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* acpi-button:
ACPI / button: Add document for ACPI control method lid device restrictions
ACPI / button: Fix an issue in button.lid_init_state=ignore mode
* acpi-battery:
ACPI / battery: Add sysfs representation after checking _BST
* acpi-doc:
ACPI / documentation: Use recommended name in GPIO property names
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The recommended property name for all kinds of GPIOs is to end it with
"-gpios" even if there is only one GPIO. Update the documentation to follow
this fact.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This patch adds documentation for the usage model of the control method lid
device on some buggy platforms.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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* acpi-bus:
ACPI / bus: Support for platform initiated graceful shutdown
ACPI / bus: Correct the comments about acpi_subsystem_init()
ACPI / bus: Use acpi_handle_debug() in acpi_print_osc_error()
* acpi-pci:
ACPI / PCI: make pci_slot explicitly non-modular
ACPI / PCI: pci_slot: Use generic pr_debug utility
ACPI / PCI: pci_slot: Use more common logging style
* acpica:
ACPICA: Linux: Enable ACPI_MUTEX_DEBUG for Linux kernel
* acpi-doc:
ACPI / debugger: Add AML debugger documentation
ACPI: Add documentation describing ACPICA release automation
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This patch documents the AML debugger.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
[ rjw: Editorial changes ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This patch documents the ACPICA release automation.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
[ rjw: Editorial changes ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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New tables can be loaded by creating directories under /config/table/
and writing the AML code into the aml table attribute. Various table
attributes will be readable once the table is successfully loaded.
Unloading tables is not supported at the moment, but it can be easily
implemented once ACPI loading functions provide a table handle to be
used for unloading.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This patch allows SSDTs to be loaded from EFI variables. It works by
specifying the EFI variable name containing the SSDT to be loaded. All
variables with the same name (regardless of the vendor GUID) will be
loaded.
Note that we can't use acpi_install_table and we must rely on the
dynamic ACPI table loading and bus re-scanning mechanisms. That is
because I2C/SPI controllers are initialized earlier then the EFI
subsystems and all I2C/SPI ACPI devices are enumerated when the
I2C/SPI controllers are initialized.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This patch converts the initrd table override mechanism to the table
upgrade mechanism by restricting its usage to the tables released with
compatibility and more recent revision.
This use case has been encouraged by the ACPI specification:
1. OEMID:
An OEM-supplied string that identifies the OEM.
2. OEM Table ID:
An OEM-supplied string that the OEM uses to identify the particular data
table. This field is particularly useful when defining a definition
block to distinguish definition block functions. OEM assigns each
dissimilar table a new OEM Table Id.
3. OEM Revision:
An OEM-supplied revision number. Larger numbers are assumed to be newer
revisions.
For OEMs, good practices will ensure consistency when assigning OEMID and
OEM Table ID fields in any table. The intent of these fields is to allow
for a binary control system that support services can use. Because many
support function can be automated, it is useful when a tool can
programatically determine which table release is a compatible and more
recent revision of a prior table on the same OEMID and OEM Table ID.
The facility can now be used by the vendors to upgrade wrong tables for bug
fixing purpose, thus lockdep disabling taint is not suitable for it and it
should be a default 'y' option to implement the spec encouraged use case.
Note that, by implementing table upgrade inside of ACPICA itself, it is
possible to remove acpi_table_initrd_override() and tables can be upgraded
by acpi_install_table() automatically. Though current ACPICA impelentation
hasn't implemented this, this patched changes the table flag setting timing
to allow this to be implemented in ACPICA without changing the code here.
Documentation of initrd override mechanism is upgraded accordingly.
Original-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Although I2C mux devices are easily enumerated using ACPI (_HID/_CID or
device property compatible string match), enumerating I2C client devices
connected through an I2C mux needs a little extra work.
This change implements a method for describing an I2C device hierarchy that
includes mux devices by using an ACPI Device() for each mux channel along
with an _ADR to set the channel number for the device. See
Documentation/acpi/i2c-muxes.txt for a simple example.
