linux/arch
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 363edbe261 powerpc: Default arch idle could cede processor on pseries
When adding cpuidle support to pSeries, we introduced two
regressions:

  - The new cpuidle backend driver only works under hypervisors
    supporting the "SLPLAR" option, which isn't the case of the
    old POWER4 hypervisor and the HV "light" used on js2x blades

  - The cpuidle driver registers fairly late, meaning that for
    a significant portion of the boot process, we end up having
    all threads spinning. This slows down the boot process and
    increases the overall resource usage if the hypervisor has
    shared processors.

This fixes both by implementing a "default" idle that will cede
to the hypervisor when possible, in a very simple way without
all the bells and whisles of cpuidle.

Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2013-09-11 11:41:54 +10:00
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alpha oprofilefs_create_...() do not need superblock argument 2013-09-03 22:52:48 -04:00
arc Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
arm Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
arm64 Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
avr32 - factor out common code from MTD tests 2013-09-09 10:33:19 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'cpuinit_phase2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2013-07-18 10:50:26 -07:00
c6x of: consolidate definition of early_init_dt_alloc_memory_arch() 2013-08-28 21:18:32 +01:00
cris CRIS: drop unused Kconfig symbols 2013-09-10 17:38:07 +02:00
frv frv/PCI: Mark pcibios_fixup_bus() as non-init 2013-07-25 12:18:42 -06:00
h8300 net: rename busy poll socket op and globals 2013-07-10 17:08:27 -07:00
hexagon arch: *: Kconfig: add "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" to "arch/*/Kconfig" 2013-08-13 17:57:49 -07:00
ia64 ARM: SoC platform changes for 3.12 2013-09-06 13:30:06 -07:00
m32r m32r: delete __cpuinit usage from all m32r files 2013-07-14 19:36:55 -04:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2013-09-09 09:04:46 -07:00
metag Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
microblaze Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
mips Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
mn10300 mn10300: Fix crash just after starting userspace on !CONFIG_PREEMPT 2013-09-10 14:54:59 -07:00
openrisc Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-09-06 09:36:28 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: Default arch idle could cede processor on pseries 2013-09-11 11:41:54 +10:00
s390 ARM: SoC platform changes for 3.12 2013-09-06 13:30:06 -07:00
score arch: *: Kconfig: add "kernel/Kconfig.freezer" to "arch/*/Kconfig" 2013-08-13 17:57:49 -07:00
sh MMC highlights for 3.12: 2013-09-10 13:33:09 -07:00
sparc ARM: SoC platform changes for 3.12 2013-09-06 13:30:06 -07:00
tile ARM: SoC platform changes for 3.12 2013-09-06 13:30:06 -07:00
um um: Add irq chip um/mask handlers 2013-09-07 10:57:19 +02:00
unicore32 reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernel 2013-07-09 10:33:29 -07:00
x86 Device tree core updates for v3.12 2013-09-10 13:53:52 -07:00
xtensa of: Specify initrd location using 64-bit 2013-07-24 11:10:01 +01:00
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Kconfig microblaze: fix clone syscall 2013-08-13 17:57:48 -07:00