x86 idle: remove mwait_idle() and "idle=mwait" cmdline param
mwait_idle() is a C1-only idle loop intended to be more efficient
than HLT, starting on Pentium-4 HT-enabled processors.
But mwait_idle() has been replaced by the more general
mwait_idle_with_hints(), which handles both C1 and deeper C-states.
ACPI processor_idle and intel_idle use only mwait_idle_with_hints(),
and no longer use mwait_idle().
Here we simplify the x86 native idle code by removing mwait_idle(),
and the "idle=mwait" bootparam used to invoke it.
Since Linux 3.0 there has been a boot-time warning when "idle=mwait"
was invoked saying it would be removed in 2012. This removal
was also noted in the (now removed:-) feature-removal-schedule.txt.
After this change, kernels configured with
(CONFIG_ACPI=n && CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=n) when run on hardware
that supports MWAIT will simply use HLT. If MWAIT is desired
on those systems, cpuidle and the cpuidle drivers above
can be enabled.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index ed0fe38..a6ceaed 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@
void *mwait_ptr;
struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = __this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_info);
- if (!(this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MWAIT) && mwait_usable(c)))
+ if (!this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_MWAIT))
return;
if (!this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLSH))
return;