To make this work the ismt, i801, and designware pci/platform devs now
share an ACPI companion with their I2C adapter dev similar to how it's done
in OF. This is done on the assumption that power management functions will
not be called directly on the I2C dev that is sharing the ACPI node.
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dustin Byford <dustin@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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There is at least one board on the market, i.e. Intel Galileo Gen2, that uses
_ADR to distinguish the devices under one actual device. Due to this we have to
improve the quirk in the MFD core to handle that board.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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This patch updates method tracing documentation.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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ACPI device ID arrays normally don't need to be written to as they're
only ever read. The common usage -- embedding pointers to acpi_device_id
arrays in other data structures -- reference them as 'const', e.g. as in
struct acpi_driver / acpi_scan_handler / device_driver. The matchers are
taking const pointers, too. So it's only natural, to propose using const
arrays. Change the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Document how the ACPI device enumeration code uses the special
PRP0001 device ID.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
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The first paragraph in Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt is
ambiguous, so make it more clear.
Reported-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
Acked-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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The sentence "These resources are used be used to pass ..." contains
a suspicious repetition, likely the author meant "These resources can
be used to pass ...".
Simplify the wording.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These are mostly fixes and cleanups all over, although there are a few
items that sort of fall into the new feature category.
First off, we have new callbacks for PM domains that should help us to
handle some issues related to device initialization in a better way.
There also is some consolidation in the unified device properties API
area allowing us to use that inferface for accessing data coming from
platform initialization code in addition to firmware-provided data.
We have some new device/CPU IDs in a few drivers, support for new
chips and a new cpufreq driver too.
Specifics:
- Generic PM domains support update including new PM domain callbacks
to handle device initialization better (Russell King, Rafael J
Wysocki, Kevin Hilman)
- Unified device properties API update including a new mechanism for
accessing data provided by platform initialization code (Rafael J
Wysocki, Adrian Hunter)
- ARM cpuidle update including ARM32/ARM64 handling consolidation
(Daniel Lezcano)
- intel_idle update including support for the Silvermont Core in the
Baytrail SOC and for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and
Braswell SOCs (Len Brown, Mathias Krause)
- New cpufreq driver for Hisilicon ACPU (Leo Yan)
- intel_pstate update including support for the Knights Landing chip
(Dasaratharaman Chandramouli, Kristen Carlson Accardi)
- QorIQ cpufreq driver update (Tang Yuantian, Arnd Bergmann)
- powernv cpufreq driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat)
- devfreq update including Tegra support changes (Tomeu Vizoso,
MyungJoo Ham, Chanwoo Choi)
- powercap RAPL (Running-Average Power Limit) driver update including
support for Intel Broadwell server chips (Jacob Pan, Mathias Krause)
- ACPI device enumeration update related to the handling of the
special PRP0001 device ID allowing DT-style 'compatible' property
to be used for ACPI device identification (Rafael J Wysocki)
- ACPI EC driver update including limited _DEP support (Lan Tianyu,
Lv Zheng)
- ACPI backlight driver update including a new mechanism to allow
native backlight handling to be forced on non-Windows 8 systems and
a new quirk for Lenovo Ideapad Z570 (Aaron Lu, Hans de Goede)
- New Windows Vista compatibility quirk for Sony VGN-SR19XN (Chen Yu)
- Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups (Aaron Lu, Martin Kepplinger,
Masanari Iida, Mika Westerberg, Nan Li, Rafael J Wysocki)
- Fixes related to suspend-to-idle for the iTCO watchdog driver and
the ACPI core system suspend/resume code (Rafael J Wysocki, Chen Yu)
- PM tracing support for the suspend phase of system suspend/resume
transitions (Zhonghui Fu)
- Configurable delay for the system suspend/resume testing facility
