[PATCH v1 0/4] cpuidle, haltpoll: governor switching on idle register

From: Joao Martins
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 07:39:45 EST


Hey,

Presented herewith a series with aims to tie in together the haltpoll
idle driver and governor, without sacrificing previous governor setups.
In addition, there are a few fixes with respect to module loading for
cpuidle-haltpoll.

The series is organized as follows:

Patch 1: Allows idle driver stating a preferred governor that it
wants to use, based on discussion here:

https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/457e8ca1-beb3-ca39-b257-e7bc6bb35d4d@xxxxxxxxxx/

Patch 2: Decrease rating of governor, and allows previous defaults
to be as before haltpoll, while using @governor to switch to haltpoll
when haltpoll driver is registered;

Patch 3 - 4: Module loading fixes. first is the incorrect error
reporting and second is supportting module unloading.

Thoughts, comments appreciated.

Thanks,
Joao

Joao Martins (4):
cpuidle: allow governor switch on cpuidle_register_driver()
cpuidle-haltpoll: set haltpoll as preferred governor
cpuidle-haltpoll: return -ENODEV on modinit failure
cpuidle-haltpoll: do not set an owner to allow modunload

drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-haltpoll.c | 4 ++--
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.h | 1 +
drivers/cpuidle/driver.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/cpuidle/governor.c | 6 +++---
drivers/cpuidle/governors/haltpoll.c | 2 +-
include/linux/cpuidle.h | 3 +++
6 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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