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Rafael J. Wysocki 70523f3357 Revert "x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()"
Revert commit 96040f7273 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
because it introduced a significant power regression on systems that
start with "nosmt" in the kernel command line.

Namely, on such systems, SMT siblings permanently go offline early,
when cpuidle has not been initialized yet, so after the above commit,
hlt_play_dead() is called for them.  Later on, when the processor
attempts to enter a deep package C-state, including PC10 which is
requisite for reaching minimum power in suspend-to-idle, it is not
able to do that because of the SMT siblings staying in C1 (which
they have been put into by HLT).

As a result, the idle power (including power in suspend-to-idle)
rises quite dramatically on those systems with all of the possible
consequences, which (needless to say) may not be expected by their
users.

This issue is hard to debug and potentially dangerous, so it needs to
be addressed as soon as possible in a way that will work for 6.15.y,
hence the revert.

Of course, after this revert, the issue that commit 96040f7273
attempted to address will be back and it will need to be fixed again
later.

Fixes: 96040f7273 ("x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()")
Reported-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
Cc: 6.15+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.15+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/12674167.O9o76ZdvQC@rjwysocki.net
2025-05-29 17:34:18 +02:00
arch Revert "x86/smp: Eliminate mwait_play_dead_cpuid_hint()" 2025-05-29 17:34:18 +02:00
block treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push fixes reverts the multibuffer hash testing as it is buggy. 2025-04-02 09:14:59 -07:00
Documentation Documentation: ABI: testing: document the new cpuidle sysfs file 2025-04-15 20:38:26 +02:00
drivers cpuidle: psci: Fix uninitialized variable in dt_idle_state_present() 2025-05-27 15:26:50 +02:00
fs Miscellaneous scheduler fixes/updates: 2025-04-06 10:44:58 -07:00
include A set of final cleanups for the timer subsystem: 2025-04-06 08:35:37 -07:00
init Miscellaneous scheduler fixes/updates: 2025-04-06 10:44:58 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: always do atomic put from iowq 2025-04-03 08:31:57 -06:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel Fix a perf events time accounting bug. 2025-04-06 10:48:12 -07:00
lib Kbuild updates for v6.15 2025-04-05 15:46:50 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm Disable SLUB_TINY for build testing 2025-04-06 10:00:04 -07:00
net treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.15 2025-04-05 15:46:50 -07:00
samples treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]() 2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
scripts Disable SLUB_TINY for build testing 2025-04-06 10:00:04 -07:00
security mseal sysmap: kernel config and header change 2025-04-01 15:17:14 -07:00
sound soundwire fix for 6.15-rc1 2025-04-06 12:04:53 -07:00
tools tools/include: make uapi/linux/types.h usable from assembly 2025-04-06 12:55:31 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt ARM: 2025-03-25 14:22:07 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved 2025-03-17 00:29:50 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add an entry for Nicolas Schier 2025-04-01 15:20:45 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Including fixes from netfilter. 2025-04-04 09:15:35 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Kbuild updates for v6.15 2025-04-05 15:46:50 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.15-rc1 2025-04-06 13:11:33 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.