ARM: 6428/1: add cpu_idle_wait() to support CPUidle on SMP systems.
authorKevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Fri, 1 Oct 2010 21:13:47 +0000 (22:13 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:02:24 +0000 (10:02 +0100)
In order for CPUidle to work on SMP systems, an implementation of
cpu_idle_wait() is needed.

This patch duplicates the x86 implementation of cpu_idle_wait() for
ARM.

Tested-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/Kconfig
arch/arm/include/asm/system.h
arch/arm/kernel/process.c

index 7562f88..94360e7 100644 (file)
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ config ARCH_HAS_CPUFREQ
          and that the relevant menu configurations are displayed for
          it.
 
+config ARCH_HAS_CPU_IDLE_WAIT
+       def_bool y
+
 config GENERIC_HWEIGHT
        bool
        default y
index 8ba1ccf..48e360c 100644 (file)
@@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ static inline unsigned long __xchg(unsigned long x, volatile void *ptr, int size
 extern void disable_hlt(void);
 extern void enable_hlt(void);
 
+void cpu_idle_wait(void);
+
 #include <asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h>
 
 #if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 6
index 401e38b..23def52 100644 (file)
@@ -135,6 +135,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_power_off);
 void (*arm_pm_restart)(char str, const char *cmd) = arm_machine_restart;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arm_pm_restart);
 
+static void do_nothing(void *unused)
+{
+}
+
+/*
+ * cpu_idle_wait - Used to ensure that all the CPUs discard old value of
+ * pm_idle and update to new pm_idle value. Required while changing pm_idle
+ * handler on SMP systems.
+ *
+ * Caller must have changed pm_idle to the new value before the call. Old
+ * pm_idle value will not be used by any CPU after the return of this function.
+ */
+void cpu_idle_wait(void)
+{
+       smp_mb();
+       /* kick all the CPUs so that they exit out of pm_idle */
+       smp_call_function(do_nothing, NULL, 1);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_idle_wait);
 
 /*
  * This is our default idle handler.  We need to disable