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Revision 8ea959a17fe6e27f7954dddad5b17b0e33f0d7ee authored by Deepthi Dharwar on 03 October 2012, 18:42:18 UTC, committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt on 17 October 2012, 23:57:24 UTC
smt_snooze_delay was designed to  delay idle loop's nap entry
in the native idle code before it got  ported over to use as part of
the cpuidle framework.

A -ve value  assigned to smt_snooze_delay should result in
busy looping, in other words disabling the entry to nap state.

	- https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-May/082450.html

This particular functionality can be achieved currently by
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/state1/disable
but it is broken when one assigns -ve value to  the smt_snooze_delay
variable either via sysfs entry or ppc64_cpu util.

This patch aims to fix this, by disabling nap state when smt_snooze_delay
variable is set to -ve value.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Tip revision: 8ea959a17fe6e27f7954dddad5b17b0e33f0d7ee authored by Deepthi Dharwar on 03 October 2012, 18:42:18 UTC
cpuidle/powerpc: Fix smt_snooze_delay functionality.
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