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authorKevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>2010-10-01 22:13:47 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-10-08 10:02:24 +0100
commitc7b0aff44a0740eedd31b759fd08d9e25672fa76 (patch)
tree02991fc91b0733c6b0f2ce8de2d0741b5ff43ef6 /arch/arm/kernel/process.c
parent7511db9d25080d53e5427bf4b8849278c07019bc (diff)
ARM: 6428/1: add cpu_idle_wait() to support CPUidle on SMP systems.
In order for CPUidle to work on SMP systems, an implementation of cpu_idle_wait() is needed. This patch duplicates the x86 implementation of cpu_idle_wait() for ARM. Tested-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/process.c19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index 401e38be1f78..23def52d2d24 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -135,6 +135,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_power_off);
void (*arm_pm_restart)(char str, const char *cmd) = arm_machine_restart;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(arm_pm_restart);
+static void do_nothing(void *unused)
+{
+}
+
+/*
+ * cpu_idle_wait - Used to ensure that all the CPUs discard old value of
+ * pm_idle and update to new pm_idle value. Required while changing pm_idle
+ * handler on SMP systems.
+ *
+ * Caller must have changed pm_idle to the new value before the call. Old
+ * pm_idle value will not be used by any CPU after the return of this function.
+ */
+void cpu_idle_wait(void)
+{
+ smp_mb();
+ /* kick all the CPUs so that they exit out of pm_idle */
+ smp_call_function(do_nothing, NULL, 1);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_idle_wait);
/*
* This is our default idle handler. We need to disable