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<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2014-02-06T00:01:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-06T00:01:11+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Bug-fixes:
   - Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping" as it
     broke Xen ARM build.
   - Fix CR4 not being set on AP processors in Xen PVH mode"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/pvh: set CR4 flags for APs
  Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping"
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Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Bug-fixes:
   - Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping" as it
     broke Xen ARM build.
   - Fix CR4 not being set on AP processors in Xen PVH mode"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/pvh: set CR4 flags for APs
  Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping"
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<entry>
<title>Revert "xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping"</title>
<updated>2014-02-03T11:44:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-03T11:43:59+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 08ece5bb2312b4510b161a6ef6682f37f4eac8a1.

As it breaks ARM builds and needs more attention
on the ARM side.

Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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This reverts commit 08ece5bb2312b4510b161a6ef6682f37f4eac8a1.

As it breaks ARM builds and needs more attention
on the ARM side.

Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T16:38:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T16:38:18+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Bug-fixes for the new features that were added during this cycle.

  There are also two fixes for long-standing issues for which we have a
  solution: grant-table operations extra work that was not needed
  causing performance issues and the self balloon code was too
  aggressive causing OOMs.

  Details:
   - Xen ARM couldn't use the new FIFO events
   - Xen ARM couldn't use the SWIOTLB if compiled as 32-bit with 64-bit PCIe devices.
   - Grant table were doing needless M2P operations.
   - Ratchet down the self-balloon code so it won't OOM.
   - Fix misplaced kfree in Xen PVH error code paths"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/pvh: Fix misplaced kfree from xlated_setup_gnttab_pages
  drivers: xen: deaggressive selfballoon driver
  xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping
  xen/gnttab: Use phys_addr_t to describe the grant frame base address
  xen: swiotlb: handle sizeof(dma_addr_t) != sizeof(phys_addr_t)
  arm/xen: Initialize event channels earlier
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Bug-fixes for the new features that were added during this cycle.

  There are also two fixes for long-standing issues for which we have a
  solution: grant-table operations extra work that was not needed
  causing performance issues and the self balloon code was too
  aggressive causing OOMs.

  Details:
   - Xen ARM couldn't use the new FIFO events
   - Xen ARM couldn't use the SWIOTLB if compiled as 32-bit with 64-bit PCIe devices.
   - Grant table were doing needless M2P operations.
   - Ratchet down the self-balloon code so it won't OOM.
   - Fix misplaced kfree in Xen PVH error code paths"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-late-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen/pvh: Fix misplaced kfree from xlated_setup_gnttab_pages
  drivers: xen: deaggressive selfballoon driver
  xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping
  xen/gnttab: Use phys_addr_t to describe the grant frame base address
  xen: swiotlb: handle sizeof(dma_addr_t) != sizeof(phys_addr_t)
  arm/xen: Initialize event channels earlier
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<entry>
<title>drivers: xen: deaggressive selfballoon driver</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T14:48:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bob Liu</name>
<email>lliubbo@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-22T06:57:44+00:00</published>
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Current xen-selfballoon driver is too aggressive which may cause OOM be
triggered more often. Eg. this bug reported by James:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/21/158

There are two mainly reasons:
1) The original goal_page didn't consider some pages used by kernel space, like
slab pages and pages used by device drivers.

2) The balloon driver may not give back memory to guest OS fast enough when the
workload suddenly aquries a lot of physical memory.

In both cases, the guest OS will suffer from memory pressure and OOM may
be triggered.

The fix is make xen-selfballoon driver not that aggressive by adding extra 10%
of total ram pages to goal_page.
It's more valuable to keep the guest system reliable and response faster than
balloon out these 10% pages to XEN.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Current xen-selfballoon driver is too aggressive which may cause OOM be
triggered more often. Eg. this bug reported by James:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/21/158

There are two mainly reasons:
1) The original goal_page didn't consider some pages used by kernel space, like
slab pages and pages used by device drivers.

