Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] cpuidle: rework device state count handling

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jan 06 2014 - 06:58:38 EST


On Friday, December 20, 2013 07:47:22 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some cpuidle drivers assume that cpuidle core will handle cases where
> device->state_count is smaller than driver->state_count, unfortunately
> currently this is untrue (device->state_count is used only for handling
> cpuidle state sysfs entries and driver->state_count is used for all
> other cases) and will not be fixed in the future as device->state_count
> is planned to be removed [1].
>
> This patchset fixes such drivers (ARM EXYNOS cpuidle driver and ACPI
> cpuidle driver), removes superflous device->state_count initialization
> from drivers for which device->state_count equals driver->state_count
> (POWERPC pseries cpuidle driver and intel_idle driver) and finally
> removes state_count field from struct cpuidle_device.
>
> Additionaly (while at it) this patchset fixes C1E promotion disable
> quirk handling (in intel_idle driver) and converts cpuidle drivers code
> to use the common cpuidle_[un]register() routines (in POWERPC pseries
> cpuidle driver and intel_idle driver).
>
> [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/36908
>
> Reference to v1:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/37390
>
> Changes since v1:
> - synced patch series with next-20131220
> - added ACKs from Daniel Lezcano

I've queued up the series for 3.14, thanks!

> Best regards,
> --
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
>
>
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (9):
> ARM: EXYNOS: cpuidle: fix AFTR mode check
> POWERPC: pseries: cpuidle: remove superfluous dev->state_count
> initialization
> POWERPC: pseries: cpuidle: use the common cpuidle_[un]register()
> routines
> ACPI / cpuidle: fix max idle state handling with hotplug CPU support
> ACPI / cpuidle: remove dev->state_count setting
> intel_idle: do C1E promotion disable quirk for hotplugged CPUs
> intel_idle: remove superfluous dev->state_count initialization
> intel_idle: use the common cpuidle_[un]register() routines
> cpuidle: remove state_count field from struct cpuidle_device
>
> arch/arm/mach-exynos/cpuidle.c | 8 +-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c | 59 +---------
> drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 29 +++--
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 3 -
> drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c | 5 +-
> drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 140 +++++-------------------
> include/linux/cpuidle.h | 1 -
> 7 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 194 deletions(-)
>
>

--
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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