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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-06-07T17:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2018-06-07T17:23:33+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Support for split PMD page table lock on 64-bit Book3S (Power8/9).

   - Add support for HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, so we properly support
     live patching again.

   - Add support for patching barrier_nospec in copy_from_user() and
     syscall entry.

   - A couple of fixes for our data breakpoints on Book3S.

   - A series from Nick optimising TLB/mm handling with the Radix MMU.

   - Numerous small cleanups to squash sparse/gcc warnings from Mathieu
     Malaterre.

   - Several series optimising various parts of the 32-bit code from
     Christophe Leroy.

   - Removal of support for two old machines, "SBC834xE" and "C2K"
     ("GEFanuc,C2K"), which is why the diffstat has so many deletions.

  And many other small improvements &amp; fixes.

  There's a few out-of-area changes. Some minor ftrace changes OK'ed by
  Steve, and a fix to our powernv cpuidle driver. Then there's a series
  touching mm, x86 and fs/proc/task_mmu.c, which cleans up some details
  around pkey support. It was ack'ed/reviewed by Ingo &amp; Dave and has
  been in next for several weeks.

  Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Al
  Viro, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arnd
  Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe
  Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dave Hansen, Fabio Estevam, Finn Thain,
  Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Ingo
  Molnar, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Josh Poimboeuf, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Greer, Mathieu Malaterre,
  Matthew Wilcox, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Nicolai Stange, Olof Johansson, Paul Gortmaker, Paul
  Mackerras, Peter Rosin, Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi, Ram Pai, Rashmica
  Gupta, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Samuel
  Mendoza-Jonas, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo,
  Souptick Joarder, Stewart Smith, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Torsten Duwe,
  Vaibhav Jain, Wei Yongjun, Wolfram Sang, Yisheng Xie, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-4.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (251 commits)
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix missing ptesync in flush_cache_vmap
  cpuidle: powernv: Fix promotion from snooze if next state disabled
  powerpc: fix build failure by disabling attribute-alias warning in pci_32
  ocxl: Fix missing unlock on error in afu_ioctl_enable_p9_wait()
  powerpc-opal: fix spelling mistake "Uniterrupted" -&gt; "Uninterrupted"
  powerpc: fix spelling mistake: "Usupported" -&gt; "Unsupported"
  powerpc/pkeys: Detach execute_only key on !PROT_EXEC
  powerpc/powernv: copy/paste - Mask SO bit in CR
  powerpc: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell mv64x60 i2c controller
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell MPSC serial controller
  powerpc/embedded6xx: Remove C2K board support
  powerpc/lib: optimise PPC32 memcmp
  powerpc/lib: optimise 32 bits __clear_user()
  powerpc/time: inline arch_vtime_task_switch()
  powerpc/Makefile: set -mcpu=860 flag for the 8xx
  powerpc: Implement csum_ipv6_magic in assembly
  powerpc/32: Optimise __csum_partial()
  powerpc/lib: Adjust .balign inside string functions for PPC32
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Notable changes:

   - Support for split PMD page table lock on 64-bit Book3S (Power8/9).

   - Add support for HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE, so we properly support
     live patching again.

   - Add support for patching barrier_nospec in copy_from_user() and
     syscall entry.

   - A couple of fixes for our data breakpoints on Book3S.

   - A series from Nick optimising TLB/mm handling with the Radix MMU.

   - Numerous small cleanups to squash sparse/gcc warnings from Mathieu
     Malaterre.

   - Several series optimising various parts of the 32-bit code from
     Christophe Leroy.

   - Removal of support for two old machines, "SBC834xE" and "C2K"
     ("GEFanuc,C2K"), which is why the diffstat has so many deletions.

  And many other small improvements &amp; fixes.

  There's a few out-of-area changes. Some minor ftrace changes OK'ed by
  Steve, and a fix to our powernv cpuidle driver. Then there's a series
  touching mm, x86 and fs/proc/task_mmu.c, which cleans up some details
  around pkey support. It was ack'ed/reviewed by Ingo &amp; Dave and has
  been in next for several weeks.

