[RFC PATCH v3 4/4] cpuidle: (POWER) Handle power_save=off

From: Deepthi Dharwar
Date: Wed Nov 30 2011 - 08:31:20 EST


This patch makes pseries_idle_driver not to be registered when
power_save=off kernel boot option is specified. The
cpuidle_disable variable used here is similar to
its usage on x86. If cpuidle_disable is set then
sysfs entries for cpuidle framework are not created
and the required drivers are not loaded.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun.r.bharadwaj@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h | 1 +
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h
index 811b7e7..b585bff 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ static inline unsigned long get_clean_sp(struct pt_regs *regs, int is_32)
}
#endif

+extern unsigned long cpuidle_disable;
enum idle_boot_override {IDLE_NO_OVERRIDE = 0, IDLE_POWERSAVE_OFF};

#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c
index 352b78a..4f59af0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ static int pseries_idle_probe(void)
if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
return -ENODEV;

+ if (cpuidle_disable != IDLE_NO_OVERRIDE)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (max_idle_state == 0) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "pseries processor idle disabled.\n");
return -EPERM;

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