cpuidle: Use nanoseconds as the unit of time

Currently, the cpuidle subsystem uses microseconds as the unit of
time which (among other things) causes the idle loop to incur some
integer division overhead for no clear benefit.

In order to allow cpuidle to measure time in nanoseconds, add two
new fields, exit_latency_ns and target_residency_ns, to represent the
exit latency and target residency of an idle state in nanoseconds,
respectively, to struct cpuidle_state and initialize them with the
help of the corresponding values in microseconds provided by drivers.
Additionally, change cpuidle_governor_latency_req() to return the
idle state exit latency constraint in nanoseconds.

Also meeasure idle state residency (last_residency_ns in struct
cpuidle_device and time_ns in struct cpuidle_driver) in nanoseconds
and update the cpuidle core and governors accordingly.

However, the menu governor still computes typical intervals in
microseconds to avoid integer overflows.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
index 9db154224999..fcaf8b2bab96 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/driver.c
@@ -165,16 +165,27 @@ static void __cpuidle_driver_init(struct cpuidle_driver *drv)
 	if (!drv->cpumask)
 		drv->cpumask = (struct cpumask *)cpu_possible_mask;
 
-	/*
-	 * Look for the timer stop flag in the different states, so that we know
-	 * if the broadcast timer has to be set up.  The loop is in the reverse
-	 * order, because usually one of the deeper states have this flag set.
-	 */
-	for (i = drv->state_count - 1; i >= 0 ; i--) {
-		if (drv->states[i].flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP) {
+	for (i = 0; i < drv->state_count; i++) {
+		struct cpuidle_state *s = &drv->states[i];
+
+		/*
+		 * Look for the timer stop flag in the different states and if
+		 * it is found, indicate that the broadcast timer has to be set
+		 * up.
+		 */
+		if (s->flags & CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIMER_STOP)
 			drv->bctimer = 1;
-			break;
-		}
+
+		/*
+		 * The core will use the target residency and exit latency
+		 * values in nanoseconds, but allow drivers to provide them in
+		 * microseconds too.
+		 */
+		if (s->target_residency > 0)
+			s->target_residency_ns = s->target_residency * NSEC_PER_USEC;
+
+		if (s->exit_latency > 0)
+			s->exit_latency_ns = s->exit_latency * NSEC_PER_USEC;
 	}
 }