  Thanks to: Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Al
  Viro, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar, Arnd
  Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe
  Lombard, Colin Ian King, Dave Hansen, Fabio Estevam, Finn Thain,
  Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Ingo
  Molnar, Jonathan Neuschäfer, Josh Poimboeuf, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mark Greer, Mathieu Malaterre,
  Matthew Wilcox, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
  Nicholas Piggin, Nicolai Stange, Olof Johansson, Paul Gortmaker, Paul
  Mackerras, Peter Rosin, Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi, Ram Pai, Rashmica
  Gupta, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Sam Bobroff, Samuel
  Mendoza-Jonas, Segher Boessenkool, Shilpasri G Bhat, Simon Guo,
  Souptick Joarder, Stewart Smith, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Torsten Duwe,
  Vaibhav Jain, Wei Yongjun, Wolfram Sang, Yisheng Xie, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-4.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (251 commits)
  powerpc/64s/radix: Fix missing ptesync in flush_cache_vmap
  cpuidle: powernv: Fix promotion from snooze if next state disabled
  powerpc: fix build failure by disabling attribute-alias warning in pci_32
  ocxl: Fix missing unlock on error in afu_ioctl_enable_p9_wait()
  powerpc-opal: fix spelling mistake "Uniterrupted" -&gt; "Uninterrupted"
  powerpc: fix spelling mistake: "Usupported" -&gt; "Unsupported"
  powerpc/pkeys: Detach execute_only key on !PROT_EXEC
  powerpc/powernv: copy/paste - Mask SO bit in CR
  powerpc: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove core support for Marvell mv64x60 hostbridges
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell mv64x60 i2c controller
  powerpc/boot: Remove support for Marvell MPSC serial controller
  powerpc/embedded6xx: Remove C2K board support
  powerpc/lib: optimise PPC32 memcmp
  powerpc/lib: optimise 32 bits __clear_user()
  powerpc/time: inline arch_vtime_task_switch()
  powerpc/Makefile: set -mcpu=860 flag for the 8xx
  powerpc: Implement csum_ipv6_magic in assembly
  powerpc/32: Optimise __csum_partial()
  powerpc/lib: Adjust .balign inside string functions for PPC32
  ...
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: powernv: Fix promotion from snooze if next state disabled</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T12:16:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gautham R. Shenoy</name>
<email>ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-31T12:15:09+00:00</published>
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The commit 78eaa10f027c ("cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of
snooze to deeper idle state") introduced a timeout for the snooze idle
state so that it could be eventually be promoted to a deeper idle
state. The snooze timeout value is static and set to the target
residency of the next idle state, which would train the cpuidle
governor to pick the next idle state eventually.

The unfortunate side-effect of this is that if the next idle state(s)
is disabled, the CPU will forever remain in snooze, despite the fact
that the system is completely idle, and other deeper idle states are
available.

This patch fixes the issue by dynamically setting the snooze timeout
to the target residency of the next enabled state on the device.

Before Patch:
  POWER8 : Only nap disabled.
  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.01297 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | Nap  | Fast
     0|   8|   0| 96.41|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   1| 96.43|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   2| 96.47|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   3| 96.35|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   4| 96.37|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   5| 96.37|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   6| 96.47|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   7| 96.47|  0.00|  0.00

  POWER9: Shallow states (stop0lite, stop1lite, stop2lite, stop0, stop1,
  stop2) disabled:
  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.05033 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop
     0|  16|   0| 89.79|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
     0|  16|   1| 90.12|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
     0|  16|   2| 90.21|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
     0|  16|   3| 90.29|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00

After Patch:
  POWER8 : Only nap disabled.
  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.01200 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | Nap  | Fast
     0|   8|   0| 16.58|  0.00| 77.21
     0|   8|   1| 18.42|  0.00| 75.38
     0|   8|   2|  4.70|  0.00| 94.09
     0|   8|   3| 17.06|  0.00| 81.73
     0|   8|   4|  3.06|  0.00| 95.73
     0|   8|   5|  7.00|  0.00| 96.80
     0|   8|   6|  1.00|  0.00| 98.79
     0|   8|   7|  5.62|  0.00| 94.17

