[PATCH] cpuidle/powernv: Populate cpuidle state details by querying the device-tree

Preeti U Murthy preeti at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Oct 14 18:53:00 AEDT 2014


We hard code the metrics relevant for cpuidle states in the kernel today.
Instead pick them up from the device tree so that they remain relevant
and updated for the system that the kernel is running on.

Cc: linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
Cc: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Preeti U. Murthy <preeti at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
index fa79392..b57681d 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
@@ -165,7 +165,8 @@ static int powernv_add_idle_states(void)
 	int nr_idle_states = 1; /* Snooze */
 	int dt_idle_states;
 	const __be32 *idle_state_flags;
-	u32 len_flags, flags;
+	const __be32 *idle_state_latency;
+	u32 len_flags, flags, latency_ns;
 	int i;
 
 	/* Currently we have snooze statically defined */
@@ -182,18 +183,32 @@ static int powernv_add_idle_states(void)
 		return nr_idle_states;
 	}
 
+	idle_state_latency = of_get_property(power_mgt,
+			"ibm,cpu-idle-state-latencies-ns", NULL);
+	if (!idle_state_latency) {
+		pr_warn("DT-PowerMgmt: missing ibm,cpu-idle-state-latencies-ns\n");
+		return nr_idle_states;
+	}
+
 	dt_idle_states = len_flags / sizeof(u32);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < dt_idle_states; i++) {
 
 		flags = be32_to_cpu(idle_state_flags[i]);
+
+		/* Cpuidle accepts exit_latency in us and we estimate
+		 * target residency to be 10x exit_latency
+		 */
+		latency_ns = be32_to_cpu(idle_state_latency[i]);
 		if (flags & IDLE_USE_INST_NAP) {
 			/* Add NAP state */
 			strcpy(powernv_states[nr_idle_states].name, "Nap");
 			strcpy(powernv_states[nr_idle_states].desc, "Nap");
 			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID;
-			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].exit_latency = 10;
-			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].target_residency = 100;
+			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].exit_latency =
+					((unsigned int)latency_ns) / 1000;
+			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].target_residency =
+					((unsigned int)latency_ns / 100);
 			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].enter = &nap_loop;
 			nr_idle_states++;
 		}
@@ -204,8 +219,10 @@ static int powernv_add_idle_states(void)
 			strcpy(powernv_states[nr_idle_states].desc, "FastSleep");
 			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].flags =
 				CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID | CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP;
-			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].exit_latency = 300;
-			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].target_residency = 1000000;
+			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].exit_latency =
+					((unsigned int)latency_ns) / 1000;
+			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].target_residency =
+					((unsigned int)latency_ns / 100);
 			powernv_states[nr_idle_states].enter = &fastsleep_loop;
 			nr_idle_states++;
 		}



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