[PATCH v6 5/5] ACPI : enable ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE on ARM64

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Jun 27 08:06:46 PDT 2016



On 27/06/16 16:05, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 06/27/2016 05:03 PM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> On 27/06/16 15:33, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>>> On 06/14/2016 04:48 PM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>> Now that ACPI processor idle driver supports LPI(Low Power Idle), lets
>>>> enable ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE for ARM64 too.
>>>>
>>>> This patch just removes the IA64 and X86 dependency on
>>>> ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE
>>>>
>>>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>>>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
>>>> ---
>>>
>>> Hi Sudeep,
>>>
>>> now that ACPI processor supports ARM64 did you check the
>>> CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START trick in the code and its derivative ?
>>>
>>
>> No, that is used only for C-State and ARM64 doesn't support it.
>> Patch 1/5 puts all the C-State code under #ifdef so that it's not
>> compiled on ARM64.
>>
>>> I deleted the patch 2/5 but there is a place where:
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I don't follow what you mean by that.
>
> I meant I just deleted from my mailbox the patch 2/5, so I can't do
> inline comment.
>

Ah ok, anyways LPI always starts from index 0. IIUC that was your main
concern.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep



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