  POWER9: Shallow states (stop0lite, stop1lite, stop2lite, stop0, stop1,
  stop2) disabled:

  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.02110 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop
     0|   0|   0|  0.69|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  9.39| 89.70
     0|   0|   1|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.05| 93.21
     0|   0|   2|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 89.93
     0|   0|   3|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 93.26

Fixes: 78eaa10f027c ("cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of snooze to deeper idle state")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The commit 78eaa10f027c ("cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of
snooze to deeper idle state") introduced a timeout for the snooze idle
state so that it could be eventually be promoted to a deeper idle
state. The snooze timeout value is static and set to the target
residency of the next idle state, which would train the cpuidle
governor to pick the next idle state eventually.

The unfortunate side-effect of this is that if the next idle state(s)
is disabled, the CPU will forever remain in snooze, despite the fact
that the system is completely idle, and other deeper idle states are
available.

This patch fixes the issue by dynamically setting the snooze timeout
to the target residency of the next enabled state on the device.

Before Patch:
  POWER8 : Only nap disabled.
  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.01297 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | Nap  | Fast
     0|   8|   0| 96.41|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   1| 96.43|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   2| 96.47|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   3| 96.35|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   4| 96.37|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   5| 96.37|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   6| 96.47|  0.00|  0.00
     0|   8|   7| 96.47|  0.00|  0.00

  POWER9: Shallow states (stop0lite, stop1lite, stop2lite, stop0, stop1,
  stop2) disabled:
  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.05033 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop
     0|  16|   0| 89.79|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
     0|  16|   1| 90.12|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
     0|  16|   2| 90.21|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00
     0|  16|   3| 90.29|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00

After Patch:
  POWER8 : Only nap disabled.
  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.01200 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | Nap  | Fast
     0|   8|   0| 16.58|  0.00| 77.21
     0|   8|   1| 18.42|  0.00| 75.38
     0|   8|   2|  4.70|  0.00| 94.09
     0|   8|   3| 17.06|  0.00| 81.73
     0|   8|   4|  3.06|  0.00| 95.73
     0|   8|   5|  7.00|  0.00| 96.80
     0|   8|   6|  1.00|  0.00| 98.79
     0|   8|   7|  5.62|  0.00| 94.17

  POWER9: Shallow states (stop0lite, stop1lite, stop2lite, stop0, stop1,
  stop2) disabled:

  $ cpupower monitor sleep 30
  sleep took 30.02110 seconds and exited with status 0
                |Idle_Stats
  PKG |CORE|CPU | snoo | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop | stop
     0|   0|   0|  0.69|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  9.39| 89.70
     0|   0|   1|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.05| 93.21
     0|   0|   2|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 89.93
     0|   0|   3|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00|  0.00| 93.26

Fixes: 78eaa10f027c ("cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of snooze to deeper idle state")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: governors: Consolidate PM QoS handling</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T21:13:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T11:43:01+00:00</published>
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There is some code duplication related to the PM QoS handling between
the existing cpuidle governors, so move that code to a common helper
function and call that from the governors.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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There is some code duplication related to the PM QoS handling between
the existing cpuidle governors, so move that code to a common helper
function and call that from the governors.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: governors: Drop redundant checks related to PM QoS</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T21:13:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-30T11:41:09+00:00</published>
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PM_QOS_RESUME_LATENCY_NO_CONSTRAINT is defined as the 32-bit integer
maximum, so it is not necessary to test the return value of
dev_pm_qos_raw_read_value() against it directly in the menu and
ladder cpuidle governors.

Drop these redundant checks.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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PM_QOS_RESUME_LATENCY_NO_CONSTRAINT is defined as the 32-bit integer
maximum, so it is not necessary to test the return value of
dev_pm_qos_raw_read_value() against it directly in the menu and
ladder cpuidle governors.

