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Revision 3a53396b0381ec9d5180fd8fe7a681c8ce95fd9a authored by ShuoX Liu on 28 March 2012, 22:19:11 UTC, committed by Len Brown on 30 March 2012, 05:52:58 UTC 
cpuidle: add a sysfs entry to disable specific C state for debug purpose.
 
Some C states of new CPU might be not good.  One reason is BIOS might
configure them incorrectly.  To help developers root cause it quickly, the
patch adds a new sysfs entry, so developers could disable specific C state
manually.

In addition, C state might have much impact on performance tuning, as it
takes much time to enter/exit C states, which might delay interrupt
processing.  With the new debug option, developers could check if a deep C
state could impact performance and how much impact it could cause.

Also add this option in Documentation/cpuidle/sysfs.txt.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: check kstrtol return value]
Signed-off-by: ShuoX Liu <shuox.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@intel.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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	Linux I2O Support	(c) Copyright 1999 Red Hat Software
					and others.

	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
	modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
	as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
	2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

AUTHORS (so far)

Alan Cox, Building Number Three Ltd.
	Core code, SCSI and Block OSMs

Steve Ralston, LSI Logic Corp.
	Debugging SCSI and Block OSM

Deepak Saxena, Intel Corp.
	Various core/block extensions
	/proc interface, bug fixes
	Ioctl interfaces for control
	Debugging LAN OSM

Philip Rumpf
	Fixed assorted dumb SMP locking bugs

Juha Sievanen, University of Helsinki Finland
	LAN OSM code
	/proc interface to LAN class
	Bug fixes
	Core code extensions

Auvo Häkkinen, University of Helsinki Finland
	LAN OSM code
	/Proc interface to LAN class
	Bug fixes
	Core code extensions

Taneli Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki Finland
	Fixes to i2o_config

CREDITS

	This work was made possible by

Red Hat Software
	Funding for the Building #3 part of the project

Symbios Logic (Now LSI)
	Host adapters, hints, known to work platforms when I hit
	compatibility problems

BoxHill Corporation
	Loan of initial FibreChannel disk array used for development work.

European Commission
	Funding the work done by the University of Helsinki

SysKonnect
        Loan of FDDI and Gigabit Ethernet cards

ASUSTeK
        Loan of I2O motherboard
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