[PATCH v2 0/9] cpuidle: rework device state count handling

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Friday, December 20, 2013 07:47:22 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some cpuidle drivers assume that cpuidle core will handle cases where
> device->state_count is smaller than driver->state_count, unfortunately
> currently this is untrue (device->state_count is used only for handling
> cpuidle state sysfs entries and driver->state_count is used for all
> other cases) and will not be fixed in the future as device->state_count
> is planned to be removed [1].
> 
> This patchset fixes such drivers (ARM EXYNOS cpuidle driver and ACPI
> cpuidle driver), removes superflous device->state_count initialization
> from drivers for which device->state_count equals driver->state_count
> (POWERPC pseries cpuidle driver and intel_idle driver) and finally
> removes state_count field from struct cpuidle_device.
> 
> Additionaly (while at it) this patchset fixes C1E promotion disable
> quirk handling (in intel_idle driver) and converts cpuidle drivers code
> to use the common cpuidle_[un]register() routines (in POWERPC pseries
> cpuidle driver and intel_idle driver).
> 
> [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/36908
> 
> Reference to v1:
> 	http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/37390
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - synced patch series with next-20131220
> - added ACKs from Daniel Lezcano

This series breaks boot on one of my test machines with intel_idle, so I'm
not sure how well it has been tested.

I've dropped it entirely for now.  If I have the time, I will try to identify
the root cause of the failure, but that may not happen before the merge window.
Sorry about that.

Thanks!

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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.