1686 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Ingo Molnar
acee709cab Merge branches 'x86/urgent', 'x86/amd-iommu', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/core', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/gart', 'x86/kprobes', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/modules', 'x86/nmi', 'x86/pat', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup', 'x86/step', 'x86/unify-pci', 'x86/uv', 'x86/xen' and 'xen-64bit' into x86/for-linus 2008-07-21 16:37:17 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e66d90fb4a Merge branch 'linus' into xen-64bit 2008-07-21 15:06:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1c29dd9a9e Merge branch 'linus' into x86/paravirt-spinlocks 2008-07-21 15:05:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
33a37eb411 KVM: fix exception entry / build bug, on 64-bit
-tip testing found this build bug:

 arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
 arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0xb): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
 arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x15): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
 arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x1f): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'
 arch/x86/kvm/built-in.o:(.text.fixup+0x29): relocation truncated to fit: R_X86_64_32 against `.text'

Introduced by commit 4ecac3fd. The problem is that 'push' will default
to 32-bit, which is not wide enough as a fixup address. (and which would
crash on any real fixup event even if it was wide enough)

Introduce KVM_EX_PUSH to get the proper address push width on 64-bit too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-21 11:03:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e27772b48d Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent 2008-07-21 11:02:45 +02:00
Avi Kivity
d6e88aec07 KVM: Prefix some x86 low level function with kvm_, to avoid namespace issues
Fixes compilation with CONFIG_VMI enabled.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:39 +03:00
Avi Kivity
7a5b56dfd3 KVM: x86 emulator: lazily evaluate segment registers
Instead of prefetching all segment bases before emulation, read them at the
last moment.  Since most of them are unneeded, we save some cycles on
Intel machines where this is a bit expensive.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:35 +03:00
Avi Kivity
f5b4edcd52 KVM: x86 emulator: simplify rip relative decoding
rip relative decoding is relative to the instruction pointer of the next
instruction; by moving address adjustment until after decoding is complete,
we remove the need to determine the instruction size.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:34 +03:00
Laurent Vivier
542472b53e KVM: Add coalesced MMIO support (x86 part)
This patch enables coalesced MMIO for x86 architecture.
It defines KVM_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET and KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO.
It enables the compilation of coalesced_mmio.c.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:31 +03:00
Guillaume Thouvenin
3e6e0aab1b KVM: Prefixes segment functions that will be exported with "kvm_"
Prefixes functions that will be exported with kvm_.
We also prefixed set_segment() even if it still static
to be coherent.

signed-off-by: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@ext.bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent.vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:27 +03:00
Avi Kivity
9ba075a664 KVM: MTRR support
Add emulation for the memory type range registers, needed by VMware esx 3.5,
and by pci device assignment.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:26 +03:00
Avi Kivity
81609e3e26 KVM: Order segment register constants in the same way as cpu operand encoding
This can be used to simplify the x86 instruction decoder.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:26 +03:00
Sheng Yang
f08864b42a KVM: VMX: Enable NMI with in-kernel irqchip
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:26 +03:00
Sheng Yang
3419ffc8e4 KVM: IOAPIC/LAPIC: Enable NMI support
[avi: fix ia64 build breakage]

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity
7cc8883074 KVM: Remove decache_vcpus_on_cpu() and related callbacks
Obsoleted by the vmx-specific per-cpu list.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:42:25 +03:00
Avi Kivity
4ecac3fd6d KVM: Handle virtualization instruction #UD faults during reboot
KVM turns off hardware virtualization extensions during reboot, in order
to disassociate the memory used by the virtualization extensions from the
processor, and in order to have the system in a consistent state.
Unfortunately virtual machines may still be running while this goes on,
and once virtualization extensions are turned off, any virtulization
instruction will #UD on execution.

Fix by adding an exception handler to virtualization instructions; if we get
an exception during reboot, we simply spin waiting for the reset to complete.
If it's a true exception, BUG() so we can have our stack trace.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:41:43 +03:00
Avi Kivity
1b7fcd3263 KVM: MMU: Fix false flooding when a pte points to page table
The KVM MMU tries to detect when a speculative pte update is not actually
used by demand fault, by checking the accessed bit of the shadow pte.  If
the shadow pte has not been accessed, we deem that page table flooded and
remove the shadow page table, allowing further pte updates to proceed
without emulation.

However, if the pte itself points at a page table and only used for write
operations, the accessed bit will never be set since all access will happen
through the emulator.

This is exactly what happens with kscand on old (2.4.x) HIGHMEM kernels.
The kernel points a kmap_atomic() pte at a page table, and then
proceeds with read-modify-write operations to look at the dirty and accessed
bits.  We get a false flood trigger on the kmap ptes, which results in the
mmu spending all its time setting up and tearing down shadows.

