[PATCH v4 2/2] ARM: cpuidle: make arm_cpuidle_suspend() a bit more efficient

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:58:54PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016 12:50:12 +0200 Daniel Lezcano  wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 02:17:29PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > > Dear Daniel,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 15:46:28 +0200 Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > >   
> > > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 02:15:55PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:  
> > > > > Currently, we check cpuidle_ops.suspend every time when entering a
> > > > > low-power idle state. But this check could be avoided in this hot path
> > > > > by moving it into arm_cpuidle_read_ops() to reduce arm_cpuidle_suspend
> > > > > overhead a bit.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at marvell.com>
> > > > > ---    
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at linaro.org>  
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure the upstream merging path this patch should follow, Per my
> > > understanding, I need to put it into Russell's PATCH system.  
> > 
> > Or alternatively through arm-soc
> > 
> 
> Got it. thanks.
> 
> Dear Arnd, Olof,
> 
> I have no pull request permission. what's your preference? Could you please
> advise?

... and because arm-soc people haven't responded, they've now ended up
in the patch system... So I've applied them to my tree in a separate
branch.

Thanks!

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