thresholds are non-changing during run
time.  cpuidle does not provide any hook that cpuidle drivers can use to
adjust those values on the fly for the current idle period before the menu
governor selects the target cpuidle state.

This patch extends cpuidle core and the menu governor to handle states
that are dynamic.  There are three additions in the patch and the patch
maintains backwards-compatibility with existing cpuidle drivers.

1) add prepare() to struct cpuidle_device.  A cpuidle driver can hook
   into the callback and cpuidle will call prepare() before calling the
   governor's select function.  The callback gives the cpuidle driver a
   chance to update the dynamic information of the cpuidle states for the
   current idle period, e.g.  state availability, latencies, thresholds,
   power values, etc.

2) add CPUIDLE_FLAG_IGNORE as one of the state flags.  In the prepare()
   function, a cpuidle driver can set/clear the flag to indicate to the
   menu governor whether a cpuidle state should be ignored, i.e.  not
   available, during the current idle period.

3) add power_specified bit to struct cpuidle_device.  The menu governor
   currently assumes that the cpuidle states are arranged in the order of
   increasing latency, threshold, and power savings.  This is true or can
   be made true for static states.  Once the state parameters are dynamic,
   the latencies, thresholds, and power savings for the cpuidle states can
   increase or decrease by different amounts from idle period to idle
   period.  So the assumption of increasing latency, threshold, and power
   savings from Cn to C(n+1) can no longer be guaranteed.

It can be straightforward to calculate the power consumption of each
available state and to specify it in power_usage for the idle period.
Using the power_usage fields, the menu governor then selects the state
that has the lowest power consumption and that still satisfies all other
critieria.  The power_specified bit defaults to 0.  For existing cpuidle
drivers, cpuidle detects that power_specified is 0 and fills in a dummy
set of power_usage values.

Signed-off-by: Ai Li &lt;aili@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venki@google.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>
<title>[CPUFREQ] x86 cpufreq: Make trace_power_frequency cpufreq driver independent</title>
<updated>2010-08-03T17:47:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Renninger</name>
<email>trenn@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-20T11:17:36+00:00</published>
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and fix the broken case if a core's frequency depends on others.

trace_power_frequency was only implemented in a rather ungeneric way
in acpi-cpufreq driver's target() function only.
-&gt; Move the call to trace_power_frequency to
   cpufreq.c:cpufreq_notify_transition() where CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE
   notifier is triggered.
   This will support power frequency tracing by all cpufreq drivers

trace_power_frequency did not trace frequency changes correctly when
the userspace governor was used or when CPU cores' frequency depend
on each other.
-&gt; Moving this into the CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and pass the cpu
   which gets switched automatically fixes this.

Robert Schoene provided some important fixes on top of my initial
quick shot version which are integrated in this patch:
- Forgot some changes in power_end trace (TP_printk/variable names)
- Variable dummy in power_end must now be cpu_id
- Use static 64 bit variable instead of unsigned int for cpu_id

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
CC: davej@redhat.com
CC: arjan@infradead.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de
Tested-by: robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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and fix the broken case if a core's frequency depends on others.

trace_power_frequency was only implemented in a rather ungeneric way
in acpi-cpufreq driver's target() function only.
-&gt; Move the call to trace_power_frequency to
   cpufreq.c:cpufreq_notify_transition() where CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE
   notifier is triggered.
   This will support power frequency tracing by all cpufreq drivers

trace_power_frequency did not trace frequency changes correctly when
the userspace governor was used or when CPU cores' frequency depend
on each other.
-&gt; Moving this into the CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and pass the cpu
   which gets switched automatically fixes this.

Robert Schoene provided some important fixes on top of my initial
quick shot version which are integrated in this patch:
- Forgot some changes in power_end trace (TP_printk/variable names)
- Variable dummy in power_end must now be cpu_id
- Use static 64 bit variable instead of unsigned int for cpu_id

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
CC: davej@redhat.com
CC: arjan@infradead.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de
Tested-by: robert.schoene@tu-dresden.de
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: Cure nr_iowait_cpu() users</title>
<updated>2010-07-01T07:39:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-01T07:07:17+00:00</published>
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Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us())
broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled
by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of
the current cpu.

This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making
nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass
in the right number.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Commit 0224cf4c5e (sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us())
broke things by not making sure preemption was indeed disabled
by the callers of nr_iowait_cpu() which took the iowait value of
the current cpu.

