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arm: Use tick broadcast expired check

Avoid going back into deep idle if the tick broadcast IPI is about to
fire.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LAK <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Jason Liu <liu.h.jason@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130306111537.640722922@linutronix.de
Thomas Gleixner 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 10 1
      arch/arm/kernel/process.c

+ 10 - 1
arch/arm/kernel/process.c

@@ -199,7 +199,16 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_PL310_ERRATA_769419
 			wmb();
 #endif
-			if (hlt_counter) {
+			/*
+			 * In poll mode we reenable interrupts and spin.
+			 *
+			 * Also if we detected in the wakeup from idle
+			 * path that the tick broadcast device expired
+			 * for us, we don't want to go deep idle as we
+			 * know that the IPI is going to arrive right
+			 * away
+			 */
+			if (hlt_counter || tick_check_broadcast_expired()) {
 				local_irq_enable();
 				cpu_relax();
 			} else if (!need_resched()) {