cpuidle: record state entry rejection statistics

CPUs may fail to enter the chosen idle state if there was a
pending interrupt, causing the cpuidle driver to return an error
value.

Record that and export it via sysfs along with the other idle state
statistics.

This could prove useful in understanding behavior of the governor
and the system during usecases that involve multiple CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Lina Iyer <ilina@codeaurora.org>
[ rjw: Changelog and documentation edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst

@@ -528,6 +528,10 @@ object corresponding to it, as follows:
 	Total number of times the hardware has been asked by the given CPU to
 	enter this idle state.
 
+``rejected``
+	Total number of times a request to enter this idle state on the given
+	CPU was rejected.
+
 The :file:`desc` and :file:`name` files both contain strings.  The difference
 between them is that the name is expected to be more concise, while the
 description may be longer and it may contain white space or special characters.
@@ -572,6 +576,11 @@ particular case.  For these reasons, the only reliable way to find out how
 much time has been spent by the hardware in different idle states supported by
 it is to use idle state residency counters in the hardware, if available.
 
+Generally, an interrupt received when trying to enter an idle state causes the
+idle state entry request to be rejected, in which case the ``CPUIdle`` driver
+may return an error code to indicate that this was the case. The :file:`usage`
+and :file:`rejected` files report the number of times the given idle state
+was entered successfully or rejected, respectively.
 
 .. _cpu-pm-qos:
 

drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c

@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ int cpuidle_enter_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev, struct cpuidle_driver *drv,
 		}
 	} else {
 		dev->last_residency_ns = 0;
+		dev->states_usage[index].rejected++;
 	}
 
 	return entered_state;

drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c

@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ define_show_state_time_function(exit_latency)
 define_show_state_time_function(target_residency)
 define_show_state_function(power_usage)
 define_show_state_ull_function(usage)
+define_show_state_ull_function(rejected)
 define_show_state_str_function(name)
 define_show_state_str_function(desc)
 define_show_state_ull_function(above)
@@ -312,6 +313,7 @@ define_one_state_ro(latency, show_state_exit_latency);
 define_one_state_ro(residency, show_state_target_residency);
 define_one_state_ro(power, show_state_power_usage);
 define_one_state_ro(usage, show_state_usage);
+define_one_state_ro(rejected, show_state_rejected);
 define_one_state_ro(time, show_state_time);
 define_one_state_rw(disable, show_state_disable, store_state_disable);
 define_one_state_ro(above, show_state_above);
@@ -325,6 +327,7 @@ static struct attribute *cpuidle_state_default_attrs[] = {
 	&attr_residency.attr,
 	&attr_power.attr,
 	&attr_usage.attr,
+	&attr_rejected.attr,
 	&attr_time.attr,
 	&attr_disable.attr,
 	&attr_above.attr,

include/linux/cpuidle.h

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct cpuidle_state_usage {
 	u64			time_ns;
 	unsigned long long	above; /* Number of times it's been too deep */
 	unsigned long long	below; /* Number of times it's been too shallow */
+	unsigned long long	rejected; /* Number of times idle entry was rejected */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SUSPEND
 	unsigned long long	s2idle_usage;
 	unsigned long long	s2idle_time; /* in US */