[PATCH v5 7/8] drivers: cpuidle: initialize Exynos driver through DT

[Lorenzo Pieralisi]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:23:38PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 03:10:20 PM Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > With the introduction of DT based idle states, CPUidle drivers for
> > ARM can now initialize idle states data through properties in the device
> > tree.
> > 
> > This patch adds code to the Exynos CPUidle driver to dynamically
> > initialize idle states data through the updated device tree source
> > files.
> > 
> > Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>
> > Cc: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> > ---
> > Compile tested, I am not sure I patched the right dts files, please check.
> 
> cpuidle-exynos driver is currently working properly in deeper cpuidle
> mode (AFTR) on Exynos4210 and Exynos5250 (please also see the following
> patch from Tomasz Figa: [1]).  There is ongoing work to AFTR mode work
> also on Exynos4x12 and Exynos3250 but it is not complete yet.  Exynos5410
> OTOH should probably use the generic big little cpuidle driver (this SoC
> is similar to Exynos5420 one for which Chander Kashyap has developed
> cpuidle-big_little support [2]).
> 
> Making long story short, I think that your patch should depend on patch
> [1] and update only exynos4210.dtsi and exynos5250.dtsi.  Also for your
> patch #6 there needs to be some coordination with merging of Chander's
> patchset ([2]).
> 
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg341023.html
> [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg664470.html


exynos4210.dtsi does not even have cpu nodes in it. Should I add them or
this might trigger regression (ie cpu_logical_map()) ?

I will post a new version soon, should I just patch 5250 for now ?

I would need help to test this patch thanks.

Lorenzo

> >  .../devicetree/bindings/arm/exynos/idle-states.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos3250.dtsi                  | 16 ++++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5250.dtsi                  | 15 +++++++++++
> >  arch/arm/boot/dts/exynos5410.dtsi                  | 17 +++++++++++++
> >  drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm                        |  1 +
> >  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c                   | 29 +++++++++++++---------
> >  6 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/exynos/idle-states.txt
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
> 
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