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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200
commite75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch)
treeccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
parent61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff)
parent0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next. Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
index 85b32376dad..0af48a8554c 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
@@ -240,6 +240,28 @@ void acpi_processor_ppc_exit(void)
acpi_processor_ppc_status &= ~PPC_REGISTERED;
}
+/*
+ * Do a quick check if the systems looks like it should use ACPI
+ * cpufreq. We look at a _PCT method being available, but don't
+ * do a whole lot of sanity checks.
+ */
+void acpi_processor_load_module(struct acpi_processor *pr)
+{
+ static int requested;
+ acpi_status status = 0;
+ struct acpi_buffer buffer = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL };
+
+ if (!arch_has_acpi_pdc() || requested)
+ return;
+ status = acpi_evaluate_object(pr->handle, "_PCT", NULL, &buffer);
+ if (!ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "Requesting acpi_cpufreq\n");
+ request_module_nowait("acpi_cpufreq");
+ requested = 1;
+ }
+ kfree(buffer.pointer);
+}
+
static int acpi_processor_get_performance_control(struct acpi_processor *pr)
{
int result = 0;