linux-kernel - Re: [1/3] cpuidle: powerpc: cpuidle set polling before enabling irqs

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Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:45:09 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "Gautham R . Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [1/3] cpuidle: powerpc: cpuidle set polling before enabling irqs

"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Michael Ellerman
> <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 13:02:39 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>>> local_irq_enable can cause interrupts to be taken which could
>>> take significant amount of processing time. The idle process
>>> should set its polling flag before this, so another process that
>>> wakes it during this time will not have to send an IPI.
>>>
>>> Expand the TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG coverage to as large as possible.
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
>>
>> Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/3fc5ee927ff4ffed6aa2fcd44d2fbf
>
> OK
>
> I've applied it too, so I guess I should drop it?

Erk sorry. I hadn't heard anything so I picked it up.

If you can drop it that would be good, but if not git will probably work
it out mostly :)

cheers