[PATCH v2 00/12] CPU idle for Armada XP

[Kevin Hilman]

Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com> writes:

> On 13/09/2013 13:00, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:06:29PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This patch set adds the CPU idle support for Armada XP and prepares
>>> the support for Armada 370. This was based on the work of Nadav
>>> Haklai.
>> 
>> Hi Gregory.
>> 
>> Kirkwood has the ability to put the DDR into self refresh mode, which
>> is used as part of the second level idle mode. Does 370/XP have this?
>
> Indeed there is a self refresh bit on a DDR related register. I thought
> this kind of feature is more likely used for suspend to ram.
>
> We plan to also submit the suspend to ram but not immediately.
>
>> 
>> For XP, with it being SMP, it would be a bit more complex, since you
>> would not want to use it unless all CPUs were idle.
>
> I wonder how the others SMP ARM SoCs deal with it, I hope this time
> there will be a framework available and we won't have to create it! ;)

You shouldn't have to invent anything here.

For low-power states that require all CPUs to be idle, we have "coupled"
CPUidle states (c.f. drivers/cpuidle/coupled.)  OMAP and Tegra are using
this, but I believe Daniel wants to move away from this, so I'll let him
elaborate.

Kevin