On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:43:53AM +0000, 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.
>
> 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.
I tested the series on arm64 FVP models, next week I will do it on Juno
to cover arm64, but I do not expect any changes compared to FVP since the
arm64 arch interface is identical (which is the goal BTW).
I will add the tag accordingly.
Lorenzo
>
> Changelog:
>
> V3:
> * Fixed unroll loop when failing to register the device
> * Removed the per cpu cpuidle_device
> * Remove goto statement in the registration path
> * Fixed a compilation failure with allyesconfig on arm64
>
> V2:
> * Used smp_operations style for cpuidle_ops
> * Fixed some nits in the comments
> * Added a patch to change the name of the functions
> * Added per cpu device registration patch
>
> Daniel Lezcano (8):
> 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
> ARM: cpuidle: Register per cpuidle device
> ARM: cpuidle: Change function name to be consistent with x86
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/cpuidle.h | 23 +++++++
> arch/arm/kernel/cpuidle.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++-
> 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-s3c64xx/cpuidle.c | 2 +-
> 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 | 12 +++-
> drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm64 | 13 ----
> drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 5 +-
> drivers/cpuidle/{cpuidle-arm64.c => cpuidle-arm.c} | 80 ++++++++++++++++------
> 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 -
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 2 +
> 23 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm64
> rename drivers/cpuidle/{cpuidle-arm64.c => cpuidle-arm.c} (57%)
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
>
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