Re: + restore-missing-sysfs-max_cstate-attr.patch added to -mm tree

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> Reintroduce run time configurable max_cstate for !CPU_IDLE case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.24-rc/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ static void (*pm_idle_save) (void) __rea
>  #define PM_TIMER_TICKS_TO_US(p)		(((p) * 1000)/(PM_TIMER_FREQUENCY/1000))
>  
>  static unsigned int max_cstate __read_mostly = ACPI_PROCESSOR_MAX_POWER;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_IDLE
>  module_param(max_cstate, uint, 0000);
> +#else
> +module_param(max_cstate, uint, 0644);
> +#endif
>  static unsigned int nocst __read_mostly;
>  module_param(nocst, uint, 0000);
>  
..

I'll try and re-test with this on Friday.

Meanwhile, can you give a short summary of how behaviour differs
between CONFIG_CPU_IDLE and !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE  ??

I'm not at all clear on how this really affects things.

Thanks.