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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/cpuidle, branch v5.12.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm-soc-drivers-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc</title>
<updated>2020-12-17T00:38:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-17T00:38:41+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull ARM SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are a couple of subsystems maintained by other people that merge
  their drivers through the SoC tree, those changes include:

   - The SCMI firmware framework gains support for sensor notifications
     and for controlling voltage domains.

   - A large update for the Tegra memory controller driver, integrating
     it better with the interconnect framework

   - The memory controller subsystem gains support for Mediatek MT8192

   - The reset controller framework gains support for sharing pulsed
     resets

  For Soc specific drivers in drivers/soc, the main changes are

   - The Allwinner/sunxi MBUS gets a rework for the way it handles
     dma_map_ops and offsets between physical and dma address spaces.

   - An errata fix plus some cleanups for Freescale Layerscape SoCs

   - A cleanup for renesas drivers regarding MMIO accesses.

   - New SoC specific drivers for Mediatek MT8192 and MT8183 power
     domains

   - New SoC specific drivers for Aspeed AST2600 LPC bus control and SoC
     identification.

   - Core Power Domain support for Qualcomm MSM8916, MSM8939, SDM660 and
     SDX55.

   - A rework of the TI AM33xx 'genpd' power domain support to use
     information from DT instead of platform data

   - Support for TI AM64x SoCs

   - Allow building some Amlogic drivers as modules instead of built-in

  Finally, there are numerous cleanups and smaller bug fixes for
  Mediatek, Tegra, Samsung, Qualcomm, TI OMAP, Amlogic, Rockchips,
  Renesas, and Xilinx SoCs"

* tag 'arm-soc-drivers-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (222 commits)
  soc: mediatek: mmsys: Specify HAS_IOMEM dependency for MTK_MMSYS
  firmware: xilinx: Properly align function parameter
  firmware: xilinx: Add a blank line after function declaration
  firmware: xilinx: Remove additional newline
  firmware: xilinx: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  firmware: xlnx-zynqmp: fix compilation warning
  soc: xilinx: vcu: add missing register NUM_CORE
  soc: xilinx: vcu: use vcu-settings syscon registers
  dt-bindings: soc: xlnx: extract xlnx, vcu-settings to separate binding
  soc: xilinx: vcu: drop useless success message
  clk: samsung: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused
  soc: samsung: exynos-chipid: initialize later - with arch_initcall
  soc: samsung: exynos-chipid: order list of SoCs by name
  memory: jz4780_nemc: Fix potential NULL dereference in jz4780_nemc_probe()
  memory: ti-emif-sram: only build for ARMv7
  memory: tegra30: Support interconnect framework
  memory: tegra20: Support hardware versioning and clean up OPP table initialization
  dt-bindings: memory: tegra20-emc: Document opp-supported-hw property
  soc: rockchip: io-domain: Fix error return code in rockchip_iodomain_probe()
  reset-controller: ti: force the write operation when assert or deassert
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ARM SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are a couple of subsystems maintained by other people that merge
  their drivers through the SoC tree, those changes include:

   - The SCMI firmware framework gains support for sensor notifications
     and for controlling voltage domains.

   - A large update for the Tegra memory controller driver, integrating
     it better with the interconnect framework

   - The memory controller subsystem gains support for Mediatek MT8192

   - The reset controller framework gains support for sharing pulsed
     resets

  For Soc specific drivers in drivers/soc, the main changes are

   - The Allwinner/sunxi MBUS gets a rework for the way it handles
     dma_map_ops and offsets between physical and dma address spaces.

   - An errata fix plus some cleanups for Freescale Layerscape SoCs

   - A cleanup for renesas drivers regarding MMIO accesses.

   - New SoC specific drivers for Mediatek MT8192 and MT8183 power
     domains

   - New SoC specific drivers for Aspeed AST2600 LPC bus control and SoC
     identification.

   - Core Power Domain support for Qualcomm MSM8916, MSM8939, SDM660 and
     SDX55.

