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ACPI: skip checking BM_STS if the BIOS doesn't ask for it
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:54:27 +0000 (16:54 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:26:45 +0000 (10:26 -0700)
commit75676db2d5fe83904ca91c6c40ac81aad54b6493
tree13a3dc6f99ac6cf94f0ae44e2fa150bbf8e0ecce
parent8f338e228afcdf15faa127ae1c218377218ab44a
ACPI: skip checking BM_STS if the BIOS doesn't ask for it

commit 718be4aaf3613cf7c2d097f925abc3d3553c0605 upstream.

It turns out that there is a bit in the _CST for Intel FFH C3
that tells the OS if we should be checking BM_STS or not.

Linux has been unconditionally checking BM_STS.
If the chip-set is configured to enable BM_STS,
it can retard or completely prevent entry into
deep C-states -- as illustrated by turbostat:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~lenb/acpi/utils/pmtools/turbostat/

ref: Intel Processor Vendor-Specific ACPI Interface Specification
table 4 "_CST FFH GAS Field Encoding"
Bit 1: Set to 1 if OSPM should use Bus Master avoidance for this C-state

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15886

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
include/acpi/processor.h