[PATCHv2 3/5] cpuidle: add support for states that affect multiple cpus

Shilimkar, Santosh santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Sun Mar 18 03:18:22 EDT 2012


On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Colin Cross <ccross at android.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Santosh Shilimkar
> <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> While playing around with this version, I noticed that the
>> 'alive_count' is ever incrementing which will lead to
>> coupled idle state not being attempted after one CPU offline
>> attempt.
>>
>> Fix in end of the email for the same. With it, coupled states
>> continue to work with CPU online/offline transitions.
>>
>> Feel free to fold it into original patch. Attached
>> the same in case mailer eat tabs.
>
> <snip>
>
> Thanks, Kevin reported this issue and I'll fix it in the next version.
 Ahh... I see comments from Kevin now. Some how I missed it
otherwise would have saved me few minutes of debug.

Regards
Santosh



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