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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:39:49 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi.c acpi_cpu.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20031119163949.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200311192027.hAJKR6IY081207@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On 19-Nov-2003 Nate Lawson wrote:
> njl         2003/11/19 12:27:06 PST
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/dev/acpica       acpi.c acpi_cpu.c 
>   Log:
>   * Add a DEVMETHOD for acpi so that child detach methods get called.  Add
>     an acpi_cpu method for shutdown that disables entry to acpi_cpu_idle
>     and then IPIs/waits for threads to exit.  This fixes a panic late in
>     reboot in the SMP case.
>   
>   * In the !SMP case, don't use the processor id filled out by the MADT
>     since there can only be one processor.  This was causing a panic in
>     acpi_cpu_idle if the id was 1 since the data was being dereferenced from
>     cpu_softc[1] even though the actual data was in cpu_softc[0] (which is
>     correct).
>   
>   * Rework the initialization functions so that cpu_idle_hook is written
>     late in the boot process.
>   
>   * Make the P_BLK, P_BLK_LEN, and cpu_cx_count all softc-local variables.
>     This will help SMP boxes that have _CST or multiple P_BLKs.  No such
>     boxes are known at this time.
>   
>   * Always allocate the C1 state, even if the P_BLK is invalid.  This means
>     we will always take over idling if enabled.  Remove the value -1 as
>     valid for cx_lowest since this is redundant with machdep.cpu_idle_hlt.
>   
>   * Reduce locking for the throttle initialization case to around the write
>     to the smi_cmd port.  Add disabled code to write the CST_CNT.  It will
>     be enabled once _CST re-evaluation is tested (post 5.2R).
>   
>   Thank you:      dfr, imp, jhb, marcel, peter
>   Tested by:      rwatson, Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
>   Approved by:    re (rwatson)

One minor suggestion btw.  Could you fix the hw.acpi.cpu.cpu_cx_lowest
to use the "C1", "C2", and "C3" strings for its user-visible interface
instead of the direct integer?  Setting the value to C2 is a bit more
intuitive than setting it to 1 to get C2.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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