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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-02-19 00:09:22 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-03-14 20:58:38 -0400
commit68ca406930d6380b3be7ada5f15fcf85bfcbd552 (patch)
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parent4c81ba4900ab4eb24c7d2ba1aca594c644b6ce4c (diff)
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ACPI: delete the "acpi=ht" boot option
acpi=ht was important in 2003 -- before ACPI was universally deployed and enabled by default in the major Linux distributions. At that time, there were a fair number of people who or chose to, or needed to, run with acpi=off, yet also wanted access to Hyper-threading. Today we find that many invocations of "acpi=ht" are accidental, and thus is it possible that it is doing more harm than good. In 2.6.34, we warn on invocation of acpi=ht. In 2.6.35, we delete the boot option. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt3
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c19
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lguest/boot.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/tables.c4
6 files changed, 6 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 3bc48b0bd3a9..41b924ff0b51 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -143,11 +143,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86]
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
- Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq | rsdt }
+ Format: { force | off | strict | noirq | rsdt }
force -- enable ACPI if default was off
off -- disable ACPI if default was on
noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
- ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
strictly ACPI specification compliant.
rsdt -- prefer RSDT over (default) XSDT
diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h
index 21adbd7f90f8..837dc82a013e 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ ia64_acpi_release_global_lock (unsigned int *lock)
#define acpi_noirq 0 /* ACPI always enabled on IA64 */
#define acpi_pci_disabled 0 /* ACPI PCI always enabled on IA64 */
#define acpi_strict 1 /* no ACPI spec workarounds on IA64 */
-#define acpi_ht 0 /* no HT-only mode on IA64 */
#endif
#define acpi_processor_cstate_check(x) (x) /* no idle limits on IA64 :) */
static inline void disable_acpi(void) { }
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h
index 56f462cf22d2..aa2c39d968fc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ extern int acpi_ioapic;
extern int acpi_noirq;
extern int acpi_strict;
extern int acpi_disabled;
-extern int acpi_ht;
extern int acpi_pci_disabled;
extern int acpi_skip_timer_override;
extern int acpi_use_timer_override;
@@ -97,7 +96,6 @@ void acpi_pic_sci_set_trigger(unsigned int, u16);
static inline void disable_acpi(void)
{
acpi_disabled = 1;
- acpi_ht = 0;
acpi_pci_disabled = 1;
acpi_noirq = 1;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
index 7914ab0ad76e..63bcf39f8f24 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_disabled);
int acpi_noirq; /* skip ACPI IRQ initialization */
int acpi_pci_disabled; /* skip ACPI PCI scan and IRQ initialization */
EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_pci_disabled);
-int acpi_ht __initdata = 1; /* enable HT */
int acpi_lapic;
int acpi_ioapic;
@@ -1460,9 +1459,8 @@ void __init acpi_boot_table_init(void)
/*
* If acpi_disabled, bail out
- * One exception: acpi=ht continues far enough to enumerate LAPICs
*/
- if (acpi_disabled && !acpi_ht)
+ if (acpi_disabled)
return;
/*
@@ -1493,9 +1491,8 @@ int __init early_acpi_boot_init(void)
{
/*
* If acpi_disabled, bail out
- * One exception: acpi=ht continues far enough to enumerate LAPICs
*/
- if (acpi_disabled && !acpi_ht)
+ if (acpi_disabled)
return 1;
/*
@@ -1513,9 +1510,8 @@ int __init acpi_boot_init(void)
/*
* If acpi_disabled, bail out
- * One exception: acpi=ht continues far enough to enumerate LAPICs
*/
- if (acpi_disabled && !acpi_ht)
+ if (acpi_disabled)
return 1;
acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_BOOT, acpi_parse_sbf);
@@ -1550,21 +1546,12 @@ static int __init parse_acpi(char *arg)
/* acpi=force to over-ride black-list */
else if (strcmp(arg, "force") == 0) {
acpi_force = 1;
- acpi_ht = 1;
acpi_disabled = 0;
}
/* acpi=strict disables out-of-spec workarounds */
else if (strcmp(arg, "strict") == 0) {
acpi_strict = 1;
}
- /* Limit ACPI just to boot-time to enable HT */
- else if (strcmp(arg, "ht") == 0) {
- if (!acpi_force) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "acpi=ht will be removed in Linux-2.6.35\n");
- disable_acpi();
- }
- acpi_ht = 1;
- }
/* acpi=rsdt use RSDT instead of XSDT */
else if (strcmp(arg, "rsdt") == 0) {
acpi_rsdt_forced = 1;
diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
index 7e59dc1d3fc2..8eb9eed60282 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c
@@ -1391,7 +1391,6 @@ __init void lguest_init(void)
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
acpi_disabled = 1;
- acpi_ht = 0;
#endif
/*
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/tables.c b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
index 8a0ed2800e63..f336bca7c450 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/tables.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/tables.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ acpi_table_parse_entries(char *id,
unsigned long table_end;
acpi_size tbl_size;
- if (acpi_disabled && !acpi_ht)
+ if (acpi_disabled)
return -ENODEV;
if (!handler)
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ int __init acpi_table_parse(char *id, acpi_table_handler handler)
struct acpi_table_header *table = NULL;
acpi_size tbl_size;
- if (acpi_disabled && !acpi_ht)
+ if (acpi_disabled)
return -ENODEV;
if (!handler)