2) The balloon driver may not give back memory to guest OS fast enough when the
workload suddenly aquries a lot of physical memory.

In both cases, the guest OS will suffer from memory pressure and OOM may
be triggered.

The fix is make xen-selfballoon driver not that aggressive by adding extra 10%
of total ram pages to goal_page.
It's more valuable to keep the guest system reliable and response faster than
balloon out these 10% pages to XEN.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override during mapping</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T14:48:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zoltan Kiss</name>
<email>zoltan.kiss@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T21:23:44+00:00</published>
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The grant mapping API does m2p_override unnecessarily: only gntdev needs it,
for blkback and future netback patches it just cause a lock contention, as
those pages never go to userspace. Therefore this series does the following:
- the original functions were renamed to __gnttab_[un]map_refs, with a new
  parameter m2p_override
- based on m2p_override either they follow the original behaviour, or just set
  the private flag and call set_phys_to_machine
- gnttab_[un]map_refs are now a wrapper to call __gnttab_[un]map_refs with
  m2p_override false
- a new function gnttab_[un]map_refs_userspace provides the old behaviour

It also removes a stray space from page.h and change ret to 0 if
XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap, as that is the only possible return value
there.

v2:
- move the storing of the old mfn in page-&gt;index to gnttab_map_refs
- move the function header update to a separate patch

v3:
- a new approach to retain old behaviour where it needed
- squash the patches into one

v4:
- move out the common bits from m2p* functions, and pass pfn/mfn as parameter
- clear page-&gt;private before doing anything with the page, so m2p_find_override
  won't race with this

v5:
- change return value handling in __gnttab_[un]map_refs
- remove a stray space in page.h
- add detail why ret = 0 now at some places

v6:
- don't pass pfn to m2p* functions, just get it locally

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss &lt;zoltan.kiss@citrix.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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The grant mapping API does m2p_override unnecessarily: only gntdev needs it,
for blkback and future netback patches it just cause a lock contention, as
those pages never go to userspace. Therefore this series does the following:
- the original functions were renamed to __gnttab_[un]map_refs, with a new
  parameter m2p_override
- based on m2p_override either they follow the original behaviour, or just set
  the private flag and call set_phys_to_machine
- gnttab_[un]map_refs are now a wrapper to call __gnttab_[un]map_refs with
  m2p_override false
- a new function gnttab_[un]map_refs_userspace provides the old behaviour

It also removes a stray space from page.h and change ret to 0 if
XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap, as that is the only possible return value
there.

v2:
- move the storing of the old mfn in page-&gt;index to gnttab_map_refs
- move the function header update to a separate patch

v3:
- a new approach to retain old behaviour where it needed
- squash the patches into one

v4:
- move out the common bits from m2p* functions, and pass pfn/mfn as parameter
- clear page-&gt;private before doing anything with the page, so m2p_find_override
  won't race with this

v5:
- change return value handling in __gnttab_[un]map_refs
- remove a stray space in page.h
- add detail why ret = 0 now at some places

v6:
- don't pass pfn to m2p* functions, just get it locally

Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss &lt;zoltan.kiss@citrix.com&gt;
Suggested-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen/gnttab: Use phys_addr_t to describe the grant frame base address</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T12:56:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Grall</name>
<email>julien.grall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T12:56:34+00:00</published>
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On ARM, address size can be 32 bits or 64 bits (if CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
is enabled).
We can't assume that the grant frame base address will always fits in an
unsigned long. Use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long as argument for
gnttab_setup_auto_xlat_frames.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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On ARM, address size can be 32 bits or 64 bits (if CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
is enabled).
We can't assume that the grant frame base address will always fits in an
unsigned long. Use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long as argument for
gnttab_setup_auto_xlat_frames.

