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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2006-09-25 16:28:13 -0700
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2006-10-14 00:35:39 -0400
commit991528d7348667924176f3e29addea0675298944 (patch)
treeed8552bd4c696700a95ae37b26c4197923207ae7 /arch/x86_64/kernel
parentb4bd8c66435a8cdf8c90334fb3b517a23ff2ab95 (diff)
ACPI: Processor native C-states using MWAIT
Intel processors starting with the Core Duo support support processor native C-state using the MWAIT instruction. Refer: Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual http://www.intel.com/design/Pentium4/manuals/253668.htm Platform firmware exports the support for Native C-state to OS using ACPI _PDC and _CST methods. Refer: Intel Processor Vendor-Specific ACPI: Interface Specification http://www.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads/302223.htm With Processor Native C-state, we use 'MWAIT' instruction on the processor to enter different C-states (C1, C2, C3). We won't use the special IO ports to enter C-state and no SMM mode etc required to enter C-state. Overall this will mean better C-state support. One major advantage of using MWAIT for all C-states is, with this and "treat interrupt as break event" feature of MWAIT, we can now get accurate timing for the time spent in C1, C2, .. states. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86_64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c22
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
index 5e95b257ee2..49f7fac6229 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c
@@ -238,20 +238,28 @@ void cpu_idle (void)
* We execute MONITOR against need_resched and enter optimized wait state
* through MWAIT. Whenever someone changes need_resched, we would be woken
* up from MWAIT (without an IPI).
+ *
+ * New with Core Duo processors, MWAIT can take some hints based on CPU
+ * capability.
*/
-static void mwait_idle(void)
+void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long eax, unsigned long ecx)
{
- local_irq_enable();
-
- while (!need_resched()) {
+ if (!need_resched()) {
__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
smp_mb();
- if (need_resched())
- break;
- __mwait(0, 0);
+ if (!need_resched())
+ __mwait(eax, ecx);
}
}
+/* Default MONITOR/MWAIT with no hints, used for default C1 state */
+static void mwait_idle(void)
+{
+ local_irq_enable();
+ while (!need_resched())
+ mwait_idle_with_hints(0,0);
+}
+
void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
static int printed;