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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c index 2f89206e008..02f9dec1d45 100644 --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/process.c @@ -85,23 +85,31 @@ void cpu_idle(void) /* * the idle loop on a UltraMultiPenguin... + * + * TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is set because we do not sleep the cpu + * inside of the idler task, so an interrupt is not needed + * to get a clean fast response. + * + * XXX Reverify this assumption... -DaveM + * + * Addendum: We do want it to do something for the signal + * delivery case, we detect that by just seeing + * if we are trying to send this to an idler or not. */ -#define idle_me_harder() (cpu_data(smp_processor_id()).idle_volume += 1) -#define unidle_me() (cpu_data(smp_processor_id()).idle_volume = 0) void cpu_idle(void) { + cpuinfo_sparc *cpuinfo = &local_cpu_data(); set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); + while(1) { if (need_resched()) { - unidle_me(); - clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); + cpuinfo->idle_volume = 0; preempt_enable_no_resched(); schedule(); preempt_disable(); - set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); check_pgt_cache(); } - idle_me_harder(); + cpuinfo->idle_volume++; /* The store ordering is so that IRQ handlers on * other cpus see our increasing idleness for the buddy |