   - A rework of the TI AM33xx 'genpd' power domain support to use
     information from DT instead of platform data

   - Support for TI AM64x SoCs

   - Allow building some Amlogic drivers as modules instead of built-in

  Finally, there are numerous cleanups and smaller bug fixes for
  Mediatek, Tegra, Samsung, Qualcomm, TI OMAP, Amlogic, Rockchips,
  Renesas, and Xilinx SoCs"

* tag 'arm-soc-drivers-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (222 commits)
  soc: mediatek: mmsys: Specify HAS_IOMEM dependency for MTK_MMSYS
  firmware: xilinx: Properly align function parameter
  firmware: xilinx: Add a blank line after function declaration
  firmware: xilinx: Remove additional newline
  firmware: xilinx: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  firmware: xlnx-zynqmp: fix compilation warning
  soc: xilinx: vcu: add missing register NUM_CORE
  soc: xilinx: vcu: use vcu-settings syscon registers
  dt-bindings: soc: xlnx: extract xlnx, vcu-settings to separate binding
  soc: xilinx: vcu: drop useless success message
  clk: samsung: mark PM functions as __maybe_unused
  soc: samsung: exynos-chipid: initialize later - with arch_initcall
  soc: samsung: exynos-chipid: order list of SoCs by name
  memory: jz4780_nemc: Fix potential NULL dereference in jz4780_nemc_probe()
  memory: ti-emif-sram: only build for ARMv7
  memory: tegra30: Support interconnect framework
  memory: tegra20: Support hardware versioning and clean up OPP table initialization
  dt-bindings: memory: tegra20-emc: Document opp-supported-hw property
  soc: rockchip: io-domain: Fix error return code in rockchip_iodomain_probe()
  reset-controller: ti: force the write operation when assert or deassert
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T00:30:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T00:30:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b4ec805464a4a0299216a003278351d0b4806450'/>
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Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These update cpufreq (core and drivers), cpuidle (polling state
  implementation and the PSCI driver), the OPP (operating performance
  points) framework, devfreq (core and drivers), the power capping RAPL
  (Running Average Power Limit) driver, the Energy Model support, the
  generic power domains (genpd) framework, the ACPI device power
  management, the core system-wide suspend code and power management
  utilities.

  Specifics:

   - Use local_clock() instead of jiffies in the cpufreq statistics to
     improve accuracy (Viresh Kumar).

   - Fix up OPP usage in the cpufreq-dt and qcom-cpufreq-nvmem cpufreq
     drivers (Viresh Kumar).

   - Clean up the cpufreq core, the intel_pstate driver and the
     schedutil cpufreq governor (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Fix up error code paths in the sti-cpufreq and mediatek cpufreq
     drivers (Yangtao Li, Qinglang Miao).

   - Fix cpufreq_online() to return error codes instead of success (0)
     in all cases when it fails (Wang ShaoBo).

   - Add mt8167 support to the mediatek cpufreq driver and blacklist
     mt8516 in the cpufreq-dt-platdev driver (Fabien Parent).

   - Modify the tegra194 cpufreq driver to always return values from the
     frequency table as the current frequency and clean up that driver
     (Sumit Gupta, Jon Hunter).

   - Modify the arm_scmi cpufreq driver to allow it to discover the
     power scale present in the performance protocol and provide this
     information to the Energy Model (Lukasz Luba).

   - Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to several cpufreq drivers (Pali
     Rohár).

   - Clean up the CPPC cpufreq driver (Ionela Voinescu).

   - Fix NVMEM_IMX_OCOTP dependency in the imx cpufreq driver (Arnd
     Bergmann).

   - Rework the poling interval selection for the polling state in
     cpuidle (Mel Gorman).

   - Enable suspend-to-idle for PSCI OSI mode in the PSCI cpuidle driver
     (Ulf Hansson).

   - Modify the OPP framework to support empty (node-less) OPP tables in
     DT for passing dependency information (Nicola Mazzucato).

   - Fix potential lockdep issue in the OPP core and clean up the OPP
     core (Viresh Kumar).

   - Modify dev_pm_opp_put_regulators() to accept a NULL argument and
     update its users accordingly (Viresh Kumar).

   - Add frequency changes tracepoint to devfreq (Matthias Kaehlcke).

   - Add support for governor feature flags to devfreq, make devfreq
     sysfs file permissions depend on the governor and clean up the
     devfreq core (Chanwoo Choi).

   - Clean up the tegra20 devfreq driver and deprecate it to allow
     another driver based on EMC_STAT to be used instead of it (Dmitry
     Osipenko).

   - Add interconnect support to the tegra30 devfreq driver, allow it to
     take the interconnect and OPP information from DT and clean it up
     (Dmitry Osipenko).

   - Add interconnect support to the exynos-bus devfreq driver along
     with interconnect properties documentation (Sylwester Nawrocki).

