xen/acpi: ACPI PAD driver
authorLiu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 05:41:13 +0000 (05:41 +0000)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:07:19 +0000 (15:07 -0500)
commit92e3229dcdc80ff0b6304f14c578d76e7e10e226
tree6c4a67d4b721b3eb6c2c2b07db2cd173313c9669
parentb3e40b72bb24237b0aee9f6ba2e9f88dd4ff3c0a
xen/acpi: ACPI PAD driver

PAD is acpi Processor Aggregator Device which provides a control point
that enables the platform to perform specific processor configuration
and control that applies to all processors in the platform.

This patch is to implement Xen acpi pad logic. When running under Xen
virt platform, native pad driver would not work. Instead Xen pad driver,
a self-contained and thin logic level, would take over acpi pad logic.

When acpi pad notify OSPM, xen pad logic intercept and parse _PUR object
to get the expected idle cpu number, and then hypercall to hypervisor.
Xen hypervisor would then do the rest work, say, core parking, to idle
specific number of cpus on its own policy.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
drivers/xen/Makefile
drivers/xen/xen-acpi-pad.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/xen/interface/platform.h
include/xen/interface/version.h