Re: [PATCH 58/76] idle, x86: Allow off-lined CPU to enter deeper Cstates

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:25:27AM -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> >> +       while (1) {
> >> +
> >> +               if (cx->entry_method == ACPI_CSTATE_HALT)
> >> +                       halt();
> 
> What's the intent here?  I think that I can just set up a function pointer
> named "halt" on ia64 and point it to my cpu_halt() function (which looks
> for the deepest C-state, and then calls PAL to enter it. Is that equivalent
> to what the x86 "halt()" function does?

Or use the appropiate safe_halt() which should work on IA64.

> 
> -Tony
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