cpuidle: Allow cpuidle drivers to take over RCU-idle

Some drivers have to do significant work, some of which relies on RCU
still being active. Instead of using RCU_NONIDLE in the drivers and
flipping RCU back on, allow drivers to take over RCU-idle duty.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Peter Zijlstra 2020-09-15 12:32:00 +02:00 committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
parent a889a23a98
commit 8747f2022f
2 changed files with 11 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct cpuidle_state {
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_UNUSABLE BIT(3) /* avoid using this state */
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_OFF BIT(4) /* disable this state by default */
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED BIT(5) /* idle-state flushes TLBs */
#define CPUIDLE_FLAG_RCU_IDLE BIT(6) /* idle-state takes care of RCU */
struct cpuidle_device_kobj;
struct cpuidle_state_kobj;