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Commit c1e3b377 authored by Zhao Yakui's avatar Zhao Yakui Committed by Andi Kleen
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ACPI: Create "idle=halt" bootparam



"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction.  No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.

If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.

Signed-off-by: default avatarZhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
parent 5b53496a
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