Fix by setting the shadow accessed bit on emulated accesses.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:40:50 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
d2ebb4103f KVM: SVM: add tracing support for TDP page faults
To distinguish between real page faults and nested page faults they should be
traced as different events. This is implemented by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:40:48 +03:00
Peter Zijlstra
31656519e1 sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799

and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:

> 8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f is first bad commit
> commit 8f4d37ec073c17e2d4aa8851df5837d798606d6f
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date:   Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
>
>    sched: high-res preemption tick

Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:

> Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
> _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
>
> Why?
>
> Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
> "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
> vm86 mode unnecessarily.
>
> See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
> "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.

Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
That however is fixed these days.

Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
hrtimer_start_on().

However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
that does seem to be supported, good.

Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...

Mihai reported test success as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 10:37:28 +02:00
Mike Travis
94a1e869c7 NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
* Slight optimization when getting one's own cpu_info percpu data.

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 10:21:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c4dc59ae7a x86, VisWS: turn into generic arch, eliminate leftover files
remove unused leftovers.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 09:31:24 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
63b5d7af25 x86: add ->pre_time_init to x86_quirks
so NUMAQ can use that to call numaq_pre_time_init()

This allows us to remove a NUMAQ special from arch/x86/kernel/setup.c.

(and paves the way to remove the NUMAQ subarch)

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 09:25:52 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
64898a8bad x86: extend and use x86_quirks to clean up NUMAQ code
add these new x86_quirks methods:

	int *mpc_record;
	int (*mpc_apic_id)(struct mpc_config_processor *m);
	void (*mpc_oem_bus_info)(struct mpc_config_bus *m, char *name);
	void (*mpc_oem_pci_bus)(struct mpc_config_bus *m);
	void (*smp_read_mpc_oem)(struct mp_config_oemtable *oemtable,
                                    unsigned short oemsize);

... and move NUMAQ related mps table handling to numaq_32.c.

also move the call to smp_read_mpc_oem() to smp_read_mpc() directly.

Should not change functionality, albeit it would be nice to get it
tested on real NUMAQ as well ...

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 09:25:52 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
3c9cb6de1e x86: introduce x86_quirks
introduce x86_quirks array of boot-time quirk methods.

No change in functionality intended.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-20 09:18:17 +02:00
Jan Beulich
48fe4a76e2 x86: i386: reduce boot fixmap space
As 256 entries are needed, aligning to a 256-entry boundary is
sufficient and still guarantees the single pte table requirement.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-18 16:17:52 -07:00
Jan Beulich
08ad8afaa0 x86: reduce force_mwait visibility
It's not used anywhere outside its single referencing file.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-18 15:55:09 -07:00
Jan Beulich
08e1a13e7d x86: reduce forbid_dac's visibility
It's not used anywhere outside its declaring file.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-18 14:39:37 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
bb2c018b09 Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096
Conflicts:

	drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 22:00:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f6dc8ccaab Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:

	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 21:13:20 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh
6ac8d51f01 x86: introducing asm-x86/traps.h
Declaring x86 traps under one hood.
Declaring x86 do_traps before defining them.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 18:51:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f1b0c8d3d3 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/amd-iommu 2008-07-18 18:43:08 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
9781f39fd2 x86: consolidate the definition of the force_mwait variable
The force_mwait variable iss defined either in
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c or in arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c, but it is
only initialized and used in arch/x86/kernel/process.c. This patch
moves the declaration to arch/x86/kernel/process.c.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: michael@free-electrons.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 18:39:19 +02:00
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
723edb5060 Fix typos from signal_32/64.h merge
Fallout from commit 33185c504f8e521b398536b5a8d415779a24593c ("x86:
merge signal_32/64.h")

Thanks to Dick Streefland who provided an useful testcase on
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/17/205 (only applicable to 2.6.24.x), that
helped a lot as a deterministic way to bisect an issue that leaded to
this fix.

Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 17:59:13 +02:00
Russ Anderson
7019cc2dd6 x86 BIOS interface for RTC on SGI UV
Real-time code needs to know the number of cycles per second
on SGI UV.  The information is provided via a run time BIOS
call.  This patch provides the linux side of that interface.
This is the first of several run time BIOS calls to be defined
in uv/bios.h and bios_uv.c.

Note that BIOS_CALL() is just a stub for now.  The bios
side is being worked on.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:35:14 +02:00
Alexander van Heukelum
8450e85399 x86, cleanup: fix description of __fls(): __fls(0) is undefined
Ricardo M. Correia spotted that the use of __fls() in fls64() did
not seem to make sense. In fact fls64()'s implementation is fine,
but the description of __fls() was wrong. Fix that.

