Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] cpuidle: psci: Transition to the faux device interface

From: Jon Hunter
Date: Fri May 02 2025 - 06:22:26 EST



On 01/05/2025 17:07, Sudeep Holla wrote:

...

I have noticed the following error messages on some of our Tegra devices ...

ERR KERN faux psci-cpuidle: probe did not succeed, tearing down the device
ERR KERN CPUidle PSCI: Failed to create psci-cpuidle device

I had a quick look at this and this occurs because of the following code in
the probe cpuidle-psci driver ...

/*
* If no DT idle states are detected (ret == 0) let the driver
* initialization fail accordingly since there is no reason to
* initialize the idle driver if only wfi is supported, the
* default archictectural back-end already executes wfi
* on idle entry.
*/
ret = dt_init_idle_driver(drv, psci_idle_state_match, 1);
if (ret <= 0)
return ret ? : -ENODEV;


So although it could be argued that the error message is valid, I am not
sure if there is anything that mandates that we need to have the idle-states
present.

We are always checking for new kernel errors and so if something new occurs,
I am trying to figure out what is the correct way to fix. For this case I am
not sure what is best.


This is another case where probe was failing before too just that faux
device probe throws the error. I will take a look and see what can be done.
But yes, we shouldn't throw error if no idle-states are present in the DT.


Yes exactly this was already failing. Thanks for taking a look!

Cheers
Jon

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