* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
ACPI: replace acpi_integer by u64
ACPICA: Update version to 20100121.
ACPICA: Remove unused uint32_struct type
ACPICA: Disassembler: Remove obsolete "Integer64" field in parse object
ACPICA: Remove obsolete ACPI_INTEGER (acpi_integer) type
ACPICA: Predefined name repair: fix NULL package elements
ACPICA: AcpiGetDevices: Eliminate unnecessary _STA calls
ACPICA: Update all ACPICA copyrights and signons to 2010
ACPICA: Update for new gcc-4 warning options
ACPI deep C-state entry had a long standing bug/missing feature, wherein we were sending
resched IPIs when an idle CPU is in mwait based deep C-state. Only mwait based C1 was using
the write to the monitored address to wake up mwait'ing CPU.
This patch changes the code to retain TS_POLLING bit if we are entering an mwait based
deep C-state.
The patch has been verified to reduce the number of resched IPIs in general and also
improves the performance/power on workloads with low system utilization (i.e., when mwait based
deep C-states are being used).
Fixes "netperf ~50% regression with 2.6.33-rc1, bisect to 1b9508f"
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126441481427331&w=4
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Since the rewrite of the CPU idle governor in 2.6.32, two laptops have
surfaced where the BIOS advertises a C2 power state, but for some reason
this state is not functioning (as verified in both cases by powertop
before the patch in .32).
The old governor had the accidental behavior that if a non-working state
was chosen too many times, it would end up falling back to C1. The new
governor works differently and this accidental behavior is no longer
there; the result is a high temperature on these two machines.
This patch adds these 2 machines to the DMI table for C state anomalies;
by just not using C2 both these machines are better off (the TSC can be
used instead of the pm timer, giving a performance boost for example).
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14742
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: <akwatts@ymail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
acpi_integer is now obsolete and removed from the ACPICA code base,
replaced by u64.
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
no functional change -- cleanup only.
acpi_processor_power_verify_c2() was nearly empty due to a previous patch,
so expand its remains into its one caller and delete it.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Do for C3 what the previous patch did for C2.
The C2 patch was in response to a highly visible
and multiply reported C-state/turbo failure,
while this change has no bug report in-hand.
This will enable C3 in Linux on systems where BIOS
overstates C3 latency in _CST. It will also enable
future systems which may actually have C3 > 1000usec.
Linux has always ignored ACPI BIOS C3 with exit latency > 1000 usec,
and the ACPI spec is clear that is correct FADT-supplied C3.
However, the ACPI spec explicitly states that _CST-supplied C-states
have no latency limits.
So move the 1000usec C3 test out of the code shared
by FADT and _CST code-paths, and into the FADT-specific path.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Linux has always ignored ACPI BIOS C2 with exit latency > 100 usec,
and the ACPI spec is clear that is correct FADT-supplied C2.
However, the ACPI spec explicitly states that _CST-supplied C-states
have no latency limits.
So move the 100usec C2 test out of the code shared
by FADT and _CST code-paths, and into the FADT-specific path.
This bug has not been visible until Nehalem, which advertises
a CPU-C2 worst case exit latency on servers of 205usec.
That (incorrect) figure is being used by BIOS writers
on mobile Nehalem systems for the AC configuration.
Thus, Linux ignores C2 leaving just C1, which is
saves less power, and also impacts performance
by preventing the use of turbo mode.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15064
Tested-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
I got following warning on ia64 box:
In function 'acpi_processor_power_verify':
642: warning: passing argument 2 of 'smp_call_function_single' from
incompatible pointer type
This smp_call_function_single() was introduced by a commit
f833bab87fca5c3ce13778421b1365845843b976:
> @@ -162,8 +162,9 @@
> pr->power.timer_broadcast_on_state = state;
> }
>
> -static void lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast(struct acpi_processor *pr)
> +static void lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast(void *arg)
> {
> + struct acpi_processor *pr = (struct acpi_processor *) arg;
> unsigned long reason;
>
> reason = pr->power.timer_broadcast_on_state < INT_MAX ?
> @@ -635,7 +636,8 @@
> working++;
> }
>
> - lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast(pr);
> + smp_call_function_single(pr->id, lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast,
> + pr, 1);
>
> return (working);
> }
The problem is that the lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() has 2 versions:
One is real code that modified in the above commit, and the other is NOP
code that used when !ARCH_APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3:
static void lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast(struct acpi_processor *pr) { }
So I got warning because of !ARCH_APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3.