This resulted in a heap of preempt warnings. Cure this by making
nr_iowait_cpu() take a cpu number and fix up the callers to pass
in the right number.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: &lt;1277968037.1868.120.camel@laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6</title>
<updated>2010-05-28T23:14:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-28T23:14:17+00:00</published>
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* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors
  ACPI: acpi_idle: touch TS_POLLING only in the non-MWAIT case
  acpi_pad: uses MONITOR/MWAIT, so it doesn't need to clear TS_POLLING
  sched: clarify commment for TS_POLLING
  ACPI: allow a native cpuidle driver to displace ACPI
  cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static
  cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check
  cpuidle: fail to register if !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
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* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors
  ACPI: acpi_idle: touch TS_POLLING only in the non-MWAIT case
  acpi_pad: uses MONITOR/MWAIT, so it doesn't need to clear TS_POLLING
  sched: clarify commment for TS_POLLING
  ACPI: allow a native cpuidle driver to displace ACPI
  cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static
  cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check
  cpuidle: fail to register if !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: make cpuidle_curr_driver static</title>
<updated>2010-05-28T01:06:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-22T20:57:26+00:00</published>
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cpuidle_register_driver() sets cpuidle_curr_driver
cpuidle_unregister_driver() clears cpuidle_curr_driver

We should't expose cpuidle_curr_driver to
potential modification except via these interfaces.
So make it static and create cpuidle_get_driver() to observe it.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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cpuidle_register_driver() sets cpuidle_curr_driver
cpuidle_unregister_driver() clears cpuidle_curr_driver

We should't expose cpuidle_curr_driver to
potential modification except via these interfaces.
So make it static and create cpuidle_get_driver() to observe it.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: add cpuidle_unregister_driver() error check</title>
<updated>2010-05-27T17:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-22T20:34:10+00:00</published>
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Assure that cpuidle_unregister_driver() will not clobber
the registered driver if unregistered by somebody else.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Assure that cpuidle_unregister_driver() will not clobber
the registered driver if unregistered by somebody else.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: add a repeating pattern detector to the menu governor</title>
<updated>2010-05-25T15:07:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-24T21:32:59+00:00</published>
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Currently, the menu governor uses the (corrected) next timer as key item
for predicting the idle duration.

It turns out that there are specific cases where this breaks down: There
are cases where we have a very repetitive pattern of idle durations, where
the idle period is pretty much the same, for reasons completely unrelated
to the next timer event.  Examples of such repeating patterns are network
loads with irq mitigation, the mouse moving but in theory also the wifi
beacons.

This patch adds a relatively simple detector for such repeating patterns,
where the standard deviation of the last 8 idle periods is compared to a
threshold.

With this extra predictor in place, measurements show that the DECAY
factor can now be increased (the decaying average will now decay slower)
to get an even more stable result.

[arjan@infradead.org: fix bug identified by Frank]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Corrado Zoccolo &lt;czoccolo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.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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Currently, the menu governor uses the (corrected) next timer as key item
for predicting the idle duration.

It turns out that there are specific cases where this breaks down: There
are cases where we have a very repetitive pattern of idle durations, where
the idle period is pretty much the same, for reasons completely unrelated
to the next timer event.  Examples of such repeating patterns are network
loads with irq mitigation, the mouse moving but in theory also the wifi
beacons.

This patch adds a relatively simple detector for such repeating patterns,
where the standard deviation of the last 8 idle periods is compared to a
threshold.

With this extra predictor in place, measurements show that the DECAY
factor can now be increased (the decaying average will now decay slower)
to get an even more stable result.

[arjan@infradead.org: fix bug identified by Frank]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Corrado Zoccolo &lt;czoccolo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frank.rowand@am.sony.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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<title>PM QOS update</title>
<updated>2010-05-10T21:08:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Gross</name>
<email>mgross@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2010-05-05T23:59:26+00:00</published>
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This patch changes the string based list management to a handle base
implementation to help with the hot path use of pm-qos, it also renames
much of the API to use "request" as opposed to "requirement" that was
used in the initial implementation.  I did this because request more
accurately represents what it actually does.

Also, I added a string based ABI for users wanting to use a string
interface.  So if the user writes 0xDDDDDDDD formatted hex it will be
accepted by the interface.  (someone asked me for it and I don't think
it hurts anything.)

This patch updates some documentation input I got from Randy.

Signed-off-by: markgross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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This patch changes the string based list management to a handle base
implementation to help with the hot path use of pm-qos, it also renames
much of the API to use "request" as opposed to "requirement" that was
used in the initial implementation.  I did this because request more
accurately represents what it actually does.

Also, I added a string based ABI for users wanting to use a string
interface.  So if the user writes 0xDDDDDDDD formatted hex it will be
accepted by the interface.  (someone asked me for it and I don't think
it hurts anything.)

This patch updates some documentation input I got from Randy.

Signed-off-by: markgross &lt;mgross@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
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