linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] bug fixes for coupled cpuidle

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Message-ID: <4FB9E461.9060405@ti.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2012 12:14:49 +0530
From:	Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...com>
To:	Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>
CC:	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] bug fixes for coupled cpuidle

On Friday 18 May 2012 11:35 PM, Colin Cross wrote:
> The last modifications made to the coupled cpuidle patches introduced
> two bugs that I missed during testing.  The online count was never
> initialized, causing coupled idle to always wait and never enter the
> ready loop.  That hid the second bug, the ready count could never be
> decremented after exiting idle.
> 
> Len, these two patches could be squashed into patch 3 of the original
> set.  If you do squash them, you could also add Rafael's tags to the
> set (Reviewed-by on 1 and 2, acked-by on 3).  Or I can reupload the
> whole stack as v5 if you prefer.

I confirm that these two fixes are needed to get couple idle
v4 series working.

Regards
Santosh

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