We really want to do nothing here on !ARCH_APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3, so
modify lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() of real version to use
smp_call_function_single() in it.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Commit 3d5b6fb47a ("ACPI: Kill overly
verbose "power state" log messages") removed the actual use of this
variable, but didn't remove the variable itself, resulting in build
warnings like
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c: In function ‘acpi_processor_power_init’:
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:1169: warning: unused variable ‘i’
Just get rid of the now unused variable.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I was recently lucky enough to get a 64-CPU system, so my kernel log
ends up with 64 lines like:
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C3])
This is pretty useless clutter because this info is already available
after boot from both /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpuidle/state?/ as
well as /proc/acpi/processor/CPU*/power.
So just delete the code that prints the C-states in processor_idle.c.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Linux/ACPI core files using internal.h all PREFIX "ACPI: ",
however, not all ACPI drivers use/want it -- and they
should not have to #undef PREFIX to define their own.
Add GPL commment to internal.h while we are there.
This does not change any actual console output,
asside from a whitespace fix.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Currently clockevents_notify() is called with interrupts enabled at
some places and interrupts disabled at some other places.
This results in a deadlock in this scenario.
cpu A holds clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs enabled
cpu B waits for clockevents_lock in clockevents_notify() with irqs disabled
cpu C doing set_mtrr() which will try to rendezvous of all the cpus.
This will result in C and A come to the rendezvous point and waiting
for B. B is stuck forever waiting for the spinlock and thus not
reaching the rendezvous point.
Fix the clockevents code so that clockevents_lock is taken with
interrupts disabled and thus avoid the above deadlock.
Also call lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast() on the destination cpu so
that we avoid calling smp_call_function() in the clockevents notifier
chain.
This issue left us wondering if we need to change the MTRR rendezvous
logic to use stop machine logic (instead of smp_call_function) or add
a check in spinlock debug code to see if there are other spinlocks
which gets taken under both interrupts enabled/disabled conditions.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1250544899.2709.210.camel@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Now whether the ACPI processor proc I/F is registered depends on the
CONFIG_PROC. It had better depend on the CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS.
When the CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS is unset in kernel configuration, the
ACPI processor proc I/F won't be registered.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
cosmetic only. The lapic_timer workaround routines
are specific to the lapic_timer, and are not acpi-generic.
old:
acpi_timer_check_state()
acpi_propagate_timer_broadcast()
acpi_state_timer_broadcast()
new:
lapic_timer_check_state()
lapic_timer_propagate_broadcast()
lapic_timer_state_broadcast()
also, simplify the code in acpi_processor_power_verify()
so that lapic_timer_check_state() is simply called
from one place for all valid C-states, including C1.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
ARB_DISABLE is a NOP on all of the recent Intel platforms.
For such platforms, reduce contention on c3_lock
by skipping the fake ARB_DISABLE.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
When AMD C1E is enabled, local APIC timer will stop even in C1. To avoid
suspend/resume hang, this patch removes C1 and replace it with a cpu_relax() in
suspend/resume path. This hasn't any impact in runtime path.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13233
[ impact: avoid suspend/resume hang in AMD CPU with C1E enabled ]
Tested-by: Dmitry Lyzhyn <thisistempbox@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
When AMD C1E is enabled, local APIC timer will stop even in C1.
This patch uses broadcast IPI to replace local APIC timer in C1.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13233
[ impact: avoid boot hang in AMD CPU with C1E enabled ]
Tested-by: Dmitry Lyzhyn <thisistempbox@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Processor idle power states C2 and C3 stop the TSC on many machines.
Linux recognizes this situation and marks the TSC as unstable:
Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle
But if those same machines are booted with "processor.max_cstate=1",
then there is no need to validate C2 and C3, and no need to
disable the TSC, which can be reliably used as a clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
A previous 2.6.30 patch, a71e4917dc,
(ACPI: idle: mark_tsc_unstable() at init-time, not run-time)
erroneously disabled the TSC on systems that did not actually
have valid deep C-states.
Move the check after the deep-C-states are validated,
via new helper, tsc_check_state(), hich replaces tsc_halts_in_c().
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
In 2.6.29,
31878dd86b
"ACPI: remove BM_RLD access from idle entry path"
moved BM_RLD initialization to init-time from run time.
But we discovered that some BIOS do not restore BM_RLD
after suspend, causing device errors on C3 and C4
after resume. So now the kernel restores BM_RLD.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13032
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
As processor.max_cstate is an init-time-only modparam,
sanity checking it at init-time is sufficient.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13142
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Linux tells ICH4 users that they can (manually) invoke
"hpet=force" to enable the undocumented ICH-4M HPET.
