Re: [PATCH v2] cpuidle: Deny idle entry when CPU already have IPI interrupt pending

[Maulik Shah (mkshah)]

On 4/6/2026 8:37 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 6:08 AM Maulik Shah <maulik.shah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> CPU can get IPI interrupt from another CPU while it is executing
>> cpuidle_select() or about to execute same. The selection do not account
>> for pending interrupts and may continue to enter selected idle state only
>> to exit immediately.
>>
>> Example trace collected when there is cross CPU IPI.
>>
>>  [000] 154.892148: sched_waking: comm=sugov:4 pid=491 prio=-1 target_cpu=007
>>  [000] 154.892148: ipi_raise: target_mask=00000000,00000080 (Function call interrupts)
>>  [007] 154.892162: cpu_idle: state=2 cpu_id=7
>>  [007] 154.892208: cpu_idle: state=4294967295 cpu_id=7
>>  [007] 154.892211: irq_handler_entry: irq=2 name=IPI
>>  [007] 154.892211: ipi_entry: (Function call interrupts)
>>  [007] 154.892213: sched_wakeup: comm=sugov:4 pid=491 prio=-1 target_cpu=007
>>  [007] 154.892214: ipi_exit: (Function call interrupts)
>>
>> This impacts performance and the above count increments.
>>
>> commit ccde6525183c ("smp: Introduce a helper function to check for pending
>> IPIs") already introduced a helper function to check the pending IPIs and
>> it is used in pmdomain governor to deny the cluster level idle state when
>> there is a pending IPI on any of cluster CPUs.
>>
>> This however does not stop CPU to enter CPU level idle state. Make use of
>> same at CPUidle to deny the idle entry when there is already IPI pending.
>>
>> With change observing glmark2 [1] off screen scores improving in the range
>> of 25% to 30% on Qualcomm lemans-evk board which is arm64 based having two
>> clusters each with 4 CPUs.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/glmark2/glmark2
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maulik Shah <maulik.shah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Fix cpumask argument of cpus_peek_for_pending_ipi() to take single cpu
>> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260316-cpuidle_ipi-v1-1-d0ff6350f4e2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> index c7876e9e024f9076663063ad21cfc69343fdbbe7..c01e57df64ca5af8c28da3d971500b3f38306cdf 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
>> @@ -224,6 +224,9 @@ noinstr int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>>         bool broadcast = !!(target_state->flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP);
>>         ktime_t time_start, time_end;
>>
>> +       if (cpus_peek_for_pending_ipi(cpumask_of(dev->cpu)))
>> +               return -EBUSY;
>> +
> 
> Why do you want to check it here and not in cpuidle_idle_call(), for example?

It can be moved in cpuidle_idle_call(), just before call_cpuidle() too.
The intention is to check after cpuidle_select() is done.

> 
> In principle, this check may be useful in the default idle path too.

Yes, this check may be useful in default_idle_call() too.

Thanks,
Maulik

> 
>>         instrumentation_begin();
>>
>>         /*
>>
>> ---