Re: [PATCH v2] cpuidle, ACPI: Evaluate LPI arch_flags for broadcast timer

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 13:50:12 EST


On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 5:48 PM Oza Pawandeep <quic_poza@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Arm® Functional Fixed Hardware Specification defines LPI states, which provide
> an architectural context loss flags field that can be used to describe the
> context that might be lost when an LPI state is entered.
>
> - Core context Lost
> - General purpose registers.
> - Floating point and SIMD registers.
> - System registers, include the System register based
> - generic timer for the core.
> - Debug register in the core power domain.
> - PMU registers in the core power domain.
> - Trace register in the core power domain.
> - Trace context loss
> - GICR
> - GICD
>
> Qualcomm's custom CPUs preserves the architectural state,
> including keeping the power domain for local timers active.
> when core is power gated, the local timers are sufficient to
> wake the core up without needing broadcast timer.
>
> The patch fixes the evaluation of cpuidle arch_flags, and moves only to
> broadcast timer if core context lost is defined in ACPI LPI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oza Pawandeep <quic_poza@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> index bd68e1b7f29f..5493b044864f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
> #ifndef _ASM_ACPI_H
> #define _ASM_ACPI_H
>
> +#include <linux/cpuidle.h>
> #include <linux/efi.h>
> #include <linux/memblock.h>
> #include <linux/psci.h>
> @@ -42,6 +43,27 @@
> #define ACPI_MADT_GICC_SPE (offsetof(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt, \
> spe_interrupt) + sizeof(u16))
>
> +/*
> + * Arm® Functional Fixed Hardware Specification Version 1.2.
> + * Table 2: Arm Architecture context loss flags
> + */
> +#define CPUIDLE_CORE_CTXT BIT(0) /* Core context Lost */
> +
> +#ifndef arch_update_idle_state_flags
> +static __always_inline void arch_update_idle_state_flags(u32 arch_flags,
> + unsigned int *sflags)
> +{
> + if (arch_flags & CPUIDLE_CORE_CTXT) {
> + *sflags |= CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP;
> + }
> +}
> +#define arch_update_idle_state_flags arch_update_idle_state_flags
> +#endif
> +
> +#define CPUIDLE_TRACE_CTXT BIT(1) /* Trace context loss */
> +#define CPUIDLE_GICR_CTXT BIT(2) /* GICR */
> +#define CPUIDLE_GICD_CTXT BIT(3) /* GICD */
> +
> /* Basic configuration for ACPI */
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> pgprot_t __acpi_get_mem_attribute(phys_addr_t addr);
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> index 9718d07cc2a2..420baec3465c 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> @@ -1221,8 +1221,7 @@ static int acpi_processor_setup_lpi_states(struct acpi_processor *pr)
> strscpy(state->desc, lpi->desc, CPUIDLE_DESC_LEN);
> state->exit_latency = lpi->wake_latency;
> state->target_residency = lpi->min_residency;
> - if (lpi->arch_flags)
> - state->flags |= CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP;
> + arch_update_idle_state_flags(lpi->arch_flags, &state->flags);
> if (i != 0 && lpi->entry_method == ACPI_CSTATE_FFH)
> state->flags |= CPUIDLE_FLAG_RCU_IDLE;
> state->enter = acpi_idle_lpi_enter;
> diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
> index d584f94409e1..60f17c99465b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/acpi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
> @@ -1471,6 +1471,15 @@ static inline int lpit_read_residency_count_address(u64 *address)
> }
> #endif
>
> +#ifndef arch_update_idle_state_flags
> +static __always_inline void arch_update_idle_state_flags(u32 arch_flags,
> + unsigned int *sflags)
> +{
> +
> +}
> +#define arch_update_idle_state_flags arch_update_idle_state_flags
> +#endif
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PPTT
> int acpi_pptt_cpu_is_thread(unsigned int cpu);
> int find_acpi_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpu, int level);
> --

If I'm to apply this, an ACK from the ARM people is requisite.

Thanks!