Drop these redundant checks.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: menu: Avoid selecting shallow states with stopped tick</title>
<updated>2018-04-09T09:54:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T17:12:43+00:00</published>
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If the scheduler tick has been stopped already and the governor
selects a shallow idle state, the CPU can spend a long time in that
state if the selection is based on an inaccurate prediction of idle
time.  That effect turns out to be relevant, so it needs to be
mitigated.

To that end, modify the menu governor to discard the result of the
idle time prediction if the tick is stopped and the predicted idle
time is less than the tick period length, unless the tick timer is
going to expire soon.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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If the scheduler tick has been stopped already and the governor
selects a shallow idle state, the CPU can spend a long time in that
state if the selection is based on an inaccurate prediction of idle
time.  That effect turns out to be relevant, so it needs to be
mitigated.

To that end, modify the menu governor to discard the result of the
idle time prediction if the tick is stopped and the predicted idle
time is less than the tick period length, unless the tick timer is
going to expire soon.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: menu: Refine idle state selection for running tick</title>
<updated>2018-04-09T09:54:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T17:12:34+00:00</published>
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If the tick isn't stopped, the target residency of the state selected
by the menu governor may be greater than the actual time to the next
tick and that means lost energy.

To avoid that, make tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() return the current
time to the next event (before stopping the tick) in addition to the
estimated one via an extra pointer argument and make menu_select()
use that value to refine the state selection when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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If the tick isn't stopped, the target residency of the state selected
by the menu governor may be greater than the actual time to the next
tick and that means lost energy.

To avoid that, make tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() return the current
time to the next event (before stopping the tick) in addition to the
estimated one via an extra pointer argument and make menu_select()
use that value to refine the state selection when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: Return nohz hint from cpuidle_select()</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T07:29:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T16:50:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=45f1ff59e27ca59d33cc1a317e669d90022ccf7d'/>
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Add a new pointer argument to cpuidle_select() and to the -&gt;select
cpuidle governor callback to allow a boolean value indicating
whether or not the tick should be stopped before entering the
selected state to be returned from there.

Make the ladder governor ignore that pointer (to preserve its
current behavior) and make the menu governor return 'false" through
it if:
 (1) the idle exit latency is constrained at 0, or
 (2) the selected state is a polling one, or
 (3) the expected idle period duration is within the tick period
     range.

In addition to that, the correction factor computations in the menu
governor need to take the possibility that the tick may not be
stopped into account to avoid artificially small correction factor
values.  To that end, add a mechanism to record tick wakeups, as
suggested by Peter Zijlstra, and use it to modify the menu_update()
behavior when tick wakeup occurs.  Namely, if the CPU is woken up by
the tick and the return value of tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is not
within the tick boundary, the predicted idle duration is likely too
short, so make menu_update() try to compensate for that by updating
the governor statistics as though the CPU was idle for a long time.

Since the value returned through the new argument pointer of
cpuidle_select() is not used by its caller yet, this change by
itself is not expected to alter the functionality of the code.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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Add a new pointer argument to cpuidle_select() and to the -&gt;select
cpuidle governor callback to allow a boolean value indicating
whether or not the tick should be stopped before entering the
selected state to be returned from there.

Make the ladder governor ignore that pointer (to preserve its
current behavior) and make the menu governor return 'false" through
it if:
 (1) the idle exit latency is constrained at 0, or
 (2) the selected state is a polling one, or
 (3) the expected idle period duration is within the tick period
     range.

In addition to that, the correction factor computations in the menu
governor need to take the possibility that the tick may not be
stopped into account to avoid artificially small correction factor
values.  To that end, add a mechanism to record tick wakeups, as
suggested by Peter Zijlstra, and use it to modify the menu_update()
behavior when tick wakeup occurs.  Namely, if the CPU is woken up by
the tick and the return value of tick_nohz_get_sleep_length() is not
within the tick boundary, the predicted idle duration is likely too
short, so make menu_update() try to compensate for that by updating
the governor statistics as though the CPU was idle for a long time.

