Re: [PATCH] cpuidle/powernv: Enter fastsleep on checking if deep idle states are allowed

On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 14:22 +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote:

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We were talking about getting rid of powersave_nap altogether, but I

think we

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decided we couldn't, I forget.

Isn't this a helpful knob to disable cpuidle at runtime? Currently we
check the value of powersave_nap before entering both nap and
fastsleep.

It's useful when diagnosing some problems that can be caused by idle
states.

Cheers,
Ben.