On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:16:54 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Arjan van de Ven wrote:On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:48:14 -0800Well, it can only map ACPI C3 to a state which is no more "dead" than what would normally be permitted by C3. IIRC, C3 is allowed to
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think C3 guarantees that the cache contents stay intact, and thusthat sounds nice. It's fiction though ;-)
it might make sense in some technology to preserve the TLB as well
(being a kind of cache.)
The thing to realize is that linux only sees "ACPI C3"; the BIOS
maps that C3 to.. well any of the C states the processor in the
system has. What you're saying is afaik correct for the *hardware*
C3, not for the "C3" that Linux sees..
require that DMA be turned off (unlike C2), but is not allowed to
lose the CPU state.
state isn't lost if the tlb or the caches are flushed... (properly, eg all pending writebacks are written back first etc)