Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

From: Mark Lord
Date: Thu Jan 03 2008 - 22:17:21 EST


Venki Pallipadi wrote:
Reintroduce run time configurable max_cstate for !CPU_IDLE case.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6.24-rc/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.24-rc.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
+++ linux-2.6.24-rc/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ static void (*pm_idle_save) (void) __rea
#define PM_TIMER_TICKS_TO_US(p) (((p) * 1000)/(PM_TIMER_FREQUENCY/1000))
static unsigned int max_cstate __read_mostly = ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
module_param(max_cstate, uint, 0000);
+#else
+module_param(max_cstate, uint, 0644);
+#endif
static unsigned int nocst __read_mostly;
module_param(nocst, uint, 0000);
..

I'll try and re-test with this on Friday.

Meanwhile, can you give a short summary of how behaviour differs
between CONFIG_CPU_IDLE and !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE ??

I'm not at all clear on how this really affects things.

Thanks.
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