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Linus Torvalds f5c101892f Merge branch 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Contains Alex Shi's three patches to remove percpu_xxx() which overlap
  with this_cpu_xxx().  There shouldn't be any functional change."

* 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: remove percpu_xxx() functions
  x86: replace percpu_xxx funcs with this_cpu_xxx
  net: replace percpu_xxx funcs with this_cpu_xxx or __this_cpu_xxx
2012-05-22 17:37:47 -07:00
Suresh Siddha 1dcc8d7ba2 x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit
There is no need to save any active fpu state to the task structure
memory if the task is dead. Just drop the state instead.

For example, this saved some 1770 xsave's during the system boot
of a two socket Xeon system.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-4-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-16 15:20:59 -07:00
Suresh Siddha 55ccf3fe3f fork: move the real prepare_to_copy() users to arch_dup_task_struct()
Historical prepare_to_copy() is mostly a no-op, duplicated for majority of
the architectures and the rest following the x86 model of flushing the extended
register state like fpu there.

Remove it and use the arch_dup_task_struct() instead.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336692811-30576-1-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-05-16 15:16:26 -07:00
Alex Shi c6ae41e7d4 x86: replace percpu_xxx funcs with this_cpu_xxx
Since percpu_xxx() serial functions are duplicated with this_cpu_xxx().
Removing percpu_xxx() definition and replacing them by this_cpu_xxx()
in code. There is no function change in this patch, just preparation for
later percpu_xxx serial function removing.

On x86 machine the this_cpu_xxx() serial functions are same as
__this_cpu_xxx() without no unnecessary premmpt enable/disable.

Thanks for Stephen Rothwell, he found and fixed a i386 build error in
the patch.

Also thanks for Andrew Morton, he kept updating the patchset in Linus'
tree.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-05-14 14:15:31 -07:00
Jan Beulich 57da8b960b x86: Avoid double stack traces with show_regs()
What was called show_registers() so far already showed a stack
trace for kernel faults, and kernel_stack_pointer() isn't even
valid to be used for faults from user mode, hence it was
pointless for show_regs() to call show_trace() after
show_registers().

Simply rename show_registers() to show_regs() and eliminate
the old definition.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FAA3D3902000078000826E1@nat28.tlf.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-09 11:44:42 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 38e7c572ce x86: Use common threadinfo allocator
The only difference is the free_thread_info function, which frees
xstate.

Use the new arch_release_task_struct() function instead and switch
over to the core allocator.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.559556763@linutronix.de
Cc: x86@kernel.org
2012-05-08 14:08:44 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 85f7f65627 x86: Use kick_all_cpus_sync()
Use kick_all_cpus_sync() and remove cpu_idle_wait().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.190382227@linutronix.de
Cc: x86@kernel.org
2012-05-08 12:35:06 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat 19209bbb86 x86/sched: Make mwait_usable() heed to "idle=" kernel parameters properly
The checks that exist in mwait_usable() for "idle=" kernel
parameters are insufficient. As a result, mwait_usable() can
return 1 even if "idle=nomwait" or "idle=poll" or "idle=halt"
parameters are passed.

Of these cases, incorrect handling of idle=nomwait is a
universal problem since mwait can get used for usual CPU idling.
However the rest of the cases are problematic only during CPU
Hotplug (offline) because, in the CPU offline path, the function
mwait_play_dead() is called, which might result in mwait being
used in the offline CPUs, if mwait_usable() happens to return 1.

Fix these issues by checking for the boot time "idle=" kernel
parameter properly in mwait_usable().

The first issue (usual cpu idling) is demonstrated below:

Before applying the patch (dmesg snippet):

 [    0.000000] Command line: [...] idle=nomwait
 [    0.000000] Kernel command line: [...] idle=nomwait
 [    0.000000]  RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled.
 [    0.140606] using mwait in idle threads.  <======= mwait being used
 [    4.303986] cpuidle: using governor ladder
 [    4.308232] cpuidle: using governor menu

After applying the patch:

 [    0.000000] Command line: [...] idle=nomwait
 [    0.000000] Kernel command line: [...] idle=nomwait
 [    0.000000]  RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled.
 [    4.264100] cpuidle: using governor ladder
 [    4.268342] cpuidle: using governor menu

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: venki@google.com
Cc: suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F9E37B8.30001@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-07 16:27:20 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 45046892ef x86: Use generic init_task
Same code. Use the generic version. The special Makefile treatment is
pointless anyway as init_task.o contains only data which is handled by
the linker script. So no point on being treated like head text.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085035.739963562@linutronix.de
Cc: x86@kernel.org
2012-05-05 13:00:26 +02:00
Len Brown f6365201d8 x86: Remove the ancient and deprecated disable_hlt() and enable_hlt() facility
The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the
32-bit floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the
HLT instruction inside default_idle() with cpu_relax() - essentially
it turned off the use of HLT.

