[PATCH] x86_64: Add idle notifiers

This adds a new notifier chain that is called with IDLE_START
when a CPU goes idle and IDLE_END when it goes out of idle.
The context can be idle thread or interrupt context.

Since we cannot rely on MONITOR/MWAIT existing the idle
end check currently has to be done in all interrupt
handlers.

They were originally inspired by the similar s390 implementation.

They have a variety of applications:
- They will be needed for CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
- They can be used for oprofile to fix up the missing time
in idle when performance counters don't tick.
- They can be used for better C state management in ACPI
- They could be used for microstate accounting.

This is just infrastructure so far, no users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_intel.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_intel.c
index 0be0a795981..3ef845e8d3b 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_intel.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <asm/msr.h>
 #include <asm/mce.h>
 #include <asm/hw_irq.h>
+#include <asm/idle.h>
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, next_check);
 
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ asmlinkage void smp_thermal_interrupt(void)
 
 	ack_APIC_irq();
 
+	exit_idle();
 	irq_enter();
 	if (time_before(jiffies, __get_cpu_var(next_check)))
 		goto done;