From 6f6ef82cc9de24153ba7d5cedab5970e276aefa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos Corbacho Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:24:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] acer-wmi: Respect current backlight level when loading Set the backlight to use the current brightness when loaded, rather than always resetting the backlight to maximum brightness. Fixes kernel bugzilla #14207 Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho Reported-by: Denis Mukhin Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c index 07d14dfdf0b4..226b3e93498c 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ static int __devinit acer_backlight_init(struct device *dev) acer_backlight_device = bd; bd->props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK; - bd->props.brightness = max_brightness; + bd->props.brightness = read_brightness(bd); bd->props.max_brightness = max_brightness; backlight_update_status(bd); return 0; From 455c0d71d46e86b0b7ff2c9dcfc19bc162302ee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Darrick J. Wong" Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:28:20 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] ACPI: Fix regression where _PPC is not read at boot even when ignore_ppc=0 Earlier, Ingo Molnar posted a patch to make it so that the kernel would avoid reading _PPC on his broken T60. Unfortunately, it seems that with Thomas Renninger's patch last July to eliminate _PPC evaluations when the processor driver loads, the kernel never actually reads _PPC at all! This is problematic if you happen to boot your non-T60 computer in a state where the BIOS _wants_ _PPC to be something other than zero. So, put the _PPC evaluation back into acpi_processor_get_performance_info if ignore_ppc isn't 1. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c index 2cabadcc4d8c..a959f6a07508 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c @@ -413,7 +413,11 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_performance_info(struct acpi_processor *pr) if (result) goto update_bios; - return 0; + /* We need to call _PPC once when cpufreq starts */ + if (ignore_ppc != 1) + result = acpi_processor_get_platform_limit(pr); + + return result; /* * Having _PPC but missing frequencies (_PSS, _PCT) is a very good hint that From d306ebc28649b89877a22158fe0076f06cc46f60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:35:31 -0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: Be in TS_POLLING state during mwait based C-state entry ACPI deep C-state entry had a long standing bug/missing feature, wherein we were sending resched IPIs when an idle CPU is in mwait based deep C-state. Only mwait based C1 was using the write to the monitored address to wake up mwait'ing CPU. This patch changes the code to retain TS_POLLING bit if we are entering an mwait based deep C-state. The patch has been verified to reduce the number of resched IPIs in general and also improves the performance/power on workloads with low system utilization (i.e., when mwait based deep C-states are being used). Fixes "netperf ~50% regression with 2.6.33-rc1, bisect to 1b9508f" http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126441481427331&w=4 Reported-by: Lin Ming Tested-by: Alex Shi Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c index e88e8ae04fdb..cc978a8c00b7 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c @@ -880,12 +880,14 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_simple(struct cpuidle_device *dev, return(acpi_idle_enter_c1(dev, state)); local_irq_disable(); - current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING; - /* - * TS_POLLING-cleared state must be visible before we test - * NEED_RESCHED: - */ - smp_mb(); + if (cx->entry_method != ACPI_CSTATE_FFH) { + current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING; + /* + * TS_POLLING-cleared state must be visible before we test + * NEED_RESCHED: + */ + smp_mb(); + } if (unlikely(need_resched())) { current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING; @@ -965,12 +967,14 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_bm(struct cpuidle_device *dev, } local_irq_disable(); - current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING; - /* - * TS_POLLING-cleared state must be visible before we test - * NEED_RESCHED: - */ - smp_mb(); + if (cx->entry_method != ACPI_CSTATE_FFH) { + current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING; + /* + * TS_POLLING-cleared state must be visible before we test + * NEED_RESCHED: + */ + smp_mb(); + } if (unlikely(need_resched())) { current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING;