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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/arm: disable cpuidle when linux is running as dom0
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:21:41PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> When linux is running as dom0, Xen doesn't show the physical cpu but a
> virtual CPU.
> On some ARM SOC (for instance the exynos 5250), linux registers callbacks
> for cpuidle. When these callbacks are called, they will modify
> directly the physical cpu not the virtual one. It can impact the whole board
> instead of dom0.

Should you also call disable_cpufreq() ?

>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> index 49839d8..a98999f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
> #include <linux/of.h>
> #include <linux/of_irq.h>
> #include <linux/of_address.h>
> +#include <linux/cpuidle.h>
> +#include <linux/cpufreq.h>
>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
>
> @@ -292,6 +294,11 @@ static int __init xen_pm_init(void)
> {
> pm_power_off = xen_power_off;
> arm_pm_restart = xen_restart;
> + /*
> + * Making sure board specific code will not set up ops for
> + * cpu idle.
> + */
> + disable_cpuidle();
>
> return 0;
> }
> --
> 1.7.10.4
>
>
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