On Thu 2016-11-10 22:34:07, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/10/2016 09:29 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > >On Thu 2016-11-10 10:55:37, Tony Lindgren wrote: > >>* Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> [161110 09:29]: > >>>Hi! > >>> > >>>>>>>Looks like commit 883d32ce3385 ("leds: core: Add support for poll()ing > >>>>>>>the sysfs brightness attr for changes.") breaks runtime PM for me. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>On my omap dm3730 based test system, idle power consumption is over 70 > >>>>>>>times higher now with this patch! It goes from about 6mW for the core > >>>>>>>system to over 440mW during idle meaning there's some busy timer now > >>>>>>>active. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>Reverting this patch fixes the issue. Any ideas? > >>> > >>>Are you using any LED that toggles with high frequency? Like perhaps > >>>LED that is lit when CPU is active? > >> > >>Yeah one of them seems to have cpu0 as the default trigger. > > > >Aha. Its quite obvious we don't want to notify sysfs each time that > >one is toggled, right? > > > >IMO brightness should display max brightness for the trigger, as Hans > >suggested, anything else is madness for trigger such as cpu activity. > > Are you suggesting that we should revert changes introduced > by below patch? > > commit 29d76dfa29fe22583aefddccda0bc56aa81035dc > Author: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue Mar 18 09:47:48 2008 +0000 > > leds: Add support to leds with readable status > > Some led hardware allows drivers to query the led state, and this patch > adds a hook to let the led class take advantage of that information when > available. > > Without this functionality, when access to the led hardware is not > exclusive (i.e. firmware or hardware might change its state behind the > kernel's back), reality goes out of sync with the led class' idea of > what > the led is doing, which is annoying at best. Hmm. So userland can read the LED state, and it can get _some_ value back, but it can not know if it is current state or not. I don't think that's a good interface. I see it is from 2008... is someone using it? Maybe it is too late for revert. But I'd certainly not extend it with poll. IMO reading/polling should only be available with some triggers. It does not make sense with "CPU load" trigger. It makes sense with "keyboard light changeable by hardware" trigger. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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