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<title>[CPUFREQ] Restore previously used governor on a hot-replugged CPU</title>
<updated>2007-07-13T05:29:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Renninger</name>
<email>trenn@suse.de</email>
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<published>2007-07-09T18:35:28+00:00</published>
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Negative side effect: needs NR_CPUs pointer array of memory in
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case.

Still needs userspace track keeping and rewriting of governors if governors
change while a CPU is not active (always the governor at CPU remove time is
restored).

Move of policy-&gt;user_policy.governor assignment is just a minor cleanup.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8671

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili &lt;malattia@linux.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Negative side effect: needs NR_CPUs pointer array of memory in
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case.

Still needs userspace track keeping and rewriting of governors if governors
change while a CPU is not active (always the governor at CPU remove time is
restored).

Move of policy-&gt;user_policy.governor assignment is just a minor cleanup.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8671

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili &lt;malattia@linux.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>[CPUFREQ] bugfix cpufreq in combination with performance governor</title>
<updated>2007-07-13T05:29:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Oruba</name>
<email>peter.oruba@amd.com</email>
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<published>2007-07-09T18:35:27+00:00</published>
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There is a frequency scaling issue that I encountered with the performance
governor in combination with CPU hotplug.

In cpufreq.c CPU frequency is reduced to its minimum before the CPU gets
unregistered and set offline.  Does that have a particular reason?

Since the (k8-)governor does not monitor CPU frequency that setting also
applies then to the remaining CPU as well and lets the system run on the
lowest frequency although performance is chose as the policy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba &lt;peter.oruba@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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There is a frequency scaling issue that I encountered with the performance
governor in combination with CPU hotplug.

In cpufreq.c CPU frequency is reduced to its minimum before the CPU gets
unregistered and set offline.  Does that have a particular reason?

Since the (k8-)governor does not monitor CPU frequency that setting also
applies then to the remaining CPU as well and lets the system run on the
lowest frequency although performance is chose as the policy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oruba &lt;peter.oruba@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq</title>
<updated>2007-07-12T20:42:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-12T20:42:43+00:00</published>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix sysfs_create_file return value handling
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand: fix tickless accounting and software coordination bug
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand: add a check to avoid negative load calculation
  [CPUFREQ] Keep userspace governor quiet when it is not being used
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Proper register access
  [CPUFREQ] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Replace ACPI functions with direct I/O
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Remove duplicate multipliers
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Embedded "conservative"
  [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: Proper ReadModifyWrite of PERF_CTL MSR
  [CPUFREQ] check return value of sysfs_create_file
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Check ACPI "BM DMA in progress" bit
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Move old_ratio to correct place
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - VT8237 support
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Use all kinds of support
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: clarify number of cores.
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix sysfs_create_file return value handling
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand: fix tickless accounting and software coordination bug
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand: add a check to avoid negative load calculation
  [CPUFREQ] Keep userspace governor quiet when it is not being used
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Proper register access
  [CPUFREQ] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Replace ACPI functions with direct I/O
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Remove duplicate multipliers
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Embedded "conservative"
  [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: Proper ReadModifyWrite of PERF_CTL MSR
  [CPUFREQ] check return value of sysfs_create_file
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Check ACPI "BM DMA in progress" bit
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Move old_ratio to correct place
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - VT8237 support
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Use all kinds of support
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: clarify number of cores.
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<entry>
<title>sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute-&gt;owner</title>
<updated>2007-07-11T23:09:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-13T18:45:17+00:00</published>
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sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute-&gt;owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute-&gt;owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>[CPUFREQ] Fix sysfs_create_file return value handling</title>
<updated>2007-06-21T16:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tobias Klauser</name>
<email>tklauser@distanz.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-13T22:28:15+00:00</published>
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Commit 0a4b2ccc555fa2ca6873d60219047104e4805d45 in cpufreq.git
eliminates the build warnings but does not pass on the error code of
sysfs_create_file to the function calling cpufreq_add_dev. Instead some
previous value of ret would be returned.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Commit 0a4b2ccc555fa2ca6873d60219047104e4805d45 in cpufreq.git
eliminates the build warnings but does not pass on the error code of
sysfs_create_file to the function calling cpufreq_add_dev. Instead some
previous value of ret would be returned.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[CPUFREQ] ondemand: fix tickless accounting and software coordination bug</title>
<updated>2007-06-21T16:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venki Pallipadi</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-20T21:26:24+00:00</published>
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With tickless kernel and software coordination os P-states, ondemand
can look at wrong idle statistics. This can happen when ondemand sampling
is happening on CPU 0 and due to software coordination sampling also looks at
utilization of CPU 1. If CPU 1 is in tickless state at that moment, its idle
statistics will not be uptodate and CPU 0 thinks CPU 1 is idle for less
amount of time than it actually is.

This can be resolved by looking at all the busy times of CPUs, which is
accurate, even with tickless, and use that to determine idle time in a
round about way (total time - busy time).

Thanks to Arjan for originally reporting the ondemand bug on
Lenovo T61.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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With tickless kernel and software coordination os P-states, ondemand
can look at wrong idle statistics. This can happen when ondemand sampling
is happening on CPU 0 and due to software coordination sampling also looks at
utilization of CPU 1. If CPU 1 is in tickless state at that moment, its idle
statistics will not be uptodate and CPU 0 thinks CPU 1 is idle for less
amount of time than it actually is.

This can be resolved by looking at all the busy times of CPUs, which is
accurate, even with tickless, and use that to determine idle time in a
round about way (total time - busy time).

Thanks to Arjan for originally reporting the ondemand bug on
Lenovo T61.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>[CPUFREQ] ondemand: add a check to avoid negative load calculation</title>
<updated>2007-06-21T16:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venki Pallipadi</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-20T21:24:52+00:00</published>
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Due to rounding and inexact jiffy accounting, idle_ticks can sometimes
be higher than total_ticks. Make sure those cases are handled as
zero load case.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Due to rounding and inexact jiffy accounting, idle_ticks can sometimes
be higher than total_ticks. Make sure those cases are handled as
zero load case.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>[CPUFREQ] Keep userspace governor quiet when it is not being used</title>
<updated>2007-06-21T16:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Venki Pallipadi</name>
<email>venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-20T21:24:00+00:00</published>
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Userspace governor registers a frequency change notifier at init time, even
when no CPU is set to userspace governor. Make it register only when
atleast one CPU is using userspace.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Userspace governor registers a frequency change notifier at init time, even
when no CPU is set to userspace governor. Make it register only when
atleast one CPU is using userspace.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi &lt;venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>[CPUFREQ] check return value of sysfs_create_file</title>
<updated>2007-05-29T20:56:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Renninger</name>
<email>trenn@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-21T12:20:04+00:00</published>
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Eliminate build warning (sysfs_create_file return value must be checked)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Eliminate build warning (sysfs_create_file return value must be checked)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger &lt;trenn@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Add suspend-related notifications for CPU hotplug</title>
<updated>2007-05-09T19:30:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-09T09:35:10+00:00</published>
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Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&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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Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress.  This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions.  It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).

[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy &lt;ego@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@tv-sign.ru&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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