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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tools/power/x86, branch linux-3.5.y</title>
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<updated>2012-06-04T03:47:49+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>tools/power turbostat: fix IVB support</title>
<updated>2012-06-04T03:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T03:34:44+00:00</published>
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Initial IVB support went into turbostat in Linux-3.1:
553575f1ae048aa44682b46b3c51929a0b3ad337
(tools turbostat: recognize and run properly on IVB)

However, when running on IVB, turbostat would fail
to report the new couters added with SNB, c7, pc2 and pc7.
So in scenarios where these counters are non-zero on IVB,
turbostat would report erroneous residencey results.

In particular c7 time would be added to c1 time,
since c1 time is calculated as "that which is left over".

Also, turbostat reports MHz capabilities when passed
the "-v" option, and it would incorrectly report 133MHz
bclk instead of 100MHz bclk for IVB, which would inflate
GHz reported with that option.

This patch is a backport of a fix already included in turbostat v2.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools/power turbostat: fix un-intended affinity of forked program</title>
<updated>2012-06-04T03:24:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-04T03:24:00+00:00</published>
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Linux 3.4 included a modification to turbostat to
lower cross-call overhead by using scheduler affinity:

15aaa34654831e98dd76f7738b6c7f5d05a66430
(tools turbostat: reduce measurement overhead due to IPIs)

In the use-case where turbostat forks a child program,
that change had the un-intended side-effect of binding
the child to the last cpu in the system.

This change removed the binding before forking the child.

This is a back-port of a fix already included in turbostat v2.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools turbostat: harden against cpu online/offline</title>
<updated>2012-03-30T02:27:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-30T02:19:58+00:00</published>
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Sometimes users have turbostat running in interval mode
when they take processors offline/online.

Previously, turbostat would survive, but not gracefully.

Tighten up the error checking so turbostat notices
changesn sooner, and print just 1 line on change:

turbostat: re-initialized with num_cpus %d

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools turbostat: reduce measurement overhead due to IPIs</title>
<updated>2012-03-30T02:04:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-03-30T01:44:40+00:00</published>
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turbostat uses /dev/cpu/*/msr interface to read MSRs.
For modern systems, it reads 10 MSR/CPU.  This can
be observed as 10 "Function Call Interrupts"
per CPU per sample added to /proc/interrupts.

This overhead is measurable on large idle systems,
and as Yoquan Song pointed out, it can even trick
cpuidle into thinking the system is busy.

Here turbostat re-schedules itself in-turn to each
CPU so that its MSR reads will always be local.
This replaces the 10 "Function Call Interrupts"
with a single "Rescheduling interrupt" per sample
per CPU.

On an idle 32-CPU system, this shifts some residency from
the shallow c1 state to the deeper c7 state:

 # ./turbostat.old -s
   %c0  GHz  TSC    %c1    %c3    %c6    %c7   %pc2   %pc3   %pc6   %pc7
  0.27 1.29 2.29   0.95   0.02   0.00  98.77  20.23   0.00  77.41   0.00
  0.25 1.24 2.29   0.98   0.02   0.00  98.75  20.34   0.03  77.74   0.00
  0.27 1.22 2.29   0.54   0.00   0.00  99.18  20.64   0.00  77.70   0.00
  0.26 1.22 2.29   1.22   0.00   0.00  98.52  20.22   0.00  77.74   0.00
  0.26 1.38 2.29   0.78   0.02   0.00  98.95  20.51   0.05  77.56   0.00
^C
 i# ./turbostat.new -s
   %c0  GHz  TSC    %c1    %c3    %c6    %c7   %pc2   %pc3   %pc6   %pc7
  0.27 1.20 2.29   0.24   0.01   0.00  99.49  20.58   0.00  78.20   0.00
  0.27 1.22 2.29   0.25   0.00   0.00  99.48  20.79   0.00  77.85   0.00
  0.27 1.20 2.29   0.25   0.02   0.00  99.46  20.71   0.03  77.89   0.00
  0.28 1.26 2.29   0.25   0.01   0.00  99.46  20.89   0.02  77.67   0.00
  0.27 1.20 2.29   0.24   0.01   0.00  99.48  20.65   0.00  78.04   0.00

cc: Youquan Song &lt;youquan.song@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools turbostat: add summary option</title>
<updated>2012-03-29T17:22:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-06T23:37:16+00:00</published>
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turbostat -s
cuts down on the amount of output, per user request.

also treak some output whitespace and the man page.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux</title>
<updated>2012-01-18T23:51:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-18T23:51:48+00:00</published>
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This includes initial support for the recently published ACPI 5.0 spec.
In particular, support for the "hardware-reduced" bit that eliminates
the dependency on legacy hardware.

APEI has patches resulting from testing on real hardware.

Plus other random fixes.

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux: (52 commits)
  acpi/apei/einj: Add extensions to EINJ from rev 5.0 of acpi spec
  intel_idle: Split up and provide per CPU initialization func
  ACPI processor: Remove unneeded variable passed by acpi_processor_hotadd_init V2
  ACPI processor: Remove unneeded cpuidle_unregister_driver call
  intel idle: Make idle driver more robust
  intel_idle: Fix a cast to pointer from integer of different size warning in intel_idle
  ACPI: kernel-parameters.txt : Add intel_idle.max_cstate
  intel_idle: remove redundant local_irq_disable() call
  ACPI processor: Fix error path, also remove sysdev link
  ACPI: processor: fix acpi_get_cpuid for UP processor
  intel_idle: fix API misuse
  ACPI APEI: Convert atomicio routines
  ACPI: Export interfaces for ioremapping/iounmapping ACPI registers
  ACPI: Fix possible alignment issues with GAS 'address' references
  ACPI, ia64: Use SRAT table rev to use 8bit or 16/32bit PXM fields (ia64)
  ACPI, x86: Use SRAT table rev to use 8bit or 32bit PXM fields (x86/x86-64)
  ACPI: Store SRAT table revision
  ACPI, APEI, Resolve false conflict between ACPI NVS and APEI
  ACPI, Record ACPI NVS regions
  ACPI, APEI, EINJ, Refine the fix of resource conflict
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'einj', 'intel_idle', 'misc', 'srat' and 'turbostat-ivb' into release</title>
<updated>2012-01-18T06:15:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-18T06:15:54+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage</title>
<updated>2011-12-15T15:34:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arun Thomas</name>
<email>arun.thomas@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-08-16T22:34:14+00:00</published>
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Field names were shortened: "pkg" is now "pk", "core" is now "cr"

Signed-off-by: Arun Thomas &lt;arun.thomas@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools turbostat: recognize and run properly on IVB</title>
<updated>2011-11-18T08:32:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-18T08:32:01+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'acpi', 'idle', 'mrst-pmu' and 'pm-tools' into next</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T03:14:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T03:14:50+00:00</published>
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