From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753397AbaARDwe (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:52:34 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com ([209.85.160.43]:44864 "EHLO mail-pb0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752885AbaARDwb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:52:31 -0500 Message-ID: <52D9FA72.5020505@linaro.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 11:52:18 +0800 From: Hanjun Guo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sudeep Holla , "Rafael J. Wysocki" CC: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Russell King - ARM Linux , Daniel Lezcano , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "grant.likely@linaro.org" , Matthew Garrett , Olof Johansson , Linus Walleij , Bjorn Helgaas , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , Mark Rutland , Jon Masters , "patches@linaro.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org" , "linaro-acpi@lists.linaro.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ACPI / idle: Move idle_boot_override out of the arch directory References: <1389924207-7360-1-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <1389924207-7360-2-git-send-email-hanjun.guo@linaro.org> <52D91CE2.3050704@arm.com> <52D9F8E8.8030602@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <52D9F8E8.8030602@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2014-1-18 11:45, Hanjun Guo wrote: > On 2014-1-17 20:06, Sudeep Holla wrote: >> On 17/01/14 02:03, Hanjun Guo wrote: >>> Move idle_boot_override out of the arch directory to be a single enum >>> including both platforms values, this will make it rather easier to >>> avoid ifdefs around which definitions are for which processor in >>> generally used ACPI code. >>> >>> IDLE_FORCE_MWAIT for IA64 is not used anywhere, so romove it. >>> >>> No functional change in this patch. >>> >>> Suggested-by: Alan >>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo >>> --- [...] >>> diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h >>> index 03e235ad..e324561 100644 >>> --- a/include/linux/cpu.h >>> +++ b/include/linux/cpu.h >>> @@ -220,6 +220,14 @@ void cpu_idle(void); >>> >>> void cpu_idle_poll_ctrl(bool enable); >>> >>> +enum idle_boot_override { >>> + IDLE_NO_OVERRIDE = 0, >>> + IDLE_HALT, >>> + IDLE_NOMWAIT, >>> + IDLE_POLL, >>> + IDLE_POWERSAVE_OFF >>> +}; >>> + >> >> I do understand the idea behind this change, but IMO HALT and MWAIT are x86 >> specific and may not make sense for other architectures. > > yes, this is the strange part, the value is arch-dependent. > >> >> It will also require every architecture using ACPI to export >> boot_option_idle_override which may not be really required. > > so, how about forget this patch and move boot_option_idle_override > related code into arch directory such as arch/x86/acpi/boot.c for > x86? The general idea is that we can move all the arch-dependent codes in ACPI driver to arch directory, then make codes in drivers/acpi/ arch independent. Thanks Hanjun