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LLVMLinux patches for v3.16

A handful of VFIO bug fixes for v3.16

IOMMU Updates for Linux v3.16

The changes include:

	* A new IOMMU driver for ARM Renesas SOCs

	* Updates and fixes for the ARM Exynos driver to bring it closer
	  to a usable state again

	* Convert the AMD IOMMUv2 driver to use the
	  mmu_notifier->release call-back instead of the task_exit
	  notifier

	* Random other fixes and minor improvements to a number of other
	  IOMMU drivers

At over 200 commits, covering almost all supported architectures, this
was a pretty active cycle for KVM.  Changes include:

- a lot of s390 changes: optimizations, support for migration,
  GDB support and more

- ARM changes are pretty small: support for the PSCI 0.2 hypercall
  interface on both the guest and the host (the latter acked by Catalin)

- initial POWER8 and little-endian host support

- support for running u-boot on embedded POWER targets

- pretty large changes to MIPS too, completing the userspace interface
  and improving the handling of virtualized timer hardware

- for x86, a larger set of changes is scheduled for 3.17.  Still,
  we have a few emulator bugfixes and support for running nested
  fully-virtualized Xen guests (para-virtualized Xen guests have
  always worked).  And some optimizations too.

The only missing architecture here is ia64.  It's not a coincidence
that support for KVM on ia64 is scheduled for removal in 3.17.

ACPI and power management updates for 3.16-rc1

 - ACPICA update to upstream version 20140424.  That includes a
   number of fixes and improvements related to things like GPE
   handling, table loading, headers, memory mapping and unmapping,
   DSDT/SSDT overriding, and the Unload() operator.  The acpidump
   utility from upstream ACPICA is included too.  From Bob Moore,
   Lv Zheng, David Box, David Binderman, and Colin Ian King.

 - Fixes and cleanups related to ACPI video and backlight interfaces
   from Hans de Goede.  That includes blacklist entries for some new
   machines and using native backlight by default.

 - ACPI device enumeration changes to create platform devices
   rather than PNP devices for ACPI device objects with _HID by
   default.  PNP devices will still be created for the ACPI device
   object with device IDs corresponding to real PNP devices, so
   that change should not break things left and right, and we're
   expecting to see more and more ACPI-enumerated platform devices
   in the future.  From Zhang Rui and Rafael J Wysocki.

 - Updates for the ACPI LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver allowing
   it to handle system suspend/resume on Asus T100 correctly.
   From Heikki Krogerus and Rafael J Wysocki.

 - PM core update introducing a mechanism to allow runtime-suspended
   devices to stay suspended over system suspend/resume transitions
   if certain additional conditions related to coordination within
   device hierarchy are met.  Related PM documentation update and
   ACPI PM domain support for the new feature.  From Rafael J Wysocki.

 - Fixes and improvements related to the "freeze" sleep state. They
   affect several places including cpuidle, PM core, ACPI core, and
   the ACPI battery driver.  From Rafael J Wysocki and Zhang Rui.

 - Miscellaneous fixes and updates of the ACPI core from Aaron Lu,
   Bjørn Mork, Hanjun Guo, Lan Tianyu, and Rafael J Wysocki.

 - Fixes and cleanups for the ACPI processor and ACPI PAD (Processor
   Aggregator Device) drivers from Baoquan He, Manuel Schölling,
   Tony Camuso, and Toshi Kani.

 - System suspend/resume optimization in the ACPI battery driver from
   Lan Tianyu.

 - OPP (Operating Performance Points) subsystem updates from
   Chander Kashyap, Mark Brown, and Nishanth Menon.

 - cpufreq core fixes, updates and cleanups from Srivatsa S Bhat,
   Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.

 - Updates, fixes and cleanups for the Tegra, powernow-k8, imx6q,
   s5pv210, nforce2, and powernv cpufreq drivers from Brian Norris,
   Jingoo Han, Paul Bolle, Philipp Zabel, Stratos Karafotis, and
   Viresh Kumar.

 - intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups from Dirk Brandewie,
   Doug Smythies, and Stratos Karafotis.

 - Enabling the big.LITTLE cpufreq driver on arm64 from Mark Brown.

 - Fix for the cpuidle menu governor from Chander Kashyap.

 - New ARM clps711x cpuidle driver from Alexander Shiyan.

