From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ccross@android.com (Colin Cross) Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:31:24 -0800 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] CPU PM notifiers Message-ID: <1297373487-23902-1-git-send-email-ccross@android.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org This patch set tries to address Russell's concerns with platform pm code calling into the driver for every block in the Cortex A9s during idle, hotplug, and suspend. The first patch adds cpu pm notifiers that can be called by platform code, the second uses the notifier to save and restore the GIC state, and the third saves the VFP state. The notifiers are used for two types of events, CPU PM events and CPU complex PM events. CPU PM events are used to save per-cpu context when a single CPU is preparing to enter or has just exited a low power state. For example, the VFP saves the last thread context, and the GIC saves banked CPU registers. CPU complex events are used after all the CPUs in a power domain have been prepared for the low power state. The GIC uses these events to save global register state. What is not included: * Multiple power states - it is assumed that if the platform code calls cpu_pm_enter(), every listener needs to save its context. * L2 cache - The L2 cache will need very different behavior depending on the HW implementation and power mode being entered. Both problems could be solved be defining a set of power states shared by all platforms, if an agreeable set exists. For example: * CPU reset (TWD, GIC, VFP), L1 retention, L2 untouched * CPU reset + L1 lost, L2 retention * CPU reset, L1 + L2 lost Santosh previously mentioned that the GIC is not reset in the first two states on OMAP, which starts to make the list complicated. Does disabling the GIC cause a problem in these states? An alternate solution is to pass a set of flags instead of a power state: CPU_PM_LOCALTIMERS_RESET CPU_PM_INTERRUPTS_RESET CPU_PM_L1_RETENTION CPU_PM_L1_RESET CPU_PM_L2_RETENTION CPU_PM_L2_RESET arch/arm/common/gic.c | 204 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/include/asm/cpu_pm.h | 123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/cpu_pm.c | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 24 +++++ 5 files changed, 468 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)