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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: "Youquan,Song" <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, kent.liu@intel.com,
	chaohong.guo@intel.com, jane.lv@intel.com,
	youquan.song@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]acpi cpuidle: Fix kernel oops when tickless is not enabled
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:32:48 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912160431280.30935@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091216141721.GA27614@youquan-linux.bj.intel.com>

Um, the purpose of the ladder governor is to handle the legacy tickfull
case, and this patch defeats that.

Can you share the actual failure?

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Youquan,Song wrote:

> Current kernel, if tickless is disabled,cpuidle governor ladder is built in,
>  the kernel will boot oops on Boxboro-EX. 
> 
> After check in driver/cpuidle/Kconfig, menu governor built in kernel depends 
> on tickless,but ladder governor has no such dependency.
> 
> This patch add depnencey for ladder governor, so when tickless is disabled,
>  ladder governor will not be built in.
> 
> This is workround patch and the complete fix need be done at tickless. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Youquan, Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig
> index 7dbc4a8..78d6d74 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config CPU_IDLE
>  
>  config CPU_IDLE_GOV_LADDER
>  	bool
> -	depends on CPU_IDLE
> +	depends on CPU_IDLE && NO_HZ
>  	default y
>  
>  config CPU_IDLE_GOV_MENU
> --
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-16  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-16 14:17 [PATCH]acpi cpuidle: Fix kernel oops when tickless is not enabled Youquan,Song
2009-12-16  9:32 ` Len Brown [this message]
2009-12-17 11:27   ` Youquan,Song

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