 - Hibernate core fixes and cleanups from Chen Gang, Dan Carpenter,
   Fabian Frederick, Pali Rohár, and Sebastian Capella.

 - Intel RAPL (Running Average Power Limit) driver updates from
   Jacob Pan.

 - PNP subsystem updates from Bjorn Helgaas and Fabian Frederick.

 - devfreq core updates from Chanwoo Choi and Paul Bolle.

 - devfreq updates for exynos4 and exynos5 from Chanwoo Choi and
   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz.

 - turbostat tool fix from Jean Delvare.

 - cpupower tool updates from Prarit Bhargava, Ramkumar Ramachandra
   and Thomas Renninger.

 - New ACPI ec_access.c tool for poking at the EC in a safe way
   from Thomas Renninger.

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Final power management fixes for 3.15

 - Taking non-idle time into account when calculating core busy
   time was a mistake and led to a performance regression.  Since
   the problem it was supposed to address is now taken care of in
   a different way, we don't need to do it any more, so drop the
   non-idle time tracking from intel_pstate.  Dirk Brandewie.

 - Changing to fixed point math throughout the busy calculation
   introduced rounding errors that adversely affect the accuracy
   of intel_pstate's computations.  Fix from Dirk Brandewie.

 - The PID controller algorithm used by intel_pstate assumes that
   the time interval between two adjacent samples will always be the
   same which is not the case for deferable timers (used by
   intel_pstate) when the system is idle. This leads to inaccurate
   predictions and artificially increases convergence times for
   the minimum P-state.  Fix from Dirk Brandewie.

 - intel_pstate carries out computations using 32-bit variables
   that may overflow for large enough values of APERF/MPERF.  Switch
   to using 64-bit variables for computations, from Doug Smythies.

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Staging driver patches for 3.16-rc1

Here is the big staging driver pull request for 3.16-rc1.

Lots of stuff here, tons of cleanup patches, a few new drivers, and some
removed as well, but I think we are still adding a few thousand more
lines than we remove, due to the new drivers being bigger than the ones
deleted.

One notible bit of work did stand out, Jes Sorensen has gone on a tear,
fixing up a wireless driver to be "more sane" than it originally was
from the vendor, with over 500 patches merged here.  Good stuff, and a
number of users laptops are better off for it.

All of this has been in linux-next for a while.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Staging driver fixes for 3.15-rc8

Here are some staging driver fixes for 3.15.  3 are for the speakup
drivers (one fix a regression caused in 3.15-rc, and the other 2 resolve
a tty issue found by Ben Hutchings)  The comedi and r8192e_pci driver
fixes also resolve reported issues.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This is the 3.12.21 stable release

Linux 3.15-rc8

This is the 3.14.5 stable release

This is the 3.10.41 stable release

ACPI and power management fixes for 3.15-rc8

 - A workqueue is destroyed too early during the ACPI thermal driver
   module unload which leads to a NULL pointer dereference in the
   driver's remove callback.  Fix from Aaron Lu.

 - A wrong argument is passed to devm_regulator_get_optional() in
   the probe routine of the cpu0 cpufreq driver which leads to
   resource leaks if the driver is unbound from the cpufreq
   platform device.  Fix from Lucas Stach.

 - A lock is missing in cpufreq_governor_dbs() which leads to
   memory corruption and NULL pointer dereferences during
   system suspend/resume, for example.  Fix from Bibek Basu.

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Linux 3.15-rc7

- prep refactoring for execlists (Oscar Mateo)
- corner-case fixes for runtime pm (Imre)
- tons of vblank improvements from Ville
- prep work for atomic plane/sprite updates (Ville)
- more chv code, now almost complete (tons of different people)
- refactoring and improvements for drm_irq.c merged through drm-intel-next
- g4x/ilk reset improvements (Ville)
- removal of encoder->mode_set
- moved audio state tracking into pipe_config
- shuffled fb pinning out of the platform crtc modeset callbacks into core code
- userptr support (Chris)
- OOM handling improvements from Chris, with now have a neat oom notifier which
  jumps additional debug information.
- topdown allocation of ppgtt PDEs (Ben)
- fixes and small improvements all over

Linux 3.15-rc6

IOMMU Fixes for Linux v3.15-rc5

3 Fixes for the AMD IOMMU driver:

	* Fix a locking issue around get_user_pages()
	* Fix 2 issues with device aliasing and
	  exclusion range handling