[PATCH 1/2] cpuidle: dt: Return the correct numbers of parsed idle states

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Tue Oct 25 04:43:08 PDT 2022


On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 05:10:12PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> While we correctly skips to initialize an idle state from a disabled idle
> state node in DT, the returned value from dt_init_idle_driver() don't get
> adjusted accordingly. Instead the number of found idle state nodes are
> returned, while the callers are expecting the number of successfully
> initialized idle states from DT.
> 
> This leads to cpuidle drivers unnecessarily continues to initialize their
> idle state specific data. Moreover, in the case when all idle states have
> been disabled in DT, we would end up registering a cpuidle driver, rather
> than relying on the default arch specific idle call.
>

Makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>

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Regards,
Sudeep



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