intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors

This EXPERIMENTAL driver supersedes acpi_idle on
Intel Atom Processors, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processors
and associated Intel Xeon processors.

It does not support the Intel Core2 processor or earlier.

For kernels configured with ACPI, CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y
allows intel_idle to probe before the ACPI processor driver.
Booting with "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" disables intel_idle
and the system will fall back on ACPI's "acpi_idle".

Typical Linux distributions load ACPI processor module early,
making CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=m not easily useful on ACPI platforms.

intel_idle probes all processors at module_init time.
Processors that are hot-added later will be limited
to using C1 in idle.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

MAINTAINERS

@@ -2850,6 +2850,13 @@ T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/input/
 
+INTEL IDLE DRIVER
+M:	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
+L:	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org
+T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6.git
+S:	Supported
+F:	drivers/idle/intel_idle.c
+
 INTEL FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER (excluding 810 and 815)
 M:	Maik Broemme <mbroemme@plusserver.de>
 L:	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org

drivers/Makefile

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PCI)		+= pci/
 obj-$(CONFIG_PARISC)		+= parisc/
 obj-$(CONFIG_RAPIDIO)		+= rapidio/
 obj-y				+= video/
+obj-y				+= idle/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI)		+= acpi/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SFI)		+= sfi/
 # PnP must come after ACPI since it will eventually need to check if acpi
@@ -91,7 +92,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EISA)		+= eisa/
 obj-y				+= lguest/
 obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ)		+= cpufreq/
 obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_IDLE)		+= cpuidle/
-obj-y				+= idle/
 obj-$(CONFIG_MMC)		+= mmc/
 obj-$(CONFIG_MEMSTICK)		+= memstick/
 obj-$(CONFIG_NEW_LEDS)		+= leds/

drivers/acpi/processor_driver.c

@@ -922,9 +922,13 @@ static int __init acpi_processor_init(void)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 #endif
 
-	if (!cpuidle_register_driver(&acpi_idle_driver))
+	if (!cpuidle_register_driver(&acpi_idle_driver)) {
 		printk(KERN_DEBUG "ACPI: %s registered with cpuidle\n",
 			acpi_idle_driver.name);
+	} else {
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG "ACPI: acpi_idle yielding to %s",
+			cpuidle_get_driver()->name);
+	}
 
 	result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_processor_driver);
 	if (result < 0)

drivers/idle/Kconfig

+config INTEL_IDLE
+	tristate "Cpuidle Driver for Intel Processors"
+	depends on CPU_IDLE
+	depends on X86
+	depends on CPU_SUP_INTEL
+	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+	help
+	  Enable intel_idle, a cpuidle driver that includes knowledge of
+	  native Intel hardware idle features.  The acpi_idle driver
+	  can be configured at the same time, in order to handle
+	  processors intel_idle does not support.
 
 menu "Memory power savings"
 depends on X86_64

drivers/idle/Makefile

 obj-$(CONFIG_I7300_IDLE)			+= i7300_idle.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE)			+= intel_idle.o