On Friday, 28 of March 2008, Venki Pallipadi wrote:
quoted text
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 03:09:22PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > On Friday 28 March 2008, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> > > You should have a dmesg line which looks like
> > > ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2]
> > > Do you see C2 in such line?
> > 
> > Yes:
> > 
> > ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> I think I figured out the bug...
> 
> Can you try the below patch and confirm that it works (over upstream - ignore
> the earlier revert patch I sent to you).
> 
> Thanks,
> Venki
> 
> ----
> 
> 
> Patch to fix huge number of wakeups reported due to recent changes in
> processor_idle.c. The problem was that the entry_method determination was
> broken due to one of the recent commits (bc71bec91f987) causing
> C1 entry to not to go to halt. This should also fix the hang reported here.
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10093

Ah, thanks for figuring that out.  As a regression fix, it should go upstream
ASAP, I think.

 
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> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c	2008-03-28 15:31:13.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c	2008-03-28 15:40:50.000000000 -0700
> @@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_power_info
>  		/* all processors need to support C1 */
>  		pr->power.states[ACPI_STATE_C1].type = ACPI_STATE_C1;
>  		pr->power.states[ACPI_STATE_C1].valid = 1;
> +		pr->power.states[ACPI_STATE_C1].entry_method = ACPI_CSTATE_HALT;
>  	}
>  	/* the C0 state only exists as a filler in our array */
>  	pr->power.states[ACPI_STATE_C0].valid = 1;
> @@ -960,6 +961,9 @@ static int acpi_processor_get_power_info
>  				 cx.address);
>  		}
>  
> +		if (cx.type == ACPI_STATE_C1) {
> +			cx.valid = 1;
> +		}
>  
>  		obj = &(element->package.elements[2]);
>  		if (obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER)
> 
> 
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