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Power management updates for v4.11-rc1

 - Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework fixes, cleanups and
   switch over from RCU-based synchronization to reference counting
   using krefs (Viresh Kumar, Wei Yongjun, Dave Gerlach).

 - cpufreq core cleanups and documentation updates (Viresh Kumar,
   Rafael Wysocki).

 - New cpufreq driver for Broadcom BMIPS SoCs (Markus Mayer).

 - New cpufreq-dt sub-driver for TI SoCs requiring special handling,
   like in the AM335x, AM437x, DRA7x, and AM57x families, along with
   new DT bindings for it (Dave Gerlach, Paul Gortmaker).

 - ARM64 SoCs support for the qoriq cpufreq driver (Tang Yuantian).

 - intel_pstate driver updates including a new sysfs knob to control
   the driver's operation mode and fixes related to the no_turbo
   sysfs knob and the hardware-managed P-states feature support
   (Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada).

 - New interface to export ultra-turbo frequencies for the powernv
   cpufreq driver (Shilpasri Bhat).

 - Assorted fixes for cpufreq drivers (Arnd Bergmann, Dan Carpenter,
   Wei Yongjun).

 - devfreq core fixes, mostly related to the sysfs interface exported
   by it (Chanwoo Choi, Chris Diamand).

 - Updates of the exynos-bus and exynos-ppmu devfreq drivers (Chanwoo
   Choi).

 - Device PM QoS extension to support CPUs and support for per-CPU
   wakeup (device resume) latency constraints in the cpuidle menu
   governor (Alex Shi).

 - Wakeup IRQs framework fixes (Grygorii Strashko).

 - Generic power domains framework update including a fix to make
   it handle asynchronous invocations of *noirq suspend/resume
   callbacks correctly (Ulf Hansson, Geert Uytterhoeven).

 - Assorted fixes and cleanups in the core suspend/hibernate code,
   PM QoS framework and x86 ACPI idle support code (Corentin Labbe,
   Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, John Keeping, Nick Desaulniers).

 - Update of the analyze_suspend.py script is updated to version 4.5
   offering multiple improvements (Todd Brandt).

 - New tool for intel_pstate diagnostics using the pstate_sample
   tracepoint (Doug Smythies).