This workaround was commented in the code as:

 "disable hlt during certain critical i/o operations"

 "This halt magic was a workaround for ancient floppy DMA
  wreckage. It should be safe to remove."

H. Peter Anvin additionally adds:

 "To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of
  flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold to
  run DOS.  Since DOS did no power management of any kind,
  including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed
  to the much hhigher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT
  caused some of these systems to fail.

  They were by far in the minority even back then."

Alan Cox further says:

 "Also for the Cyrix 5510 which tended to go castors up if a HLT
  occurred during a DMA cycle and on a few other boxes HLT during
  DMA tended to go astray.

  Do we care ? I doubt it. The 5510 was pretty obscure, the 5520
  fixed it, the 5530 is probably the oldest still in any kind of
  use."

So, let's finally drop this.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rhk9bzf0x9rljkv488tloib@git.kernel.org
[ If anyone cares then alternative instruction patching could be
  used to replace HLT with a one-byte NOP instruction. Much simpler. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-30 08:50:27 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6b8212a313 Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 updates from Ingo Molnar.

This touches some non-x86 files due to the sanitized INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
config usage.

Fixed up trivial conflicts due to just header include changes (removing
headers due to cpu_idle() merge clashing with the <asm/system.h> split).

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/apic/amd: Be more verbose about LVT offset assignments
  x86, tls: Off by one limit check
  x86/ioapic: Add io_apic_ops driver layer to allow interception
  x86/olpc: Add debugfs interface for EC commands
  x86: Merge the x86_32 and x86_64 cpu_idle() functions
  x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs
  x86: Stop recursive fault in print_context_stack after stack overflow
  x86/io_apic: Move and reenable irq only when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=y
  x86/apic: Add separate apic_id_valid() functions for selected apic drivers
  locking/kconfig: Simplify INLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK usage
  x86/kconfig: Update defconfigs
  x86: Fix excessive MSR print out when show_msr is not specified
2012-03-29 14:28:26 -07:00
David Howells f05e798ad4 Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86
Disintegrate asm/system.h for X86.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: x86@kernel.org
2012-03-28 18:11:12 +01:00
Richard Weinberger 90e240142b x86: Merge the x86_32 and x86_64 cpu_idle() functions
Both functions are mostly identical.
The differences are:

- x86_32's cpu_idle() makes use of check_pgt_cache(), which is a
  nop on both x86_32 and x86_64.

- x86_64's cpu_idle() uses enter/__exit_idle/(), on x86_32 these
  function are a nop.

- In contrast to x86_32, x86_64 calls rcu_idle_enter/exit() in
  the innermost loop because idle notifications need RCU.
  Calling these function on x86_32 also in the innermost loop
  does not hurt.

So we can merge both functions.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332709204-22496-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-26 03:16:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 35cb8d9e18 Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/fpu changes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
  i387: Uninline the generic FP helpers that we expose to kernel modules
2012-03-22 09:41:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1361b83a13 i387: Split up <asm/i387.h> into exported and internal interfaces
While various modules include <asm/i387.h> to get access to things we
actually *intend* for them to use, most of that header file was really
pretty low-level internal stuff that we really don't want to expose to
others.

So split the header file into two: the small exported interfaces remain
in <asm/i387.h>, while the internal definitions that are only used by
core architecture code are now in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.

The guiding principle for this was to expose functions that we export to
modules, and leave them in <asm/i387.h>, while stuff that is used by
task switching or was marked GPL-only is in <asm/fpu-internal.h>.

The fpu-internal.h file could be further split up too, especially since
arch/x86/kvm/ uses some of the remaining stuff for its module.  But that
kvm usage should probably be abstracted out a bit, and at least now the
internal FPU accessor functions are much more contained.  Even if it
isn't perhaps as contained as it _could_ be.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1202211340330.5354@i5.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2012-02-21 14:12:54 -08:00
Steven Rostedt 484546509c x86/tracing: Denote the power and cpuidle tracepoints as _rcuidle()
The power and cpuidle tracepoints are called within a rcu_idle_exit()
section, and must be denoted with the _rcuidle() version of the tracepoint.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-13 09:14:43 -05:00
Seiichi Ikarashi 1cf8343f55 x86: Fix rflags in FAKE_STACK_FRAME
The x86_64 kernel pushes the fake kernel stack in
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:FAKE_STACK_FRAME, and
rflags register in it does not conform to the specification.

Although Intel's manual[1] says bit 1 of it shall be set to 1,
this bit is cleared to 0 on pushing the fake stack.