(Brian Norris)
- PNP subsystem cleanups (Peter Huewe, Rafael J Wysocki)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (74 commits)
ACPI / scan: Fix NULL pointer dereference in acpi_companion_match()
ACPI / scan: Rework modalias creation when "compatible" is present
intel_idle: mark cpu id array as __initconst
powercap / RAPL: mark rapl_ids array as __initconst
powercap / RAPL: add ID for Broadwell server
intel_pstate: Knights Landing support
intel_pstate: remove MSR test
cpufreq: fix qoriq uniprocessor build
ACPI / scan: Take the PRP0001 position in the list of IDs into account
ACPI / scan: Simplify acpi_match_device()
ACPI / scan: Generalize of_compatible matching
device property: Introduce firmware node type for platform data
device property: Make it possible to use secondary firmware nodes
PM / watchdog: iTCO: stop watchdog during system suspend
cpufreq: hisilicon: add acpu driver
ACPI / EC: Call acpi_walk_dep_device_list() after installing EC opregion handler
cpufreq: powernv: Report cpu frequency throttling
intel_idle: Add support for the Airmont Core in the Cherrytrail and Braswell SOCs
intel_idle: Update support for Silvermont Core in Baytrail SOC
PM / devfreq: tegra: Register governor on module init
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 RAS changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Simplify the CMCI storm logic on Intel CPUs after yet another
report about a race in the code (Borislav Petkov)
- Enable the MCE threshold irq on AMD CPUs by default (Aravind
Gopalakrishnan)
- Add AMD-specific MCE-severity grading function. Further error
recovery actions will be based on its output (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)
- Documentation updates (Borislav Petkov)
- ... assorted fixes and cleanups"
* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mce/severity: Fix warning about indented braces
x86/mce: Define mce_severity function pointer
x86/mce: Add an AMD severities-grading function
x86/mce: Reindent __mcheck_cpu_apply_quirks() properly
x86/mce: Use safe MSR accesses for AMD quirk
x86/MCE/AMD: Enable thresholding interrupts by default if supported
x86/MCE: Make mce_panic() fatal machine check msg in the same pattern
x86/MCE/intel: Cleanup CMCI storm logic
Documentation/acpi/einj: Correct and streamline text
x86/MCE/AMD: Drop bogus const modifier from AMD's bank4_names()
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Make sure that the ACPI enumeration.txt provides latest information on how
to describe and retrieve GPIOs now that we can take advantage of _DSD
device properties.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Streamline and simplify formulations, improve formatting and extend the
injection example in the error injection write up for users which we
carry in Documentation/.
Add a paragraph about checking for EINJ support and expand the ACPI5.0
memory errors section, as requested by Tony.
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422553845-30717-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Document the previously introduced method that can be used by device
drivers to provide the GPIO subsystem with mappings between GPIO names
(connection IDs) and GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources in _CRS.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
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With release of ACPI 5.1 and _DSD method we can finally name GPIOs (and
other things as well) returned by _CRS. Previously we were only able to
use integer index to find the corresponding GPIO, which is pretty error
prone if the order changes.
With _DSD we can now query GPIOs using name instead of an integer index,
like the below example shows:
// Bluetooth device with reset and shutdown GPIOs
Device (BTH)
{
Name (_HID, ...)
Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
{
GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionInputOnly,
"\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {15}
GpioIo (Exclusive, PullUp, 0, 0, IoRestrictionInputOnly,
"\\_SB.GPO0", 0, ResourceConsumer) {27, 31}
})
Name (_DSD, Package ()
{
ToUUID("daffd814-6eba-4d8c-8a91-bc9bbf4aa301"),
Package ()
{
Package () {"reset-gpio", Package() {^BTH, 1, 1, 0 }},
Package () {"shutdown-gpio", Package() {^BTH, 0, 0, 0 }},
}
})
}
The format of the supported GPIO property is:
Package () { "name", Package () { ref, index, pin, active_low }}
ref - The device that has _CRS containing GpioIo()/GpioInt() resources,
typically this is the device itself (BTH in our case).
index - Index of the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource in _CRS starting from zero.
pin - Pin in the GpioIo()/GpioInt() resource. Typically this is zero.
active_low - If 1 the GPIO is marked as active_low.
