Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:25:34 +0100 | From | Daniel Lezcano <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] ARM: cpuidle: Unify the ARM64/ARM DT approach |
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Catalin, Rob,
do you agree with this patchset ?
Thanks -- Daniel
On 03/03/2015 01:29 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > There is a big number of cpuidle drivers for the ARM architecture. > > These drivers have been cleaned up and grouped into the drivers/cpuidle > directory to keep track of the changes more easily and ensure the code > is following the same scheme across the drivers. > > That had the benefit of simplifying the code and factor out a lot of common > parts. Beside that, as the drivers belong to the 'drivers' directory, we had > to split the arch specific bits and the generic code in order to keep > everything self contained. The platform driver paradigm was used for this > purpose. > > Unfortunately, this approach is now no longer accepted and a different solution > must be provided to reach the same goal: one example is the Qualcomm cpuidle > driver upstreaming attempt [1]. > > In the meantime, ARM64 developed a generic cpuidle driver based on DT definition. > > The DT definition provides an 'enable-method' to specify one of the cpu > operations (PSCI, ...). > > This patchset unify this driver with ARM32, using the same DT definition. > > Thanks with this patchset we can use the 'enable-method' to specify a cpu > operations, hence get rid of the platform driver approach and go further in the > cpuidle driver flexibility via the DT. > > Daniel Lezcano (6): > ARM: cpuidle: Remove duplicate header inclusion > ARM: cpuidle: Add a cpuidle ops structure to be used for DT > ARM64: cpuidle: Replace cpu_suspend by the common ARM/ARM64 function > ARM64: cpuidle: Rename cpu_init_idle to a common function name > ARM64: cpuidle: Remove arm64 reference > ARM: cpuidle: Enable the ARM64 driver for both ARM32/ARM64 > > arch/arm/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 12 +++ > arch/arm/include/asm/cpuidle_ops.h | 3 + > arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++- > arch/arm/mach-davinci/cpuidle.c | 1 - > arch/arm/mach-imx/cpuidle-imx6q.c | 1 - > arch/arm/mach-imx/cpuidle-imx6sl.c | 1 - > arch/arm/mach-imx/cpuidle-imx6sx.c | 1 - > arch/arm/mach-omap2/cpuidle44xx.c | 1 - > arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpuidle-tegra20.c | 1 - > arch/arm/mach-tegra/cpuidle-tegra30.c | 1 - > arch/arm64/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 9 ++- > arch/arm64/kernel/cpuidle.c | 2 +- > drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig | 7 +- > drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm | 10 +++ > drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm64 | 13 ---- > drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 5 +- > drivers/cpuidle/{cpuidle-arm64.c => cpuidle-arm.c} | 38 +++++----- > drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-at91.c | 1 - > drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-exynos.c | 1 - > drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-kirkwood.c | 1 - > drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-ux500.c | 1 - > drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-zynq.c | 1 - > 22 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/cpuidle_ops.h > delete mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm64 > rename drivers/cpuidle/{cpuidle-arm64.c => cpuidle-arm.c} (72%) >
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