linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] cpuidle: exynos: Allow to use the driver without AFTR

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:08:45 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc:	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@...sung.com>,
	Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <t.figa@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cpuidle: exynos: Allow to use the driver without AFTR

On pon, 2014-07-21 at 11:53 +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 07/21/2014 10:36 AM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Allow the driver to be used when AFTR enter function is not provided
> > (device platform data is NULL).
> >
> > This actually does not give any special energy-saving benefits but
> > allows to track the idle time of each core. Additionally it is a safe
> > way to validate supplied platform data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@...sung.com>
> 
> I think we already talk about this in the mailing list several times.
> It does not make sense to enable the cpuidle driver for WFI just for the 
> sake of tracking via sysfs some idle timings.
> 
> Using the cpuidle driver means using the underlying cpuidle 
> infrastructure with all the stats computation in the governor.
> 
> If there is a *real* need of a WFI cpuidle driver, then a generic WFI 
> cpuidle driver could be implemented to supersede this one.
> 
> It took a while to cleanup this driver and remove all the hacks around 
> this AFTR state... :)

Sure, I understand.

Best regards,
Krzysztof


> 
> > ---
> >   drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c | 3 +++
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c
> > index 7c0151263828..5325a394be7e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c
> > @@ -77,7 +77,10 @@ static int exynos_cpuidle_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >   {
> >   	int ret;
> >
> > +	/* If NULL enter only WFI */
> >   	exynos_enter_aftr = (void *)(pdev->dev.platform_data);
> > +	if (!exynos_enter_aftr)
> > +		exynos_idle_driver.state_count = 1;
> >
> >   	ret = cpuidle_register(&exynos_idle_driver, NULL);
> >   	if (ret) {
> >
> 
> 

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