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Pull I3C updates from Alexandre Belloni: "A new driver this cycle, for the AMD AXI I3C controller. There are also new features such as IBI wakeup support, SETAASA device discovery and ACPI support for the the DAA methods, meaning we can now communicate with the SPD devices on DDR5 modules. New driver: - AMD AXI I3C master controller Subsystem: - I3C Common Command Code (CCC) handling improvements, especially around GET CCCs - SETAASA device discovery support - ACPI support for all existing DAA methods like SETDASA, SETNEWDA as well as I2C devices on I3C bus - IBI-based wakeup support Drivers: - dw: SETAASA support - mipi-i3c-hci: advertise IBI wakeup capability, AMD_PT I3C controller support, PIO queue management support for HCI v1.2 - renesas: improve suspend to RAM support, add runtime PM support" * tag 'i3c/for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/i3c/linux: (70 commits) i3c: dw: reduce do_daa time if there's no client i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Add support for AMD_PT I3C controller i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Add PIO queue management support for HCI v1.2 i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Fix missing STAT_IBI_STATUS_THLD in PIO mode i3c: dw: rename "pclk" to "apb" to match dt-binding i3c: dw: make struct dw_i3c_cmd smaller i3c: dw: use COMMAND_PORT_TRANSFER_ARG instead of hardcoding i3c: renesas: Don't register devices when ENTDAA times out i3c: master: dw-i3c-master: fix OD timing for first broadcast i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Advertise IBI wakeup capability i3c: mipi-i3c-hci: Factor out i3c_hci_sysdev() i3c: mipi-i3c-hci-pci: Propagate I3C wakeup requirements to PCI i3c: master: Reject IBI requests from non-IBI-capable devices i3c: master: Add helper to query bus wakeup requirements i3c: master: Report wakeup events for IBIs i3c: master: Support IBI-based wakeup capability i3c: master: Fix potential UAF in i3c_device_match() i3c: master: Fix potential UAF in i3c_device_uevent() i3c: Make dev->desc locking assumptions explicit i3c: master: Fix use-after-free of master->this ...
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+=======================
+CPU cooling APIs How To
+=======================
+
+Written by Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@linaro.org>
+
+Updated: 6 Jan 2015
+
+Copyright (c) 2012 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd(http://www.samsung.com)
+
+0. Introduction
+===============
+
+The generic cpu cooling(freq clipping) provides registration/unregistration APIs
+to the caller. The binding of the cooling devices to the trip point is left for
+the user. The registration APIs returns the cooling device pointer.
+
+1. cpu cooling APIs
+===================
+
+1.1 cpufreq registration/unregistration APIs
+--------------------------------------------
+
+ ::
+
+ struct thermal_cooling_device
+ *cpufreq_cooling_register(struct cpumask *clip_cpus)
+
+ This interface function registers the cpufreq cooling device with the name
+ "thermal-cpufreq-%x". This api can support multiple instances of cpufreq
+ cooling devices.
+
+ clip_cpus:
+ cpumask of cpus where the frequency constraints will happen.
+
+ ::
+
+ struct thermal_cooling_device
+ *of_cpufreq_cooling_register(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
+
+ This interface function registers the cpufreq cooling device with
+ the name "thermal-cpufreq-%x" linking it with a device tree node, in
+ order to bind it via the thermal DT code. This api can support multiple
+ instances of cpufreq cooling devices.
+
+ policy:
+ CPUFreq policy.
+
+
+ ::
+
+ void cpufreq_cooling_unregister(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev)
+
+ This interface function unregisters the "thermal-cpufreq-%x" cooling device.
+
+ cdev: Cooling device pointer which has to be unregistered.
+
+2. Power models
+===============
+
+The power API registration functions provide a simple power model for
+CPUs. The current power is calculated as dynamic power (static power isn't
+supported currently). This power model requires that the operating-points of
+the CPUs are registered using the kernel's opp library and the
+`cpufreq_frequency_table` is assigned to the `struct device` of the
+cpu. If you are using CONFIG_CPUFREQ_DT then the
+`cpufreq_frequency_table` should already be assigned to the cpu
+device.
+
+The dynamic power consumption of a processor depends on many factors.
+For a given processor implementation the primary factors are:
+
+- The time the processor spends running, consuming dynamic power, as
+ compared to the time in idle states where dynamic consumption is
+ negligible. Herein we refer to this as 'utilisation'.
+- The voltage and frequency levels as a result of DVFS. The DVFS
+ level is a dominant factor governing power consumption.
+- In running time the 'execution' behaviour (instruction types, memory
+ access patterns and so forth) causes, in most cases, a second order
+ variation. In pathological cases this variation can be significant,
+ but typically it is of a much lesser impact than the factors above.
+
+A high level dynamic power consumption model may then be represented as::
+
+ Pdyn = f(run) * Voltage^2 * Frequency * Utilisation
+
+f(run) here represents the described execution behaviour and its
+result has a units of Watts/Hz/Volt^2 (this often expressed in
+mW/MHz/uVolt^2)
+
+The detailed behaviour for f(run) could be modelled on-line. However,
+in practice, such an on-line model has dependencies on a number of
+implementation specific processor support and characterisation
+factors. Therefore, in initial implementation that contribution is
+represented as a constant coefficient. This is a simplification
+consistent with the relative contribution to overall power variation.
+
+In this simplified representation our model becomes::
+
+ Pdyn = Capacitance * Voltage^2 * Frequency * Utilisation
+
+Where `capacitance` is a constant that represents an indicative
+running time dynamic power coefficient in fundamental units of
+mW/MHz/uVolt^2. Typical values for mobile CPUs might lie in range
+from 100 to 500. For reference, the approximate values for the SoC in
+ARM's Juno Development Platform are 530 for the Cortex-A57 cluster and
+140 for the Cortex-A53 cluster.