[PATCH v3] cpuidle: psci: Do not suspend topology CPUs on PREEMPT_RT
Sudeep Holla
sudeep.holla at arm.com
Wed Jan 25 03:19:57 PST 2023
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:08:04AM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 08:43, Krzysztof Kozlowski
> <krzysztof.kozlowski at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 24/01/2023 16:34, Sudeep Holla wrote:
[...]
> > > Any particular reason for even compiling this file in or allowing the
> > > ARM_PSCI_CPUIDLE when PREEMPT_RT=y ? If we can't enter idle states, we
> > > can as well compile this file out ?
> >
> > It's the power domain sued for other devices, so we need it. Otherwise
> > other devices will keep waiting for this missing power domain provider.
>
> Yes.
>
> And we are still able to use those idle states that are solely per
> CPU, which is probably nice to have. No?
>
Makes sense, thanks for the explanation. Also the other discussions clears
probably questions I had.
--
Regards,
Sudeep
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