   - Add suport for AMD Fam17h and Fam19h processors to the RAPL power
     capping driver (Victor Ding, Kim Phillips).

   - Fix handling of overly long constraint names in the powercap
     framework (Lukasz Luba).

   - Fix the wakeup configuration handling for bridges in the ACPI
     device power management core (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Add support for using an abstract scale for power units in the
     Energy Model (EM) and document it (Lukasz Luba).

   - Add em_cpu_energy() micro-optimization to the EM (Pavankumar
     Kondeti).

   - Modify the generic power domains (genpd) framwework to support
     suspend-to-idle (Ulf Hansson).

   - Fix creation of debugfs nodes in genpd (Thierry Strudel).

   - Clean up genpd (Lina Iyer).

   - Clean up the core system-wide suspend code and make it print driver
     flags for devices with debug enabled (Alex Shi, Patrice Chotard,
     Chen Yu).

   - Modify the ACPI system reboot code to make it prepare for system
     power off to avoid confusing the platform firmware (Kai-Heng Feng).

   - Update the pm-graph (multiple changes, mostly usability-related)
     and cpupower (online and offline CPU information support) PM
     utilities (Todd Brandt, Brahadambal Srinivasan)"

* tag 'pm-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (86 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix cpufreq_online() return value on errors
  cpufreq: Fix up several kerneldoc comments
  cpufreq: stats: Use local_clock() instead of jiffies
  cpufreq: schedutil: Simplify sugov_update_next_freq()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Simplify intel_cpufreq_update_pstate()
  PM: domains: create debugfs nodes when adding power domains
  opp: of: Allow empty opp-table with opp-shared
  dt-bindings: opp: Allow empty OPP tables
  media: venus: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  drm/panfrost: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  drm/lima: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  PM / devfreq: exynos: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-nvmem: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  cpufreq: dt: dev_pm_opp_put_regulators() accepts NULL argument
  opp: Allow dev_pm_opp_put_*() APIs to accept NULL opp_table
  opp: Don't create an OPP table from dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table()
  cpufreq: dt: Don't (ab)use dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() to create OPP table
  opp: Reduce the size of critical section in _opp_kref_release()
  PM / EM: Micro optimization in em_cpu_energy
  cpufreq: arm_scmi: Discover the power scale in performance protocol
  ...
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<pre>
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These update cpufreq (core and drivers), cpuidle (polling state
  implementation and the PSCI driver), the OPP (operating performance
  points) framework, devfreq (core and drivers), the power capping RAPL
  (Running Average Power Limit) driver, the Energy Model support, the
  generic power domains (genpd) framework, the ACPI device power
  management, the core system-wide suspend code and power management
  utilities.

  Specifics:

   - Use local_clock() instead of jiffies in the cpufreq statistics to
     improve accuracy (Viresh Kumar).

   - Fix up OPP usage in the cpufreq-dt and qcom-cpufreq-nvmem cpufreq
     drivers (Viresh Kumar).

   - Clean up the cpufreq core, the intel_pstate driver and the
     schedutil cpufreq governor (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Fix up error code paths in the sti-cpufreq and mediatek cpufreq
     drivers (Yangtao Li, Qinglang Miao).

   - Fix cpufreq_online() to return error codes instead of success (0)
     in all cases when it fails (Wang ShaoBo).

   - Add mt8167 support to the mediatek cpufreq driver and blacklist
     mt8516 in the cpufreq-dt-platdev driver (Fabien Parent).

   - Modify the tegra194 cpufreq driver to always return values from the
     frequency table as the current frequency and clean up that driver
     (Sumit Gupta, Jon Hunter).

   - Modify the arm_scmi cpufreq driver to allow it to discover the
     power scale present in the performance protocol and provide this
     information to the Energy Model (Lukasz Luba).

   - Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to several cpufreq drivers (Pali
     Rohár).

   - Clean up the CPPC cpufreq driver (Ionela Voinescu).

   - Fix NVMEM_IMX_OCOTP dependency in the imx cpufreq driver (Arnd
     Bergmann).

   - Rework the poling interval selection for the polling state in
     cpuidle (Mel Gorman).

   - Enable suspend-to-idle for PSCI OSI mode in the PSCI cpuidle driver
     (Ulf Hansson).

   - Modify the OPP framework to support empty (node-less) OPP tables in
     DT for passing dependency information (Nicola Mazzucato).

