From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Confused by function names cpuidle_install_idle_handler/cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:54:19 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdaadadYWRdUi5pwVUnrGZjWv-DxY8GF6fSFmGQmO_S1rH6HQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHu9=sP0B0OKq3QFC=WeagJJSEwJdpSsTYdytag=WNTbyHmGPg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla
<meraj.enigma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c, there are two functions
> cpuidle_install_idle_handler & cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler. The
> names seem confusing to me as they don't install any handler, rather
> set 'initialized' variable to 1/0.
>
> In v3.0 kernel, these functions used to look as below where they
> installed and uninstalled some handler function -
>
> void cpuidle_install_idle_handler(void)
> 123 {
> 124 if (enabled_devices && (pm_idle != cpuidle_idle_call)) {
> 125 /* Make sure all changes finished before we switch
> to new idle */
> 126 smp_wmb();
> 127 pm_idle = cpuidle_idle_call;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
pm_idle is the callback handler, and it is assigned to
cpuidle_idle_call. I think this what it means by "install"
--
regards,
Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-22 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-18 16:07 Confused by function names cpuidle_install_idle_handler/cpuidle_uninstall_idle_handler Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla
2014-07-22 10:54 ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2014-07-22 13:56 ` Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla
2014-07-22 14:43 ` Anand Moon
2014-07-22 15:07 ` Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla
2014-07-22 15:43 ` Anand Moon
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