Re: [PATCH] ACPI: idle: fix init-time TSC check regression

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 18:28:46 EST


On Thu, 14 May 2009, Len Brown wrote:
> From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> A previous 2.6.30 patch, a71e4917dc0ebbcb5a0ecb7ca3486643c1c9a6e2,
> (ACPI: idle: mark_tsc_unstable() at init-time, not run-time)
> erroneously disabled the TSC on systems that did not actually
> have valid deep C-states.
>
> Move the check after the deep-C-states are validated,
> via new helper, tsc_check_state(), hich replaces tsc_halts_in_c().
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Thomas,
> I decided to use a tsc-specific helper
> rather than piggyback on acpi_timer_check_state(),
> since that is not general, but rather LAPIC timer specific.
> (and I'll re-name that to reflect its specific function
> in a cosmetic follow-up patch)

I have no strong opinion on that :)

> + if (cx->valid)
> + tsc_check_state(cx->type);
>
> if (cx->valid)
> working++;

Could do with

if (cx->valid) {
tsc_check_state(cx->type);
working++;
}

Otherwise Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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