Since the value returned through the new argument pointer of
cpuidle_select() is not used by its caller yet, this change by
itself is not expected to alter the functionality of the code.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: poll_state: Avoid invoking local_clock() too often</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T11:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-27T21:58:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4dc2375c1a4e88ed2701f6961e0e4f9a7696ad3c'/>
<id>4dc2375c1a4e88ed2701f6961e0e4f9a7696ad3c</id>
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Rik reports that he sees an increase in CPU use in one benchmark
due to commit 612f1a22f067 "cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to
poll_idle()" that caused poll_idle() to call local_clock() in every
iteration of the loop.  Utilization increase generally means more
non-idle time with respect to total CPU time (on the average) which
implies reduced CPU frequency.

Doug reports that limiting the rate of local_clock() invocations
in there causes much less power to be drawn during a CPU-intensive
parallel workload (with idle states 1 and 2 disabled to enforce more
state 0 residency).

These two reports together suggest that executing local_clock() on
multiple CPUs in parallel at a high rate may cause chips to get hot
and trigger thermal/power limits on them to kick in, so reduce the
rate of local_clock() invocations in poll_idle() to avoid that issue.

Fixes: 612f1a22f067 "cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to poll_idle()"
Reported-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
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Rik reports that he sees an increase in CPU use in one benchmark
due to commit 612f1a22f067 "cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to
poll_idle()" that caused poll_idle() to call local_clock() in every
iteration of the loop.  Utilization increase generally means more
non-idle time with respect to total CPU time (on the average) which
implies reduced CPU frequency.

Doug reports that limiting the rate of local_clock() invocations
in there causes much less power to be drawn during a CPU-intensive
parallel workload (with idle states 1 and 2 disabled to enforce more
state 0 residency).

These two reports together suggest that executing local_clock() on
multiple CPUs in parallel at a high rate may cause chips to get hot
and trigger thermal/power limits on them to kick in, so reduce the
rate of local_clock() invocations in poll_idle() to avoid that issue.

Fixes: 612f1a22f067 "cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to poll_idle()"
Reported-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@surriel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: cpuidle/suspend: Add s2idle usage and time state attributes</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T11:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-14T11:27:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=64bdff698092aa6be28c3b248f887022eec77902'/>
<id>64bdff698092aa6be28c3b248f887022eec77902</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a new attribute group called "s2idle" under the sysfs directory
of each cpuidle state that supports the -&gt;enter_s2idle callback
and put two new attributes, "usage" and "time", into that group to
represent the number of times the given state was requested for
suspend-to-idle and the total time spent in suspend-to-idle after
requesting that state, respectively.

That will allow diagnostic information related to suspend-to-idle
to be collected without enabling advanced debug features and
analyzing dmesg output.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Add a new attribute group called "s2idle" under the sysfs directory
of each cpuidle state that supports the -&gt;enter_s2idle callback
and put two new attributes, "usage" and "time", into that group to
represent the number of times the given state was requested for
suspend-to-idle and the total time spent in suspend-to-idle after
requesting that state, respectively.

That will allow diagnostic information related to suspend-to-idle
to be collected without enabling advanced debug features and
analyzing dmesg output.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: Enable coupled cpuidle support on Exynos3250 platform</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T11:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Szyprowski</name>
<email>m.szyprowski@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-13T15:04:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8919d779f1fd1ea8b06a46249f1a13c835b736af'/>
<id>8919d779f1fd1ea8b06a46249f1a13c835b736af</id>
<content type='text'>
All the needed code has been already merged to mach-exynos core in
commit af9971144dde ("ARM: EXYNOS: add coupled cpuidle support for
Exynos3250"), so enable support for coupled variant also for Exynos3250
SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</content>
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All the needed code has been already merged to mach-exynos core in
commit af9971144dde ("ARM: EXYNOS: add coupled cpuidle support for
Exynos3250"), so enable support for coupled variant also for Exynos3250
SoCs.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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