cpuidle / ACPI: remove unused CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_INVALID
authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:52:08 +0000 (01:52 -0500)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:26:28 +0000 (02:26 +0100)
commit62c4cf97e82cf79446642e599d155884f600cf17
tree489351bd5d2f5df2913c5877be886e57b092425f
parentb73026b9c959600bcd65eeae7a5f7ac00ded886f
cpuidle / ACPI: remove unused CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_INVALID

CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_INVALID is no longer checked
by menu or ladder cpuidle governors, so don't
bother setting or defining it.

It was originally invented to account for the fact that
acpi_safe_halt() enables interrupts to invoke HLT.
That would allow interrupt service routines to be included
in the last_idle duration measurements made in cpuidle_enter_state(),
potentially returning a duration much larger than reality.

But menu and ladder can gracefully handle erroneously large duration
intervals without checking for CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_INVALID.
Further, if they don't check CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_INVALID, they
can also benefit from the instances when the duration interval
is not erroneously large.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
include/linux/cpuidle.h