linux/tools/power/cpupower
Linus Torvalds 2baa85d692 ACPI updates for 5.9-rc1
- Eliminate significant AML processing overhead related to using
    operation regions in system memory by reworking the management
    of memory mappings in the ACPI code to defer unmap operations
    (to do them outside of the ACPICA locks, among other things) and
    making the memory operation reagion handler avoid releasing memory
    mappings created by it too early (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
    20200717:
 
    * Prevent operation region reference counts from overflowing in
      some cases (Erik Kaneda).
 
    * Replace one-element array with flexible-array (Gustavo A. R.
      Silva).
 
  - Fix ACPI PCI hotplug reference counting (Rafael Wysocki).
 
  - Drop last bits of the ACPI procfs interface (Thomas Renninger).
 
  - Drop some redundant checks from the code parsing ACPI tables
    related to NUMA (Hanjun Guo).
 
  - Avoid redundant object evaluation in the ACPI device properties
    handling code (Heikki Krogerus).
 
  - Avoid unecessary memory overhead related to storing the signatures
    of the ACPI tables recognized by the kernel (Ard Biesheuvel).
 
  - Add missing newline characters when printing module parameter
    values in some places (Xiongfeng Wang).
 
  - Update the link to the ACPI specifications in some places (Tiezhu
    Yang).
 
  - Use the fallthrough pseudo-keyword in the ACPI code (Gustavo A. R.
    Silva).
 
  - Drop redundant variable initialization from the APEI code (Colin
    Ian King).
 
  - Drop uninitialized_var() from the ACPI PAD driver (Jason Yan).
 
  - Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones in the ACPI code (Alexander A.
    Klimov).
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Merge tag 'acpi-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These eliminate significant AML processing overhead related to using
  operation regions in system memory, update the ACPICA code in the
  kernel to upstream revision 20200717 (including a fix to prevent
  operation region reference counts from overflowing in some cases),
  remove the last bits of the (long deprecated) ACPI procfs interface
  and do some assorted cleanups.

  Specifics:

   - Eliminate significant AML processing overhead related to using
     operation regions in system memory by reworking the management of
     memory mappings in the ACPI code to defer unmap operations (to do
     them outside of the ACPICA locks, among other things) and making
     the memory operation reagion handler avoid releasing memory
     mappings created by it too early (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200717:

       * Prevent operation region reference counts from overflowing in
         some cases (Erik Kaneda).

       * Replace one-element array with flexible-array (Gustavo A. R.
         Silva).

   - Fix ACPI PCI hotplug reference counting (Rafael Wysocki).

   - Drop last bits of the ACPI procfs interface (Thomas Renninger).

   - Drop some redundant checks from the code parsing ACPI tables
     related to NUMA (Hanjun Guo).

   - Avoid redundant object evaluation in the ACPI device properties
     handling code (Heikki Krogerus).

   - Avoid unecessary memory overhead related to storing the signatures
     of the ACPI tables recognized by the kernel (Ard Biesheuvel).

   - Add missing newline characters when printing module parameter
     values in some places (Xiongfeng Wang).

   - Update the link to the ACPI specifications in some places (Tiezhu
     Yang).

   - Use the fallthrough pseudo-keyword in the ACPI code (Gustavo A. R.
     Silva).

   - Drop redundant variable initialization from the APEI code (Colin
     Ian King).

   - Drop uninitialized_var() from the ACPI PAD driver (Jason Yan).

   - Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones in the ACPI code (Alexander A.
     Klimov)"

* tag 'acpi-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (22 commits)
  ACPI: APEI: remove redundant assignment to variable rc
  ACPI: NUMA: Remove the useless 'node >= MAX_NUMNODES' check
  ACPI: NUMA: Remove the useless sub table pointer check
  ACPI: tables: Remove the duplicated checks for acpi_parse_entries_array()
  ACPICA: Update version to 20200717
  ACPICA: Do not increment operation_region reference counts for field units
  ACPICA: Replace one-element array with flexible-array
  ACPI: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  ACPI: Use valid link to the ACPI specification
  ACPI: OSL: Clean up the removal of unused memory mappings
  ACPI: OSL: Use deferred unmapping in acpi_os_unmap_iomem()
  ACPI: OSL: Use deferred unmapping in acpi_os_unmap_generic_address()
  ACPICA: Preserve memory opregion mappings
  ACPI: OSL: Implement deferred unmapping of ACPI memory
  ACPI: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword
  PCI: hotplug: ACPI: Fix context refcounting in acpiphp_grab_context()
  ACPI: tables: avoid relocations for table signature array
  ACPI: PAD: Eliminate usage of uninitialized_var() macro
  ACPI: sysfs: add newlines when printing module parameters
  ACPI: EC: add newline when printing 'ec_event_clearing' module parameter
  ...
2020-08-03 20:37:22 -07:00
..
bench cpupower: Add missing newline at end of file 2019-08-29 09:49:26 -06:00
debug kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR 2019-07-18 02:19:31 +09:00
lib cpupower: Fix NULL but dereferenced coccicheck errors 2020-07-06 16:11:04 -06:00
man ACPI updates for 5.9-rc1 2020-08-03 20:37:22 -07:00
po cpupower: update German translation 2019-08-29 10:18:52 -06:00
utils cpupower: Fix comparing pointer to 0 coccicheck warns 2020-07-06 16:10:40 -06:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
cpupower-completion.sh cpupower : Auto-completion for cpupower tool 2018-12-05 07:52:45 -07:00
Makefile tools/power/cpupower: fix 64bit detection when cross-compiling 2019-08-29 09:50:54 -06:00
README cpupower: Remove dead link to homepage, and update the targets built. 2014-05-17 00:36:36 +02:00
ToDo cpupower: ToDo: Update ToDo with ideas for per_cpu_schedule handling 2019-11-05 17:23:23 -07:00

The cpupower package consists of the following elements:

requirements
------------

On x86 pciutils is needed at runtime (-lpci).
For compilation pciutils-devel (pci/pci.h) and a gcc version
providing cpuid.h is needed.
For both it's not explicitly checked for (yet).


libcpupower
----------

"libcpupower" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace
tools and programs to the cpufreq core and drivers in the Linux kernel. This
allows for code reduction in userspace tools, a clean implementation of
the interaction to the cpufreq core, and support for both the sysfs and proc
interfaces [depending on configuration, see below].


compilation and installation
----------------------------

make
su
make install

should suffice on most systems. It builds libcpupower to put in
/usr/lib; cpupower, cpufreq-bench_plot.sh to put in /usr/bin; and
cpufreq-bench to put in /usr/sbin. If you want to set up the paths
differently and/or want to configure the package to your specific
needs, you need to open "Makefile" with an editor of your choice and
edit the block marked CONFIGURATION.


THANKS
------
Many thanks to Mattia Dongili who wrote the autotoolization and
libtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpupower;
to Dave Jones for his feedback and his dump_psb tool; to Bruno Ducrot for his
powernow-k8-decode and intel_gsic tools as well as the french language file;
and to various others commenting on the previous (pre-)releases of 
cpupower.


        Dominik Brodowski