Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpuidle: Don't pass any values to cpuidle_not_available

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jul 11 2023 - 03:42:55 EST


On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 02:54:21PM +0900, Kazuki Hashimoto wrote:
> There's no reason to pass any values to cpuidle_not_available() as the
> function works standalone. Since we're planning to use the function in
> other places, make it so to avoid code duplication.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kazuki Hashimoto <kazukih0205@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c | 6 ++++--
> include/linux/cpuidle.h | 6 ++----
> kernel/sched/idle.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> index 737a026ef58a..c9ba51e0fa38 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
> @@ -49,9 +49,11 @@ void disable_cpuidle(void)
> off = 1;
> }
>
> -bool cpuidle_not_available(struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
> - struct cpuidle_device *dev)
> +bool cpuidle_not_available(void)
> {
> + struct cpuidle_device *dev = cpuidle_get_device();
> + struct cpuidle_driver *drv = cpuidle_get_cpu_driver(dev);
> +
> return off || !initialized || !drv || !dev || !dev->enabled;
> }

It appears to me these are a lot of conditions to check *every* time we
go idle -- especially since they hardly, if ever, change.

Can't cpuidle track all this in a single global variable, preferably as
a static_key ?