[PATCH v2] powerpc/cpuidle: Set CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING for snooze state

Aboorva Devarajan aboorvad at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Nov 15 01:56:11 AEDT 2022


During the comparative study of cpuidle governors, it is noticed that the
menu governor does not select CEDE state in some scenarios even though when
the sleep duration of the CPU exceeds the target residency of the CEDE idle
state this is because the CPU exits the snooze "polling" state when snooze
time limit is reached in the snooze_loop(), which is not a real wake up
and it just means that the polling state selection was not adequate.

cpuidle governors rely on CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING flag to be set for the
polling states to handle the condition mentioned above.

Hence, set the CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING flag for snooze state (polling state)
in powerpc arch to make the cpuidle governor work as expected.

Reference Commits:

- Timeout enabled for snooze state:
  commit 78eaa10f027c
  ("cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of snooze to deeper idle state")

- commit dc2251bf98c6
  ("cpuidle: Eliminate the CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START symbol")

- Fix wakeup stats in governor for polling states
  commit 5f26bdceb9c0
  ("cpuidle: menu: Fix wakeup statistics updates for polling state")

Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

Changelog: (v1 -> v2)

Added CPUIDLE_POLLING_FLAG to the correct cpuidle_state struct.

Previous version of the patch is stale which was sent by mistake, this 
is the correct version which is tested on powernv, pseries (shared and 
dedicated partitions)

 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 5 ++++-
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
index 0b5461b3d7dd..9ebedd972df0 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	local_irq_enable();
 
 	snooze_exit_time = get_tb() + get_snooze_timeout(dev, drv, index);
+	dev->poll_time_limit = false;
 	ppc64_runlatch_off();
 	HMT_very_low();
 	while (!need_resched()) {
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 			 * cleared to order subsequent test of need_resched().
 			 */
 			clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+			dev->poll_time_limit = true;
 			smp_mb();
 			break;
 		}
@@ -155,7 +157,8 @@ static struct cpuidle_state powernv_states[CPUIDLE_STATE_MAX] = {
 		.desc = "snooze",
 		.exit_latency = 0,
 		.target_residency = 0,
-		.enter = snooze_loop },
+		.enter = snooze_loop,
+		.flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING },
 };
 
 static int powernv_cpuidle_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
index 7e7ab5597d7a..1bad4d2b7be3 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 	pseries_idle_prolog();
 	local_irq_enable();
 	snooze_exit_time = get_tb() + snooze_timeout;
+	dev->poll_time_limit = false;
 
 	while (!need_resched()) {
 		HMT_low();
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 			 * loop anyway. Require a barrier after polling is
 			 * cleared to order subsequent test of need_resched().
 			 */
+			dev->poll_time_limit = true;
 			clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
 			smp_mb();
 			break;
@@ -268,7 +270,8 @@ static struct cpuidle_state dedicated_states[NR_DEDICATED_STATES] = {
 		.desc = "snooze",
 		.exit_latency = 0,
 		.target_residency = 0,
-		.enter = &snooze_loop },
+		.enter = &snooze_loop,
+		.flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING },
 	{ /* CEDE */
 		.name = "CEDE",
 		.desc = "CEDE",
@@ -286,7 +289,8 @@ static struct cpuidle_state shared_states[] = {
 		.desc = "snooze",
 		.exit_latency = 0,
 		.target_residency = 0,
-		.enter = &snooze_loop },
+		.enter = &snooze_loop,
+		.flags = CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING },
 	{ /* Shared Cede */
 		.name = "Shared Cede",
 		.desc = "Shared Cede",
-- 
2.17.1



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