   - Fix potential lockdep issue in the OPP core and clean up the OPP
     core (Viresh Kumar).

   - Modify dev_pm_opp_put_regulators() to accept a NULL argument and
     update its users accordingly (Viresh Kumar).

   - Add frequency changes tracepoint to devfreq (Matthias Kaehlcke).

   - Add support for governor feature flags to devfreq, make devfreq
     sysfs file permissions depend on the governor and clean up the
     devfreq core (Chanwoo Choi).

   - Clean up the tegra20 devfreq driver and deprecate it to allow
     another driver based on EMC_STAT to be used instead of it (Dmitry
     Osipenko).

   - Add interconnect support to the tegra30 devfreq driver, allow it to
     take the interconnect and OPP information from DT and clean it up
     (Dmitry Osipenko).

   - Add interconnect support to the exynos-bus devfreq driver along
     with interconnect properties documentation (Sylwester Nawrocki).

   - Add suport for AMD Fam17h and Fam19h processors to the RAPL power
     capping driver (Victor Ding, Kim Phillips).

   - Fix handling of overly long constraint names in the powercap
     framework (Lukasz Luba).

   - Fix the wakeup configuration handling for bridges in the ACPI
     device power management core (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Add support for using an abstract scale for power units in the
     Energy Model (EM) and document it (Lukasz Luba).

   - Add em_cpu_energy() micro-optimization to the EM (Pavankumar
     Kondeti).

   - Modify the generic power domains (genpd) framwework to support
     suspend-to-idle (Ulf Hansson).

   - Fix creation of debugfs nodes in genpd (Thierry Strudel).

   - Clean up genpd (Lina Iyer).

   - Clean up the core system-wide suspend code and make it print driver
     flags for devices with debug enabled (Alex Shi, Patrice Chotard,
     Chen Yu).

   - Modify the ACPI system reboot code to make it prepare for system
     power off to avoid confusing the platform firmware (Kai-Heng Feng).

   - Update the pm-graph (multiple changes, mostly usability-related)
     and cpupower (online and offline CPU information support) PM
     utilities (Todd Brandt, Brahadambal Srinivasan)"

* tag 'pm-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (86 commits)
  cpufreq: Fix cpufreq_online() return value on errors
  cpufreq: Fix up several kerneldoc comments
  cpufreq: stats: Use local_clock() instead of jiffies
  cpufreq: schedutil: Simplify sugov_update_next_freq()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Simplify intel_cpufreq_update_pstate()
  PM: domains: create debugfs nodes when adding power domains
  opp: of: Allow empty opp-table with opp-shared
  dt-bindings: opp: Allow empty OPP tables
  media: venus: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  drm/panfrost: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  drm/lima: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  PM / devfreq: exynos: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-nvmem: dev_pm_opp_put_*() accepts NULL argument
  cpufreq: dt: dev_pm_opp_put_regulators() accepts NULL argument
  opp: Allow dev_pm_opp_put_*() APIs to accept NULL opp_table
  opp: Don't create an OPP table from dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table()
  cpufreq: dt: Don't (ab)use dev_pm_opp_get_opp_table() to create OPP table
  opp: Reduce the size of critical section in _opp_kref_release()
  PM / EM: Micro optimization in em_cpu_energy
  cpufreq: arm_scmi: Discover the power scale in performance protocol
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: Select polling interval based on a c-state with a longer target residency</title>
<updated>2020-12-01T16:59:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mgorman@techsingularity.net</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-30T22:32:02+00:00</published>
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It was noted that a few workloads that idle rapidly regressed when commit
36fcb4292473 ("cpuidle: use first valid target residency as poll time")
was merged. The workloads in question were heavy communicators that idle
rapidly and were impacted by the c-state exit latency as the active CPUs
were not polling at the time of wakeup. As they were not particularly
realistic workloads, it was not considered to be a major problem.

Unfortunately, a bug was reported for a real workload in a production
environment that relied on large numbers of threads operating in a worker
pool pattern. These threads would idle for periods of time longer than the
C1 target residency and so incurred the c-state exit latency penalty. The
application is very sensitive to wakeup latency and indirectly relying
on behaviour prior to commit on a37b969a61c1 ("cpuidle: poll_state: Add
time limit to poll_idle()") to poll for long enough to avoid the exit
latency cost.

