From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
===============
commit 2194324d8bbbad1b179c08b6095649b06abd62d5 upstream.
Linux uses CPUID.MWAIT.EDX to validate the C-states
reported by ACPI, silently discarding states which
are not supported by the HW.
This test is too restrictive, as some HW now uses
sparse sub-state numbering, so the sub-state number
may be higher than the number of sub-states...
Also, rather than silently ignoring an invalid state,
we should complain about a firmware bug.
In practice...
Bay Trail systems originally supported C6-no-shrink as
MWAIT sub-state 0x58, and in CPUID.MWAIT.EDX 0x03000000
indicated that there were 3 MWAIT-C6 sub-states.
So acpi_idle would discard that C-state because 8 >= 3.
Upon discovering this issue, the ucode was updated so that
C6-no-shrink was also exported as 0x51, and the BIOS was
updated to match. However, systems shipped with 0x58,
will never get a BIOS update, and this patch allows
Linux to see C6-no-shrink on early Bay Trail.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
index d2b7f27781bc..40df29f2b87f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ static long acpi_processor_ffh_cstate_probe_cpu(void *_cx)
num_cstate_subtype = edx_part & MWAIT_SUBSTATE_MASK;
retval = 0;
- if (num_cstate_subtype < (cx->address & MWAIT_SUBSTATE_MASK)) {
+ /* If the HW does not support any sub-states in this C-state */
+ if (num_cstate_subtype == 0) {
+ pr_warn(FW_BUG "ACPI MWAIT C-state 0x%x not supported by HW (0x%x)\n", cx->address, edx_part);
retval = -1;
goto out;
}
--
2.2.2
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