Re: [RFC PATCH] C2 could be mapped to C3 so need a flush cache

[Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Arjan van de Ven<arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:26:06 +0800
> Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I came across acpi_idle_enter_simple, noticed it looks like a bug if
>> we don't flush cache for C2.
>> Because some platforms just map C2 to C3.
>
> I think you are confusing ACPI C3 with HW C3.
>
> Only for ACPI C3 class do you need to flush the cache for this case.
> For HW C3, if you would need to flush the cache, the BIOS would assign
> it ACPI C3 class.
>

There is no confusion,I just extend the existing kernel logic as below
to cover cache flush..

"
"/*
 * Some BIOS implementations switch to C3 in the published C2 state.
 * This seems to be a common problem on AMD boxen, but other vendors
 * are affected too. We pick the most conservative approach: we assume
 * that the local APIC stops in both C2 and C3.
 */
static void lapic_timer_check_state

"