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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-04-01 15:19:23 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-05-29 03:39:15 -0400
commit99c63221435963e0cee2402686ba99293c2ffa9e (patch)
tree7c73900db0eafed36291257494c1e084de6ad034 /arch
parent3b70b2e5fcf6315eb833a1bcc2b810bdc75484ff (diff)
x86 idle APM: deprecate CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
We don't want to export the pm_idle function pointer to modules. Currently CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE w/ CONFIG_APM_MODULE forces us to. CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is of dubious value, it runs only on 32-bit uniprocessor laptops that are over 10 years old. It calls into the BIOS during idle, and is known to cause a number of machines to fail. Removing CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE and will allow us to stop exporting pm_idle. Any systems that were calling into the APM BIOS at run-time will simply use HLT instead. cc: x86@kernel.org cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> cc: stable@kernel.org # .39.x Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c
index 0e4f24c2a74..4c4ac32cd12 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ struct apm_user {
* idle percentage above which bios idle calls are done
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE
+#warning deprecated CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE will be deleted in 2012
#define DEFAULT_IDLE_THRESHOLD 95
#else
#define DEFAULT_IDLE_THRESHOLD 100
@@ -902,6 +903,7 @@ static void apm_cpu_idle(void)
unsigned int jiffies_since_last_check = jiffies - last_jiffies;
unsigned int bucket;
+ WARN_ONCE(1, "deprecated apm_cpu_idle will be deleted in 2012");
recalc:
if (jiffies_since_last_check > IDLE_CALC_LIMIT) {
use_apm_idle = 0;