Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 10/11] cpuidle/powernv: Add support for POWER ISA v3 idle states

From: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:34:46 +0200

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 11:54:30AM -0500, Shreyas B. Prabhu wrote:
> POWER ISA v3 defines a new idle processor core mechanism. In summary,
>  a) new instruction named stop is added.
>  b) new per thread SPR named PSSCR is added which controls the behavior
> 	of stop instruction.
> 
> Supported idle states and value to be written to PSSCR register to enter
> any idle state is exposed via ibm,cpu-idle-state-names and
> ibm,cpu-idle-state-psscr respectively. To enter an idle state,
> platform provided power_stop() needs to be invoked with the appropriate
> PSSCR value.
> 
> This patch adds support for this new mechanism in cpuidle powernv driver.
> 
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Rob Herring <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <[email-masked]>
> ---

[ ... ]

> +	rc = of_property_read_string_array(power_mgt,
> +					   "ibm,cpu-idle-state-names", names,
> +					   dt_idle_states);
> +	if (rc < 0) {
> +		pr_warn("cpuidle-powernv: missing ibm,cpu-idle-state-names in DT\n");
> +		goto out_free_latency;
> +	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If the idle states use stop instruction, probe for psscr values
> +	 * which are necessary to specify required stop level.
> +	 */
> +	if (flags[0] & (OPAL_PM_STOP_INST_FAST | OPAL_PM_STOP_INST_DEEP)) {
> +		psscr_val = kcalloc(dt_idle_states, sizeof(*psscr_val),
> +				    GFP_KERNEL);

if (!psscr_val) check missing.

> +		rc = of_property_read_u64_array(power_mgt,
> +						"ibm,cpu-idle-state-psscr",
> +						psscr_val, dt_idle_states);
> +		if (rc) {
> +			pr_warn("cpuidle-powernv: missing ibm,cpu-idle-states-psscr in DT\n");
> +			goto out_free_psscr;
> +		}
> +	}
>  	residency_ns = kzalloc(sizeof(*residency_ns) * dt_idle_states, GFP_KERNEL);

if (!residency_ns) check missing.

I suppose the code is relying on 'of_property_read_u32_array' to check it, 
right ?

  -- Daniel