On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 08:12 -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> # Date 1206969060 18000
> # Node ID 10aea37177130bbe5de7bee6ec06d9010bc5da1f
> # Parent 1506aa38ddabb0bf73fff3ac3f3db5f9ef6458cc
> Add idle power save for ppc 4xx
>
> This patch sets the wait state MSR when power_save is called in
> cpu_idle loop for ppc4xx. This is mainly to help out virtualization
> solutions such as KVM. This way the virtualization soultions are able
> to tell if the guest kernel is idle.
>
> I have tested this on hardware & KVM virtual guest.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_TBSYNC) += smp-tbsy
> obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_TBSYNC) += smp-tbsync.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP) += crash_dump.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_6xx) += idle_6xx.o l2cr_6xx.o cpu_setup_6xx.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_4xx) += idle_4xx.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_TAU) += tau_6xx.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_HIBERNATION) += swsusp.o suspend.o \
> swsusp_$(CONFIG_WORD_SIZE).o
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_4xx.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_4xx.c
> new file mode 100644
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle_4xx.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +/*
> + * This file contains the power_save function for 4xx CPUs
> + *
> + * added by Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> + *
> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
> + * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> + */
> +
> +#include <asm/processor.h>
> +#include <asm/machdep.h>
> +
> +void ppc4xx_idle()
void ppc4xx_idle(void)
> +{
> + unsigned long msr_save;
> +
> + /* set wait state MSR */
> + local_irq_enable();
> + msr_save = mfmsr();
> + mtmsr(msr_save|MSR_WE);
Why don't you |MSR_WE|MSR_EE at the same time?
> + local_irq_disable();
> +}
None of the other power_save() implementations need this. In fact many
of them don't even seem to return; they just loop around mtmsr.
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
> @@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ void __init machine_init(unsigned long d
> if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_CAN_DOZE) ||
> cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_CAN_NAP))
> ppc_md.power_save = ppc6xx_idle;
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_4xx
> + ppc_md.power_save = ppc4xx_idle;
> #endif
>
> if (ppc_md.progress)
This belongs in the platform setup code.
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
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