<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h, branch v3.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 400</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:28+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Convert AMD erratum 400 to the bug infrastructure. Then, retract all
exports for modules since they're not needed now and make the AMD
erratum checking machinery local to amd.c. Use forward declarations to
avoid shuffling too much code around needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Convert AMD erratum 400 to the bug infrastructure. Then, retract all
exports for modules since they're not needed now and make the AMD
erratum checking machinery local to amd.c. Use forward declarations to
avoid shuffling too much code around needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Convert AMD Erratum 383</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e6ee94d58dfd06ec64c55f91581f00d4f98bf1f6'/>
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Convert the AMD erratum 383 testing code to the bug infrastructure. This
allows keeping the AMD-specific erratum testing machinery private to
amd.c and not export symbols to modules needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Convert the AMD erratum 383 testing code to the bug infrastructure. This
allows keeping the AMD-specific erratum testing machinery private to
amd.c and not export symbols to modules needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Convert Cyrix coma bug detection</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:26+00:00</published>
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... to the new facility.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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... to the new facility.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Convert FDIV bug detection</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=93a829e8e2c292f1d30155f64803101ca1cb7d3d'/>
<id>93a829e8e2c292f1d30155f64803101ca1cb7d3d</id>
<content type='text'>
... to the new facility. Add a reference to the wikipedia article
explaining the FDIV test we're doing here.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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... to the new facility. Add a reference to the wikipedia article
explaining the FDIV test we're doing here.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Convert F00F bug detection</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e2604b49e8a8827e8bc5b61bc0c5a889e028fdad'/>
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... to using the new facility and drop the cpuinfo_x86 member.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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... to using the new facility and drop the cpuinfo_x86 member.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, cpu: Expand cpufeature facility to include cpu bugs</title>
<updated>2013-04-02T17:12:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-20T14:07:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=65fc985b37dc241c4db7cd32adcbc989193fe3c8'/>
<id>65fc985b37dc241c4db7cd32adcbc989193fe3c8</id>
<content type='text'>
We add another 32-bit vector at the end of the -&gt;x86_capability
bitvector which collects bugs present in CPUs. After all, a CPU bug is a
kind of a capability, albeit a strange one.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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We add another 32-bit vector at the end of the -&gt;x86_capability
bitvector which collects bugs present in CPUs. After all, a CPU bug is a
kind of a capability, albeit a strange one.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363788448-31325-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T03:22:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c47f39e3b75e1138823984ad5079547c7a41b726'/>
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
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Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
 "This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
  initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)

  This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
  have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.

  As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
  infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."

* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
  x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
  x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
  x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
  x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
  x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
  x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
  x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
  x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
  x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
  x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-22T02:06:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2ef14f465b9e096531343f5b734cffc5f759f4a6'/>
<id>2ef14f465b9e096531343f5b734cffc5f759f4a6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
  developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
  one would like.

  The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
  by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
  create initial page tables.  In particular, rather than estimating how
  much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
  memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
  now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
  a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.

  This has several advantages:

  1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
     very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
     early in the kernel startup).

  2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
     from above the 4 GB limit.  This allows kdump to work on very large
     systems.

  3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
     equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
     by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.

  The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.

  Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
  were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
  __phys_addr()/__pa()."

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
  x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
  x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
  x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
  x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
  x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
  x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
  x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
  x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
  x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
  x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
  mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
  x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
  x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
  x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
  x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
  x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
  memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
  x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
  ...
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Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
  developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
  one would like.

  The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
  by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
  create initial page tables.  In particular, rather than estimating how
  much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
  memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
  now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
  a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.

  This has several advantages:

  1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
     very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
     early in the kernel startup).

  2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
     from above the 4 GB limit.  This allows kdump to work on very large
     systems.

  3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
     equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
     by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.

  The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.

  Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
  were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
  __phys_addr()/__pa()."

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
  x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
  x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
  x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
  x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
  x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
  x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
  x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
  x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
  x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
  x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
  x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
  mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
  x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
  x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
  x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
  x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
  x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
  memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
  x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2013-02-20T19:26:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-20T19:26:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8793422fd9ac5037f5047f80473007301df3689f'/>
<id>8793422fd9ac5037f5047f80473007301df3689f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:

 - Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J.  Wysocki
   with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg,
   Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu.

 - ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael
   J Wysocki.

 - ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with
   contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner.

 - Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg.

 - cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1
   state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle.

 - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.

 - cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with
   contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson.

 - Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk
   Brandewie.

 - cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn.

 - cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and
   powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett.

 - cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf
   and Rob Herring.

 - cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update
   from Shawn Guo.

 - cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat,
   and Inderpal Singh.

 - Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui.

 - Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker.

 - Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso,
   Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu,
   Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki
   Ishimatsu.

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits)
  PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle
  unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment
  openrisc idle: delete pm_idle
  mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle
  microblaze idle: delete pm_idle
  m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code
  ia64 idle: delete pm_idle
  cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle
  ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle
  ARM idle: delete pm_idle
  blackfin idle: delete pm_idle
  sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle
  sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle
  x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle
  APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
  tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default
  intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks
  ...
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:

 - Rework of the ACPI namespace scanning code from Rafael J.  Wysocki
   with contributions from Bjorn Helgaas, Jiang Liu, Mika Westerberg,
   Toshi Kani, and Yinghai Lu.

 - ACPI power resources handling and ACPI device PM update from Rafael
   J Wysocki.

 - ACPICA update to version 20130117 from Bob Moore and Lv Zheng with
   contributions from Aaron Lu, Chao Guan, Jesper Juhl, and Tim Gardner.

 - Support for Intel Lynxpoint LPSS from Mika Westerberg.

 - cpuidle update from Len Brown including Intel Haswell support, C1
   state for intel_idle, removal of global pm_idle.

 - cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.

 - cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Fabio Baltieri with
   contributions from Stratos Karafotis and Rickard Andersson.

 - Intel P-states driver for Sandy Bridge processors from Dirk
   Brandewie.

 - cpufreq driver for Marvell Kirkwood SoCs from Andrew Lunn.

 - cpufreq fixes related to ordering issues between acpi-cpufreq and
   powernow-k8 from Borislav Petkov and Matthew Garrett.

 - cpufreq support for Calxeda Highbank processors from Mark Langsdorf
   and Rob Herring.

 - cpufreq driver for the Freescale i.MX6Q SoC and cpufreq-cpu0 update
   from Shawn Guo.

 - cpufreq Exynos fixes and cleanups from Jonghwan Choi, Sachin Kamat,
   and Inderpal Singh.

 - Support for "lightweight suspend" from Zhang Rui.

 - Removal of the deprecated power trace API from Paul Gortmaker.

 - Assorted updates from Andreas Fleig, Colin Ian King, Davidlohr Bueso,
   Joseph Salisbury, Kees Cook, Li Fei, Nishanth Menon, ShuoX Liu,
   Srinivas Pandruvada, Tejun Heo, Thomas Renninger, and Yasuaki
   Ishimatsu.

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (267 commits)
  PM idle: remove global declaration of pm_idle
  unicore32 idle: delete stray pm_idle comment
  openrisc idle: delete pm_idle
  mn10300 idle: delete pm_idle
  microblaze idle: delete pm_idle
  m32r idle: delete pm_idle, and other dead idle code
  ia64 idle: delete pm_idle
  cris idle: delete idle and pm_idle
  ARM64 idle: delete pm_idle
  ARM idle: delete pm_idle
  blackfin idle: delete pm_idle
  sparc idle: rename pm_idle to sparc_idle
  sh idle: rename global pm_idle to static sh_idle
  x86 idle: rename global pm_idle to static x86_idle
  APM idle: register apm_cpu_idle via cpuidle
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Add kernel command line option disable intel_pstate.
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to disallow module build
  tools/power turbostat: display SMI count by default
  intel_idle: export both C1 and C1E
  ACPI / hotplug: Fix concurrency issues and memory leaks
  ...
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<entry>
<title>x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flag</title>
<updated>2013-02-10T08:32:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Len Brown</name>
<email>len.brown@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-10T07:28:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=27be457000211a6903968dfce06d5f73f051a217'/>
<id>27be457000211a6903968dfce06d5f73f051a217</id>
<content type='text'>
Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt",
and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets.

If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll"
is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT
in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so.

Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places.

First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes"
would be printed if and only if the user booted
the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code
to set that flag.

Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt"
were on the cmdline.

Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked
by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() --
all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset.
The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked
play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend.

Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations
indicating that it would be removed in 2012.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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<pre>
Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt",
and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets.

If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll"
is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT
in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so.

Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places.

First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes"
would be printed if and only if the user booted
the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code
to set that flag.

Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt"
were on the cmdline.

Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked
by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() --
all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset.
The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked
play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend.

Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations
indicating that it would be removed in 2012.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
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