The HPET becomes available for both clocksource and clockevents.
But as of ff69f2bba6
(acpi: fix of pmtimer overflow that make Cx states time incorrect)
the HPET may be used via clocksource for idle accounting, and
hpet=force on an ICH4 box hangs boot.
It turns out that touching the MMIO HPET withing
the ARB_DIS part of C3 will hang the hardware.
The fix is to simply move the timer access outside
the ARB_DIS region. This is a no-op on modern hardware
because ARB_DIS is no longer used.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13087
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Linux-2.6.29 deleted the legacy ACPI idle handler, leaving
the CPU_IDLE handler, which does not track bus master activity.
So delete the unused bm_activity field -- it is confusing to
print an always zero value.
This patch could break programs that parse
/proc/acpi/processor/*/power, since it deletes this
line from that file:
bus master activity: 00000000
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13145
is not fixed by this patch, but provoked this patch.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The c2 and c3 idle handlers check tsc_halts_in_c()
after every time they return from idle. Um, when?:-)
Move this check to init-time to remove the unnecessary
run-time overhead, and also to have the check complete before
the first entry into the idle handler.
ff69f2bba6
(acpi: fix of pmtimer overflow that make Cx states time incorrect)
replaced the hard-coded use of the PM-timer inside idle,
with ktime_get_readl(), which possibly uses the TSC --
so it is now especially prudent to detect a broken TSC
before entering idle.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13087
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Add support for Always Running APIC timer, CPUID_0x6_EAX_Bit2.
This bit means the APIC timer continues to run even when CPU is
in deep C-states.
The advantage is that we can use LAPIC timer on these CPUs
always, and there is no need for "slow to read and program"
external timers (HPET/PIT) and the timer broadcast logic
and related code in C-state entry and exit.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The recent ACPICA patch
(ACPICA: FADT: Favor 32-bit register addresses for compatibility)
makes machine to use the right FADT HW addresses
and C-states now work fine.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Mark Doughty <me@markdoughty.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Rename acpi_get_register and acpi_set_register to clarify the
purpose of these functions. New names are acpi_read_bit_register
and acpi_write_bit_register.
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Removed locking for reads from the ACPI bit registers in PM1
Status, Enable, Control, and PM2 Control. The lock is not required
when reading the single-bit registers. The acpi_get_register_unlocked
function is no longer needed and has been removed. This will
improve performance for reads on these registers. ACPICA BZ 760.
http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=760
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
We found Cx states time abnormal in our some of machines which have 16
LCPUs, the C0 take too many time while system is really idle when kernel
enabled tickless and highres. powertop output is below:
PowerTOP version 1.9 (C) 2007 Intel Corporation
Cn Avg residency P-states (frequencies)
C0 (cpu running) (40.5%) 2.53 Ghz 0.0%
C1 0.0ms ( 0.0%) 2.53 Ghz 0.0%
C2 128.8ms (59.5%) 2.40 Ghz 0.0%
1.60 Ghz 100.0%
Wakeups-from-idle per second : 4.7 interval: 20.0s
no ACPI power usage estimate available
Top causes for wakeups:
41.4% ( 24.9) <interrupt> : extra timer interrupt
20.2% ( 12.2) <kernel core> : usb_hcd_poll_rh_status
(rh_timer_func)
After tacking detailed for this issue, Yakui and I find it is due to 24
bit PM timer overflows when some of cpu sleep more than 4 seconds. With
tickless kernel, the CPU want to sleep as much as possible when system
idle. But the Cx sleep time are recorded by pmtimer which length is
determined by BIOS. The current Cx time was gotten in the following
function from driver/acpi/processor_idle.c:
static inline u32 ticks_elapsed(u32 t1, u32 t2)
{
if (t2 >= t1)
return (t2 - t1);
else if (!(acpi_gbl_FADT.flags & ACPI_FADT_32BIT_TIMER))
return (((0x00FFFFFF - t1) + t2) & 0x00FFFFFF);
else
return ((0xFFFFFFFF - t1) + t2);
}
If pmtimer is 24 bits and it take 5 seconds from t1 to t2, in above
function, just about 1 seconds ticks was recorded. So the Cx time will be
reduced about 4 seconds. and this is why we see above powertop output.
To resolve this problem, Yakui and I use ktime_get() to record the Cx
states time instead of PM timer as the following patch. the patch was
tested with i386/x86_64 modes on several platforms.
