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, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
index 2b73b5c8555f..94eac5c85cdc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -556,9 +556,6 @@ void __init xen_arch_setup(void)
                COMMAND_LINE_SIZE : MAX_GUEST_CMDLINE);
 
         /* Set up idle, making sure it calls safe_halt() pvop */
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-        boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok = 1;
-#endif
         disable_cpuidle();
         disable_cpufreq();
         WARN_ON(xen_set_default_idle());