ACPI : Create "idle=nomwait" bootparam
authorZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:01:09 +0000 (18:01 +0800)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:27:05 +0000 (23:27 +0200)
commitda5e09a1b3e5a9fc0b15a3feb64e921ccc55ba74
tree382a75c1180e458df826ef4efbc191f3f71275c1
parentc1e3b377ad48febba6f91b8ae42c44ee4d4ab45e
ACPI : Create "idle=nomwait" bootparam

"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.

When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.

This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914

Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
arch/x86/kernel/process.c
drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
include/asm-ia64/processor.h
include/asm-x86/processor.h