On 02/10/2018 23:42, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
> 
> If the CPU exits the "polling" state due to the time limit in the
> loop in poll_idle(), this is not a real wakeup and it just means
> that the "polling" state selection was not adequate.  The governor
> mispredicted short idle duration, but had a more suitable state been
> selected, the CPU might have spent more time in it.  In fact, there
> is no reason to expect that there would have been a wakeup event
> earlier than the next timer in that case.
> 
> Handling such cases as regular wakeups in menu_update() may cause the
> menu governor to make suboptimal decisions going forward, but ignoring
> them altogether would not be correct either, because every time
> menu_select() is invoked, it makes a separate new attempt to predict
> the idle duration taking distinct time to the closest timer event as
> input and the outcomes of all those attempts should be recorded.
> 
> For this reason, make menu_update() always assume that if the
> "polling" state was exited due to the time limit, the next proper
> wakeup event for the CPU would be the next timer event (not
> including the tick).
> 
> Fixes: a37b969a61c1 "cpuidle: poll_state: Add time limit to poll_idle()"
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org>


>  drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c |   10 ++++++++++
>  drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c     |    6 +++++-
>  include/linux/cpuidle.h          |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
> +++ linux-pm/drivers/cpuidle/governors/menu.c
> @@ -511,6 +511,16 @@ static void menu_update(struct cpuidle_d
>                * duration predictor do a better job next time.
>                */
>               measured_us = 9 * MAX_INTERESTING / 10;
> +     } else if ((drv->states[last_idx].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING) &&
> +                dev->poll_time_limit) {
> +             /*
> +              * The CPU exited the "polling" state due to a time limit, so
> +              * the idle duration prediction leading to the selection of that
> +              * state was inaccurate.  If a better prediction had been made,
> +              * the CPU might have been woken up from idle by the next timer.
> +              * Assume that to be the case.
> +              */
> +             measured_us = data->next_timer_us;
>       } else {
>               /* measured value */
>               measured_us = dev->last_residency;
> Index: linux-pm/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> +++ linux-pm/include/linux/cpuidle.h
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct cpuidle_device {
>       unsigned int            registered:1;
>       unsigned int            enabled:1;
>       unsigned int            use_deepest_state:1;
> +     unsigned int            poll_time_limit:1;
>       unsigned int            cpu;
>  
>       int                     last_residency;
> Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c
> +++ linux-pm/drivers/cpuidle/poll_state.c
> @@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ static int __cpuidle poll_idle(struct cp
>  {
>       u64 time_start = local_clock();
>  
> +     dev->poll_time_limit = false;
> +
>       local_irq_enable();
>       if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
>               unsigned int loop_count = 0;
> @@ -27,8 +29,10 @@ static int __cpuidle poll_idle(struct cp
>                               continue;
>  
>                       loop_count = 0;
> -                     if (local_clock() - time_start > POLL_IDLE_TIME_LIMIT)
> +                     if (local_clock() - time_start > POLL_IDLE_TIME_LIMIT) {
> +                             dev->poll_time_limit = true;
>                               break;
> +                     }
>               }
>       }
>       current_clr_polling();
> 


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