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<title>Merge tag 'pm-4.20-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2018-10-30T16:08:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T16:08:07+00:00</published>
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These remove a questionable heuristic from the menu cpuidle governor,
  fix a recent build regression in the intel_pstate driver, clean up ARM
  big-Little support in cpufreq and fix up hung task watchdog's
  interaction with system-wide power management transitions.

  Specifics:

   - Fix build regression in the intel_pstate driver that doesn't build
     without CONFIG_ACPI after recent changes (Dominik Brodowski).

   - One of the heuristics in the menu cpuidle governor is based on a
     function returning 0 most of the time, so drop it and clean up the
     scheduler code related to it (Daniel Lezcano).

   - Prevent the arm_big_little cpufreq driver from being used on ARM64
     which is not suitable for it and drop the arm_big_little_dt driver
     that is not used any more (Sudeep Holla).

   - Prevent the hung task watchdog from triggering during resume from
     system-wide sleep states by disabling it before freezing tasks and
     enabling it again after they have been thawed (Vitaly Kuznetsov)"

* tag 'pm-4.20-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  kernel: hung_task.c: disable on suspend
  cpufreq: remove unused arm_big_little_dt driver
  cpufreq: drop ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ support for ARM64
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix compilation for !CONFIG_ACPI
  cpuidle: menu: Remove get_loadavg() from the performance multiplier
  sched: Factor out nr_iowait and nr_iowait_cpu
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Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These remove a questionable heuristic from the menu cpuidle governor,
  fix a recent build regression in the intel_pstate driver, clean up ARM
  big-Little support in cpufreq and fix up hung task watchdog's
  interaction with system-wide power management transitions.

  Specifics:

   - Fix build regression in the intel_pstate driver that doesn't build
     without CONFIG_ACPI after recent changes (Dominik Brodowski).

   - One of the heuristics in the menu cpuidle governor is based on a
     function returning 0 most of the time, so drop it and clean up the
     scheduler code related to it (Daniel Lezcano).

   - Prevent the arm_big_little cpufreq driver from being used on ARM64
     which is not suitable for it and drop the arm_big_little_dt driver
     that is not used any more (Sudeep Holla).

   - Prevent the hung task watchdog from triggering during resume from
     system-wide sleep states by disabling it before freezing tasks and
     enabling it again after they have been thawed (Vitaly Kuznetsov)"

* tag 'pm-4.20-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  kernel: hung_task.c: disable on suspend
  cpufreq: remove unused arm_big_little_dt driver
  cpufreq: drop ARM_BIG_LITTLE_CPUFREQ support for ARM64
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix compilation for !CONFIG_ACPI
  cpuidle: menu: Remove get_loadavg() from the performance multiplier
  sched: Factor out nr_iowait and nr_iowait_cpu
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<entry>
<title>sched: loadavg: consolidate LOAD_INT, LOAD_FRAC, CALC_LOAD</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T23:26:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T22:06:11+00:00</published>
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There are several definitions of those functions/macros in places that
mess with fixed-point load averages.  Provide an official version.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix missed conversion in block/blk-iolatency.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Drake &lt;drake@endlessm.com&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Enderborg &lt;peter.enderborg@sony.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&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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There are several definitions of those functions/macros in places that
mess with fixed-point load averages.  Provide an official version.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix missed conversion in block/blk-iolatency.c]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Drake &lt;drake@endlessm.com&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Enderborg &lt;peter.enderborg@sony.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&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>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: menu: Remove get_loadavg() from the performance multiplier</title>
<updated>2018-10-25T14:49:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Lezcano</name>
<email>daniel.lezcano@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-04T12:04:03+00:00</published>
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The function get_loadavg() returns almost always zero. To be more
precise, statistically speaking for a total of 1023379 times passing
in the function, the load is equal to zero 1020728 times, greater than
100, 610 times, the remaining is between 0 and 5.

