Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org> writes:
> On 10/28/2014 08:01 AM, Preeti Murthy wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Daniel Lezcano
>> <daniel.lezc...@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.lezc...@linaro.org>
>>> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@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).
FYI, the OMAP3 backend driver can does not always obey the selected
state, and will return a different state than the one requested.
Kevin
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