On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 05:29:24PM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 14:55, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 04:37:45PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > > Current PSCI code handles idle state entry through the
> > > psci_cpu_suspend_enter() API, that takes an idle state index as a
> > > parameter and convert the index into a previously initialized
> > > power_state parameter before calling the PSCI.CPU_SUSPEND() with it.
> > >
> > > This is unwieldly, since it forces the PSCI firmware layer to keep track
> > > of power_state parameter for every idle state so that the
> > > index->power_state conversion can be made in the PSCI firmware layer
> > > instead of the CPUidle driver implementations.
> > >
> > > Move the power_state handling out of drivers/firmware/psci
> > > into the respective ACPI/DT PSCI CPUidle backends and convert
> > > the psci_cpu_suspend_enter() API to get the power_state
> > > parameter as input, which makes it closer to its firmware
> > > interface PSCI.CPU_SUSPEND() API.
> > >
> > > A notable side effect is that the PSCI ACPI/DT CPUidle backends
> > > now can directly handle (and if needed update) power_state
> > > parameters before handing them over to the PSCI firmware
> > > interface to trigger PSCI.CPU_SUSPEND() calls.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieral...@arm.com>
> > > Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hans...@linaro.org>
> > > Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com>
> >
> > > +static __init int psci_cpu_init_idle(unsigned int cpu)
> > > +{
> > > + struct device_node *cpu_node;
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + /*
> > > + * If the PSCI cpu_suspend function hook has not been initialized
> > > + * idle states must not be enabled, so bail out
> > > + */
> > > + if (!psci_ops.cpu_suspend)
> > > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > > +
> > > + cpu_node = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
> >
> > [nit] You could use of_cpu_device_node_get in linux/of_device.h as
> > it may avoid parsing if used later during the boot(i.e. after
> > cpu->of_node is populated). I think there's another instance in
> > psci_idle_init_cpu
>
> Good idea!
>
> However, as $subject patch more or less just moves code from the
> current psci firmware directory into cpuidle, perhaps it's better to
> defer improvements to be made on top?
>
I am fine either way. But since cpuidle-psci.c is new file introduced
in this series, we can have it as part of the original patch. I leave it
to Lorenzo to decide :)
--
Regards,
Sudeep
