x86 idle: remove 32-bit-only "no-hlt" parameter, hlt_works_ok flag

Remove 32-bit x86 a cmdline param "no-hlt",
and the cpuinfo_x86.hlt_works_ok that it sets.

If a user wants to avoid HLT, then "idle=poll"
is much more useful, as it avoids invocation of HLT
in idle, while "no-hlt" failed to do so.

Indeed, hlt_works_ok was consulted in only 3 places.

First, in /proc/cpuinfo where "hlt_bug yes"
would be printed if and only if the user booted
the system with "no-hlt" -- as there was no other code
to set that flag.

Second, check_hlt() would not invoke halt() if "no-hlt"
were on the cmdline.

Third, it was consulted in stop_this_cpu(), which is invoked
by native_machine_halt()/reboot_interrupt()/smp_stop_nmi_callback() --
all cases where the machine is being shutdown/reset.
The flag was not consulted in the more frequently invoked
play_dead()/hlt_play_dead() used in processor offline and suspend.

Since Linux-3.0 there has been a run-time notice upon "no-hlt" invocations
indicating that it would be removed in 2012.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 8a28feae1c92..b9e7d279f8ef 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ struct cpuinfo_x86 {
 	char			wp_works_ok;	/* It doesn't on 386's */
 
 	/* Problems on some 486Dx4's and old 386's: */
-	char			hlt_works_ok;
 	char			hard_math;
 	char			rfu;
 	char			fdiv_bug;
@@ -165,15 +164,6 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct cpuinfo_x86, cpu_info);
 
 extern const struct seq_operations cpuinfo_op;
 
-static inline int hlt_works(int cpu)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-	return cpu_data(cpu).hlt_works_ok;
-#else
-	return 1;
-#endif
-}
-
 #define cache_line_size()	(boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_alignment)
 
 extern void cpu_detect(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c);