Re: [RESEND PATCH] cpuidle: Handle tick_broadcast_enter() failure gracefully

2015-05-07 Thread Preeti U Murthy
On 05/07/2015 11:09 PM, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call > to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the > broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code > handles this CPU. This is not convi

Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: Handle tick_broadcast_enter() failure gracefully

2015-05-07 Thread Preeti U Murthy
On 05/07/2015 03:26 PM, Sudeep Holla wrote: > Hi Preeti, > > On 07/05/15 06:26, Preeti U Murthy wrote: >> When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call >> to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the >> broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance,

[RESEND PATCH] cpuidle: Handle tick_broadcast_enter() failure gracefully

2015-05-07 Thread Preeti U Murthy
When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code handles this CPU. This is not convincing because not only are we not aware what the arch c

Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: Handle tick_broadcast_enter() failure gracefully

2015-05-07 Thread Sudeep Holla
Hi Preeti, On 07/05/15 06:26, Preeti U Murthy wrote: When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code handles this CPU. This is not conv

[PATCH] cpuidle: Handle tick_broadcast_enter() failure gracefully

2015-05-06 Thread Preeti U Murthy
When a CPU has to enter an idle state where tick stops, it makes a call to tick_broadcast_enter(). The call will fail if this CPU is the broadcast CPU. Today, under such a circumstance, the arch cpuidle code handles this CPU. This is not convincing because not only are we not aware what the arch c