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ACPI and power management fixes for 3.11-rc4

- Revert two cpuidle commits added during the 3.8 development cycle that
  turn out to have introduced a significant performance regression as
  requested by Jeremy Eder.

- The recent patches that made the freezer less heavy-weight introduced
  a regression causing user-space-driven hibernation using the ioctl()
  interface to block indefinitely when the hibernate process executes
  try_to_freeze().  Fix from Colin Cross addresses this by adding a
  process flag to mark the hibernate/suspend process to inform the
  freezer that that process should be ignored.

- One of the recent cpufreq reverts uncovered a problem in the core
  causing the cpufreq driver module refcount to become negative after
  a system suspend-resume cycle.  Fix from Rafael J Wysocki.

- The evaluation of the ACPI battery _BIX method has never worked
  correctly, because the commit that added support for it forgot to
  take the "Revision" field in the return package into account.  As
  a result, the reading of battery info doesn't work at all on some
  systems, which is addressed by a fix from Lan Tianyu.

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