[patch 14/15] x86: remove mwait capability C-state check

[Greg KH]

2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

back-ported from upstream commit a738d897b7b03b83488ae74a9bc03d26a2875dc6 by Vegard Nossum

Vegard Nossum reports:

| powertop shows between 200-400 wakeups/second with the description
| "<kernel IPI>: Rescheduling interrupts" when all processors have load (e.g.
| I need to run two busy-loops on my 2-CPU system for this to show up).
|
| The bisect resulted in this commit:
|
| commit 0c07ee38c9d4eb081758f5ad14bbffa7197e1aec
| Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:33:16 2008 +0100
|
|     x86: use the correct cpuid method to detect MWAIT support for C states

remove the functional effects of this patch and make mwait unconditional.

A future patch will turn off mwait on specific CPUs where that causes
power to be wasted.

Bisected-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c |   10 +---------
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |   11 +----------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
@@ -259,14 +259,6 @@ static void mwait_idle(void)
 	mwait_idle_with_hints(0, 0);
 }
 
-static int __cpuinit mwait_usable(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
-{
-	if (force_mwait)
-		return 1;
-	/* Any C1 states supported? */
-	return c->cpuid_level >= 5 && ((cpuid_edx(5) >> 4) & 0xf) > 0;
-}
-
 void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
 	static int selected;
@@ -279,7 +271,7 @@ void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const
 			" performance may degrade.\n");
 	}
 #endif
-	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT) && mwait_usable(c)) {
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT)) {
 		/*
 		 * Skip, if setup has overridden idle.
 		 * One CPU supports mwait => All CPUs supports mwait
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -254,15 +254,6 @@ static void mwait_idle(void)
 	}
 }
 
-
-static int __cpuinit mwait_usable(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
-{
-	if (force_mwait)
-		return 1;
-	/* Any C1 states supported? */
-	return c->cpuid_level >= 5 && ((cpuid_edx(5) >> 4) & 0xf) > 0;
-}
-
 void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 {
 	static int selected;
@@ -275,7 +266,7 @@ void __cpuinit select_idle_routine(const
 			" performance may degrade.\n");
 	}
 #endif
-	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT) && mwait_usable(c)) {
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_MWAIT)) {
 		/*
 		 * Skip, if setup has overridden idle.
 		 * One CPU supports mwait => All CPUs supports mwait

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