linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 2/4] PM / Domains: Add support for CPU devices to genpd

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Message-ID: <3ceca6d2-c780-49e4-5c90-566a7e8433ce@linaro.org>
Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:54:15 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        "Raju P . L . S . S . S . N" <rplsssn@...eaurora.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 2/4] PM / Domains: Add support for CPU devices to
 genpd

On 27/02/2019 20:58, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> To enable a device belonging to a CPU to be attached to a PM domain managed
> by genpd, let's do a few changes to it, as to make it convenient to manage
> the specifics around CPUs.
> 
> To be able to quickly find out what CPUs that are attached to a genpd,
> which typically becomes useful from a genpd governor as following changes
> is about to show, let's add a cpumask to the struct generic_pm_domain. At
> the point when a CPU device gets attached to a genpd, let's update the
> genpd's cpumask. Moreover, let's also propagate changes to the cpumask
> upwards in the topology to the master PM domains. In this way, the cpumask
> for a genpd hierarchically reflects all CPUs attached to the topology below
> it.
> 
> Finally, let's make this an opt-in feature, to avoid having to manage CPUs
> and the cpumask for a genpd that doesn't need it. For that reason, let's
> add a new genpd configuration bit, GENPD_FLAG_CPU_DOMAIN.
> 
> Cc: Lina Iyer <ilina@...eaurora.org>
> Co-developed-by: Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@...aro.org>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>

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