[PATCH v2 1/6] idle: move the cpuidle entry point to the generic idle loop

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Wed Jan 29 15:31:36 EST 2014


On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> In order to integrate cpuidle with the scheduler, we must have a better
> proximity in the core code with what cpuidle is doing and not delegate
> such interaction to arch code.
> 
> Architectures implementing arch_cpu_idle() should simply enter
> a cheap idle mode in the absence of a proper cpuidle driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>

As mentioned in my reply to Olof's comment on patch #5/6, here's a new 
version of this patch adding the safety local_irq_enable() to the core 
code.

----- >8

From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
Subject: idle: move the cpuidle entry point to the generic idle loop

In order to integrate cpuidle with the scheduler, we must have a better
proximity in the core code with what cpuidle is doing and not delegate
such interaction to arch code.

Architectures implementing arch_cpu_idle() should simply enter
a cheap idle mode in the absence of a proper cpuidle driver.

In both cases i.e. whether it is a cpuidle driver or the default
arch_cpu_idle(), the calling convention expects IRQs to be disabled
on entry and enabled on exit. There is a warning in place already but
let's add a forced IRQ enable here as well.  This will allow for
removing the forced IRQ enable some implementations do locally and 
allowing for the warning to trig.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>

diff --git a/kernel/cpu/idle.c b/kernel/cpu/idle.c
index 988573a9a3..14ca43430a 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu/idle.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu/idle.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  */
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include <linux/cpuidle.h>
 #include <linux/tick.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/stackprotector.h>
@@ -95,8 +96,10 @@ static void cpu_idle_loop(void)
 				if (!current_clr_polling_and_test()) {
 					stop_critical_timings();
 					rcu_idle_enter();
-					arch_cpu_idle();
-					WARN_ON_ONCE(irqs_disabled());
+					if (cpuidle_idle_call())
+						arch_cpu_idle();
+					if (WARN_ON_ONCE(irqs_disabled()))
+						local_irq_enable();
 					rcu_idle_exit();
 					start_critical_timings();
 				} else {



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