[PATCH 09/13] powerpc/book3e: Add generic 64-bit idle powersave support
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 14 14:09:11 EST 2010
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 16:16 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> We use a similar technique to ppc32: We set a thread local flag
> to indicate that we are about to enter or have entered the stop
> state, and have fixup code in the async interrupt entry code that
> reacts to this flag to make us return to a different location
> (sets NIP to LINK in our case).
.../...
Commenting on my own patch ... :-) This has issues:
> +_GLOBAL(book3e_idle)
> + /* Save LR for later */
> + mflr r0
> + std r0,16(r1)
> +
> + /* Hard disable interrupts */
> + wrteei 0
> +
> + /* Now check if an interrupt came in while we were soft disabled
> + * since we may otherwise lose it (doorbells etc...). We know
> + * that since PACAHARDIRQEN will have been cleared in that case.
> + */
> + lbz r3,PACAHARDIRQEN(r13)
> + cmpwi cr0,r3,0
> + beqlr
> +
> + /* Now we are going to mark ourselves as soft and hard enables in
> + * order to be able to take interrupts while asleep. We inform lockdep
> + * of that. We don't actually turn interrupts on just yet tho.
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
> + bl .trace_hardirqs_on
Oops... we just clobbered our saved LR on the stack. Need a stackframe
> +#endif
> + li r0,1
> + stb r0,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13)
> + stb r0,PACAHARDIRQEN(r13)
> +
> + /* Interrupts will make use return to LR, so get something we want
> + * in there
> + */
> + bl 1f
We return here with IRQs enabled, we really need to turn them back off
or bad things will happen if an interrupt pops before we clear
TFL_NAPPING.
I'll send a respin.
Cheers,
Ben.
> + /* We are back from the interrupt, the caller will local_irq_enable()
> + * so to avoid stupid warning, let's turn them off here if irqtrace
> + * is enabled.
> + */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
> + li r0,0
> + stb r0,PACASOFTIRQEN(r13)
> + bl .trace_hardirqs_off
> +#endif
> + ld r0,16(r1)
> + mtlr r0
> + blr
> +
> +1: /* Let's set the _TLF_NAPPING flag so interrupts make us return
> + * to the right spot
> + */
> + clrrdi r11,r1,THREAD_SHIFT
> + ld r10,TI_LOCAL_FLAGS(r11)
> + ori r10,r10,_TLF_NAPPING
> + std r10,TI_LOCAL_FLAGS(r11)
> +
> + /* We can now re-enable hard interrupts and go to sleep */
> + wrteei 1
> +1: PPC_WAIT(0)
> + b 1b
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_PPC64 */
> \ No newline at end of file
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