The target residency of C1 is typically very short. On some x86 machines,
it can be as low as 2 microseconds. In poll_idle(), the clock is checked
every POLL_IDLE_RELAX_COUNT interations of cpu_relax() and even one
iteration of that loop can be over 1 microsecond so the polling interval is
very close to the granularity of what poll_idle() can detect. Furthermore,
a basic ping pong workload like perf bench pipe has a longer round-trip
time than the 2 microseconds meaning that the CPU will almost certainly
not be polling when the ping-pong completes.

This patch selects a polling interval based on an enabled c-state that
has an target residency longer than 10usec. If there is no enabled-cstate
then polling will be up to a TICK_NSEC/16 similar to what it was up until
kernel 4.20. Polling for a full tick is unlikely (rescheduling event)
and is much longer than the existing target residencies for a deep c-state.

As an example, consider a CPU with the following c-state information from
an Intel CPU;

	residency	exit_latency
C1	2		2
C1E	20		10
C3	100		33
C6	400		133

The polling interval selected is 20usec. If booted with
intel_idle.max_cstate=1 then the polling interval is 250usec as the deeper
c-states were not available.

On an AMD EPYC machine, the c-state information is more limited and
looks like

	residency	exit_latency
C1	2		1
C2	800		400

The polling interval selected is 250usec. While C2 was considered, the
polling interval was clamped by CPUIDLE_POLL_MAX.

Note that it is not expected that polling will be a universal win. As
well as potentially trading power for performance, the performance is not
guaranteed if the extra polling prevented a turbo state being reached.
Making it a tunable was considered but it's driver-specific, may be
overridden by a governor and is not a guaranteed polling interval making
it difficult to describe without knowledge of the implementation.

tbench4
			     vanilla		    polling
Hmean     1        497.89 (   0.00%)      543.15 *   9.09%*
Hmean     2        975.88 (   0.00%)     1059.73 *   8.59%*
Hmean     4       1953.97 (   0.00%)     2081.37 *   6.52%*
Hmean     8       3645.76 (   0.00%)     4052.95 *  11.17%*
Hmean     16      6882.21 (   0.00%)     6995.93 *   1.65%*
Hmean     32     10752.20 (   0.00%)    10731.53 *  -0.19%*
Hmean     64     12875.08 (   0.00%)    12478.13 *  -3.08%*
Hmean     128    21500.54 (   0.00%)    21098.60 *  -1.87%*
Hmean     256    21253.70 (   0.00%)    21027.18 *  -1.07%*
Hmean     320    20813.50 (   0.00%)    20580.64 *  -1.12%*

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
It was noted that a few workloads that idle rapidly regressed when commit
36fcb4292473 ("cpuidle: use first valid target residency as poll time")
was merged. The workloads in question were heavy communicators that idle
rapidly and were impacted by the c-state exit latency as the active CPUs
were not polling at the time of wakeup. As they were not particularly
realistic workloads, it was not considered to be a major problem.

Unfortunately, a bug was reported for a real workload in a production
environment that relied on large numbers of threads operating in a worker
pool pattern. These threads would idle for periods of time longer than the
C1 target residency and so incurred the c-state exit latency penalty. The
application is very sensitive to wakeup latency and indirectly relying
on behaviour prior to commit on a37b969a61c1 ("cpuidle: poll_state: Add
time limit to poll_idle()") to poll for long enough to avoid the exit
latency cost.

The target residency of C1 is typically very short. On some x86 machines,
it can be as low as 2 microseconds. In poll_idle(), the clock is checked
every POLL_IDLE_RELAX_COUNT interations of cpu_relax() and even one
iteration of that loop can be over 1 microsecond so the polling interval is
very close to the granularity of what poll_idle() can detect. Furthermore,
a basic ping pong workload like perf bench pipe has a longer round-trip
time than the 2 microseconds meaning that the CPU will almost certainly
not be polling when the ping-pong completes.

This patch selects a polling interval based on an enabled c-state that
has an target residency longer than 10usec. If there is no enabled-cstate
then polling will be up to a TICK_NSEC/16 similar to what it was up until
kernel 4.20. Polling for a full tick is unlikely (rescheduling event)
and is much longer than the existing target residencies for a deep c-state.

As an example, consider a CPU with the following c-state information from
an Intel CPU;

	residency	exit_latency
C1	2		2
C1E	20		10
C3	100		33
C6	400		133

The polling interval selected is 20usec. If booted with
intel_idle.max_cstate=1 then the polling interval is 250usec as the deeper
c-states were not available.

