Avoid going back into deep idle if the tick broadcast IPI is about to fire. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: tip/arch/arm/kernel/process.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/arch/arm/kernel/process.c +++ tip/arch/arm/kernel/process.c @@ -199,7 +199,16 @@ void cpu_idle(void) #ifdef CONFIG_PL310_ERRATA_769419 wmb(); #endif - if (hlt_counter) { + /* + * In poll mode we reenable interrupts and spin. + * + * Also if we detected in the wakeup from idle + * path that the tick broadcast device expired + * for us, we don't want to go deep idle as we + * know that the IPI is going to arrive right + * away + */ + if (hlt_counter || tick_check_broadcast_expired()) { local_irq_enable(); cpu_relax(); } else if (!need_resched()) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/