[PATCH 0/3] Add generic idle notifiers

[Bryan Wu]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Todd Poynor <toddpoynor at google.com> wrote:
> Add notifiers for idle entry and exit, called with IDLE_START when a
> CPU goes idle and IDLE_END when it goes out of idle, based on the
> existing idle notifiers for the x86_64 arch.
>
> Convert x86_64 to use these notifiers, and call the notifiers on ARM.
>
> Convert the ARM LEDs events for idle start/end to these notifiers.
>

LinusW and I is working on consolidation LED events interface in ARM.
Please take a look at https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/918792/

I do like to add notifiers into ledtrig-cpu driver, which can be also
shared by x86

Thanks,
-Bryan

>  arch/arm/kernel/leds.c       |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm/kernel/process.c    |    5 ++---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/idle.h  |    7 -------
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c |   18 ++----------------
>  include/linux/cpu.h          |    7 +++++++
>  kernel/cpu.c                 |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
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