[RFC PATCH 17/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore build infrastructure

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Thu Jul 7 22:29:10 EDT 2011


On 7/7/2011 8:50 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> This patch adds the required Kconfig and Makefile entries to
> enable and compile common idle code for ARM kernel.
>
> Common idle code depends on CPU_PM platform notifiers to trigger
> save/restore of kernel subsystems like PMU, VFP, GIC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi<lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> ---
>   arch/arm/Kconfig         |   11 +++++++++++
>   arch/arm/kernel/Makefile |    4 ++++
>   2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 356f266..5b670bd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -1992,6 +1992,17 @@ config VFP
>
>   	  Say N if your target does not have VFP hardware.
>
> +config CONTEXT_SR

SR sounds cryptic. Also since it's PM related _PM_ would
be good.

> +	bool "Save/Restore code support for CPU/Cluster Power Management"
> +	depends on CPU_V7&&  CPU_PM
			^
space needed.

Regards
Santosh



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