[GIT PULL] More power management updates for v4.9-rc1

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Oct 14 2016 - 09:27:23 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull from the tag

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git \
pm-extra-4.9-rc1

with top-most commit 383731d98e768e15f4a8d69ae87957b933323ed7

Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-devfreq'

on top of commit 08895a8b6b06ed2323cd97a36ee40a116b3db8ed

Merge tag 'pm-4.9-rc1' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

to receive additional power management updates for v4.9-rc1.

This includes a couple of fixes for cpufreq regressions introduced
in 4.8, a rework of the intel_pstate algorithm used on Atom processors
(that took some time to test) plus a fix and a couple of cleanups in
that driver, a CPPC cpufreq driver fix, and a some devfreq fixes and
cleanups (core and exynos-nocp).

Specifics:

- Fix two cpufreq regressions causing undesirable changes in
behavior to appear (one in the core and one in the conservative
governor) introduced during the 4.8 cycle (Aaro Koskinen, Rafael
Wysocki).

- Fix the way the intel_pstate driver accesses MSRs related to the
hardware-managed P-states (HWP) feature during the initialization
which currently is unsafe and may cause the processor to generate
a general protection fault (Srinivas Pandruvada).

- Rework the intel_pstate's P-state selection algorithm used on Atom
processors to avoid known problems with the current one and to
make the computation more straightforward, which also happens to
improve performance in multiple benchmarks a bit (Rafael Wysocki).

- Improve two comments in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki).

- Fix the desired performance computation in the CPPC cpufreq driver
(Hoan Tran).

- Fix the devfreq core to avoid printing misleading error messages
in some cases (Tobias Jakobi).

- Fix the error code path in devfreq_add_device() to use proper
locking around list modifications (Axel Lin).

- Fix a build failure and remove a couple of redundant updates of
variables in the exynos-nocp devfreq driver (Axel Lin).

Thanks!

---------------

Aaro Koskinen (1):
cpufreq: skip invalid entries when searching the frequency

Axel Lin (3):
PM / devfreq: exynos-nocp: Select REGMAP_MMIO
PM / devfreq: exynos-nocp: Remove redundant code
PM / devfreq: Add proper locking around list_del()

Hoan Tran (1):
cpufreq: CPPC: Correct desired_perf calculation

Rafael J. Wysocki (4):
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clarify comment in
get_target_pstate_use_performance()
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Proportional algorithm for Atom
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix struct pstate_adjust_policy kerneldoc
cpufreq: conservative: Fix next frequency selection

Srinivas Pandruvada (1):
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix unsafe HWP MSR access

Tobias Jakobi (1):
PM / devfreq: Skip status update on uninitialized previous_freq

---------------

drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 8 ++-
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c | 19 +++++-
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 43 ++++++++++----
drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 8 ++-
drivers/devfreq/event/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/devfreq/event/exynos-nocp.c | 3 -
include/linux/cpufreq.h | 104 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
7 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)