Since ACPI GpioIo() resource does not have field saying whether it is
active low or high, the "active_low" argument can be used here. Setting
it to 1 marks the GPIO as active low.
In our Bluetooth example the "reset-gpio" refers to the second GpioIo()
resource, second pin in that resource with the GPIO number of 31.
This patch implements necessary support to gpiolib for extracting GPIOs
using _DSD device properties.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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If an MFD device is backed by ACPI namespace, we should allow subdevice
drivers to access their corresponding ACPI companion devices through normal
means (e.g using ACPI_COMPANION()).
This patch adds such support to the MFD core. If the MFD parent device
does not specify any ACPI _HID/_CID for the child device, the child
device will share the parent ACPI companion device. Otherwise the child
device will be assigned with the corresponding ACPI companion, if found
in the namespace below the parent.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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enumeration.txt
As of:
4845934 ACPI / scan: use platform bus type by default for _HID enumeration
ACPI uses the platform bus by default, changing the opt-in to an opt-out
policy, eliminating the acpi_platform_device_ids table and replacing it
with forbidden_id_list[].
Remove the qualifying paragraph from the acpi/enumeration documentation
as it no longer applies.
Reported-by: Max Eliaser <max@meliaserlow.dyndns.tv>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation: gpiolib: document new interface")
moved Documentation/gpio.txt to Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt and added
new documents for descriptor-based interface so fix the the location here to
point Documentation/gpio/ since that what commit ccb6fbb99020
("Documentation / ACPI: update to GPIO descriptor API") was looking for.
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
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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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio
Pull GPIO tree bulk changes from Linus Walleij:
"A big set this merge window, as we have much going on in this
subsystem. The changes to other subsystems (notably a slew of ARM
machines as I am doing away with their custom APIs) have all been
ACKed to the extent possible.
Major changes this time:
- Some core improvements and cleanups to the new GPIO descriptor API.
This seems to be working now so we can start the exodus to this
API, moving gradually away from the global GPIO numberspace.
- Incremental improvements to the ACPI GPIO core, and move the few
GPIO ACPI clients we have to the GPIO descriptor API right *now*
before we go any further. We actually managed to contain this
*before* we started to litter the kernel with yet another hackish
global numberspace for the ACPI GPIOs, which is a big win.
- The RFkill GPIO driver and all platforms using it have been
migrated to use the GPIO descriptors rather than fixed number
assignments. Tegra machine has been migrated as part of this.
- New drivers for MOXA ART, Xtensa GPIO32 and SMSC SCH311x. Those
should be really good examples of how I expect a nice GPIO driver
to look these days.
- Do away with custom GPIO implementations on a major part of the ARM
machines: ks8695, lpc32xx, mv78xx0. Make a first step towards the
same in the horribly convoluted Samsung S3C include forest. We
expect to continue to clean this up as we move forward.
- Flag GPIO lines used for IRQ on adnp, bcm-kona, em, intel-mid and
lynxpoint.
This makes the GPIOlib core aware that a certain GPIO line is used
for IRQs and can then enforce some semantics such as disallowing a
GPIO line marked as in use for IRQ to be switched to output mode.
- Drop all use of irq_set_chip_and_handler_name(). The name provided
in these cases were just unhelpful tags like "mux" or "demux".
- Extend the MCP23s08 driver to handle interrupts.
- Minor incremental improvements for rcar, lynxpoint, em 74x164 and
msm drivers.
- Some non-urgent bug fixes here and there, duplicate #includes and
that usual kind of cleanups"
Fix up broken Kconfig file manually to make this all compile.
