[PATCH] ARM: OMAP4: cpuidle: fix: call cpu_cluster_pm_exit conditionally

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Thu Aug 29 11:26:10 EDT 2013


On Thursday 29 August 2013 11:20 AM, Strashko, Grygorii wrote:
> Hi Vladimir, Kevin
> 
> On 08/27/2013 06:54 PM, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> We call cpu_cluster_pm_enter for dev->cpu == 0 only, but
>>> cpu_cluster_pm_exit called without that check.
>>>
>>> Because of that unhandled page fault may happen:
>>>
> 
> [...]
> 
>>>
>>> It is supposed that sar_base is initialized in irq_save_context, which
>>> is called on CPU_CLUSTER_PM_ENTER notification. If this notification
>>> has been missed and CPU_CLUSTER_PM_EXIT is received sar_base is NULL.
>>>
>>> Fix it by calling CPU_CLUSTER_PM_{ENTER,EXIT} under the same condition.
> 
> Could you check, if revert of the following patch will solve the issue, pls?
> commit e7457253494fff660a72bc0cedeee97491ccd173
> "ARM: OMAP4+: CPUidle: Deprecate use of omap4_mpuss_read_prev_context_state()"
> 
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v at gmail.com>
>>
>> Good catch.
> 
> Yes, but It seems, that CPUIdle logic is unclear for OAMP4 .
> The above issue may happen if CPU1 enter/exit LP while CPU0:
> - not enter at all (somewhere inside "coupled" core);
> - still entering LP (somewhere before call to omap4_enter_lowpower());
> 
> The question is - Should first CPUx, who exited from LP(C3) state,
> restore Cluster context, or it should be done by CPU0 only?
> (on OMAP4 CPUs may return from C3 async).
> 
> 
Looks like I missed this thread completely. The cluster restore
on purpose was not tied to any CPU considering some OMAPs may
support such thing in future but for couple idle we anyway
synchronize the CPUs at the idle exit so doing either way should be fine.

I think the sar_base bug should be fixed regardless of whether we
change idle code.

Regards,
Santosh





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