[PATCH] tick/idle/powerpc: Do not register idle states with CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP set in periodic mode

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Michael Ellerman
<michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>
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> On 24 June 2015 23:50:40 GMT+10:00, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net> wrote:
>>On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 01:48:01 AM Preeti U Murthy wrote:
>>> On some archs, the local clockevent device stops in deep cpuidle
>>states.
>>> The broadcast framework is used to wakeup cpus in these idle states,
>>in
>>> which either an external clockevent device is used to send wakeup
>>ipis
>>> or the hrtimer broadcast framework kicks in in the absence of such a
>>> device. One cpu is nominated as the broadcast cpu and this cpu sends
>>> wakeup ipis to sleeping cpus at the appropriate time. This is the
>>> implementation in the oneshot mode of broadcast.
>>>
>>> In periodic mode of broadcast however, the presence of such cpuidle
>>> states results in the cpuidle driver calling tick_broadcast_enable()
>>> which shuts down the local clockevent devices of all the cpus and
>>> appoints the tick broadcast device as the clockevent device for each
>>of
>>> them. This works on those archs where the tick broadcast device is a
>>> real clockevent device.  But on archs which depend on the hrtimer
>>mode
>>> of broadcast, the tick broadcast device hapens to be a pseudo device.
>>> The consequence is that the local clockevent devices of all cpus are
>>> shutdown and the kernel hangs at boot time in periodic mode.
>>>
>>> Let us thus not register the cpuidle states which have
>>> CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP flag set, on archs which depend on the
>>hrtimer
>>> mode of broadcast in periodic mode. This patch takes care of doing
>>this
>>> on powerpc. The cpus would not have entered into such deep cpuidle
>>> states in periodic mode on powerpc anyway. So there is no loss here.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>>4.2 material I suppose?
>
> Yes please, in fact it should be marked for stable too.

That can be done.  Which -stable series should it go into?

Rafael