From: Russell King Subject: [PATCH 01/30] cpuidle: mvebu: indicate failure to enter deeper sleep states MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The cpuidle ->enter method expects the return value to be the sleep state we entered. Returning negative numbers or other codes is not permissible since coupled CPU idle was merged. At least some of the mvebu_v7_cpu_suspend() implementations return the value from cpu_suspend(), which returns zero if the CPU vectors back into the kernel via cpu_resume() (the success case), or the non-zero return value of the suspend actor, or one (failure cases). We do not want to be returning the failure case value back to CPU idle as that indicates that we successfully entered one of the deeper idle states. Always return zero instead, indicating that we slept for the shortest amount of time. Signed-off-by: Russell King --- drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-mvebu-v7.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-mvebu-v7.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-mvebu-v7.c @@ -39,8 +39,12 @@ static int mvebu_v7_enter_idle(struct cp ret = mvebu_v7_cpu_suspend(deepidle); cpu_pm_exit(); + /* + * If we failed to enter the desired state, indicate that we + * slept lightly. + */ if (ret) - return ret; + return 0; return index; }