[PATCH] PM: Provide a config snippet for disabling PM

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Tue Dec 5 17:02:59 PST 2017


On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:12:27 PM CET Mark Brown wrote:
> A frequent source of build problems is poor handling of optional PM
> support, almost all development is done with the PM options enabled
> but they can be turned off.  Currently few if any of the build test
> services do this as standard as there is no standard config for it and
> the use of selects and def_bool means that simply setting CONFIG_PM=n
> doesn't do what is expected.  To make this easier provide a fragement
> that can be used with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG to force PM off.
> 
> CONFIG_XEN is disabled as Xen uses hibernation callbacks which end up
> turning on power management on architectures with Xen.  Some cpuidle
> implementations on ARM select PM so CONFIG_CPU_IDLE is disabled, and
> some ARM architectures unconditionally enable PM so they are also
> disabled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                |  1 +
>  kernel/configs/nopm.config | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 kernel/configs/nopm.config
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 07d9067f68fd..539808dc7928 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -10895,6 +10895,7 @@ F:	include/linux/pm.h
>  F:	include/linux/pm_*
>  F:	include/linux/powercap.h
>  F:	drivers/powercap/
> +F:	kernel/configs/nopm.config
>  
>  POWER STATE COORDINATION INTERFACE (PSCI)
>  M:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> diff --git a/kernel/configs/nopm.config b/kernel/configs/nopm.config
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..81ff07863576
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel/configs/nopm.config
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> +CONFIG_PM=n
> +CONFIG_SUSPEND=n
> +CONFIG_HIBERNATION=n
> +
> +# Triggers PM on OMAP
> +CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n
> +
> +# Triggers enablement via hibernate callbacks
> +CONFIG_XEN=n
> +
> +# ARM/ARM64 architectures that select PM unconditionally
> +CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP2PLUS_TYPICAL=n
> +CONFIG_ARCH_RENESAS=n
> +CONFIG_ARCH_TEGRA=n
> +CONFIG_ARCH_VEXPRESS=n
> 

Applied, thanks!





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