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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-02 00:13:28 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-05-02 00:13:28 +0300
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Merge tag 'acpi-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These are some device enumeration code changes, updates of the AC and battery drivers to help them avoid attaching to devices that cannot be handled by them, new operation region driver for the Intel CHT Whiskey Cove PMIC, new sysfs entries for CPPC performance capabilities, a new _REV quirk blacklist entry and a couple of assorted minor fixes and cleanups. Specifics: - Update the core device enumeration code to make it more internally consistent and robust and drop the force_remove sysfs attribute that could be used to tell it to ignore errors on device hot-removal which was dangerous in general and no real and still relevant use cases for it could be found (Rafael Wysocki, Michal Hocko). - Make the core device enumeration code use _PXM to associate platform devices created by it with specific NUMA nodes (Shanker Donthineni). - Extend the CPPC library by adding more sysfs entries for performance capabilities to it and making it use the lowest nonlinear performance parameter (Prashanth Prakash). - Make the CPU online more consistent with CPU initialization in the ACPI processor driver (Prashanth Prakash). - Update the AC and battery drivers to help them avoid attaching to devices that cannot be handled by them and update the axp288_charger power supply driver to work correctly on ACPI systems without the INT3496 device (Hans de Goede). - Add an ACPI operation region driver for the Intel CHT Whiskey Cove PMIC and update the xpower operation region driver to work without IIO which isn't really necessary for it to work (Hans de Goede). - Add a new entry for Dell Inspiron 7537 to the _REV quirk blacklist (Kai Heng Feng). - Make the code in the ACPI video driver easier to follow by adding symbols and comments to it (Dmitry Frank). - Update ACPI documentation and drop a function that has no users from the tables-handling code (Cao jin, Baoquan He)" * tag 'acpi-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: ACPI / PMIC: Stop xpower OPRegion handler relying on IIO ACPI / PMIC: Add opregion driver for Intel CHT Whiskey Cove PMIC ACPI / scan: Avoid enumerating devices more than once ACPI / scan: Apply default enumeration to devices with ACPI drivers power: supply: axp288_charger: Only wait for INT3496 device if present ACPI / AC: Add a blacklist with PMIC ACPI HIDs with a native charger driver ACPI / battery: Add a blacklist with PMIC ACPI HIDs with a native battery driver ACPI / battery: Fix acpi_battery_exit on acpi_battery_init_async errors ACPI / utils: Add new acpi_dev_present helper ACPI / video: add comments about subtle cases ACPI / video: get rid of magic numbers and use enum instead ACPI / doc: linuxized-acpica.txt: fix typos ACPI / blacklist: add _REV quirk for Dell Inspiron 7537 ACPI / tables: Drop acpi_parse_entries() which is not used ACPI / CPPC: add sysfs entries for CPPC perf capabilities ACPI / CPPC: Read lowest nonlinear perf in cppc_get_perf_caps() ACPI / platform: Update platform device NUMA node based on _PXM method ACPI / Processor: Drop setup_max_cpus check from acpi_processor_add() ACPI / scan: Drop support for force_remove
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt10
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6715a71bec3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+What: /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove
+Date: Mar 2017
+Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
+Description:
+ Since the force_remove is inherently broken and dangerous to
+ use for some hotplugable resources like memory (because ignoring
+ the offline failure might lead to memory corruption and crashes)
+ enabling this knob is not safe and thus unsupported.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
index c7fc72d4495c..613f42a9d5cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi
@@ -44,16 +44,6 @@ Description:
or 0 (unset). Attempts to write any other values to it will
cause -EINVAL to be returned.
-What: /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove
-Date: May 2013
-Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
-Description:
- The number in this file (0 or 1) determines whether (1) or not
- (0) the ACPI subsystem will allow devices to be hot-removed even
- if they cannot be put offline gracefully (from the kernel's
- viewpoint). That number can be changed by writing a boolean
- value to this file.
-
What: /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/
Date: February 2008
Contact: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt b/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt
index defe2eec5331..3ad7b0dfb083 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ upstream.
The homepage of ACPICA project is: www.acpica.org, it is maintained and
supported by Intel Corporation.
- The following figure depicts the Linux ACPI subystem where the ACPICA
+ The following figure depicts the Linux ACPI subsystem where the ACPICA
adaptation is included:
+---------------------------------------------------------+
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ upstream.
Linux patches. The patches generated by this process are referred to as
"linuxized ACPICA patches". The release process is carried out on a local
copy the ACPICA git repository. Each commit in the monthly release is
- converted into a linuxized ACPICA patch. Together, they form the montly
+ converted into a linuxized ACPICA patch. Together, they form the monthly
ACPICA release patchset for the Linux ACPI community. This process is
illustrated in the following figure:
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ upstream.
<http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git>.
Before the linuxized ACPICA patches are sent to the Linux ACPI community
- for review, there is a quality ensurance build test process to reduce
+ for review, there is a quality assurance build test process to reduce
porting issues. Currently this build process only takes care of the
following kernel configuration options:
CONFIG_ACPI/CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG/CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUGGER
@@ -195,12 +195,12 @@ upstream.
release utilities (please refer to Section 4 below for the details).
3. Linux specific features - Sometimes it's impossible to use the
current ACPICA APIs to implement features required by the Linux kernel,
- so Linux developers occasionaly have to change ACPICA code directly.
+ so Linux developers occasionally have to change ACPICA code directly.
Those changes may not be acceptable by ACPICA upstream and in such cases
they are left as committed ACPICA divergences unless the ACPICA side can
implement new mechanisms as replacements for them.
4. ACPICA release fixups - ACPICA only tests commits using a set of the
- user space simulation utilies, thus the linuxized ACPICA patches may
+ user space simulation utilities, thus the linuxized ACPICA patches may
break the Linux kernel, leaving us build/boot failures. In order to
avoid breaking Linux bisection, fixes are applied directly to the
linuxized ACPICA patches during the release process. When the release