commit: 8553cb67d2318db327071018fc81084cbabccc46 explains that

-sanjay

On Friday 07 June 2013 08:41 PM, Pawel Moll wrote:
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 15:32 +0100, Sanjay Singh Rawat wrote:
use cpu_do_idle for entering the wfi mode.

Signed-off-by: Sanjay Singh Rawat <sanjay.ra...@linaro.org>
---
  arch/arm/mach-vexpress/hotplug.c |    3 ++-
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/hotplug.c b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/hotplug.c
index f0ce6b8..b3dffc2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/hotplug.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-vexpress/hotplug.c
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ static inline void platform_do_lowpower(unsigned int cpu, int 
*spurious)
         * code will have already disabled interrupts
         */
        for (;;) {
-               wfi();
+               /* enter WFI mode */
+               cpu_do_idle();

                if (pen_release == cpu_logical_map(cpu)) {
                        /*

I probably don't get the whole picture, but may I ask what is the
rationale behind this change? As in: why cpu_do_idle() is better?

Paweł




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