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ACPI idle: permit sparse C-state sub-state numbers 

Linux uses CPUID.MWAIT.EDX to validate the C-states
reported by ACPI, silently discarding states which
are not supported by the HW.

This test is too restrictive, as some HW now uses
sparse sub-state numbering, so the sub-state number
may be higher than the number of sub-states...

Also, rather than silently ignoring an invalid state,
we should complain about a firmware bug.

In practice...

Bay Trail systems originally supported C6-no-shrink as
MWAIT sub-state 0x58, and in CPUID.MWAIT.EDX 0x03000000
indicated that there were 3 MWAIT-C6 sub-states.
So acpi_idle would discard that C-state because 8 >= 3.

Upon discovering this issue, the ucode was updated so that
C6-no-shrink was also exported as 0x51, and the BIOS was
updated to match.  However, systems shipped with 0x58,
will never get a BIOS update, and this patch allows
Linux to see C6-no-shrink on early Bay Trail.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
wifi-calibration
Len Brown 2014-02-14 01:14:13 -05:00
parent b28a960c42
commit 2194324d8b
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
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@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ static long acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe_cpu(void *_cx)
num_cstate_subtype = edx_part & MWAIT_SUBSTATE_MASK;
retval = 0;
if (num_cstate_subtype < (cx->address & MWAIT_SUBSTATE_MASK)) {
/* If the HW does not support any sub-states in this C-state */
if (num_cstate_subtype == 0) {
pr_warn(FW_BUG "ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x%x not supported by HW (0x%x)\n", cx->address, edx_part);
retval = -1;
goto out;
}