Revision 46bcfad7a819bd17ac4e831b04405152d59784ab authored by Deepthi Dharwar on 28 October 2011, 10:50:42 UTC, committed by Len Brown on 07 November 2011, 02:13:58 UTC
This patch makes the cpuidle_states structure global (single copy) instead of per-cpu. The statistics needed on per-cpu basis by the governor are kept per-cpu. This simplifies the cpuidle subsystem as state registration is done by single cpu only. Having single copy of cpuidle_states saves memory. Rare case of asymmetric C-states can be handled within the cpuidle driver and architectures such as POWER do not have asymmetric C-states. Having single/global registration of all the idle states, dynamic C-state transitions on x86 are handled by the boot cpu. Here, the boot cpu would disable all the devices, re-populate the states and later enable all the devices, irrespective of the cpu that would receive the notification first. Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/25/83 Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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