On Wed 2016-06-01 21:33:24, dbaseh...@chromium.org wrote:
> From: Derek Basehore <dbaseh...@chromium.org>
> 
> This patch set adds support for catching errors when entering freeze
> on Intel Skylake SoCs. Support for this can be added to newer SoCs in
> later patches.
> 
> Verification is done by waking up the CPU once every X (default 10)
> seconds to check the residency of S0ix. This can't be verified before
> attempting to enter S0ix through mwait, so we have to repeatedly
> verify entry into that state. Successfully entering S0ix is no
> guarantee that it will be entered on the next attempt, so we have to
> schedule another check. This has a minimal power impact of <1% of the
> total system power on our systems.

Dunno. Should this be protected with something like CONFIG_TEST_SLEEP?
People probably don't want this for production...

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