On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 05:41:50AM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> From: Len Brown <[email protected]>
> 
> mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient
> than HLT on SMP hardware that supports it.
> 
> But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general
> mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states.
> ACPI uses only mwait_idle_with_hints(), and never uses mwait_idle().
> 
> Deprecate mwait_idle() and the "idle=mwait" cmdline param
> to simplify the x86 idle code.
> 
> After this change, kernels configured with
> (!CONFIG_ACPI=n && !CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware
> that support MWAIT will simply use HLT.  If MWAIT is desired
> on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above
> can be used.
> 
> cc: [email protected]
> cc: [email protected] # .39.x

Also not going to apply this one.

greg k-h

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