On an AMD EPYC machine, the c-state information is more limited and
looks like

	residency	exit_latency
C1	2		1
C2	800		400

The polling interval selected is 250usec. While C2 was considered, the
polling interval was clamped by CPUIDLE_POLL_MAX.

Note that it is not expected that polling will be a universal win. As
well as potentially trading power for performance, the performance is not
guaranteed if the extra polling prevented a turbo state being reached.
Making it a tunable was considered but it's driver-specific, may be
overridden by a governor and is not a guaranteed polling interval making
it difficult to describe without knowledge of the implementation.

tbench4
			     vanilla		    polling
Hmean     1        497.89 (   0.00%)      543.15 *   9.09%*
Hmean     2        975.88 (   0.00%)     1059.73 *   8.59%*
Hmean     4       1953.97 (   0.00%)     2081.37 *   6.52%*
Hmean     8       3645.76 (   0.00%)     4052.95 *  11.17%*
Hmean     16      6882.21 (   0.00%)     6995.93 *   1.65%*
Hmean     32     10752.20 (   0.00%)    10731.53 *  -0.19%*
Hmean     64     12875.08 (   0.00%)    12478.13 *  -3.08%*
Hmean     128    21500.54 (   0.00%)    21098.60 *  -1.87%*
Hmean     256    21253.70 (   0.00%)    21027.18 *  -1.07%*
Hmean     320    20813.50 (   0.00%)    20580.64 *  -1.12%*

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve semantic conflict</title>
<updated>2020-11-27T10:10:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-27T10:09:57+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>smp: Cleanup smp_call_function*()</title>
<updated>2020-11-24T15:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-15T09:29:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=545b8c8df41f9ecbaf806332d4095bc4bc7c14e8'/>
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Get rid of the __call_single_node union and cleanup the API a little
to avoid external code relying on the structure layout as much.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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Get rid of the __call_single_node union and cleanup the API a little
to avoid external code relying on the structure layout as much.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge back cpuidle changes for v5.11.</title>
<updated>2020-11-23T11:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-23T11:49:28+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: tegra: Annotate tegra_pm_set_cpu_in_lp2() with RCU_NONIDLE</title>
<updated>2020-11-16T12:24:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Osipenko</name>
<email>digetx@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-04T13:21:26+00:00</published>
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Annotate tegra_pm_set[clear]_cpu_in_lp2() with RCU_NONIDLE in order to
fix lockdep warning about suspicious RCU usage of a spinlock during late
idling phase.

 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
 ...
 include/trace/events/lock.h:13 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
 ...
  (dump_stack) from (lock_acquire)
  (lock_acquire) from (_raw_spin_lock)
  (_raw_spin_lock) from (tegra_pm_set_cpu_in_lp2)
  (tegra_pm_set_cpu_in_lp2) from (tegra_cpuidle_enter)
  (tegra_cpuidle_enter) from (cpuidle_enter_state)
  (cpuidle_enter_state) from (cpuidle_enter_state_coupled)
  (cpuidle_enter_state_coupled) from (cpuidle_enter)
  (cpuidle_enter) from (do_idle)
 ...

Tested-by: Peter Geis &lt;pgwipeout@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Geis &lt;pgwipeout@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;digetx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Annotate tegra_pm_set[clear]_cpu_in_lp2() with RCU_NONIDLE in order to
fix lockdep warning about suspicious RCU usage of a spinlock during late
idling phase.

 WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
 ...
 include/trace/events/lock.h:13 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
 ...
  (dump_stack) from (lock_acquire)
  (lock_acquire) from (_raw_spin_lock)
  (_raw_spin_lock) from (tegra_pm_set_cpu_in_lp2)
  (tegra_pm_set_cpu_in_lp2) from (tegra_cpuidle_enter)
  (tegra_cpuidle_enter) from (cpuidle_enter_state)
  (cpuidle_enter_state) from (cpuidle_enter_state_coupled)
  (cpuidle_enter_state_coupled) from (cpuidle_enter)
  (cpuidle_enter) from (do_idle)
 ...

