From 93789b32dbf355e70f18b17a82e8661677a7f7fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:42:52 +0100 Subject: x86, hotplug: Fix powersavings with offlined cores on AMD ea53069231f9317062910d6e772cca4ce93de8c8 made a CPU use monitor/mwait when offline. This is not the optimal choice for AMD wrt to powersavings and we'd prefer our cores to halt (i.e. enter C1) instead. For this, the same selection whether to use monitor/mwait has to be used as when we select the idle routine for the machine. With this patch, offlining cores 1-5 on a X6 machine allows core0 to boost again. [ hpa: putting this in urgent since it is a (power) regression fix ] Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37.x Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Len Brown Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov LKML-Reference: <1295534572-10730-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/process.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index d8286ed54ffa..e764fc05d700 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ static void poll_idle(void) #define MWAIT_ECX_EXTENDED_INFO 0x01 #define MWAIT_EDX_C1 0xf0 -static int __cpuinit mwait_usable(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) +int __cpuinit mwait_usable(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx; -- cgit v1.2.3