Re: s2idle breaks on machines without cpuidle support

From: Kazuki
Date: Wed Feb 08 2023 - 10:43:03 EST


On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 03:34:07PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 12:19:39AM +0900, Kazuki wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 03:03:06PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > Well, if we are allowing to boot on such a system, then we must allow
> > > adding a platform specific idle driver. It may be useful once we info
> > > to add deeper than WFI states.
> >
> > Hmmm, I thought for arm64, non-PSCI idle drivers were prohibited? Or am
> > I mistaken here?
>
> I don't know. I am not against it especially now that we have allowed a
> non-PSCI based production system to boot the kernel.
>
> > > Are we ? I thought were making changes to enable it. Or are you saying
> > > we allow to enter into such a state and render the system unusable, if
> > > so we need to fix it.
> >
> > Both as I mentioned in my first email. Apologies if it turned out to
> > be confusing.
>
> Sorry still confusing. Are you saying you can enter s2idle and crash or
> hang the system without changes(especially around this s2idle code) ?
Yes.

Thanks,
Kazuki