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| author | Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> | 2008-06-24 18:01:09 +0800 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2008-07-16 23:27:05 +0200 |
| commit | da5e09a1b3e5a9fc0b15a3feb64e921ccc55ba74 (patch) | |
| tree | 382a75c1180e458df826ef4efbc191f3f71275c1 /arch | |
| parent | c1e3b377ad48febba6f91b8ae42c44ee4d4ab45e (diff) | |
ACPI : Create "idle=nomwait" bootparam
"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=10807
http://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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/kernel/process.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 11 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c index 612b3c4a060..3ab8373103e 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c @@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ unsigned long boot_option_idle_override = 0; EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_option_idle_override); unsigned long idle_halt; EXPORT_SYMBOL(idle_halt); +unsigned long idle_nomwait; +EXPORT_SYMBOL(idle_nomwait); void ia64_do_show_stack (struct unw_frame_info *info, void *arg) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index 7fc72949876..4d629c62f4f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ unsigned long idle_halt; EXPORT_SYMBOL(idle_halt); +unsigned long idle_nomwait; +EXPORT_SYMBOL(idle_nomwait); struct kmem_cache *task_xstate_cachep; @@ -340,6 +342,15 @@ static int __init idle_setup(char *str) pm_idle = default_idle; idle_halt = 1; return 0; + } else if (!strcmp(str, "nomwait")) { + /* + * If the boot option of "idle=nomwait" is added, + * it means that mwait will be disabled for CPU C2/C3 + * states. In such case it won't touch the variable + * of boot_option_idle_override. + */ + idle_nomwait = 1; + return 0; } else return -1; |