This is what I intended to do since:
  1) the driver handles variable waits just fine, and
  2) interruptible waits aren't reported as load in the load avg.

Reported-and-tested-by: Andreas Hartmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c
index 1294a39..85c8ad4 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_ips.c
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ static int ips_monitor(void *data)
                last_msecs = jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies);
                expire = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(IPS_SAMPLE_PERIOD);
 
-               __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+               __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                mod_timer(&timer, expire);
                schedule();
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