linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/21] cpuidle: use cpuidle

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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:25:00 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
CC:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Patch Tracking <patches@...aro.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/21] cpuidle: use cpuidle_disabled() instead of "off"

On 09/26/2013 07:06 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 26 September 2013 03:22, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org> wrote:
>> On 09/22/2013 03:21 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>> We have a routine for getting value of "off", better call that instead of using
>>> "off" directly.
>>
>> We are in the fast path, I am not sure invoking a function here is
>> better than using directly the static variable.
>
> I only did it for consistency as we have this routine specifically for reading
> value of "off" and so we better don't use off directly..
>
> Probably we can make it static inline and move it into
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.h?

If you move it to cpuidle.h, you will have to move the 'off' variable in 
the header hence increasing the scope of it.



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