From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Preeti U Murthy Subject: [PATCH] cpuidle/menu: Fail cpuidle_idle_call() if no idle state is acceptable Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:35:16 +0530 Message-ID: <20140114060516.6109.14901.stgit@preeti.in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:52791 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751307AbaANGIn (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:08:43 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e36.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:08:43 -0700 Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org To: deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, tuukka.tikkanen@linaro.org On PowerPC, in a particular test scenario, all the cpu idle states were disabled. Inspite of this it was observed that the idle state count of the shallowest idle state, snooze, was increasing. This is because the governor returns the idle state index as 0 even in scenarios when no idle state can be chosen. These scenarios could be when the latency requirement is 0 or as mentioned above when the user wants to disable certain cpu idle states at runtime. In the latter case, its possible that no cpu idle state is valid because the suitable states were disabled and the rest did not match the menu governor criteria to be chosen as the next idle state. This patch adds the code to indicate that a valid cpu idle state could not be chosen by the menu governor and reports back to arch so that it can take some default action. Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy --- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 6 +++++- drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c index a55e68f..5bf06bb 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c @@ -131,8 +131,9 @@ int cpuidle_idle_call(void) /* ask the governor for the next state */ next_state = cpuidle_curr_governor->select(drv, dev); + + dev->last_residency = 0; if (need_resched()) { - dev->last_residency = 0; /* give the governor an opportunity to reflect on the outcome */ if (cpuidle_curr_governor->reflect) cpuidle_curr_governor->reflect(dev, next_state); @@ -140,6 +141,9 @@ int cpuidle_idle_call(void) return 0; } + if (next_state < 0) + return -EINVAL; + trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(next_state, dev->cpu); broadcast = !!(drv->states[next_state].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP); diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c index cf7f2f0..6921543 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c @@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ again: * menu_select - selects the next idle state to enter * @drv: cpuidle driver containing state data * @dev: the CPU + * Returns -1 when no idle state is suitable */ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev) { @@ -292,17 +293,17 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev) int multiplier; struct timespec t; - if (data->needs_update) { + if (data->last_state_idx >= 0 && data->needs_update) { menu_update(drv, dev); data->needs_update = 0; } - data->last_state_idx = 0; + data->last_state_idx = -1; data->exit_us = 0; /* Special case when user has set very strict latency requirement */ if (unlikely(latency_req == 0)) - return 0; + return data->last_state_idx; /* determine the expected residency time, round up */ t = ktime_to_timespec(tick_nohz_get_sleep_length());