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>xen: swiotlb: handle sizeof(dma_addr_t) != sizeof(phys_addr_t)</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T12:54:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Campbell</name>
<email>ian.campbell@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T11:30:41+00:00</published>
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The use of phys_to_machine and machine_to_phys in the phys&lt;=&gt;bus conversions
causes us to lose the top bits of the DMA address if the size of a DMA address is not the same as the size of the phyiscal address.

This can happen in practice on ARM where foreign pages can be above 4GB even
though the local kernel does not have LPAE page tables enabled (which is
totally reasonable if the guest does not itself have &gt;4GB of RAM). In this
case the kernel still maps the foreign pages at a phys addr below 4G (as it
must) but the resulting DMA address (returned by the grant map operation) is
much higher.

This is analogous to a hardware device which has its view of RAM mapped up
high for some reason.

This patch makes I/O to foreign pages (specifically blkif) work on 32-bit ARM
systems with more than 4GB of RAM.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
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The use of phys_to_machine and machine_to_phys in the phys&lt;=&gt;bus conversions
causes us to lose the top bits of the DMA address if the size of a DMA address is not the same as the size of the phyiscal address.

This can happen in practice on ARM where foreign pages can be above 4GB even
though the local kernel does not have LPAE page tables enabled (which is
totally reasonable if the guest does not itself have &gt;4GB of RAM). In this
case the kernel still maps the foreign pages at a phys addr below 4G (as it
must) but the resulting DMA address (returned by the grant map operation) is
much higher.

This is analogous to a hardware device which has its view of RAM mapped up
high for some reason.

This patch makes I/O to foreign pages (specifically blkif) work on 32-bit ARM
systems with more than 4GB of RAM.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell &lt;ian.campbell@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2014-01-24T23:51:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-24T23:51:02+00:00</published>
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "As far as the number of commits goes, the top spot belongs to ACPI
  this time with cpufreq in the second position and a handful of PM
  core, PNP and cpuidle updates.  They are fixes and cleanups mostly, as
  usual, with a couple of new features in the mix.

  The most visible change is probably that we will create struct
  acpi_device objects (visible in sysfs) for all devices represented in
  the ACPI tables regardless of their status and there will be a new
  sysfs attribute under those objects allowing user space to check that
  status via _STA.

  Consequently, ACPI device eject or generally hot-removal will not
  delete those objects, unless the table containing the corresponding
  namespace nodes is unloaded, which is extremely rare.  Also ACPI
  container hotplug will be handled quite a bit differently and cpufreq
  will support CPU boost ("turbo") generically and not only in the
  acpi-cpufreq driver.

  Specifics:

   - ACPI core changes to make it create a struct acpi_device object for
     every device represented in the ACPI tables during all namespace
     scans regardless of the current status of that device.  In
     accordance with this, ACPI hotplug operations will not delete those
     objects, unless the underlying ACPI tables go away.

   - On top of the above, new sysfs attribute for ACPI device objects
     allowing user space to check device status by triggering the
     execution of _STA for its ACPI object.  From Srinivas Pandruvada.

   - ACPI core hotplug changes reducing code duplication, integrating
     the PCI root hotplug with the core and reworking container hotplug.

   - ACPI core simplifications making it use ACPI_COMPANION() in the
     code "glueing" ACPI device objects to "physical" devices.

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20131218.  This adds support for
     the DBG2 and PCCT tables to ACPICA, fixes some bugs and improves
     debug facilities.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng and Betty Dall.

   - Init code change to carry out the early ACPI initialization
     earlier.  That should allow us to use ACPI during the timekeeping
     initialization and possibly to simplify the EFI initialization too.
     From Chun-Yi Lee.

   - Clenups of the inclusions of ACPI headers in many places all over
     from Lv Zheng and Rashika Kheria (work in progress).

   - New helper for ACPI _DSM execution and rework of the code in
     drivers that uses _DSM to execute it via the new helper.  From
     Jiang Liu.

   - New Win8 OSI blacklist entries from Takashi Iwai.

   - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Emil Goode, Hanjun
     Guo, Lan Tianyu, Masanari Iida, Oliver Neukum, Prarit Bhargava,
     Rashika Kheria, Tang Chen, Zhang Rui.

   - intel_pstate driver updates, including proper Baytrail support,
     from Dirk Brandewie and intel_pstate documentation from Ramkumar
     Ramachandra.

   - Generic CPU boost ("turbo") support for cpufreq from Lukasz
     Majewski.

   - powernow-k6 cpufreq driver fixes from Mikulas Patocka.

   - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jane Li, Mark
     Brown.

   - Assorted cpufreq drivers fixes and cleanups from Anson Huang, John
     Tobias, Paul Bolle, Paul Walmsley, Sachin Kamat, Shawn Guo, Viresh
     Kumar.

   - cpuidle cleanups from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.

   - Support for hibernation APM events from Bin Shi.

   - Hibernation fix to avoid bringing up nonboot CPUs with ACPI EC
     disabled during thaw transitions from Bjørn Mork.

   - PM core fixes and cleanups from Ben Dooks, Leonardo Potenza, Ulf
     Hansson.

   - PNP subsystem fixes and cleanups from Dmitry Torokhov, Levente
     Kurusa, Rashika Kheria.

   - New tool for profiling system suspend from Todd E Brandt and a
     cpupower tool cleanup from One Thousand Gnomes"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (153 commits)
  thermal: exynos: boost: Automatic enable/disable of BOOST feature (at Exynos4412)
  cpufreq: exynos4x12: Change L0 driver data to CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ
  Documentation: cpufreq / boost: Update BOOST documentation
  cpufreq: exynos: Extend Exynos cpufreq driver to support boost
  cpufreq / boost: Kconfig: Support for software-managed BOOST
  acpi-cpufreq: Adjust the code to use the common boost attribute
  cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
  intel_pstate: Add trace point to report internal state.
  cpufreq: introduce cpufreq_generic_get() routine
  ARM: SA1100: Create dummy clk_get_rate() to avoid build failures
  cpufreq: stats: create sysfs entries when cpufreq_stats is a module
  cpufreq: stats: free table and remove sysfs entry in a single routine
  cpufreq: stats: remove hotplug notifiers
  cpufreq: stats: handle cpufreq_unregister_driver() and suspend/resume properly
  cpufreq: speedstep: remove unused speedstep_get_state
  platform: introduce OF style 'modalias' support for platform bus
  PM / tools: new tool for suspend/resume performance optimization
  ACPI: fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: add module autoloading support for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: fix create_modalias() return value handling
  ...
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "As far as the number of commits goes, the top spot belongs to ACPI
  this time with cpufreq in the second position and a handful of PM
  core, PNP and cpuidle updates.  They are fixes and cleanups mostly, as
  usual, with a couple of new features in the mix.

  The most visible change is probably that we will create struct
  acpi_device objects (visible in sysfs) for all devices represented in
  the ACPI tables regardless of their status and there will be a new
  sysfs attribute under those objects allowing user space to check that
  status via _STA.

  Consequently, ACPI device eject or generally hot-removal will not
  delete those objects, unless the table containing the corresponding
  namespace nodes is unloaded, which is extremely rare.  Also ACPI
  container hotplug will be handled quite a bit differently and cpufreq
  will support CPU boost ("turbo") generically and not only in the
  acpi-cpufreq driver.

  Specifics:

   - ACPI core changes to make it create a struct acpi_device object for
     every device represented in the ACPI tables during all namespace
     scans regardless of the current status of that device.  In
     accordance with this, ACPI hotplug operations will not delete those
     objects, unless the underlying ACPI tables go away.

   - On top of the above, new sysfs attribute for ACPI device objects
     allowing user space to check device status by triggering the
     execution of _STA for its ACPI object.  From Srinivas Pandruvada.

