Re: [PATCH] PM / suspend: Always use deepest C-state in the "freeze" sleep state

["Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@linux.intel.com>]

On 2014/5/12 22:08, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 05/05/2014 12:51 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>>
>> If freeze_enter() is called, we want to bypass the current cpuidle
>> governor and always use the deepest available (that is, not disabled)
>> C-state, because we want to save as much energy as reasonably possible
>> then and runtime latency constraints don't matter at that point, since
>> the system is in a sleep state anyway.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>> ---
>>
>> This is on top of https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/4071541/ .
>>
> 
> Wouldn't make sense to revisit play_dead instead ?
> 
play_dead() is broken.

Even if it works, we still should rely on cpuidle driver to place the
CPUs into the deepest c-state, because there is no architectural way to
enter deepest c-state and what play_dead() does is a bad assumption.

Thanks,
-Aubrey