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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-07-22 16:54:27 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-07-22 16:54:27 -0400
commit718be4aaf3613cf7c2d097f925abc3d3553c0605 (patch)
treefeaf57a034684a6742198a5cf10e8e05ed1cb10f /drivers/acpi
parentf4b23cc2d5dc78ef5acbc529eb1219cc41eb5b96 (diff)
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ACPI: skip checking BM_STS if the BIOS doesn't ask for it
It turns out that there is a bit in the _CST for Intel FFH C3 that tells the OS if we should be checking BM_STS or not. Linux has been unconditionally checking BM_STS. If the chip-set is configured to enable BM_STS, it can retard or completely prevent entry into deep C-states -- as illustrated by turbostat: http://userweb.kernel.org/~lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools/turbostat/ ref: Intel Processor Vendor-Specific ACPI Interface Specification table 4 "_CST FFH GAS Field Encoding" Bit 1: Set to 1 if OSPM should use Bus Master avoidance for this C-state https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15886 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
index b1b3856..b351342 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_bm(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
if (acpi_idle_suspend)
return(acpi_idle_enter_c1(dev, state));
- if (acpi_idle_bm_check()) {
+ if (!cx->bm_sts_skip && acpi_idle_bm_check()) {
if (dev->safe_state) {
dev->last_state = dev->safe_state;
return dev->safe_state->enter(dev, dev->safe_state);
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