   - ACPI core hotplug changes reducing code duplication, integrating
     the PCI root hotplug with the core and reworking container hotplug.

   - ACPI core simplifications making it use ACPI_COMPANION() in the
     code "glueing" ACPI device objects to "physical" devices.

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20131218.  This adds support for
     the DBG2 and PCCT tables to ACPICA, fixes some bugs and improves
     debug facilities.  From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng and Betty Dall.

   - Init code change to carry out the early ACPI initialization
     earlier.  That should allow us to use ACPI during the timekeeping
     initialization and possibly to simplify the EFI initialization too.
     From Chun-Yi Lee.

   - Clenups of the inclusions of ACPI headers in many places all over
     from Lv Zheng and Rashika Kheria (work in progress).

   - New helper for ACPI _DSM execution and rework of the code in
     drivers that uses _DSM to execute it via the new helper.  From
     Jiang Liu.

   - New Win8 OSI blacklist entries from Takashi Iwai.

   - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Al Stone, Emil Goode, Hanjun
     Guo, Lan Tianyu, Masanari Iida, Oliver Neukum, Prarit Bhargava,
     Rashika Kheria, Tang Chen, Zhang Rui.

   - intel_pstate driver updates, including proper Baytrail support,
     from Dirk Brandewie and intel_pstate documentation from Ramkumar
     Ramachandra.

   - Generic CPU boost ("turbo") support for cpufreq from Lukasz
     Majewski.

   - powernow-k6 cpufreq driver fixes from Mikulas Patocka.

   - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jane Li, Mark
     Brown.

   - Assorted cpufreq drivers fixes and cleanups from Anson Huang, John
     Tobias, Paul Bolle, Paul Walmsley, Sachin Kamat, Shawn Guo, Viresh
     Kumar.

   - cpuidle cleanups from Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.

   - Support for hibernation APM events from Bin Shi.

   - Hibernation fix to avoid bringing up nonboot CPUs with ACPI EC
     disabled during thaw transitions from Bjørn Mork.

   - PM core fixes and cleanups from Ben Dooks, Leonardo Potenza, Ulf
     Hansson.

   - PNP subsystem fixes and cleanups from Dmitry Torokhov, Levente
     Kurusa, Rashika Kheria.

   - New tool for profiling system suspend from Todd E Brandt and a
     cpupower tool cleanup from One Thousand Gnomes"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (153 commits)
  thermal: exynos: boost: Automatic enable/disable of BOOST feature (at Exynos4412)
  cpufreq: exynos4x12: Change L0 driver data to CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ
  Documentation: cpufreq / boost: Update BOOST documentation
  cpufreq: exynos: Extend Exynos cpufreq driver to support boost
  cpufreq / boost: Kconfig: Support for software-managed BOOST
  acpi-cpufreq: Adjust the code to use the common boost attribute
  cpufreq: Add boost frequency support in core
  intel_pstate: Add trace point to report internal state.
  cpufreq: introduce cpufreq_generic_get() routine
  ARM: SA1100: Create dummy clk_get_rate() to avoid build failures
  cpufreq: stats: create sysfs entries when cpufreq_stats is a module
  cpufreq: stats: free table and remove sysfs entry in a single routine
  cpufreq: stats: remove hotplug notifiers
  cpufreq: stats: handle cpufreq_unregister_driver() and suspend/resume properly
  cpufreq: speedstep: remove unused speedstep_get_state
  platform: introduce OF style 'modalias' support for platform bus
  PM / tools: new tool for suspend/resume performance optimization
  ACPI: fix module autoloading for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: add module autoloading support for ACPI enumerated devices
  ACPI: fix create_modalias() return value handling
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T06:00:18+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Two major features that Xen community is excited about:

  The first is event channel scalability by David Vrabel - we switch
  over from an two-level per-cpu bitmap of events (IRQs) - to an FIFO
  queue with priorities.  This lets us be able to handle more events,
  have lower latency, and better scalability.  Good stuff.

