[PATCH] cpuidle: warn and fixup on sanity check instead of rejecting the driver

Val Packett val at packett.cool
Thu Nov 20 17:06:25 PST 2025


On Device Tree platforms, the latency and target residency values come
directly from device trees, which are numerous and weren't all written
with cpuidle invariants in mind. For example, qcom/hamoa.dtsi currently
trips this check: exit latency 680000 > residency 600000.

Instead of harshly rejecting the entire cpuidle driver with a mysterious
error message, print a warning and set the target residency value to be
equal to the exit latency.

Fixes: 76934e495cdc ("cpuidle: Add sanity check for exit latency and target residency")
Signed-off-by: Val Packett <val at packett.cool>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/driver.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
index 1c295a93d582..06aeb59c1017 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
@@ -199,8 +199,11 @@ static int __cpuidle_driver_init(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 		 * exceed its target residency which is assumed in cpuidle in
 		 * multiple places.
 		 */
-		if (s->exit_latency_ns > s->target_residency_ns)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		if (s->exit_latency_ns > s->target_residency_ns) {
+			pr_warn("cpuidle: state %d: exit latency %lld > residency %lld (fixing)\n",
+				i, s->exit_latency_ns, s->target_residency_ns);
+			s->target_residency_ns = s->exit_latency_ns;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.51.0




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