There are two special cases in the idle loop that are handled
inconsistently even though they are analogous.
The first one is when a cpuidle driver is absent and the default CPU
idle time power management implemented by the architecture code is used.
In that case, the scheduler tick is stopped every time before invoking
default_idle_call().
The second one is when a cpuidle driver is present, but there is only
one idle state in its table. In that case, the scheduler tick is never
stopped at all.
Since each of these approaches has its drawbacks, reconcile them with
the help of one simple heuristic. Namely, stop the tick if the CPU has
been woken up by it in the previous iteration of the idle loop, or let
it tick otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: ed98c34919 ("sched: idle: Do not stop the tick before cpuidle_idle_call()")
[ rjw: Added Fixes tag, changelog edits ]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4741364.LvFx2qVVIh@rafael.j.wysocki
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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