Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:14:18 +0530 | From | Preeti U Murthy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 3/5] cpuidle: idle: menu: Don't reflect when a state selection failed |
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On 10/28/2014 11:58 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > On 10/28/2014 08:01 AM, Preeti Murthy wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Daniel Lezcano >> <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> wrote: >>> In the current code, the check to reflect or not the outcoming state >>> is done >>> against the idle state which has been chosen and its value. >>> >>> Instead of doing a check in each of the reflect functions, just don't >>> call reflect >>> if something went wrong in the idle path. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> >>> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> >>> --- >>> drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c | 3 +-- >>> drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c | 4 +--- >>> kernel/sched/idle.c | 3 ++- >>> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c >>> b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c >>> index fb396d6..c0b36a8 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c >>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/ladder.c >>> @@ -165,8 +165,7 @@ static int ladder_enable_device(struct >>> cpuidle_driver *drv, >>> static void ladder_reflect(struct cpuidle_device *dev, int index) >>> { >>> struct ladder_device *ldev = &__get_cpu_var(ladder_devices); >>> - if (index > 0) >>> - ldev->last_state_idx = index; >>> + ldev->last_state_idx = index; >>> } >>> >>> static struct cpuidle_governor ladder_governor = { >>> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c >>> b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c >>> index a17515f..3907301 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c >>> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c >>> @@ -365,9 +365,7 @@ static int menu_select(struct cpuidle_driver >>> *drv, struct cpuidle_device *dev, >>> static void menu_reflect(struct cpuidle_device *dev, int index) >>> { >>> struct menu_device *data = &__get_cpu_var(menu_devices); >>> - data->last_state_idx = index; >>> - if (index >= 0) >>> - data->needs_update = 1; >>> + data->needs_update = 1; >> >> Why is the last_state_idx not getting updated ? > > Oups, right. This is missing. > > Thanks for pointing this out. > > By the way, I don't think a back end driver is changing the selected > state currently and I am not sure this is desirable since we want to > trust the state we are going (as a best effort). So if the 'enter' > function does not change the index, that means the last_state_idx has > not to be changed since it has been assigned in the 'select' function.
Hmm Right. So you might want to remove the last_state_idx update in ladder_reflect() also?
Regards Preeti U Murthy > > >
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