ACPI: skip checking BM_STS if the BIOS doesn't ask for it
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:54:27 +0000 (16:54 -0400)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:54:27 +0000 (16:54 -0400)
commit718be4aaf3613cf7c2d097f925abc3d3553c0605
treefeaf57a034684a6742198a5cf10e8e05ed1cb10f
parentf4b23cc2d5dc78ef5acbc529eb1219cc41eb5b96
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>
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
include/acpi/processor.h