- Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework fixes, cleanups and
switch over from RCU-based synchronization to reference counting
using krefs (Viresh Kumar, Wei Yongjun, Dave Gerlach).
- cpufreq core cleanups and documentation updates (Viresh Kumar,
Rafael Wysocki).
- New cpufreq driver for Broadcom BMIPS SoCs (Markus Mayer).
- New cpufreq-dt sub-driver for TI SoCs requiring special handling,
like in the AM335x, AM437x, DRA7x, and AM57x families, along with
new DT bindings for it (Dave Gerlach, Paul Gortmaker).
- ARM64 SoCs support for the qoriq cpufreq driver (Tang Yuantian).
- intel_pstate driver updates including a new sysfs knob to control
the driver's operation mode and fixes related to the no_turbo
sysfs knob and the hardware-managed P-states feature support
(Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada).
- New interface to export ultra-turbo frequencies for the powernv
cpufreq driver (Shilpasri Bhat).
- Assorted fixes for cpufreq drivers (Arnd Bergmann, Dan Carpenter,
Wei Yongjun).
- devfreq core fixes, mostly related to the sysfs interface exported
by it (Chanwoo Choi, Chris Diamand).
- Updates of the exynos-bus and exynos-ppmu devfreq drivers (Chanwoo
Choi).
- Device PM QoS extension to support CPUs and support for per-CPU
wakeup (device resume) latency constraints in the cpuidle menu
governor (Alex Shi).
- Wakeup IRQs framework fixes (Grygorii Strashko).
- Generic power domains framework update including a fix to make
it handle asynchronous invocations of *noirq suspend/resume
callbacks correctly (Ulf Hansson, Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Assorted fixes and cleanups in the core suspend/hibernate code,
PM QoS framework and x86 ACPI idle support code (Corentin Labbe,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, John Keeping, Nick Desaulniers).
- Update of the analyze_suspend.py script is updated to version 4.5
offering multiple improvements (Todd Brandt).
- New tool for intel_pstate diagnostics using the pstate_sample
tracepoint (Doug Smythies).