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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 /include/asm-x86 | |
| 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 'include/asm-x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-x86/processor.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/processor.h b/include/asm-x86/processor.h index bc221623248..55402d2ab93 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86/processor.h +++ b/include/asm-x86/processor.h @@ -728,6 +728,7 @@ extern void select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c); extern unsigned long boot_option_idle_override; extern unsigned long idle_halt; +extern unsigned long idle_nomwait; extern void enable_sep_cpu(void); extern int sysenter_setup(void); |