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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index 7fc7294..4d629c6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
unsigned long idle_halt;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(idle_halt);
+unsigned long idle_nomwait;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(idle_nomwait);
struct kmem_cache *task_xstate_cachep;
@@ -340,6 +342,15 @@
pm_idle = default_idle;
idle_halt = 1;
return 0;
+ } else if (!strcmp(str, "nomwait")) {
+ /*
+ * If the boot option of "idle=nomwait" is added,
+ * it means that mwait will be disabled for CPU C2/C3
+ * states. In such case it won't touch the variable
+ * of boot_option_idle_override.
+ */
+ idle_nomwait = 1;
+ return 0;
} else
return -1;