[PATCH 0/2] arm64: remove generic ARM cpuidle support

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Wed Jun 22 04:59:07 PDT 2022


Am 2022-05-29 20:13, schrieb Michael Walle:
> Playing with an own PSCI implementation, I've noticed that the 
> cpuidle-arm
> driver doesn't work on arm64. It doesn't probe because since commit
> 788961462f34 ("ARM: psci: cpuidle: Enable PSCI CPUidle driver") the
> arm_cpuidle_init() can only return -EOPNOTSUPP, because the commit 
> removed
> the cpu_idle_init and cpu_suspend ops.
> 
> It left me puzzled for quite some time. It seems that the cpuidle-psci 
> is
> the preferred one and this has been the case for quite some time. The
> mentioned commit first appeared in v5.4.
> 
> Remove the ARM64 support for the cpuidle-arm driver, which then let us
> remove all the supporting arch code.
> 
> Michael Walle (2):
>   cpuidle: cpuidle-arm: remove arm64 support
>   arm64: cpuidle: remove generic cpuidle support
> 
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cpu_ops.h |  9 ---------
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 15 ---------------
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpuidle.c      | 29 -----------------------------
>  drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm      |  3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

Through which tree should this patchset go? I've seen it is marked as
"Handled Elsewere" in the linux pm patchwork [1].

-michael

[1] 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/patch/20220529181329.2345722-2-michael@walle.cc/



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