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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2006-12-07 01:14:03 (GMT)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-12-07 01:14:03 (GMT)
commit72690a21188586022a9e65cb6f1cc8845167555a (patch)
tree6ddd4a04307867128100dbd1906eec5a89f88662 /arch/i386/kernel/process.c
parent63cb683c6ed56a420ba60df6a5b206a44e3f85fe (diff)
downloadlinux-72690a21188586022a9e65cb6f1cc8845167555a.tar.xz
[PATCH] x86: Don't use nested idle loops
Currently the idle loop has two nested loops -- one high level in cpu_idle and in some low level idle functions another one. Looping in the low level idle functions breaks the idle notifiers because interrupts waking up sleep states need to execute exit_idle() which is only in cpu_idle(). So don't do that, only loop in cpu_idle(). This only removes code. In some cases e.g. poll_idle the idle loop is a little longer now because cpu_idle checks more things. I hope that isn't a problem ACPI idle doesn't change behaviour because it never looped anyways. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: eranian@hpl.hp.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/process.c30
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
index 8749b10..8f42659 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -100,22 +100,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(enable_hlt);
*/
void default_idle(void)
{
- local_irq_enable();
-
if (!hlt_counter && boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok) {
current_thread_info()->status &= ~TS_POLLING;
smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
- while (!need_resched()) {
- local_irq_disable();
- if (!need_resched())
- safe_halt();
- else
- local_irq_enable();
- }
+ local_irq_disable();
+ if (!need_resched())
+ safe_halt(); /* enables interrupts racelessly */
+ else
+ local_irq_enable();
current_thread_info()->status |= TS_POLLING;
} else {
- while (!need_resched())
- cpu_relax();
+ /* loop is done by the caller */
+ cpu_relax();
}
}
#ifdef CONFIG_APM_MODULE
@@ -129,14 +125,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(default_idle);
*/
static void poll_idle (void)
{
- local_irq_enable();
-
- asm volatile(
- "2:"
- "testl %0, %1;"
- "rep; nop;"
- "je 2b;"
- : : "i"(_TIF_NEED_RESCHED), "m" (current_thread_info()->flags));
+ cpu_relax();
}
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
@@ -257,8 +246,7 @@ void mwait_idle_with_hints(unsigned long eax, unsigned long ecx)
static void mwait_idle(void)
{
local_irq_enable();
- while (!need_resched())
- mwait_idle_with_hints(0, 0);
+ mwait_idle_with_hints(0, 0);
}
void __devinit select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)