modern dual-core systems as well.
- Parse the _CST packages for each cpu and track all the states individually,
on a per-cpu basis.
- Revert to generic FADT/P_BLK based Cx control if the _CST package
is not present on all cpus. In that case, the new driver will
still support per-cpu Cx state handling. The driver will determine the
highest Cx level that can be supported by all the cpus and configure the
available Cx state based on that.
- Fixed the case where multiple cpus in the system share the same
registers for Cx state handling. To do that, added a new flag
parameter to the acpi_PkgGas and acpi_bus_alloc_gas functions that
enable the caller to add the RF_SHAREABLE flag. This flag could also be
useful to other callers (acpi_throttle?) in the tree but this change is
not yet made.
- For Core Duo cpus, both cores seems to be taken out of C3 state when
any one of the cores need to transition out. This broke the short sleep
detection logic. It is disabled now if there is more than one cpu in
the system for now as it fixed it in my case. This quirk may need to
be re-enabled later differently.
- Added support to control cx_lowest on a per-cpu basis. There is still
a generic cx_lowest to enable changing cx_lowest for all cpus with a single
sysctl and for ease of use. Sample output for the new sysctl:
dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/1 C3/57
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C3
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 0.00% 43.16% 56.83%
dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/1 C2/1 C3/57
dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C3
dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 0.00% 45.65% 54.34%
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C3
This work was done by Stephane E. Potvin with some simple reworking by
myself. Thank you.
Submitted by: Stephane E. Potvin <sepotvin / videotron.ca>
MFC after: 2 weeks
acpi_bus_alloc_gas() to delete the resource it set if alloc fails. Then,
change acpi_perf to delete the resource after releasing it if alloc fails.
This should make probe and attach both fully restartable if either fails.
count of valid frequencies and use that as the final package count, don't
give up when the first invalid state is found. Also, add 0x9999 and expand
our upper check to >= 0xffff Mhz [2].
Submitted by: Bruno Ducrot, Jung-uk Kim [2]
SMP systems. It appears all drivers except ichss should attach to each
CPU and that settings should be performed on each CPU. Add comments about
this. Also, add a guard for p4tcc's identify method being called more than
once.
modes, systems may take longer. If the status values don't match, try
matching just the lowest 8 bits if no bits above 8 are set in the desired
value. The IBM R32 has other bits set in the status register that are
irrelevant to the expected value.
driver. This used to be handled by cpufreq_drv_settings() but it's
useful to get the type/flags separately from getting the settings.
(For example, you don't have to pass an array of cf_setting just to find
the driver type.)
Use this new method in our in-tree drivers to detect reliably if acpi_perf
is present and owns the hardware. This simplifies logic in drivers as well
as fixing a bug introduced in my last commit where too many drivers attached.
are not added to the list(s) of available settings. However, other drivers
can call the CPUFREQ_DRV_SETTINGS() method on those devices directly to
get info about available settings.
Update the acpi_perf(4) driver to use this flag in the presence of
"functional fixed hardware." Thus, future drivers like Powernow can
query acpi_perf for platform info but perform frequency transitions
themselves.
doing it in the cpu driver. The previous code was incorrect anyway since
this value controls Px states, not throttling as the comment said. Since
we didn't support Px states before, there was no impact. Also, note that
we delay the write to SMI_CMD until after booting is complete since it
sometimes triggers a change in the frequency and we want to have all
drivers ready to detect/handle this.
the PERF_CTRL register in our probe method so that we can tell earlier
that another driver should handle this device due to FFixedHW. This avoids
scaring users when attach failed when we really wanted probe to fail.
settings as exported via the ACPI _PSS method. OEMs use this interface
to encapsulate chipset or processor-specific methods (e.g., SpeedStep or
Powernow) and export their settings in a standard way. On systems that
have valid ACPI Performance states and a hardware-specific driver (e.g.,
ichss), acpi_perf(4) is preferred.
