Re: [PATCH V6 2/3] cpuidle: play_idle: Specify play_idle with an idle state

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Nov 07 2019 - 20:20:31 EST


On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 8:51:40 AM CET Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Currently, the play_idle function does not allow to tell which idle
> state we want to go. Improve this by passing the idle state as
> parameter to the function.
>
> Export cpuidle_find_deepest_state() symbol as it is used from the
> intel_powerclamp driver as a module.
>
> There is no functional changes, the cpuidle state is the deepest one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> V6:
> - Change variable name 'state' -> 'index':
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/10/28/874
> V4:
> - Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_find_deepest_state) for the
> intel_powerclamp driver when this one is compiled as a module
> V3:
> - Add missing cpuidle.h header
> ---
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 1 +
> drivers/powercap/idle_inject.c | 4 +++-
> drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c | 4 +++-
> include/linux/cpu.h | 2 +-
> kernel/sched/idle.c | 4 ++--
> 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> index 18523ea6b11b..b871fc2e8e67 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ int cpuidle_find_deepest_state(void)
>
> return find_deepest_state(drv, dev, UINT_MAX, 0, false);
> }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpuidle_find_deepest_state);

That doesn't appear to be really necessary to me.

>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SUSPEND
> static void enter_s2idle_proper(struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
> diff --git a/drivers/powercap/idle_inject.c b/drivers/powercap/idle_inject.c
> index cd1270614cc6..233c878cbf46 100644
> --- a/drivers/powercap/idle_inject.c
> +++ b/drivers/powercap/idle_inject.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) "ii_dev: " fmt
>
> #include <linux/cpu.h>
> +#include <linux/cpuidle.h>
> #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
> #include <linux/kthread.h>
> #include <linux/sched.h>
> @@ -138,7 +139,8 @@ static void idle_inject_fn(unsigned int cpu)
> */
> iit->should_run = 0;
>
> - play_idle(READ_ONCE(ii_dev->idle_duration_us));
> + play_idle(READ_ONCE(ii_dev->idle_duration_us),
> + cpuidle_find_deepest_state());

The next patch changes this again and I'm not sure why this intermediate
change is useful.

> }
>
> /**
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c b/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c
> index 53216dcbe173..b55786c169ae 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel/intel_powerclamp.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/kthread.h>
> #include <linux/cpu.h>
> +#include <linux/cpuidle.h>
> #include <linux/thermal.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/tick.h>
> @@ -430,7 +431,8 @@ static void clamp_idle_injection_func(struct kthread_work *work)
> if (should_skip)
> goto balance;
>
> - play_idle(jiffies_to_usecs(w_data->duration_jiffies));
> + play_idle(jiffies_to_usecs(w_data->duration_jiffies),
> + cpuidle_find_deepest_state());

I don't see a reason for changing the code here like this.

What you really need is to have a way to set a limit on the idle
state exit latency for idle injection on ARM.

For that you can pass the exit latency limit to play_idle(), but then
you need to change powerclamp to pass UNIT_MAX or similar which is
ugly, or you can redefine cpuidle_use_deepest_state() to take the
exit latency limit as the arg (with 0 meaning use_deepest_state == false).

In the latter case, it would be quite straightforward to add an
exit_latency argument to cpuidle_find_deepest_state() and note that
find_deepest_state() takes a max_latency arg already, so that would be
a trivial change (hint!).