Reported-by: "Ricardo M. Correia" <Ricardo.M.Correia@Sun.COM>
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:32:38 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
35b680557f x86: more apic debugging
[ mingo@elte.hu: picked up this patch from Maciej, lets make apic=debug
                 print out more info - we had a lot of APIC changes ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:27:51 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
baa1318841 x86: APIC: Make apic_verbosity unsigned
As a microoptimisation, make apic_verbosity unsigned.  This will make
apic_printk(APIC_QUIET, ...) expand into just printk(...) with the
surrounding condition and a reference to apic_verbosity removed.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:27:43 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
1f067167a8 x86: seperate memtest from init_64.c
it's separate functionality that deserves its own file.

This also prepares 32-bit memtest support.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 14:10:27 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
3217256188 x86: suppress sparse returning void warnings
include/asm/paravirt.h:1404:2: warning: returning void-valued expression
include/asm/paravirt.h:1414:2: warning: returning void-valued expression

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 13:42:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2fb5e1e101 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/paravirt-spinlocks
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 13:41:27 +02:00
Sebastian Siewior
2b7207a6b5 ftrace: copy + paste typo in asm/ftrace.h
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.co>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 13:14:08 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
593f4a788e x86: APIC: remove apic_write_around(); use alternatives
Use alternatives to select the workaround for the 11AP Pentium erratum
for the affected steppings on the fly rather than build time.  Remove the
X86_GOOD_APIC configuration option and replace all the calls to
apic_write_around() with plain apic_write(), protecting accesses to the
ESR as appropriate due to the 3AP Pentium erratum.  Remove
apic_read_around() and all its invocations altogether as not needed.
Remove apic_write_atomic() and all its implementing backends.  The use of
ASM_OUTPUT2() is not strictly needed for input constraints, but I have
used it for readability's sake.

I had the feeling no one else was brave enough to do it, so I went ahead
and here it is.  Verified by checking the generated assembly and tested
with both a 32-bit and a 64-bit configuration, also with the 11AP
"feature" forced on and verified with gdb on /proc/kcore to work as
expected (as an 11AP machines are quite hard to get hands on these days).
Some script complained about the use of "volatile", but apic_write() needs
it for the same reason and is effectively a replacement for writel(), so I
have disregarded it.

I am not sure what the policy wrt defconfig files is, they are generated
and there is risk of a conflict resulting from an unrelated change, so I
have left changes to them out.  The option will get removed from them at
the next run.

Some testing with machines other than mine will be needed to avoid some
stupid mistake, but despite its volume, the change is not really that
intrusive, so I am fairly confident that because it works for me, it will
everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 12:51:21 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
48ae744434 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/step 2008-07-18 10:14:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
393d81aa02 Merge branch 'linus' into xen-64bit 2008-07-17 23:57:20 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
4fdf08b5bf x86: unify and correct the GDT_ENTRY() macro
Merge the GDT_ENTRY() macro between arch/x86/boot/pm.c and
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c and put the new one in
<asm-x86/segment.h>.

While we're at it, correct the bitmasks for the limit and flags.  The
new version relies on using ULL constants in order to cause type
promotion rather than explicit casts; this avoids having to include
<linux/types.h> in <asm-x86/segments.h>.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-07-17 11:29:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2b04be7e8a Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix asm/e820.h for userspace inclusion
  x86: fix numaq_tsc_disable
  x86: fix kernel_physical_mapping_init() for large x86 systems
2008-07-17 10:38:59 -07:00
Rusty Russell
2567d71cc7 x86: fix asm/e820.h for userspace inclusion
asm-x86/e820.h is included from userspace.  'x86: make e820.c to have
common functions' (b79cd8f1268bab57ff85b19d131f7f23deab2dee) broke it:

	make -C Documentation/lguest
	cc -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include
lguest.c  -lz -o lguest
	In file included from ../../include/asm-x86/bootparam.h:8,
	                 from lguest.c:45:
	../../include/asm/e820.h:66: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
	../../include/asm/e820.h:67: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
	../../include/asm/e820.h:68: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
	../../include/asm/e820.h:72: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’
or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘e820_update_range’
	...

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-17 19:28:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
dc7c65db28 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
  Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
  PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
  x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
  PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
  PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
  x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
  Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
  PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
  PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
  PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
  ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
  PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
  PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
  ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
  PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
  PCI: handle pci_name() being const
  PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
  PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
  PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
  ...

Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.
2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
Zhao Yakui
da5e09a1b3 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>
2008-07-16 23:27:05 +02:00
Zhao Yakui
c1e3b377ad 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>
2008-07-16 23:27:05 +02:00