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From: khilman@ti•com (Kevin Hilman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 16/16] ARM: omap: disable cpuidle for OMAP3 platforms
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:30:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87haz0ykbf.fsf@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipjg3osg.fsf@ti.com> (Kevin Hilman's message of "Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:09:51 -0800")

Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti•com> writes:

> Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide•com> writes:
>
>> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm•linux.org.uk> [120208 08:10]:
>>> Commit 2fd149645eb4 (ARM: OMAP2+: UART: Remove omap_uart_can_sleep and add pm_qos)
>>> has caused a regression on OMAP3 platforms.
>>> 
>>> When the UART is trying to transmit data, if we enter a low power mode,
>>> transmission stops, which makes serial on OMAP3 unusable - a 'dmesg'
>>> takes five minutes to be output at 115200 baud, at a rate of around a
>>> block of 16 characters every couple of seconds.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, the commit above can't be reverted because of many other
>>> changes in this area, so this implements a dirty fix by disabling
>>> CPU idle in the places the original commit does, irrespective of the
>>> UART state.
>> ...
>>
>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm34xx.c
>>> @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ static void omap3_pm_idle(void)
>>>  	local_irq_disable();
>>>  	local_fiq_disable();
>>>  
>>> -	if (omap_irq_pending() || need_resched())
>>> +	if (omap_irq_pending() || need_resched() || 1)
>>>  		goto out;
>>>  
>>>  	trace_power_start(POWER_CSTATE, 1, smp_processor_id());
>>
>> Argh, this is just too ugly. There has got to be a better fix for the
>> -rc series.
>>
>> Looks like the patches to fix omap-serial.c are queued for v3.4,
>> so that won't help.
>>
>> Kevin, what do you have for the -rc fix here to avoid the if (1)
>> hack?
>
> There was confusion with Greg about this serial fixes which were
> supposed to be for -rc.
>
> He pulled the original series in to -rc, and reverted them when Paul
> updated the series.  Then he decided to queue the updated series for
> 3.4. :(
>
> I've now asked Greg if he can queue that series for 3.3.

And he refused (on the 34xx thread). :(

It is a very targetted set of fixes that directly address the problems
in the UART driver, but he has decided they should wait because we went
through a couple revisions.

Maybe you can respond to Greg saying that we really need them for 3.3?

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-08 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-08 16:35 [PATCH 00/16] rmk's patch series for fixing OMAP Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 16:36 ` [PATCH 01/16] ARM: omap: fix oops in arch/arm/mach-omap2/vp.c when pmic is not found Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:33   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 23:46     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-09 16:44       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-09 16:51         ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:37 ` [PATCH 04/16] ARM: omap: fix prm44xx.c OMAP44XX_IRQ_PRCM build error Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:39   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-09 18:58     ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-02-08 16:37 ` [PATCH 05/16] ARM: omap: fix vc.c PMIC error message Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:45   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 23:06     ` Kevin Hilman
2012-02-08 23:53       ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 23:56         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-09  0:09           ` Kevin Hilman
2012-02-09  0:11             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-09  0:20               ` Kevin Hilman
2012-02-09  0:40                 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-09 16:49                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-09 17:18                     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-09 17:27                       ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-09 17:59                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-09 18:06                           ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-09 18:46                             ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 23:57         ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-09  0:11           ` Kevin Hilman
2012-02-08 16:37 ` [PATCH 06/16] ARM: omap: fix uninformative vc/i2c configuration " Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:46   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 23:07   ` Kevin Hilman
2012-02-08 16:38 ` [PATCH 08/16] ARM: omap: fix section mismatch warning in mux.c Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:47   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:38 ` [PATCH 09/16] ARM: omap: preemptively fix section mismatch in omap4_sdp4430_wifi_mux_init() Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:48   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:39 ` [PATCH 10/16] ARM: omap: fix section mismatch warning for omap_secondary_startup() Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:48   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:39 ` [PATCH 11/16] ARM: omap: fix section mismatch error for omap_4430sdp_display_init() Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:48   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:39 ` [PATCH 12/16] ARM: omap: fix section mismatch warning for sdp3430_twl_gpio_setup() Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:49   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:40 ` [PATCH 13/16] ARM: omap: fix section mismatch warnings in mux.c caused by hsmmc.c Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:50   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:40 ` [PATCH 14/16] ARM: omap: fix wrapped error messages in omap_hwmod.c Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 17:40   ` Paul Walmsley
2012-02-08 18:54     ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 19:25       ` Paul Walmsley
2012-02-08 19:31         ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:40 ` [PATCH 15/16] ARM: omap: resolve nebulous 'Error setting wl12xx data' Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:56   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 16:41 ` [PATCH 16/16] ARM: omap: disable cpuidle for OMAP3 platforms Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 18:59   ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 22:59     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 23:09     ` Kevin Hilman
2012-02-08 23:30       ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2012-02-08 19:06 ` [PATCH 00/16] rmk's patch series for fixing OMAP Tony Lindgren
2012-02-08 20:31 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat
2012-02-09  0:53   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-09  7:02     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-02-09  8:30       ` Teresa Gamez
2012-02-09 10:24         ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-02-09 18:00 ` [PATCH 01] ARM: omap: fix oops in arch/arm/mach-omap2/vp.c when pmic is not found Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-09 18:01 ` [PATCH 05] ARM: omap: fix vc.c PMIC error message Russell King - ARM Linux

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