  The other is PVH by Mukesh Rathor.  In short, PV is a mode where the
  kernel lets the hypervisor program page-tables, segments, etc.  With
  EPT/NPT capabilities in current processors, the overhead of doing this
  in an HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) container is much lower than the
  hypervisor doing it for us.

  In short we let a PV guest run without doing page-table, segment,
  syscall, etc updates through the hypervisor - instead it is all done
  within the guest container.  It is a "hybrid" PV - hence the 'PVH'
  name - a PV guest within an HVM container.

  The major benefits are less code to deal with - for example we only
  use one function from the the pv_mmu_ops (which has 39 function
  calls); faster performance for syscall (no context switches into the
  hypervisor); less traps on various operations; etc.

  It is still being baked - the ABI is not yet set in stone.  But it is
  pretty awesome and we are excited about it.

  Lastly, there are some changes to ARM code - you should get a simple
  conflict which has been resolved in #linux-next.

  In short, this pull has awesome features.

  Features:
   - FIFO event channels.  Key advantages: support for over 100,000
     events (2^17), 16 different event priorities, improved fairness in
     event latency through the use of FIFOs.
   - Xen PVH support.  "It’s a fully PV kernel mode, running with
     paravirtualized disk and network, paravirtualized interrupts and
     timers, no emulated devices of any kind (and thus no qemu), no BIOS
     or legacy boot — but instead of requiring PV MMU, it uses the HVM
     hardware extensions to virtualize the pagetables, as well as system
     calls and other privileged operations." (from "The
     Paravirtualization Spectrum, Part 2: From poles to a spectrum")

  Bug-fixes:
   - Fixes in balloon driver (refactor and make it work under ARM)
   - Allow xenfb to be used in HVM guests.
   - Allow xen_platform_pci=0 to work properly.
   - Refactors in event channels"

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.14-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (52 commits)
  xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2)
  MAINTAINERS: add git repository for Xen
  xen/pvh: Use 'depend' instead of 'select'.
  xen: delete new instances of __cpuinit usage
  xen/fb: allow xenfb initialization for hvm guests
  xen/evtchn_fifo: fix error return code in evtchn_fifo_setup()
  xen-platform: fix error return code in platform_pci_init()
  xen/pvh: remove duplicated include from enlighten.c
  xen/pvh: Fix compile issues with xen_pvh_domain()
  xen: Use dev_is_pci() to check whether it is pci device
  xen/grant-table: Force to use v1 of grants.
  xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3).
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM XenBus.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for grant driver (v4)
  xen/grant: Implement an grant frame array struct (v3).
  xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_init
  xen/grants: Remove gnttab_max_grant_frames dependency on gnttab_init.
  xen/pvh: Piggyback on PVHVM for event channels (v2)
  xen/pvh: Update E820 to work with PVH (v2)
  xen/pvh: Secondary VCPU bringup (non-bootup CPUs)
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T05:21:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T05:21:55+00:00</published>
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<id>bb1281f2aae08e5ef23eb0692c8833e95579cdf2</id>
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Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  neighbour.h: fix comment
  sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
  slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
  doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
  of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
  mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
  lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
  thermal: rcar: comment spelling
  treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
  IXP4xx: remove '1 &amp;&amp;' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
  Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
  Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
  arm: fix comment header and macro name
  asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
  mtd: onenand: fix comment header
  doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
  drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
  doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -&gt; access_process_vm)
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
  ...
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<pre>
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  neighbour.h: fix comment
  sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
  slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
  doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
  of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
  mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
  lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
  thermal: rcar: comment spelling
  treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
  IXP4xx: remove '1 &amp;&amp;' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
  Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
  Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
  arm: fix comment header and macro name
  asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
  mtd: onenand: fix comment header
  doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
  drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
  doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -&gt; access_process_vm)
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
  ...
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