[PATCH] x86_64: Add idle notifiers

This adds a new notifier chain that is called with IDLE_START
when a CPU goes idle and IDLE_END when it goes out of idle.
The context can be idle thread or interrupt context.

Since we cannot rely on MONITOR/MWAIT existing the idle
end check currently has to be done in all interrupt
handlers.

They were originally inspired by the similar s390 implementation.

They have a variety of applications:
- They will be needed for CONFIG_NO_IDLE_HZ
- They can be used for oprofile to fix up the missing time
in idle when performance counters don't tick.
- They can be used for better C state management in ACPI
- They could be used for microstate accounting.

This is just infrastructure so far, no users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/idle.h b/include/asm-x86_64/idle.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6bd47dcf2067
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/idle.h
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#ifndef _ASM_X86_64_IDLE_H
+#define _ASM_X86_64_IDLE_H 1
+
+#define IDLE_START 1
+#define IDLE_END 2
+
+struct notifier_block;
+void idle_notifier_register(struct notifier_block *n);
+void idle_notifier_unregister(struct notifier_block *n);
+
+void enter_idle(void);
+void exit_idle(void);
+
+#endif