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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:32:52 +0200
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	rjw@...ysocki.net, nicolas.pitre@...aro.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cpuidle: idle: menu: Don't reflect when a state selection
 failed

On 10/24/2014 03:24 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:25:41PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> -	if (index > 0)
>> -	if (index >= 0)
>
> That's not the same condition.

Yes and it is wrong. That is the result of the 
CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START dance.

The ladder governor is avoiding to use the POLL state as it was running 
on x86. But on, eg. ARM, we will never reflect the state 0 because 
CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START is equal to zero for all non-x86 platform.

If I am not wrong the ladder select function will never choose the state 
0 for x86, so it will never reflect the state 0 (after applying the 
patch 1/5). For the other arch it will reflect the state 0 as it should.

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