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The purpose of the acpi_pad driver is to implement the "processor power
aggregator" device as described in the ACPI 4.0 spec section 8.5. It
takes requests from the BIOS (via ACPI) to put a specified number of
CPUs into idle, in order to save power, until further notice.
It does this by creating high-priority threads that try to keep the CPUs
in a high C-state (using the monitor/mwait CPU instructions). The
mwait() call is in a loop that checks periodically if the thread should
end and a few other things.
It was discovered through testing that the power_saving threads were
causing the system to consume more power than the system was consuming
before the threads were created. A counter in the main loop of
power_saving_thread() revealed that it was spinning. The mwait()
instruction was not keeping the CPU in a high C state very much if at
all.
Here is a simplification of the loop in function power_saving_thread() in
drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
:
try_to_freeze()
:
while (!need_resched()) {
:
if (!need_resched())
__mwait(power_saving_mwait_eax, 1);
:
if (jiffies > expire_time) {
do_sleep = 1;
break;
}
}
}
If need_resched() returns true, then mwait() is not called. It was
returning true because of things like timer interrupts, as in the
following sequence.
hrtimer_interrupt->__run_hrtimer->tick_sched_timer-> update_process_times->
rcu_check_callbacks->rcu_pending->__rcu_pending->set_need_resched
Kernels 3.5.0-rc2+ do not exhibit this problem, because a patch to
try_to_freeze() in include/linux/freezer.h introduces a call to
might_sleep(), which ultimately calls schedule() to clear the reschedule
flag and allows the the loop to execute the call to mwait().
However, the changes to try_to_freeze are unrelated to acpi_pad, and it
does not seem like a good idea to rely on an unrelated patch in a
function that could later be changed and reintroduce this bug.
Therefore, it seems better to make an explicit call to schedule() in the
outer loop when the need_resched flag is set.
Reported-and-tested-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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| .. | ||
| acpica | ||
| apei | ||
| ac.c | ||
| acpi_cmos_rtc.c | ||
| acpi_extlog.c | ||
| acpi_ipmi.c | ||
| acpi_lpss.c | ||
| acpi_memhotplug.c | ||
| acpi_pad.c | ||
| acpi_platform.c | ||
| acpi_processor.c | ||
| battery.c | ||
| battery.h | ||
| bgrt.c | ||
| blacklist.c | ||
| bus.c | ||
| button.c | ||
| container.c | ||
| custom_method.c | ||
| debugfs.c | ||
| device_pm.c | ||
| dock.c | ||
| ec_sys.c | ||
| ec.c | ||
| event.c | ||
| fan.c | ||
| glue.c | ||
| hed.c | ||
| internal.h | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| numa.c | ||
| nvs.c | ||
| osl.c | ||
| pci_irq.c | ||
| pci_link.c | ||
| pci_root.c | ||
| pci_slot.c | ||
| power.c | ||
| proc.c | ||
| processor_core.c | ||
| processor_driver.c | ||
| processor_idle.c | ||
| processor_perflib.c | ||
| processor_thermal.c | ||
| processor_throttling.c | ||
| reboot.c | ||
| resource.c | ||
| sbs.c | ||
| sbshc.c | ||
| sbshc.h | ||
| scan.c | ||
| sleep.c | ||
| sleep.h | ||
| sysfs.c | ||
| tables.c | ||
| thermal.c | ||
| utils.c | ||
| video_detect.c | ||
| video.c | ||
| wakeup.c | ||