On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 00:24 +0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 03:15 AM, Joseph Lo wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 06:38 +0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> On 10/08/2012 04:26 AM, Joseph Lo wrote:
> >>> This supports power-gated (LP2) idle on secondary CPUs for Tegra30.
> >>> The secondary CPUs can go into LP2 state independently. When CPU goes
> >>> into LP2 state, it saves it's state and puts itself to flow controlled
> >>> WFI state. After that, it will been power gated.
> >>
> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/pm.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/pm.c
> >>
> >>> +void __cpuinit tegra_clear_cpu_in_lp2(int cpu)
> >>> +{
> >>> + spin_lock(&tegra_lp2_lock);
> >>> + BUG_ON(!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &tegra_in_lp2));
> >>> + cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &tegra_in_lp2);
> >>> +
> >>> + /*
> >>> + * Update the IRAM copy used by the reset handler. The IRAM copy
> >>> + * can't use used directly by cpumask_clear_cpu() because it uses
> >>> + * LDREX/STREX which requires the addressed location to be inner
> >>> + * cacheable and sharable which IRAM isn't.
> >>> + */
> >>> + writel(tegra_in_lp2.bits[0], tegra_cpu_lp2_mask);
> >>> + dsb();
> >>
> >> Why not /just/ store the data in IRAM, and read/write directly to it,
> >> rather than maintaining an SDRAM-based copy of it?
> >>
> >> Then, wouldn't the body of this function be simply:
> >>
> >> spin_lock();
> >> BUG_ON(!(tegra_cpu_lp2_mask & BIT(cpu)));
> >> tegra_cpu_lp2_mask |= BIT(cpu);
> >> spin_unlock();
> >>
> >
> > It may not simple like this. To maintain it identical to a cpumask. It
> > may look likes below. Because I need to compare it with cpu_online_mask.
>
> Oh, the comparison against cpu_online_mask() is what I was missing. I
> guess that offline CPUs don't go into LP2, so you can't just check that
> tegra_cpu_lp2_mask == (1 << num_cpus()) - 1.
>
> One way to avoid that might be to maintain a cpu_in_lp2_count variable
> alongside the mask, and simply compare that against num_online_cpus()
> rather than comparing the two masks. At least that would avoid the
> following line:
>
> >>> + writel(tegra_in_lp2.bits[0], tegra_cpu_lp2_mask);
>
> ... making use of knowledge of the internal structure of the struct
> cpumask type.
>
> However, given the comparison requirement, either way is probably fine.
OK. I got your idea now. And I rechecked it today. The method that you
suggested original could satisfy the usage here. It could maintain the
CPUs go into LP2 as a cpumask. I just verified it. Will update in next
version.
Thanks,
Joseph
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