Tested-by: Peter Geis &lt;pgwipeout@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Peter Geis &lt;pgwipeout@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;digetx@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: psci: Enable suspend-to-idle for PSCI OSI mode</title>
<updated>2020-11-10T19:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ulf Hansson</name>
<email>ulf.hansson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-03T15:06:27+00:00</published>
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To select domain idlestates for cpuidle-psci when OSI mode has been
enabled, the PM domains via genpd are being managed through runtime PM.
This works fine for the regular idlepath, but it doesn't during system wide
suspend. More precisely, the domain idlestates becomes temporarily
disabled, which is because the PM core disables runtime PM for devices
during system wide suspend.

Later in the system suspend phase, genpd intends to deal with this from its
-&gt;suspend_noirq() callback, but this doesn't work as expected for a device
corresponding to a CPU, because the domain idlestates needs to be selected
on a per CPU basis (the PM core doesn't invoke the callbacks like that).

To address this problem, let's enable the syscore flag for the
corresponding CPU device that becomes successfully attached to its PM
domain (applicable only in OSI mode). This informs the PM core to skip
invoke the system wide suspend/resume callbacks for the device, thus also
prevents genpd from screwing up its internal state of it.

Moreover, to properly select a domain idlestate for the CPUs during
suspend-to-idle, let's assign a specific -&gt;enter_s2idle() callback for the
corresponding domain idlestate (applicable only in OSI mode). From that
callback, let's invoke dev_pm_genpd_suspend|resume(), as this allows a
domain idlestate to be selected for the current CPU by genpd.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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To select domain idlestates for cpuidle-psci when OSI mode has been
enabled, the PM domains via genpd are being managed through runtime PM.
This works fine for the regular idlepath, but it doesn't during system wide
suspend. More precisely, the domain idlestates becomes temporarily
disabled, which is because the PM core disables runtime PM for devices
during system wide suspend.

Later in the system suspend phase, genpd intends to deal with this from its
-&gt;suspend_noirq() callback, but this doesn't work as expected for a device
corresponding to a CPU, because the domain idlestates needs to be selected
on a per CPU basis (the PM core doesn't invoke the callbacks like that).

To address this problem, let's enable the syscore flag for the
corresponding CPU device that becomes successfully attached to its PM
domain (applicable only in OSI mode). This informs the PM core to skip
invoke the system wide suspend/resume callbacks for the device, thus also
prevents genpd from screwing up its internal state of it.

Moreover, to properly select a domain idlestate for the CPUs during
suspend-to-idle, let's assign a specific -&gt;enter_s2idle() callback for the
corresponding domain idlestate (applicable only in OSI mode). From that
callback, let's invoke dev_pm_genpd_suspend|resume(), as this allows a
domain idlestate to be selected for the current CPU by genpd.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: big.LITTLE: enable driver only on Peach-Pit/Pi Chromebooks</title>
<updated>2020-10-26T09:15:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Szyprowski</name>
<email>m.szyprowski@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-16T08:12:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f1118a28bef94086c89398cee26987faa6c43a01'/>
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This driver always worked properly only on the Exynos 5420/5800 based
Chromebooks (Peach-Pit/Pi), so change the required compatible string to
the 'google,peach', to avoid enabling it on the other Exynos 542x/5800
boards, which hangs in such case. The main difference between Peach-Pit/Pi
and other Exynos 542x/5800 boards is the firmware - Peach platform doesn't
use secure firmware at all.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
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This driver always worked properly only on the Exynos 5420/5800 based
Chromebooks (Peach-Pit/Pi), so change the required compatible string to
the 'google,peach', to avoid enabling it on the other Exynos 542x/5800
boards, which hangs in such case. The main difference between Peach-Pit/Pi
and other Exynos 542x/5800 boards is the firmware - Peach platform doesn't
use secure firmware at all.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;b.zolnierkie@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2020-10-16T19:21:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T19:21:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=96685f8666714233d34abb71b242448c80077536'/>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A series from Nick adding ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM &amp; selecting
   it for powerpc, as well as a related fix for sparc.

 - Remove support for PowerPC 601.

 - Some fixes for watchpoints &amp; addition of a new ptrace flag for
   detecting ISA v3.1 (Power10) watchpoint features.

 - A fix for kernels using 4K pages and the hash MMU on bare metal
   Power9 systems with &gt; 16TB of RAM, or RAM on the 2nd node.

 - A basic idle driver for shallow stop states on Power10.

 - Tweaks to our sched domains code to better inform the scheduler about
   the hardware topology on Power9/10, where two SMT4 cores can be
   presented by firmware as an SMT8 core.

