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| author | Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> | 2009-05-11 09:35:57 +0800 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-05-15 23:21:43 -0400 |
| commit | 56c213fa012f2bad9eff908292ff2500f840b020 (patch) | |
| tree | f4dad271e04fe7dabf02a0debf8945061083e146 /drivers | |
| parent | 091bf7624d1c90cec9e578a18529f615213ff847 (diff) | |
| download | blackbird-op-linux-56c213fa012f2bad9eff908292ff2500f840b020.tar.gz blackbird-op-linux-56c213fa012f2bad9eff908292ff2500f840b020.zip | |
ACPI processor: introduce module parameter processor.ignore_tpc
Introduce module parameter processor.ignore_tpc.
Some laptops are shipped with buggy _TPC,
this module parameter is used to to disable the buggy support.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13259
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: James Ettle <theholyettlz@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c index d0d1f4d50434..5f09fb8c0e05 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c @@ -45,6 +45,14 @@ #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PROCESSOR_COMPONENT ACPI_MODULE_NAME("processor_throttling"); +/* ignore_tpc: + * 0 -> acpi processor driver doesn't ignore _TPC values + * 1 -> acpi processor driver ignores _TPC values + */ +static int ignore_tpc; +module_param(ignore_tpc, int, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_tpc, "Disable broken BIOS _TPC throttling support"); + struct throttling_tstate { unsigned int cpu; /* cpu nr */ int target_state; /* target T-state */ @@ -283,6 +291,10 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_platform_limit(struct acpi_processor *pr) if (!pr) return -EINVAL; + + if (ignore_tpc) + goto end; + status = acpi_evaluate_integer(pr->handle, "_TPC", NULL, &tpc); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) { if (status != AE_NOT_FOUND) { @@ -290,6 +302,8 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_platform_limit(struct acpi_processor *pr) } return -ENODEV; } + +end: pr->throttling_platform_limit = (int)tpc; return 0; } @@ -302,6 +316,9 @@ int acpi_processor_tstate_has_changed(struct acpi_processor *pr) struct acpi_processor_limit *limit; int target_state; + if (ignore_tpc) + return 0; + result = acpi_processor_get_platform_limit(pr); if (result) { /* Throttling Limit is unsupported */ |
