Currently the idle injection framework uses the play_idle() function
which puts the current CPU in an idle state. The idle state is the
deepest one, as specified by the latency constraint when calling the
subsequent play_idle_precise() function with the INT_MAX.
The idle_injection is used by the cpuidle_cooling device which
computes the idle / run duration to mitigate the temperature by
injecting idle cycles. The cooling device has no control on the depth
of the idle state.
Allow finer control of the idle injection mechanism by allowing to
specify the latency for the idle state. Thus the cooling device has
the ability to have a guarantee on the exit latency of the idle states
it is injecting.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429103644.5492-1-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
The resolution of the idle injection is limited to 1ms. If there is
a need for an injection of 1.2 ms, it is not possible.
The idle injection API is not yet used, so it is safe to convert the
existing API to the new time unit instead of adding more functions.
Convert to microsecond in order to use a finer grain time unit when
injecting idle cycles.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Initially, the cpu_cooling device for ARM was changed by adding a new
policy inserting idle cycles. The intel_powerclamp driver does a
similar action.
Instead of implementing idle injections privately in the cpu_cooling
device, move the idle injection code in a dedicated framework and give
the opportunity to other frameworks to make use of it.
The framework relies on the smpboot kthreads which handles via its
main loop the common code for hotplugging and [un]parking.
This code was previously tested with the cpu cooling device and went
through several iterations. It results now in split code and API
exported in the header file. It was tested with the cpu cooling device
with success.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
[ rjw: Rewrite of all comments ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Daniel Lezcano