Re: [v6 PATCH 0/7]: cpuidle/x86/POWER: Cleanup idle powermanagement code in x86, cleanup drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c and introducecpuidle to POWER.

[Vaidyanathan Srinivasan]

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-09-24 14:22:28]:

> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:42:41 +0530
> Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > * Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-09-22 16:55:27]:
> > 
> > Hi Len, (or other acpi folks),
> > 
> > I had a question regarding ACPI-cpuidle interaction in the current
> > implementation.
> > 
> > Currently, every cpu (i.e. acpi_processor) registers to cpuidle as
> > a cpuidle_device. So every cpu has to go through the process of
> > setting up the idle states and then registering as a cpuidle device.
> > 
> > What exactly is the reason behind this?
> > 
> 
> technically a BIOS can opt to give you C states via ACPI on some cpus,
> but not on others.
> 
> in practice when this happens it tends to be a bug.. but it's
> technically a valid configuration

So we will need to keep the per-cpu registration as of now because we
may have such buggy BIOS in the field and we don't want the cpuidle
framework to malfunction there.

--Vaidy


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