+ "nohz/sched: delay going tickless when CPU is loaded" - http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-January/040165.html

One criterion of C-states selection is based on the load factor.  High
load prevents deep C-states.  The load is evaluated and updated at
each scheduler tick, and thus not updated when in tickless mode.  As a
result, the CPU load calculated on the tick just before entering
tickless is used for idle decisions.

When a high load is evaluated on a tick happening on a burst of
activity, this load value is kept until the next tick, which could
take few ms to happen if going tickless.

This patch ensures that the load is taken into consideration before
going tickless.  Rather than going tickless and entering a shallow
sleep state, the decison to go tickless is slightly delayed so that
the idle governor will tend to favor deeper sleep states.

Delaying NOHZ decisions until the load is zero improved the load
estimation on our ARM/OMAP4 platform where HZ =128 and increased the
time spent in deep C-states (~50% of idle time in C-states deeper than
C1).  A power saving of ~20mA at battery level is observed during MP3
playback on OMAP4/Blaze board.

Signed-off-by: Nicole Chalhoub <n-chalhoub at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Bour <v-bour at ti.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
[khilman at ti.com: minor edits/changes to changelog]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman at ti.com>

Conflicts:

	kernel/time/tick-sched.c
sync: don't block the flusher thread waiting on IO
readahead: Optimize divide/multiply by power of 2 by Anarkia1976 & Ramgear
 bcmdhd: reduce wakelocks

Signed-off-by: flar2 <asegaert@gmail.com>
tick: Upstream fixes

 * Addresses the issue of timers being scheduled on offline CPUs.

tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if the cpu is offline

commit 5b39939a4 (nohz: Move ts->idle_calls incrementation into strict
idle logic) moved code out of tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() and missed
to bail out when the cpu is offline. That's causing subsequent
failures as an offline CPU is supposed to die and not to fiddle with
nohz magic.

Return false in can_stop_idle_tick() if the cpu is offline.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305132138160.2863@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

timers: Consolidate base->next_timer update

Another bunch of mindlessly copied code. All callers of
internal_add_timer() except the recascading code updates
base->next_timer.

Move this into internal_add_timer() and let the cascading code call
__internal_add_timer().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.189946224@linutronix.de

timers: Create detach_if_pending() and use it

Most callers of detach_timer() have the same pattern around
them. Check whether the timer is pending and eventually updating
base->next_timer.

Create detach_if_pending() and replace the duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.131246037@linutronix.de

timers: Add accounting of non deferrable timers

The code in get_next_timer_interrupt() is suboptimal as it has to run
through the cascade to find the next expiring timer. On a completely
idle core we should only do that when there is an active timer
enqueued and base->next_timer does not give us a fast answer.

Add accounting of the active timers to the now consolidated
attach/detach code. I deliberately avoided sanity checks because the
code is fully symetric and any fiddling with timers w/o using the API
functions will lead to cute explosions anyway. ulong is big enough
even on 32bit and if we really run into the situation to have more
than 1<<32 timers enqueued there, then we are definitely not in a
state to go idle and run through that code.

This allows us to fix another shortcoming of get_next_timer_interrupt().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.236377028@linutronix.de

timers: Improve get_next_timer_interrupt()

Gilad reported at

 http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336056962-10465-2-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com

"Current timer code fails to correctly return a value meaning that
 there is no future timer event, with the result that the timer keeps
 getting re-armed in HZ one shot mode even when we could turn it off,
 generating unneeded interrupts.

 What is happening is that when __next_timer_interrupt() wishes
 to return a value that signifies "there is no future timer
 event", it returns (base->timer_jiffies + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA).

 However, the code in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(), which called
 __next_timer_interrupt() via get_next_timer_interrupt(),
 compares the return value to (last_jiffies + NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA)
 to see if the timer needs to be re-armed.

 base->timer_jiffies != last_jiffies and so tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
 interperts the return value as indication that there is a distant
 future event 12 days from now and programs the timer to fire next
 after KTIME_MAX nsecs instead of avoiding to arm it. This ends up
 causing a needless interrupt once every KTIME_MAX nsecs."

Fix this by using the new active timer accounting. This avoids scans
when no active timer is enqueued completely, so we don't have to rely
on base->timer_next and base->timer_jiffies anymore.

Change-Id: I874ee5e5f837a228cebf5e6a084baf520d33cd0f
Reported-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120525214819.317535385@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
touchscreen/mms_ts.c: Power OFF on screen_down - Power ON on screen_on
cpufreq: Optimize cpufreq_frequency_table_verify()

cpufreq_frequency_table_verify() is rewritten here to make it more logical
and efficient.
 - merge multiple lines for variable declarations together.
 - quit early if any frequency between min/max is found.
 - don't call cpufreq_verify_within_limits() in case any valid freq is
   found as it is of no use.
 - rename the count variable as found and change its type to boolean.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Input: Send events one packet at a time

On heavy event loads, such as a multitouch driver, the irqsoff latency
can be as high as 250 us.  By accumulating a frame worth of data
before passing it on, the latency can be dramatically reduced.  As a
side effect, the special EV_SYN handling can be removed, since the
frame is now atomic.

This patch adds the events() handler callback and uses it if it
exists. The latency is improved by 50 us even without the callback.

Change-Id: Iebd9b1868ae6300a922a45b6d104e7c2b38e4cf5
Cc: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@enac.fr>
Tested-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>

Input: Improve the events-per-packet estimate

The events-per-packet estimate has so far been used by MT devices
only. This patch adjusts the packet buffer size to also accomodate the
KEY and MSC events.  Keyboards normally send one or two keys at a
time. MT devices normally send a number of button keys along with the
MT information.  The buffer size chosen here covers those cases, and
matches the default buffer size in evdev. Since the input estimate is
now preferred, remove the special input-mt estimate.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@enac.fr>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Franco <franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com>