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2017-02-24	platform/x86: intel_turbo_max_3: make it explicitly non-modular	Paul Gortmaker	1	-6/+5
	The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig:config INTEL_TURBO_MAX_3 drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig: bool "Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 enumeration driver" ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only. Also note that MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE is a no-op for non-modular code. We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information was (or is now) contained at the top of the file in the comments. We do uncover some implicit includes during build coverage that were hidden behind the module.h which pulls in a lot of dependants. Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org> Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
2017-02-04	platform/x86: Support Turbo Boost Max 3.0 for non HWP systems	Srinivas Pandruvada	1	-0/+152
	On platforms supporting Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, the maximum turbo frequencies (turbo ratio) of some cores in a CPU package may be higher than the other cores in the same package. In that case, better performance can be achieved by making the scheduler prefer to run tasks on the CPUs with higher max turbo frequencies. On Intel® Broadwell Xeon systems, it is optional to turn on HWP (Hardware P-States). When HWP is not turned on, the BIOS doesn't present required CPPC (Collaborative Processor Performance Control) tables. This table is used to get the per CPU core maximum performance ratio and inform scheduler (in cpufreq/intel_pstate driver). On such systems the maximum performance ratio can be read via over clocking (OC) mailbox interface for each CPU. This interface is not architectural and can change for every model of processors. This driver reads maximum performance ratio of each CPU and set up the scheduler priority metrics. In this way scheduler can prefer CPU with higher performance to schedule tasks. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>