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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-08-01 09:49:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-08-01 09:49:29 -0700
commit42efa5e3a8888c45c15fc5a567cd77049a2e30f1 (patch)
treeb72f6bf5e213d60615b3e54fac9757127d0d665c /Documentation
parent650ea1f626ab4d939fda00b7cca57698dcf57e5e (diff)
parent3f2adf00f52b5f2e9e9f23bb5c77608fc9ee297c (diff)
Merge tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cpu updates from Borislav Petkov: - Remove the vendor check when selecting MWAIT as the default idle state - Respect idle=nomwait when supplied on the kernel cmdline - Two small cleanups * tag 'x86_cpu_for_v6.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/cpu: Use MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE constants x86: Fix comment for X86_FEATURE_ZEN x86: Remove vendor checks from prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt x86: Handle idle=nomwait cmdline properly for x86_idle
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst15
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
index aec2cd2aaea7..19754beb5a4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst
@@ -612,8 +612,8 @@ the ``menu`` governor to be used on the systems that use the ``ladder`` governor
by default this way, for example.
The other kernel command line parameters controlling CPU idle time management
-described below are only relevant for the *x86* architecture and some of
-them affect Intel processors only.
+described below are only relevant for the *x86* architecture and references
+to ``intel_idle`` affect Intel processors only.
The *x86* architecture support code recognizes three kernel command line
options related to CPU idle time management: ``idle=poll``, ``idle=halt``,
@@ -635,10 +635,13 @@ idle, so it very well may hurt single-thread computations performance as well as
energy-efficiency. Thus using it for performance reasons may not be a good idea
at all.]
-The ``idle=nomwait`` option disables the ``intel_idle`` driver and causes
-``acpi_idle`` to be used (as long as all of the information needed by it is
-there in the system's ACPI tables), but it is not allowed to use the
-``MWAIT`` instruction of the CPUs to ask the hardware to enter idle states.
+The ``idle=nomwait`` option prevents the use of ``MWAIT`` instruction of
+the CPU to enter idle states. When this option is used, the ``acpi_idle``
+driver will use the ``HLT`` instruction instead of ``MWAIT``. On systems
+running Intel processors, this option disables the ``intel_idle`` driver
+and forces the use of the ``acpi_idle`` driver instead. Note that in either
+case, ``acpi_idle`` driver will function only if all the information needed
+by it is in the system's ACPI tables.
In addition to the architecture-level kernel command line options affecting CPU
idle time management, there are parameters affecting individual ``CPUIdle``