[GIT PULL] MCPM maintenance for v4.1

[Nicolas Pitre]

Ping.

On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> Please consider pulling the following:
> 
> http://git.linaro.org/people/nicolas.pitre/linux.git mcpm_for_armsoc
> 
> This series greatly simplifies things by moving all the locking handling 
> to the core code, leaving machine specific backend only with simple and 
> straight forward operations performed under lock protection. It will no 
> longer be necessary for backend authors to know about all the MCPM 
> subtleties for their code to be "right".
> 
> To avoid a flag day, the new scheme is introduced in parallel to the 
> existing backend interface. This series may be merged at the same time 
> as new backends still using the previous interface. That old interface 
> should be removed in a subsequent merge cycle after everything is 
> converted over.
> 
> The diffstat also shows a clear benefit.  Despite the addition of new 
> documentation and the previous interface still in place, the number of 
> lines actually goes down.
> 
> Tested on Versatile Express TC2 and Exynos 5800 (Chromebook2).
> 
>  arch/arm/common/mcpm_entry.c       | 202 +++++++++++++++++----
>  arch/arm/include/asm/mcpm.h        |  65 ++++++-
>  arch/arm/mach-exynos/mcpm-exynos.c | 247 ++++++--------------------
>  arch/arm/mach-vexpress/dcscb.c     | 197 +++++++--------------
>  arch/arm/mach-vexpress/tc2_pm.c    | 291 +++++++++----------------------
>  5 files changed, 436 insertions(+), 566 deletions(-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
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