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    ahci: Allow setting a default LPM policy for mobile chipsets · ebb82e3c
    Hans de Goede authored
    On many laptops setting a different LPM policy then unknown /
    max_performance can lead to power-savings of 1.0 - 1.5 Watts (when idle).
    
    Modern ultrabooks idle around 6W (at 50% screen brightness), 1.0 - 1.5W
    is a significant chunk of this.
    
    There are some performance / latency costs to enabling LPM by default,
    so it is desirable to make it possible to set a different LPM policy
    for mobile / laptop variants of chipsets / "South Bridges" vs their
    desktop / server counterparts. Also enabling LPM by default is not
    entirely without risk of regressions. At least min_power is known to
    cause issues with some disks, including some reports of data corruption.
    
    This commits adds a new ahci.mobile_lpm_policy kernel cmdline option,
    which defaults to a new SATA_MOBILE_LPM_POLICY Kconfig option so that
    Linux distributions can choose to set a LPM policy for mobile chipsets
    by default.
    
    The reason to have both a kernel cmdline option and a Kconfig default
    value for it, is to allow easy overriding of the default to allow
    trouble-shooting without needing to rebuild the kernel.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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