Till now suspend-to-idle has not been able to save much more energy
than runtime PM because of timer interrupts that periodically bring
CPUs out of idle while they are waiting for a wakeup interrupt. Of
course, the timer interrupts are not wakeup ones, so the handling of
them can be deferred until a real wakeup interrupt happens, but at
the same time we don't want to mass-expire timers at that point.
The solution is to suspend the entire timekeeping when the last CPU
is entering an idle state and resume it when the first CPU goes out
of idle. That has to be done with care, though, so as to avoid
accessing suspended clocksources etc. end we need extra support
from idle drivers for that.
This series of commits adds support for quiescing timers during
suspend-to-idle and adds the requisite callbacks to intel_idle
and the ACPI cpuidle driver.
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Merge tag 'suspend-to-idle-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull suspend-to-idle updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Suspend-to-idle timer quiescing support for v3.20-rc1
Until now suspend-to-idle has not been able to save much more energy
than runtime PM because of timer interrupts that periodically bring
CPUs out of idle while they are waiting for a wakeup interrupt. Of
course, the timer interrupts are not wakeup ones, so the handling of
them can be deferred until a real wakeup interrupt happens, but at the
same time we don't want to mass-expire timers at that point.
The solution is to suspend the entire timekeeping when the last CPU is
entering an idle state and resume it when the first CPU goes out of
idle. That has to be done with care, though, so as to avoid accessing
suspended clocksources etc. end we need extra support from idle
drivers for that.
This series of commits adds support for quiescing timers during
suspend-to-idle and adds the requisite callbacks to intel_idle and the
ACPI cpuidle driver"
* tag 'suspend-to-idle-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
ACPI / idle: Implement ->enter_freeze callback routine
intel_idle: Add ->enter_freeze callbacks
PM / sleep: Make it possible to quiesce timers during suspend-to-idle
timekeeping: Make it safe to use the fast timekeeper while suspended
timekeeping: Pass readout base to update_fast_timekeeper()
PM / sleep: Re-implement suspend-to-idle handling
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