cpuidle: Default y for pseries

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 20:37 -0200, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:05:35PM -0000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > We just replaced the pseries platform idle loops with a cpuidle backend,
> > however that means that you won't get any power saving and won't return
> > any unused idle time to the hypervisor unless cpuidle is enabled.
> > 
> > Thus is should default to y when pseries is enabled. I prefer that to
> > a select so we can still make it modular if we want to.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> > 
> > ---
> > Linus, do you want to just pick that up or should I put it into powerpc.git
> > and ask you to pull ? I will have 2 or 3 other fixes there later today,
> > but I wanted to make sure you were ok with the approach with this
> > specific one.
> 
> Hi, Ben.
> 
> Note that building with CONFIG_PSERIES_IDLE=m fails.

Ah ok. Well, making it built-in only makes sense anyway as I said
separately, so I think I'll just select it.

Cheers,
Ben.

>   CC [M]  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.o
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c:35: error: redefinition
> of ‘update_smt_snooze_delay’
> /root/linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h:230: note: previous
> definition of ‘update_smt_snooze_delay’ was here
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.c:175: error: redefinition
> of ‘pseries_notify_cpuidle_add_cpu’
> /root/linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/system.h:231: note: previous
> definition of ‘pseries_notify_cpuidle_add_cpu’ was here
> make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/processor_idle.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries] Error 2
> make: *** [arch/powerpc/platforms] Error 2
> 
> asm/system.h has empty inline implementations for
> update_smt_snooze_delay and pseries_notify_cpuidle_add_cpu, which are
> used when CONFIG_PSERIES_IDLE is undefined. Since those two functions
> are used in core power architecture functions (store_smt_snooze_delay
> at kernel/sysfs.c and smp_xics_setup_cpu at platforms/pseries/smp.c),
> this requires some rework in these interactions or we should simply
> disable PSERIES_IDLE to be built as a module for now.
> 
> Regards.
> Cascardo.
> 
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig
> > index 7dbc4a8..62ca70d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig
> > @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
> >  
> >  config CPU_IDLE
> >  	bool "CPU idle PM support"
> > -	default ACPI
> > +	default y if ACPI
> > +	default y if PPC_PSERIES
> >  	help
> >  	  CPU idle is a generic framework for supporting software-controlled
> >  	  idle processor power management.  It includes modular cross-platform