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Commit db50a74d authored by Prashanth Prakash's avatar Prashanth Prakash Committed by Catalin Marinas
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cpuidle: Add new macro to enter a retention idle state



If a CPU is entering a low power idle state where it doesn't lose any
context, then there is no need to call cpu_pm_enter()/cpu_pm_exit().
Add a new macro(CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER_RETENTION) to be used by cpuidle
drivers when they are entering retention state. By not calling
cpu_pm_enter and cpu_pm_exit we reduce the latency involved in
entering and exiting the retention idle states.

CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER_RETENTION assumes that no state is lost and
hence CPU PM notifiers will not be called. We may need a broader
change if we need to support partial retention states effeciently.

On ARM64 based Qualcomm Server Platform we measured below overhead for
for calling cpu_pm_enter and cpu_pm_exit for retention states.

workload: stress --hdd #CPUs --hdd-bytes 32M  -t 30
        Average overhead of cpu_pm_enter - 1.2us
        Average overhead of cpu_pm_exit  - 3.1us

Acked-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPrashanth Prakash <pprakash@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 1f911c3a
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