Current PSCI CPUidle driver is built on top of the generic ARM CPUidle infrastructure that relies on the architectural back-end idle operations to initialize and enter idle states.
On ARM64 systems, PSCI is the only interface the kernel ever uses to enter idle states, so, having to rely on a generic ARM CPUidle driver when there is and there will always be only one method for entering idle states proved to be overkill, more so given that on ARM 32-bit systems (that can also enable the generic ARM CPUidle driver) only one additional idle back-end was ever added: drivers/soc/qcom/spm.c and it can be easily converted to a full-fledged CPUidle driver without requiring the generic ARM CPUidle framework. Furthermore, the generic ARM CPUidle infrastructure forces the PSCI firmware layer to keep CPUidle specific information in it, which does not really fit its purpose that should be kernel control/data structure agnostic. Lastly, the interface between the generic ARM CPUidle driver and the arch back-end requires an idle state index to be passed to suspend operations, with idle states back-end internals (such as idle state parameters) hidden in architectural back-ends and not available to the generic ARM CPUidle driver. To improve the above mentioned shortcomings, implement a stand alone PSCI CPUidle driver; this improves the current kernel code from several perspective: - Move CPUidle internal knowledge into CPUidle driver out of the PSCI firmware interface - Give the PSCI CPUidle driver control over power state parameters, in particular in preparation for PSCI OSI support - Remove generic CPUidle operations infrastructure from the kernel This patchset does not go as far as removing the generic ARM CPUidle infrastructure in order to collect feedback on the new approach before completing the removal from the kernel, the generic and PSCI CPUidle driver are left to co-exist. Tested on Juno platform with both DT and ACPI boot firmwares. Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hans...@linaro.org> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <r...@rjwysocki.net> Lorenzo Pieralisi (6): ARM: cpuidle: Remove useless header include ARM: cpuidle: Remove overzealous error logging drivers: firmware: psci: Decouple checker from generic ARM CPUidle ARM: psci: cpuidle: Introduce PSCI CPUidle driver ARM: psci: cpuidle: Enable PSCI CPUidle driver PSCI: cpuidle: Refactor CPU suspend power_state parameter handling MAINTAINERS | 8 + arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 + arch/arm64/kernel/cpuidle.c | 50 +++++- arch/arm64/kernel/psci.c | 4 - drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.arm | 7 + drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 1 + drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-arm.c | 13 +- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c | 235 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/firmware/psci/psci.c | 167 +------------------ drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c | 16 +- include/linux/cpuidle.h | 17 +- include/linux/psci.h | 4 +- 13 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 186 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c -- 2.21.0