On Friday, March 2, 2018 5:11:48 AM CET David Wang wrote:
> For Centaur CPU, the ucode will make sure that each CPU core can keep cache
> coherency with each other when the CPU core entering to any C state. So the
> cache flush operations when enter C3 is not necessary and will cause large
> C3 enter/exit latency.
> And the bus master disable operation when CPU core entering C3 state is not
> needed too. Because the chipset will automatically do this operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Wang <davidw...@zhaoxin.com>
I've queued up the previous version of your patch with some changes to
comments/subject/changelog made by me for v4.17.
Please see linux-next.
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
> index dde437f..1cd357b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
> @@ -51,6 +51,18 @@ void acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check(struct
> acpi_processor_flags *flags,
> if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL &&
> (c->x86 > 0xf || (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model >= 0x0f)))
> flags->bm_control = 0;
> +
> + if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR) {
> + /*
> + * on all centaur CPUs, sw need not execute cache flush
> operation
> + * when entering C3 type State.
> + *
> + * On all Centaur platforms, sw need not execute ARB_DISABLE
> while
> + * entering C3 type state.
> + */
> + flags->bm_check = 1;
> + flags->bm_control = 0;
> + }
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check);
>
>