* tag 'gpio-v3.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (71 commits)
gpio: mcp23s08: fix casting caused build warning
gpio: mcp23s08: depend on OF_GPIO
gpio: mcp23s08: Add irq functionality for i2c chips
ARM: S5P[v210|c100|64x0]: Fix build error
gpio: pxa: clamp gpio get value to [0,1]
ARM: s3c24xx: explicit dependency on <plat/gpio-cfg.h>
ARM: S3C[24|64]xx: move includes back under <mach/> scope
Documentation / ACPI: update to GPIO descriptor API
gpio / ACPI: get rid of acpi_gpio.h
gpio / ACPI: register to ACPI events automatically
mmc: sdhci-acpi: convert to use GPIO descriptor API
ARM: s3c24xx: fix build error
gpio: f7188x: set can_sleep attribute
gpio: samsung: Update documentation
gpio: samsung: Remove hardware.h inclusion
gpio: xtensa: depend on HAVE_XTENSA_GPIO32
gpio: clps711x: Enable driver compilation with COMPILE_TEST
gpio: clps711x: Use of_match_ptr()
net: rfkill: gpio: convert to descriptor-based GPIO interface
leds: s3c24xx: Fix build failure
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Update the documentation also to reflect the fact that there are no ACPI
specific GPIO interfaces anymore but drivers should instead use the
descriptor based GPIO APIs.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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When I added support for ACPI5 I made the assumption that
injected processor errors would just need to know the APICID,
memory errors just the address and mask, and PCIe errors just the
segment/bus/device/function. So I had the code check the type of injection
and multiplex the "param1" value appropriately.
This was not a good assumption :-(
There are injection scenarios where we need to specify more than one of
these items. E.g. injecting a cache error we need to specify an APICID
of the cpu that owns the cache, and also an address (so that we can trip
the error by accessing the address).
Add a "flags" file to give the user direct access to specify which items
are valid in the ACPI SET_ERROR_TYPE_WITH_ADDRESS structure. Also add
new files param3 and param4 to hold all these values.
For backwards compatability with old injection scripts we maintain the
old behaviour if flags remains set at zero (or is reset to 0).
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Modify the ACPI namespace scanning code to register a struct
acpi_device object for every namespace node representing a device,
processor and so on, even if the device represented by that namespace
node is reported to be not present and not functional by _STA.
There are multiple reasons to do that. First of all, it avoids
quite a lot of overhead when struct acpi_device objects are
deleted every time acpi_bus_trim() is run and then added again
by a subsequent acpi_bus_scan() for the same scope, although the
namespace objects they correspond to stay in memory all the time
(which always is the case on a vast majority of systems).
Second, it will allow user space to see that there are namespace
nodes representing devices that are not present at the moment and may
be added to the system. It will also allow user space to evaluate
_SUN for those nodes to check what physical slots the "missing"
devices may be put into and it will make sense to add a sysfs
attribute for _STA evaluation after this change (that will be
useful for thermal management on some systems).
Next, it will help to consolidate the ACPI hotplug handling among
subsystems by making it possible to store hotplug-related information
in struct acpi_device objects in a standard common way.
Finally, it will help to avoid a race condition related to the
deletion of ACPI namespace nodes. Namely, namespace nodes may be
deleted as a result of a table unload triggered by _EJ0 or _DCK.
If a hotplug notification for one of those nodes is triggered
right before the deletion and it executes a hotplug callback
via acpi_hotplug_execute(), the ACPI handle passed to that
callback may be stale when the callback actually runs. One way
to work around that is to always pass struct acpi_device pointers
to hotplug callbacks after doing a get_device() on the objects in
question which eliminates the use-after-free possibility (the ACPI
handles in those objects are invalidated by acpi_scan_drop_device(),
so they will trigger ACPICA errors on attempts to use them).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
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In addition to the existing ACPI specific GPIO interface, document the new
descriptor based GPIO interface in Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt, so
it is clear that this new interface is preferred over the ACPI specific
version.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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Some links to projects web pages and e-mail addresses in ACPI/PM
documentation and Kconfig are outdated, so update them.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
documentation updates"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
zram: doc fixes
Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
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This follows what has already been done for the DeviceTree helpers. Move
the ACPI helpers from drivers/acpi/acpi_i2c.c to the I2C core and update
documentation accordingly.