[1] Intel(R) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
    Vol.1 3-21 Figure 3-8. EFLAGS Register

If it is not on purpose, it is better to be fixed, because
it can lead some tools misunderstanding the stack frame. For example,
"crash" utility[2] actually detects it and warns you like
below:

       RIP: ffffffff8005dfa2  RSP: ffff8104ce0c7f58  RFLAGS: 00000200
       [...]

       bt: WARNING: possibly bogus exception frame

Signed-off-by: Seiichi Ikarashi <s.ikarashi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Masayoshi MIZUMA <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-12-06 10:02:38 +01:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk e5fd47bfab xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen.
The idea behind commit d91ee5863b ("cpuidle: replace xen access to x86
pm_idle and default_idle") was to have one call - disable_cpuidle()
which would make pm_idle not be molested by other code.  It disallows
cpuidle_idle_call to be set to pm_idle (which is excellent).

But in the select_idle_routine() and idle_setup(), the pm_idle can still
be set to either: amd_e400_idle, mwait_idle or default_idle.  This
depends on some CPU flags (MWAIT) and in AMD case on the type of CPU.

In case of mwait_idle we can hit some instances where the hypervisor
(Amazon EC2 specifically) sets the MWAIT and we get:

  Brought up 2 CPUs
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.3.fc16.x86_64 #1
  RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81015d1d>]  [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff8100e2ed>] cpu_idle+0xae/0xe8
   [<ffffffff8149ee78>] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0xe/0x10
  RIP  [<ffffffff81015d1d>] mwait_idle+0x6f/0xb4
   RSP <ffff8801d28ddf10>

In the case of amd_e400_idle we don't get so spectacular crashes, but we
do end up making an MSR which is trapped in the hypervisor, and then
follow it up with a yield hypercall.  Meaning we end up going to
hypervisor twice instead of just once.

The previous behavior before v3.0 was that pm_idle was set to
default_idle regardless of select_idle_routine/idle_setup.

We want to do that, but only for one specific case: Xen.  This patch
does that.

Fixes RH BZ #739499 and Ubuntu #881076
Reported-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-03 10:49:58 -08:00
Zhao Jin c812d8f7ad x86, mm, trivial: Remove unnecessary get_order() in free_thread_info()
Because THREAD_SIZE is defined as PAGE_SIZE << THREAD_ORDER on x86, the
call of get_order(THREAD_SIZE) can be replaced with THREAD_ORDER.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Jin <cronozhj@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E4FB5A9.700@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-23 21:49:35 +02:00
Len Brown 4bfc8288bc x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
...and make it static

no functional change

cc: x86@kernel.org
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-08-03 19:06:36 -04:00
Andy Whitcroft 60b8b1de0d x86 idle: APM requires pm_idle/default_idle unconditionally when a module
[ Also from Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> and Vitaliy Ivanov
  <vitalivanov@gmail.com> ]

Commit 06ae40ce07 ("x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle)
only when APM demands it") removed the export for pm_idle/default_idle
unless the apm module was modularised and CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE was set.

But the apm module uses pm_idle/default_idle unconditionally,
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE only affects the bios idle threshold.  Adjust the
export accordingly.

[ Used #ifdef instead of #if defined() as it's shorter, and what both
  Ben and Vitaliy used.. Andy, you're out-voted ;)    - Linus ]

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-14 13:42:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds af0d6a0a3a Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix mwait_play_dead() faulting on mwait-incapable cpus
  x86 idle: Fix mwait deprecation warning message

Evil merge to remove extra quote noticed by Joe Perches
2011-06-01 02:07:22 +09:00
Borislav Petkov 598e887d8b x86 idle: Fix mwait deprecation warning message
Fix:

  arch/x86/kernel/process.c:645:1: warning: unknown escape sequence '\i'

due to missing escape backslash, introduced by this commit:

  5d4c47e019: x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306748286-24701-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-30 13:02:04 +02:00
Linus Torvalds f310642123 Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
  x86 idle: deprecate "no-hlt" cmdline param
  x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
  x86 idle floppy: deprecate disable_hlt()
  x86 idle: EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle, pm_idle) only when APM demands it
  x86 idle: clarify AMD erratum 400 workaround
  idle governor: Avoid lock acquisition to read pm_qos before entering idle
  cpuidle: menu: fixed wrapping timers at 4.294 seconds
2011-05-29 11:18:09 -07:00
Len Brown 5d4c47e019 x86 idle: deprecate mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient
than HLT on SMP hardware that supports it.

But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general
mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states.
ACPI uses only mwait_idle_with_hints(), and never uses mwait_idle().

Deprecate mwait_idle() and the "idle=mwait" cmdline param
to simplify the x86 idle code.

After this change, kernels configured with
(!CONFIG_ACPI=n && !CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware
that support MWAIT will simply use HLT.  If MWAIT is desired
on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above
can be used.

cc: x86@kernel.org
cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-05-29 03:39:17 -04:00