Re: [PATCH 5/6] intel_idle: Add ->enter_freeze callbacks

Li, Aubrey
2015-03-05T00:09:10Z

On 2015/3/5 8:18, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, March 05, 2015 07:50:26 AM Li, Aubrey wrote:
>> On 2015/2/13 0:24, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Thursday, February 12, 2015 02:26:43 PM Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why bother with enter_freeze() for any but the deepest state (C6 in this
>>>> case)?
>>>
>>> User space may disable the deepest one (and any of them in general) via sysfs
>>> and there's no good reason to ignore its choice in this particular case while
>>> we're honoring it otherwise.
>>>
>>> So the logic is basically "find the deepest one which isn't disabled" and
>>> setting the pointers costs us nothing really.
>>>
>>
>> If the user has chance to disable C6 via /sys, that means c6 works?
>> Shouldn't we ignore user space setting during freeze? Otherwise, we will
>> lost S0ix?
>
> We can't ignore it, because we don't know the reason why the state was
> disabled.
>

> It may just not work reliably enough on the given platform.
>
okay, make sense to me. Thanks, -Aubrey