This also solves a problem reported by Jerry Snitselaar that we can't build
the ACPI I2C helpers as a module.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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I2C of helpers used to live in of_i2c.c but experience (from SPI) shows
that it is much cleaner to have this in the core. This also removes a
circular dependency between the helpers and the core, and so we can
finally register child nodes in the core instead of doing this manually
in each driver. So, fix the drivers and documentation, too.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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Corrected the word configation to configuration.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Huber <steffhip@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schid <aircrach115@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Puels <simon.puels@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
remains the most active patch submitter.
To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code. Next are the
freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
tasks a bit less heavy weight.
We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
and a bunch of cleanups all over.
Highlights:
- Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.
It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely. For example,
if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
hot-removal. Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
alternative and it had to be addressed.
However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
processor driver. It's been split into two parts, a resident one
handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
processors). That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
patient who's riding a bike.
So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
(a month ago), nobody has complained.
As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
code.
- Lighter weight freezing of tasks.
These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
operation. They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
to call refrigerator(). The time needed for the freezer to decide
to report a failure is reduced too.
Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).
- cpufreq updates
First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume. The
fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
has identified the root cause.
Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
related_cpus. From Lan Tianyu.
Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
up some code. The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.
- ACPICA update
A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.
During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
to use them without checking that bit. That caused suspend/resume
regressions to happen on some systems. Fix from Lv Zheng causes
those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.
Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
Zhang Rui.
- cpuidle updates
New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.
Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
Lezcano.
- ACPI power management updates
Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
routine.
- ACPI documentation updates
Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
updated by Hanjun Guo.
- Assorted ACPI updates
We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
the core.
A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
fixed on some systems.
A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
Mika Westerberg.
The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value. From
Jeff Wu.
Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.
The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.
Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
Kani.
- Assorted power management updates
The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
necessary any more after that modification).
The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
the "runtime idle" behavior change).
New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
(<keun-o.park@windriver.com>).
PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.
Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.
- devfreq updates
New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.
Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.
- OMAP power management updates
Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs->cur_policy
acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
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The ACPI video driver has changed a lot, and it doesn't export
interfaces in /proc any more, so the documentation for it should
be updated.
This update focuses on ACPI video driver's backlight control.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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ACPI video driver is written according to ACPI spec, appendix B: Video
Extensions. So it better be put under the acpi directory instead of the
power directory. This patch moves the file there without any other
change.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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ACPI is implemented as a subsystem in Linux, it creates a device tree by
mapping specific ACPI namespace objects
(Device/Processor/PowerResource/ThermalZone) into Linux device objects.
This patch adds documentation for the ACPI device tree.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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To ensure EINJ working well when injecting errors via EINJ
table, add some restrictions: param1 must be a valid physical
RAM address and param2 must specify page granularity or
narrower.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Pull slave-dmaengine updates from Vinod Koul:
"This time we have dmatest improvements from Andy along with dw_dmac
fixes. He has also done support for acpi for dmanegine.
Also we have bunch of fixes going in DT support for dmanegine for
various folks. Then Haswell and other ioat changes from Dave and
SUDMAC support from Shimoda."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma: (53 commits)
dma: tegra: implement suspend/resume callbacks
dma:of: Use a mutex to protect the of_dma_list
dma: of: Fix of_node reference leak
dmaengine: sirf: move driver init from module_init to subsys_initcall
sudmac: add support for SUDMAC
dma: sh: add Kconfig
at_hdmac: move to generic DMA binding
ioatdma: ioat3_alloc_sed can be static
ioatdma: Adding write back descriptor error status support for ioatdma 3.3
ioatdma: S1200 platforms ioatdma channel 2 and 3 falsely advertise RAID cap
ioatdma: Adding support for 16 src PQ ops and super extended descriptors
ioatdma: Removing hw bug workaround for CB3.x .2 and earlier
dw_dmac: add ACPI support
dmaengine: call acpi_dma_request_slave_channel as well
dma: acpi-dma: introduce ACPI DMA helpers
dma: of: Remove unnecessary list_empty check
DMA: OF: Check properties value before running be32_to_cpup() on it
DMA: of: Constant names
ioatdma: skip silicon bug workaround for pq_align for cb3.3
ioatdma: Removing PQ val disable for cb3.3
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There is a new generic API to get a DMA channel for a slave device (commit
9a6cecc8 "dmaengine: add helper function to request a slave DMA channel"). In
similar fashion to the DT case (commit aa3da644 "of: Add generic device tree
DMA helpers") we introduce helpers to the DMAC drivers which are enumerated by
ACPI.
