[PATCH 2/6] ARM: cpuidle: Add a cpuidle ops structure to be used for DT

[daniel.lezcano@linaro.org (Daniel Lezcano)]

On 03/16/2015 07:16 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 12:29:33PM +0000, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>> The current state of the different cpuidle drivers is the different PM
>
> Nit: "The current state of cpuidle drivers is such that different ..."

Ok.

>> operations are passed via the platform_data using the platform driver
>> paradigm.
>>
>> This approach allowed to split the low level PM code from the arch specific
>> and the generic cpuidle code.
>>
>> Unfortunately there are complains about this approach as, in the context of the
>
> Nit: s/complains/complaints

Ok.

[ ... ]

>> @@ -27,4 +27,14 @@ static inline int arm_cpuidle_simple_enter(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>>    */
>>   #define ARM_CPUIDLE_WFI_STATE ARM_CPUIDLE_WFI_STATE_PWR(UINT_MAX)
>>
>> +struct cpuidle_ops {
>> +	const char *name;
>> +	int (*suspend)(int cpu, unsigned long arg);
>> +	int (*init)(struct device_node *, int cpu);
>> +};
>> +
>> +extern int arm_cpuidle_suspend(int index);
>> +
>> +extern int arm_cpuidle_init(int cpu);
>
> idle_cpu_suspend()
> idle_cpu_init()
>
> ?
>
> I am really not fussed about the naming.
>
> To make this and x86 driver name compliant (well, function signatures
> are a bit different) we could use:
>
> arm_idle()
> arm_idle_cpu_init()
>
> even though I think the arch prefix is useless.
>
> Side note: why is the x86 driver in drivers/idle ? To have another dir :) ?

I believe it is there for historical reasons.

[ ... ]

>> +static struct cpuidle_ops cpuidle_ops[NR_CPUS];
>
> That's because you want platform cpuidle_ops to be __initdata ?

Yes.

> It should not be a big overhead on arm32 to have a number of
> structs equal to NR_CPUS, on arm64 it is the other way around
> there are few cpu_ops, but number of CPUs can be high so it
> is an array of pointers.
>
> I think it is ok to leave it as it is (or probably make cpuidle_ops
> a single struct, I expect enable-method to be common across cpus).

I prefer to keep per cpu because I am not sure of this assumption.

[ ... ]

>> +	cpuidle_ops[cpu] = *ops; /* structure copy */
>
> See above.
>
>> +
>> +	pr_notice("cpuidle: enable-method property '%s'"
>> +		  " found operations\n", ops->name);
>> +
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +int __init arm_cpuidle_init(int cpu)
>> +{
>> +	int ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> Nit: You always assign ret, so there is no point in initializing it.

Ok, I will fix it.

Thanks for reviewing.

   -- Daniel



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