arm: atomic.h: defined relaxed atomic_read

Defining relaxed version of atomic read as cpu_relaxed_read_atomic.

bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
arm: asm: relaxed.h: defined relaxed.h

Defined a new header file relaxed.h, which uses generic
definitions of some macros used by arm64 for improving
power efficiency.

bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/398766
(cherry picked from commit a96e59b1959f3ee216503b4f9df3cb75f7093ed6)
Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/422211
Reviewed-by: Automatic_Commit_Validation_User
GVS: Gerrit_Virtual_Submit
Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
sched: defining relaxed version of idle_cpu

Defining relaxed version of idle_cpu, which uses
macro cpu_relaxed_read_long, that will be used to
enhance power efficiency.

bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sri Krishna Chowdary <schowdary@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
asm-generic: relaxed.h: defined relaxed.h

Defined a new header file relaxed.h, which contains basic
macros which will be used for improving power efficiency for
arm64.

bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
GVS: Gerrit_Virtual_Submit
Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
llist: defining relaxed version of llist_empty

Defining relaxed version of llist_empty as llist_empty_relaxed,
which will be used for power-optimization.

bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sri Krishna Chowdary <schowdary@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
asm-generic: processor.h: adding new header file

Defining a new header file and adding architecture
independent macros. Using these macros we are optimizing
power usage on ARM64.

bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sri Krishna Chowdary <schowdary@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
ARM: including asm-generic/processor.h

Here we are including asm-generic/processor.h
because it has defined some generic macros which
can be used by any architecture for optimaztion
of power usage.

bug 1440421

Change-Id: I39db944d348b3dad9235b76d8c7ea3867c0006ce
Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Peng Du <pdu@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sri Krishna Chowdary <schowdary@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
cpu: enhance power efficiency

Here we are trying to reduce power usage through the
use of macros cpu_relaxed_read and relaxed version of
idle_cpu().

Bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sri Krishna Chowdary <schowdary@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
seqlock: enhance power efficiency

Trying to improve the power efficiency in linux/seqlock.h,
using macros cpu_relaxed_read and cpu_read_relax.

Bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sri Krishna Chowdary <schowdary@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
sched: Trying to reduce power usage

Using macros cpu_relaxed_read, cpu_relaxed_read_long and
cpu_read_relax in core.c to improve power efficiency.

Bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
hrtimer: enhance power efficiency

Defining relaxed version of hrtimer_callback_running(),
which will be used to improve power efficiency through
the use of macro cpu_relaxed_read_long.

Bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharat Nihalani <bnihalani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>
smp: enhance power efficiency

Here we are trying to reduce power usage through the
use of macros cpu_relaxed_read_short and cpu_relaxed_read.

Bug 1440421

Signed-off-by: Sumit Singh <sumsingh@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sri Krishna Chowdary <schowdary@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranav Vashi <neobuddy89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chet Kener <Cl3Kener@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: engstk <eng.stk@sapo.pt>