The proposed extension provides the following API calls:
acpi_dma_controller_register(), devm_acpi_dma_controller_register()
acpi_dma_controller_free(), devm_acpi_dma_controller_free()
acpi_dma_simple_xlate()
acpi_dma_request_slave_chan_by_index()
acpi_dma_request_slave_chan_by_name()
The first two should be used, for example, at probe() and remove() of the
corresponding DMAC driver. At the register stage the DMAC driver supplies a
custom xlate() function to translate a struct dma_spec into struct dma_chan.
Accordingly to the ACPI Fixed DMA resource specification the only two pieces of
information the slave device has are the channel id and the request line (slave
id). Those two are represented by struct dma_spec. The
acpi_dma_request_slave_chan_by_index() provides access to the specifix FixedDMA
resource by its index. Whereas dma_request_slave_channel() takes a string
parameter to identify the DMA resources required by the slave device. To make a
slave device driver work with both DeviceTree and ACPI enumeration a simple
convention is established: "tx" corresponds to the index 0 and "rx" to the
index 1. In case of robust configuration the slave device driver unfortunately
needs to call acpi_dma_request_slave_chan_by_index() directly.
Additionally the patch provides "managed" version of the register/free pair
i.e. devm_acpi_dma_controller_register() and devm_acpi_dma_controller_free().
Usually, the driver uses only devm_acpi_dma_controller_register().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
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Instead of open-coding ACPI GPIO resource lookup in each driver, we provide
a helper function analogous to Device Tree version that allows drivers to
specify which GPIO resource they are interested (using an index to the GPIO
resources). The function then finds out the correct resource, translates
the ACPI GPIO number to the corresponding Linux GPIO number and returns
that.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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When the ACPI platform device code was converted to the new ACPI scan
handler facility, the the acpi_platform_device_ids[] was moved to
drivers/acpi/acpi_platform.c. Update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Introduce struct acpi_scan_handler for representing objects that
will do configuration tasks depending on ACPI device nodes'
hardware IDs (HIDs).
Currently, those tasks are done either directly by the ACPI namespace
scanning code or by ACPI device drivers designed specifically for
this purpose. None of the above is desirable, however, because
doing that directly in the namespace scanning code makes that code
overly complicated and difficult to follow and doing that in
"special" device drivers leads to a great deal of confusion about
their role and to confusing interactions with the driver core (for
example, sysfs directories are created for those drivers, but they
are completely unnecessary and only increase the kernel's memory
footprint in vain).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
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CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option. As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.
This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
__devinitconst, and __devexit from the kernel documentation.
Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.
Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 ACPI update from Peter Anvin:
"This is a patchset which didn't make the last merge window. It adds a
debugging capability to feed ACPI tables via the initramfs.
On a grander scope, it formalizes using the initramfs protocol for
feeding arbitrary blobs which need to be accessed early to the kernel:
they are fed first in the initramfs blob (lots of bootloaders can
concatenate this at boot time, others can use a single file) in an
uncompressed cpio archive using filenames starting with "kernel/".
The ACPI maintainers requested that this patchset be fed via the x86
tree rather than the ACPI tree as the footprint in the general x86
code is much bigger than in the ACPI code proper."
* 'x86-acpi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
X86 ACPI: Use #ifdef not #if for CONFIG_X86 check
ACPI: Fix build when disabled
ACPI: Document ACPI table overriding via initrd
ACPI: Create acpi_table_taint() function to avoid code duplication
ACPI: Implement physical address table override
ACPI: Store valid ACPI tables passed via early initrd in reserved memblock areas
x86, acpi: Introduce x86 arch specific arch_reserve_mem_area() for e820 handling
lib: Add early cpio decoder
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