Re: [PATCH] power_end event (Resend)

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>]

On 6/9/2010 6:57 AM, Robert Schöne wrote:
> Original Mail was sent at 2010/05/14 10:38:43 CEST
>
> Hi,
> I reported the power_end tracing problem earlier this year
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/24/79) and sent a patch which worked for my
> system. However this patch would have not worked on other systems (as
> for example Arjans). It would had lead to a double posting of these
> events.
>
> However. Here's a diff that should fix the problem on the correct spot.
>
> The reason that it worked for Arjan and not for me is that his system
> uses drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c when idling, mine uses the cpu_idle
> thread from arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c.
> A comparable idle thread also exists for 32 bit x86, so I added it in
> process_32.c too.
>
> However, is there any standard about where to report the start and end
> events? Currently it's the idle routine, which creates the power_start
> event, the routine which calls the idle_routine on the other hand
> creates the power_end event.
>    

only the actual idle routine knows what C state it goes in; there's no 
central way for that really.

> For these patches, I'm not sure whether the power_end event should even
> be reported. On kernels, which use the repnop loop when idling, there
> won't be a switch to another c-state and therefore no power_start event,
> the power_end event could belong to. Would that be a problem? If it
> would, the only way to fix this would be to move the power_end events
> into the idle routines, since cpu_idle is dumb and does not know whats
> behind pm_idle.
>
>    

the patch makes sense; Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>