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    cpuidle: teo: Fix "early hits" handling for disabled idle states · 159e4856
    Rafael J. Wysocki authored
    The TEO governor uses idle duration "bins" defined in accordance with
    the CPU idle states table provided by the driver, so that each "bin"
    covers the idle duration range between the target residency of the
    idle state corresponding to it and the target residency of the closest
    deeper idle state.  The governor collects statistics for each bin
    regardless of whether or not the idle state corresponding to it is
    currently enabled.
    
    In particular, the "early hits" metric measures the likelihood of a
    situation in which the idle duration measured after wakeup falls into
    to given bin, but the time till the next timer (sleep length) falls
    into a bin corresponding to one of the deeper idle states.  It is
    used when the "hits" and "misses" metrics indicate that the state
    "matching" the sleep length should not be selected, so that the state
    with the maximum "early hits" value is selected instead of it.
    
    If the idle state corresponding to the given bin is disabled, it
    cannot be selected and if it turns out to be the one that should be
    selected, a shallower idle state needs to be used instead of it.
    Nevertheless, the metrics collected for the bin corresponding to it
    are still valid and need to be taken into account as though that
    state had not been disabled.
    
    As far as the "early hits" metric is concerned, teo_select() tries to
    take disabled states into account, but the state index corresponding
    to the maximum "early hits" value computed by it may be incorrect.
    Namely, it always uses the index of the previous maximum "early hits"
    state then, but there may be enabled idle states closer to the
    disabled one in question.  In particular, if the current candidate
    state (whose index is the idx value) is closer to the disabled one
    and the "early hits" value of the disabled state is greater than the
    current maximum, the index of the current candidate state (idx)
    should replace the "maximum early hits state" index.
    
    Modify the code to handle that case correctly.
    
    Fixes: b26bf6ab ("cpuidle: New timer events oriented governor for tickless systems")
    Reported-by: default avatarDoug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
    Cc: 5.1+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.1+
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