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

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Mark Lord wrote:
> 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.
..

Okay, with !CONFIG_CPU_IDLE, this works fine -- same as 2.6.23 and earlier.

> 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.

???