From 718be4aaf3613cf7c2d097f925abc3d3553c0605 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Len Brown Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:54:27 -0400 Subject: 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 --- include/acpi/processor.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') 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]; }; -- cgit v1.2.3