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arm64: enable generic idle loop

Message ID 1440128422-4170-1-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org
State Accepted
Commit 2314ee4d444e28d4670ff80c84df68c25887decb
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Commit Message

Leo Yan Aug. 21, 2015, 3:40 a.m. UTC
Enable generic idle loop for ARM64, so can support for hlt/nohlt
command line options to override default idle loop behavior.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
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 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Leo Yan Aug. 21, 2015, 9:14 a.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:00:43AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:40:22AM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > Enable generic idle loop for ARM64, so can support for hlt/nohlt
> > command line options to override default idle loop behavior.
> 
> Just curious, what do you need this for?

With this config, usually we can add "nohlt" in command line to force
the cpu will never be powered off; so can quickly narrow down if some
issues are related with cpuidle or not.

And if CPU is powered off, then its debug logic also will be powered off.
So we can simply use this method to let debugger always hot connect with
the target CPU.

Thanks,
Leo Yan
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 0f6edb1..c404e74 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@  config ARM64
 	select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST if SMP
 	select GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
 	select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
+	select GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL