Add support for TIF_NOTIFY_IPI on PowerPC. With TIF_NOTIFY_IPI, a sender
sending an IPI to an idle CPU in TIF_POLLING mode will set the
TIF_NOTIFY_IPI flag in the target's idle tasks's thread_info to pull the
CPU out of idle, as opposed to setting TIF_NEED_RESCHED previously. This
avoids spurious calls to schedule_idle() in cases where an IPI does not
necessarily wake up a task on the idle CPU.

Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@kernel.org>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n....@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <raf...@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.le...@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggem...@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bseg...@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bris...@redhat.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschn...@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Donnellan <a...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.na...@amd.com>
Cc: Nicholas Miehlbradt <nicho...@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.na...@amd.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h 
b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
index bf5dde1a4114..b48db55192e0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void);
 #define TIF_PATCH_PENDING      6       /* pending live patching update */
 #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT      7       /* syscall auditing active */
 #define TIF_SINGLESTEP         8       /* singlestepping active */
+#define TIF_NOTIFY_IPI         9       /* Pending IPI on TIF_POLLLING idle CPU 
*/
 #define TIF_SECCOMP            10      /* secure computing */
 #define TIF_RESTOREALL         11      /* Restore all regs (implies NOERROR) */
 #define TIF_NOERROR            12      /* Force successful syscall return */
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ void arch_setup_new_exec(void);
 #define _TIF_PATCH_PENDING     (1<<TIF_PATCH_PENDING)
 #define _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT     (1<<TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT)
 #define _TIF_SINGLESTEP                (1<<TIF_SINGLESTEP)
+#define _TIF_NOTIFY_IPI                (1<<TIF_NOTIFY_IPI)
 #define _TIF_SECCOMP           (1<<TIF_SECCOMP)
 #define _TIF_RESTOREALL                (1<<TIF_RESTOREALL)
 #define _TIF_NOERROR           (1<<TIF_NOERROR)
-- 
2.34.1

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