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| author | Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> | 2008-06-24 17:58:53 +0800 |
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| committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2008-07-16 23:27:05 +0200 |
| commit | c1e3b377ad48febba6f91b8ae42c44ee4d4ab45e (patch) | |
| tree | 7893e4226f52c4001150066f544415c1b17741f5 /include | |
| parent | 5b53496a5ad79e91052f72761a7c5516b069bc99 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-c1e3b377ad48febba6f91b8ae42c44ee4d4ab45e.zip op-kernel-dev-c1e3b377ad48febba6f91b8ae42c44ee4d4ab45e.tar.gz | |
ACPI: Create "idle=halt" bootparam
"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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-ia64/processor.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-x86/processor.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/processor.h b/include/asm-ia64/processor.h index 6aff126..f36e28a 100644 --- a/include/asm-ia64/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-ia64/processor.h @@ -763,6 +763,7 @@ prefetchw (const void *x) #define spin_lock_prefetch(x) prefetchw(x) extern unsigned long boot_option_idle_override; +extern unsigned long idle_halt; #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ diff --git a/include/asm-x86/processor.h b/include/asm-x86/processor.h index 7f73827..bc22162 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-x86/processor.h @@ -727,6 +727,7 @@ extern int force_mwait; extern void select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c); extern unsigned long boot_option_idle_override; +extern unsigned long idle_halt; extern void enable_sep_cpu(void); extern int sysenter_setup(void); |
