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Rafael J. Wysocki 18734958e9 intel_idle: Use ACPI _CST for processor models without C-state tables
Modify the intel_idle driver to get the C-states information from ACPI
_CST if the processor model is not recognized by it.

The processor is still required to support MWAIT and the information
from ACPI _CST will only be used if all of the C-states listed by
_CST are of the ACPI_CSTATE_FFH type (which means that they are
expected to be entered via MWAIT).

Moreover, the driver assumes that the _CST information is the same
for all CPUs in the system, so it is sufficient to evaluate _CST for
one of them and extract the common list of C-states from there.
Also _CST is evaluated once at the system initialization time and
the driver does not respond to _CST change notifications (that can
be changed in the future).

The main functional difference between intel_idle with this change
and the ACPI processor driver is that the former sets the target
residency to be equal to the exit latency (provided by _CST) for
C1-type C-states and to 3 times the exit latency value for the other
C-state types, whereas the latter obtains the target residency by
multiplying the exit latency by the same number (2 by default) for
all C-state types.  Therefore it is expected that in general using
the former instead of the latter on the same system will lead to
improved energy-efficiency.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2019-12-27 11:02:08 +01:00
arch RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc2 2019-12-15 12:27:31 -08:00
block for-linus-20191212 2019-12-13 14:27:19 -08:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
Documentation SCSI fixes on 20191214 2019-12-14 12:51:57 -08:00
drivers intel_idle: Use ACPI _CST for processor models without C-state tables 2019-12-27 11:02:08 +01:00
fs Merge branch 'remove-ksys-mount-dup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux 2019-12-15 11:36:12 -08:00
include ACPI: processor: Export acpi_processor_evaluate_cst() 2019-12-27 11:02:07 +01:00
init fs: remove ksys_dup() 2019-12-12 19:00:36 +01:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel treewide conversion from FIELD_SIZEOF() to sizeof_field() 2019-12-13 14:02:12 -08:00
lib lib: raid6: fix awk build warnings 2019-12-09 18:55:03 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-12-05 09:46:26 -08:00
net io_uring-5.5-20191212 2019-12-13 14:24:54 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix broken xdp_rxq_info due to map order assumptions 2019-12-04 17:54:15 -08:00
scripts pr_warning() removal for 5.5 2019-12-09 11:48:21 -08:00
security treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.5-rc2 2019-12-13 14:40:38 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-12-08 13:28:11 -08:00
usr arch: sembuf.h: make uapi asm/sembuf.h self-contained 2019-12-04 19:44:14 -08:00
virt KVM: Fix jump label out_free_* in kvm_init() 2019-11-23 11:29:17 +01:00
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CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS overlayfs fixes for 5.5-rc2 2019-12-14 11:13:54 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.5-rc2 2019-12-15 15:16:08 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.