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5 Commits (a36223b0dc14606b5c80aacbbe6288133693a841)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Darrick J. Wong bb15e7f286 ibmaem: don't query the entire sensor repository when reading energy meter
Currently, all sensors are read when the energy meter is queried via
sysfs.  This introduces a considerable amount of delay and variation in
the sysfs reading, which is not desirable when trying to profile energy
use.  Therefore, read only the energy meters when a sysfs query comes in
for them, and don't cache the results so that we always get the latest
reading.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-15 08:35:44 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong 9c5413eac5 ibmaem: prevent infinite probing loop on x3650 M2 systems
On older machines, probing for a nonexistent AEM interface returned an
IPMI error; when we saw this, we'd stop probing.  On the x3650 M2 and
(presumably) later, we are returned a value indicating success and a
buffer full of garbage or zeroes.  This causes the probe function to run
in an infinite loop.  To fix this, we add one last check--if the
interface number we're looking for is higher than the number of
interfaces that AEM claims to have, stop probing.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-15 08:35:44 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong eb93b7df7e ibmaem: update the documentation to reflect the current name
Minor documentation update to reflect the current full name of the power
management hardware interface and reflows the text a bit.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-15 08:35:44 -07:00
Al Viro a064d5bdd0 ibmaem endianness annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-04 08:06:01 -07:00
Darrick J. Wong 8808a793f0 ibmaem: new driver for power/energy/temp meters in IBM System X hardware
This driver reads IBM Active Energy Manager energy/temperature/power
sensors on IBM System X hardware.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:08 -07:00