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| author | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2010-07-22 16:54:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2010-07-22 16:54:27 -0400 |
| commit | 718be4aaf3613cf7c2d097f925abc3d3553c0605 (patch) | |
| tree | feaf57a034684a6742198a5cf10e8e05ed1cb10f /include/acpi | |
| parent | f4b23cc2d5dc78ef5acbc529eb1219cc41eb5b96 (diff) | |
ACPI: skip checking BM_STS if the BIOS doesn't ask for it
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/acpi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/acpi/processor.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/acpi/processor.h b/include/acpi/processor.h index da565a48240e..a68ca8a11a53 100644 --- a/include/acpi/processor.h +++ b/include/acpi/processor.h @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ struct acpi_power_register { u8 space_id; u8 bit_width; u8 bit_offset; - u8 reserved; + u8 access_size; u64 address; } __attribute__ ((packed)); @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct acpi_processor_cx { u32 power; u32 usage; u64 time; + u8 bm_sts_skip; char desc[ACPI_CX_DESC_LEN]; }; |