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yakui.zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
CPU_IDLE=y has been default for ACPI=y since Nov-2007,
and has shipped in many distributions since then.
Here we delete the CPU_IDLE=n ACPI idle code, since
nobody should be using it, and we don't want to
maintain two versions.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
It is true that BM_RLD needs to be set to enable
bus master activity to wake an older chipset (eg PIIX4) from C3.
This is contrary to the erroneous wording the ACPI 2.0, 3.0
specifications that suggests that BM_RLD is an indicator
rather than a control bit.
ACPI 1.0's correct wording should be restored in ACPI 4.0:
http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=689
But the kernel should not have to clear BM_RLD
when entering a non C3-type state just to set
it again when entering a C3-type C-state.
We should be able to set BM_RLD at boot time
and leave it alone -- removing the overhead of
accessing this IO register from the idle entry path.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
PM1a_STS and PM1b_STS are twins that get OR'd together
on reads, and all writes are repeated to both.
The fields in PM1x_STS are single bits only,
there are no multi-bit fields.
So it is not necessary to lock PM1x_STS reads against
writes because it is impossible to read an intermediate
value of a single bit. It will either be 0 or 1,
even if a write is in progress during the read.
Reads are asynchronous to writes no matter if a lock
is used or not.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
While looking at reducing the amount of architecture namespace pollution
in the generic kernel, I found that asm/irq.h is included in the vast
majority of compilations on ARM (around 650 files.)
Since asm/irq.h includes a sub-architecture include file on ARM, this
causes a negative impact on the ccache's ability to re-use the build
results from other sub-architectures, so we have a desire to reduce the
dependencies on asm/irq.h.
It turns out that a major cause of this is the needless include of
linux/hardirq.h into asm-generic/local.h. The patch below removes this
include, resulting in some 250 to 300 files (around half) of the kernel
then omitting asm/irq.h.
My test builds still succeed, provided two ARM files are fixed
(arch/arm/kernel/traps.c and arch/arm/mm/fault.c) - so there may be
negative impacts for this on other architectures.
Note that x86 does not include asm/irq.h nor linux/hardirq.h in its
asm/local.h, so this patch can be viewed as bringing the generic version
into line with the x86 version.
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: add #include <linux/irqflags.h> to acpi/processor_idle.c]
[adobriyan@gmail.com: fix sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: reward non-stop TSCs with good TSC-based clocksources, etc.
Add support for CPUID_0x80000007_Bit8 on Intel CPUs as well. This bit means
that the TSC is invariant with C/P/T states and always runs at constant
frequency.
With Intel CPUs, we have 3 classes
* CPUs where TSC runs at constant rate and does not stop n C-states
* CPUs where TSC runs at constant rate, but will stop in deep C-states
* CPUs where TSC rate will vary based on P/T-states and TSC will stop in deep
C-states.
To cover these 3, one feature bit (CONSTANT_TSC) is not enough. So, add a
second bit (NONSTOP_TSC). CONSTANT_TSC indicates that the TSC runs at
constant frequency irrespective of P/T-states, and NONSTOP_TSC indicates
that TSC does not stop in deep C-states.
CPUID_0x8000000_Bit8 indicates both these feature bit can be set.
We still have CONSTANT_TSC _set_ and NONSTOP_TSC _not_set_ on some older Intel
CPUs, based on model checks. We can use TSC on such CPUs for time, as long as
those CPUs do not support/enter deep C-states.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move all the component definitions for drivers to a single shared place,
include/acpi/acpi_drivers.h.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
reflect the actual state entered in dev->last_state, when actaul state entered
is different from intended one.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
pm_idle_save resp. pm_idle_old can be NULL when the restore code in
acpi_processor_cst_has_changed() resp. cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler()
is called. This can set pm_idle unconditinally to NULL, which causes the
kernel to panic when calling pm_idle in the x86 idle code. This was
covered by an extra check for !pm_idle in the x86 idle code, which was
removed during the x86 idle code refactoring.
Instead of restoring the pm_idle check in the x86 code prevent the
acpi/cpuidle code to set pm_idle to NULL.
Reported by: Dhaval Giani http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/2/309
Based on a debug patch from Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The acpi idle waits calls local_irq_save and then uses mwait to go into
idle. The tracer gets reenabled at local_irq_save but does not detect that
the idle allows for wake ups.
This patch adds code to disable the tracing when acpi puts the CPU to idle.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.
When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.
This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction. No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.
If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Change processors from an array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu variable.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
It's never used and the comments refer to nonatomic and retry
interchangably. So get rid of it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Linus Torvalds