Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] powerpc/64s: cpuidle set polling before enabling irqs

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:40:52 +1000

Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]> writes:

> local_irq_enable can cause interrupts to be taken which could
> take significant amount of processing time. The idle process
> should set its polling flag before this, so another process that
> wakes it during this time will not have to send an IPI.
>
> Expand the TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG coverage to as large as possible.
>
> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c | 4 +++-
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c | 3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I don't think the cpuidle folks are really interested in these changes,
but we should Cc them to be polite.

Can you resend patches 9, 10, 11 with a subject like:

  "cpuidle: powernv: Set polling ..."

And Cc the cpuidle folks:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/cpuidle
[email-masked]
[email-masked]
[email-masked]
[email-masked]

cheers