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authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>2011-01-07 11:29:43 +0100
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-01-12 12:47:31 -0500
commit720f1c3010db6a411358b962a2007969117840bc (patch)
treeaee96003008b8cb5873d2e0adc4188bdebef2cfa /drivers/cpuidle
parentd18960494f65ca4fa0d67c865aaca99452070d15 (diff)
cpuidle: Rename X86 specific idle poll state[0] from C0 to POLL
C0 means and is well know as "not idle". All documentation out there uses this term as "running"/"not idle" state. Also Linux userspace tools (e.g. cpufreq-aperf and turbostat) show C0 residency which there is correct, but means something totally else than cpuidle "POLL" state. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpuidle')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 97df791c74cb..37e446041306 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static void poll_idle_init(struct cpuidle_device *dev)
cpuidle_set_statedata(state, NULL);
- snprintf(state->name, CPUIDLE_NAME_LEN, "C0");
+ snprintf(state->name, CPUIDLE_NAME_LEN, "POLL");
snprintf(state->desc, CPUIDLE_DESC_LEN, "CPUIDLE CORE POLL IDLE");
state->exit_latency = 0;
state->target_residency = 0;