In 2011, the get_loadavg() was removed from the Android tree because
of the above [1]. At this time, the load was:

unsigned long this_cpu_load(void)
{
        struct rq *this = this_rq();
        return this-&gt;cpu_load[0];
}

In 2014, the code was changed by commit 372ba8cb46b2 (cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU
runqueues less) and the load is:

void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load)
{
        struct rq *rq = this_rq();
        *nr_waiters = atomic_read(&amp;rq-&gt;nr_iowait);
        *load = rq-&gt;load.weight;
}

with the same result.

Both measurements show using the load in this code path does no matter
anymore. Removing it.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/4dedd9f124703207895777ac6e91dacde0f7cc17

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The function get_loadavg() returns almost always zero. To be more
precise, statistically speaking for a total of 1023379 times passing
in the function, the load is equal to zero 1020728 times, greater than
100, 610 times, the remaining is between 0 and 5.

In 2011, the get_loadavg() was removed from the Android tree because
of the above [1]. At this time, the load was:

unsigned long this_cpu_load(void)
{
        struct rq *this = this_rq();
        return this-&gt;cpu_load[0];
}

In 2014, the code was changed by commit 372ba8cb46b2 (cpuidle: menu: Lookup CPU
runqueues less) and the load is:

void get_iowait_load(unsigned long *nr_waiters, unsigned long *load)
{
        struct rq *rq = this_rq();
        *nr_waiters = atomic_read(&amp;rq-&gt;nr_iowait);
        *load = rq-&gt;load.weight;
}

with the same result.

Both measurements show using the load in this code path does no matter
anymore. Removing it.

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common/+/4dedd9f124703207895777ac6e91dacde0f7cc17

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: menu: Avoid computations when result will be discarded</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T07:34:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-15T11:53:25+00:00</published>
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If the minimum interval taken into account in the average computation
loop in get_typical_interval() is less than the expected idle
duration determined so far, the resultant average cannot be greater
than that value as well and the entire return result of the function
is going to be discarded anyway going forward.

In that case, it is a waste of time to carry out the remaining
computations in get_typical_interval(), so avoid that by returning
early if the minimum interval is not below the expected idle duration.

No intentional changes of behavior.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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If the minimum interval taken into account in the average computation
loop in get_typical_interval() is less than the expected idle
duration determined so far, the resultant average cannot be greater
than that value as well and the entire return result of the function
is going to be discarded anyway going forward.

In that case, it is a waste of time to carry out the remaining
computations in get_typical_interval(), so avoid that by returning
early if the minimum interval is not below the expected idle duration.

No intentional changes of behavior.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: menu: Drop redundant comparison</title>
<updated>2018-10-18T07:34:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-15T11:51:45+00:00</published>
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Since the correction factor cannot be greater than RESOLUTION * DECAY,
the result of the predicted_us computation in menu_select() cannot be
greater than data-&gt;next_timer_us, so it is not necessary to compare
the "typical interval" value coming from get_typical_interval() with
data-&gt;next_timer_us separately.

It is sufficient to copmare predicted_us with the return value of
get_typical_interval() directly, so do that and drop the now
redundant expected_interval variable.

No intentional changes of behavior.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Since the correction factor cannot be greater than RESOLUTION * DECAY,
the result of the predicted_us computation in menu_select() cannot be
greater than data-&gt;next_timer_us, so it is not necessary to compare
the "typical interval" value coming from get_typical_interval() with
data-&gt;next_timer_us separately.

It is sufficient to copmare predicted_us with the return value of
get_typical_interval() directly, so do that and drop the now
redundant expected_interval variable.

No intentional changes of behavior.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: menu: Simplify checks related to the polling state</title>
<updated>2018-10-12T08:46:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T12:16:38+00:00</published>
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After some recent menu governor changes, the promotion of the
"polling" state to a physical one is mostly controlled by the
latency limit (resulting from the "interactivity" factor) and
not by the time to the closest timer event, so it should be
sufficient to check the exit latency of that state for this
purpose (of course, its target residency still needs to be
within the next timer event range for energy-efficiency).

Also, the physical state the "polling" one is promoted to need not
be the next one in principle (in case the next state is disabled,
for example).

For these reasons, simplify the checks made to decide whether or
not to promote the "polling" state to a physical one and update
the target idle duration when it is promoted in case the residency
of the new state turns out to be above the tick boundary (in which
case there is no reason to stop the tick).