 - A series doing further reworks &amp; cleanups of our EEH code.

 - Addition of a filter for RTAS (firmware) calls done via sys_rtas(),
   to prevent root from overwriting kernel memory.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
Athira Rajeev, Biwen Li, Cameron Berkenpas, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, David Dai, Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero,
Ira Weiny, Jason Yan, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Konrad
Rzeszutek Wilk, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Liu Shixin, Luca
Ceresoli, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Mc Guire, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Pedro
Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang
Miao, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Cheloha,
Segher Boessenkool, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Kitt,
Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wang Wensheng, Wolfram Sang, Yang
Yingliang, zhengbin.

* tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (228 commits)
  Revert "powerpc/pci: unmap legacy INTx interrupts when a PHB is removed"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes
  cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_reboot_notifier
  powerpc/time: Make get_tb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Make get_tbl() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Remove get_tbu()
  powerpc/time: Avoid using get_tbl() and get_tbu() internally
  powerpc/time: Make mftb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Rename mftbl() to mftb()
  powerpc/32s: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 in head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Rename head_32.S to head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Setup the early hash table at all time.
  powerpc/time: Remove ifdef in get_dec() and set_dec()
  powerpc: Remove get_tb_or_rtc()
  powerpc: Remove __USE_RTC()
  powerpc: Tidy up a bit after removal of PowerPC 601.
  powerpc: Remove support for PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()
  powerpc: Remove CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A series from Nick adding ARCH_WANT_IRQS_OFF_ACTIVATE_MM &amp; selecting
   it for powerpc, as well as a related fix for sparc.

 - Remove support for PowerPC 601.

 - Some fixes for watchpoints &amp; addition of a new ptrace flag for
   detecting ISA v3.1 (Power10) watchpoint features.

 - A fix for kernels using 4K pages and the hash MMU on bare metal
   Power9 systems with &gt; 16TB of RAM, or RAM on the 2nd node.

 - A basic idle driver for shallow stop states on Power10.

 - Tweaks to our sched domains code to better inform the scheduler about
   the hardware topology on Power9/10, where two SMT4 cores can be
   presented by firmware as an SMT8 core.

 - A series doing further reworks &amp; cleanups of our EEH code.

 - Addition of a filter for RTAS (firmware) calls done via sys_rtas(),
   to prevent root from overwriting kernel memory.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
Athira Rajeev, Biwen Li, Cameron Berkenpas, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe
Leroy, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, Daniel Axtens, David Dai, Finn
Thain, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Greg Kurz, Gustavo Romero,
Ira Weiny, Jason Yan, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Konrad
Rzeszutek Wilk, Laurent Dufour, Leonardo Bras, Liu Shixin, Luca
Ceresoli, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas
Mc Guire, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Pedro
Miraglia Franco de Carvalho, Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Qian Cai, Qinglang
Miao, Ravi Bangoria, Russell Currey, Satheesh Rajendran, Scott Cheloha,
Segher Boessenkool, Srikar Dronamraju, Stan Johnson, Stephen Kitt,
Stephen Rothwell, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, Vasant Hegde, Wang Wensheng, Wolfram Sang, Yang
Yingliang, zhengbin.

* tag 'powerpc-5.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (228 commits)
  Revert "powerpc/pci: unmap legacy INTx interrupts when a PHB is removed"
  selftests/powerpc: Fix eeh-basic.sh exit codes
  cpufreq: powernv: Fix frame-size-overflow in powernv_cpufreq_reboot_notifier
  powerpc/time: Make get_tb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Make get_tbl() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Remove get_tbu()
  powerpc/time: Avoid using get_tbl() and get_tbu() internally
  powerpc/time: Make mftb() common to PPC32 and PPC64
  powerpc/time: Rename mftbl() to mftb()
  powerpc/32s: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_32 in head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Rename head_32.S to head_book3s_32.S
  powerpc/32s: Setup the early hash table at all time.
  powerpc/time: Remove ifdef in get_dec() and set_dec()
  powerpc: Remove get_tb_or_rtc()
  powerpc: Remove __USE_RTC()
  powerpc: Tidy up a bit after removal of PowerPC 601.
  powerpc: Remove support for PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Remove PowerPC 601
  powerpc: Drop SYNC_601() ISYNC_601() and SYNC()
  powerpc: Remove CONFIG_PPC601_SYNC_FIX
  ...
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