Following patch ports the cpuidle framework for powernv platform and also implements a cpuidle back-end powernv idle driver calling on to power7_nap and snooze idle states.
Moving the idle states over to cpuidle framework can take advantage of advanced heuristics, tunables and features provided by cpuidle framework. Additional idle states can be exploited using the cpuidle framework. The statistics and tracing infrastructure provided by the cpuidle framework also helps in enabling power management related tools and help tune the system and applications. This series aims to maintain compatibility and functionality to existing powernv idle cpu management code. There are no new functions or idle states added as part of this series. This can be extended by adding more states to this existing framework. For POWERNV platform to hook into CPUIDLE framework, one needs to enable CONFIG_POWERNV_IDLE. This patch series applies on pseries cpuidle backend driver fixes patchset posted earlier. pseries/cpuidle: pseries cpuidle backend driver clean-ups. Deepthi Dharwar (1): powernv/cpuidle: Back-end cpuidle driver for powernv platform. arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 13 ++ drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig.powerpc | 9 ++ drivers/cpuidle/Makefile | 1 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c -- Deepthi _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev