cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Fri, 1 Apr 2011 22:13:10 +0000 (18:13 -0400)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:06:36 +0000 (19:06 -0400)
commit62027aea23fcd14478abdddd3b74a4e0f5fb2984
tree1aaa5c1872e296f3448ae6c126175ac9d998e3b4
parent6dccf9c508d5d773859df1cc2dce75c5b19e35a0
cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"

useful for disabling cpuidle to fall back
to architecture-default idle loop

cpuidle drivers and governors will fail to register.
on x86 they'll say so:

intel_idle: intel_idle yielding to (null)
ACPI: acpi_idle yielding to (null)

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.h
drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
drivers/cpuidle/governor.c