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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2007-05-02 19:27:12 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:12 +0200
commitf039b754714a422959027cb18bb33760eb8153f0 (patch)
treec5f28502adf35f5ea7738a974cd7c4fc81e1dd21 /arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
parentc169859d6dfc7471ef9f2dbd720936e17906a084 (diff)
downloadlinux-f039b754714a422959027cb18bb33760eb8153f0.tar.gz
[PATCH] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10
It doesn't put the CPU into deeper sleep states, so it's better to use the standard idle loop to save power. But allow to reenable it anyways for benchmarking. I also removed the obsolete idle=halt on i386 Cc: andreas.herrmann@amd.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
index d8d5ccc245c897..4f21765078b7a1 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
@@ -288,16 +288,18 @@ void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
static int __init idle_setup (char *str)
{
- if (!strncmp(str, "poll", 4)) {
+ if (!strcmp(str, "poll")) {
printk("using polling idle threads.\n");
pm_idle = poll_idle;
- }
+ } else if (!strcmp(str, "mwait"))
+ force_mwait = 1;
+ else
+ return -1;
boot_option_idle_override = 1;
- return 1;
+ return 0;
}
-
-__setup("idle=", idle_setup);
+early_param("idle", idle_setup);
/* Prints also some state that isn't saved in the pt_regs */
void __show_regs(struct pt_regs * regs)