Tested-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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After some recent menu governor changes, the promotion of the
"polling" state to a physical one is mostly controlled by the
latency limit (resulting from the "interactivity" factor) and
not by the time to the closest timer event, so it should be
sufficient to check the exit latency of that state for this
purpose (of course, its target residency still needs to be
within the next timer event range for energy-efficiency).

Also, the physical state the "polling" one is promoted to need not
be the next one in principle (in case the next state is disabled,
for example).

For these reasons, simplify the checks made to decide whether or
not to promote the "polling" state to a physical one and update
the target idle duration when it is promoted in case the residency
of the new state turns out to be above the tick boundary (in which
case there is no reason to stop the tick).

Tested-by: Doug Smythies &lt;dsmythies@telus.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: poll_state: Revise loop termination condition</title>
<updated>2018-10-04T17:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-02T21:50:30+00:00</published>
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If need_resched() returns "false", breaking out of the loop in
poll_idle() will cause a new idle state to be selected, so in fact
it usually doesn't make sense to spin in it longer than the target
residency of the second state.  [Note that the "polling" state is
used only if there is at least one "real" state defined in addition
to it, so the second state is always there.]  On the other hand,
breaking out of it early (say in case the next state is disabled)
shouldn't hurt as it is polling anyway.

For this reason, make the loop in poll_idle() break if the CPU has
been spinning longer than the target residency of the second state
(the "polling" state can only be state[0]).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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If need_resched() returns "false", breaking out of the loop in
poll_idle() will cause a new idle state to be selected, so in fact
it usually doesn't make sense to spin in it longer than the target
residency of the second state.  [Note that the "polling" state is
used only if there is at least one "real" state defined in addition
to it, so the second state is always there.]  On the other hand,
breaking out of it early (say in case the next state is disabled)
shouldn't hurt as it is polling anyway.

For this reason, make the loop in poll_idle() break if the CPU has
been spinning longer than the target residency of the second state
(the "polling" state can only be state[0]).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuidle: menu: Move the latency_req == 0 special case check</title>
<updated>2018-10-04T17:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-02T21:47:43+00:00</published>
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It is better to always update data-&gt;bucket before returning from
menu_select() to avoid updating the correction factor for a stale
bucket, so combine the latency_req == 0 special check with the more
general check below.

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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It is better to always update data-&gt;bucket before returning from
menu_select() to avoid updating the correction factor for a stale
bucket, so combine the latency_req == 0 special check with the more
general check below.

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: menu: Avoid computations for very close timers</title>
<updated>2018-10-04T17:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-02T21:46:28+00:00</published>
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If the next timer event (not including the tick) is closer than the
target residency of the second state or the PM QoS latency constraint
is below its exit latency, state[0] will be used regardless of any
other factors, so skip the computations in menu_select() then and
return 0 straight away from it.

Still, do that after the bucket has been determined to avoid
updating the correction factor for a stale bucket.

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 next timer event (not including the tick) is closer than the
target residency of the second state or the PM QoS latency constraint
is below its exit latency, state[0] will be used regardless of any
other factors, so skip the computations in menu_select() then and
return 0 straight away from it.

Still, do that after the bucket has been determined to avoid
updating the correction factor for a stale bucket.

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: menu: Do not update last_state_idx in menu_select()</title>
<updated>2018-10-04T17:26:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-02T21:45:07+00:00</published>
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It is not necessary to update data-&gt;last_state_idx in menu_select()
as it only is used in menu_update() which only runs when
data-&gt;needs_update is set and that is set only when updating
data-&gt;last_state_idx in menu_reflect().

Accordingly, drop the update of data-&gt;last_state_idx from
menu_select() and get rid of the (now redundant) "out" label
from it.

No intentional behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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It is not necessary to update data-&gt;last_state_idx in menu_select()
as it only is used in menu_update() which only runs when
data-&gt;needs_update is set and that is set only when updating
data-&gt;last_state_idx in menu_reflect().

Accordingly, drop the update of data-&gt;last_state_idx from
menu_select() and get rid of the (now redundant) "out" label
from it.

No intentional behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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