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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:20:08 +0800
From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: enable generic idle loop
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Hi Will,

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 04:54:25PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 05:14:46PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:00:43AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:40:22AM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > > > Enable generic idle loop for ARM64, so can support for hlt/nohlt
> > > > command line options to override default idle loop behavior.
> > > 
> > > Just curious, what do you need this for?
> > 
> > With this config, usually we can add "nohlt" in command line to force
> > the cpu will never be powered off; so can quickly narrow down if some
> > issues are related with cpuidle or not.
> > 
> > And if CPU is powered off, then its debug logic also will be powered off.
> > So we can simply use this method to let debugger always hot connect with
> > the target CPU.
> 
> OK.
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Suppose you have missed this patch at previous merge window,
so just for reminding.

Thanks,
Leo Yan