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cpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available
authorAboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:50:02 +0000 (00:20 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:49:02 +0000 (15:49 +0100)
commite5c9ffc6ae1bcdb1062527d611043681ac301aca
tree26b883004d845b53ad090aee887a52b25ae30964
parentc900e33e30e9d32fe8cfc89202ee339f9a66aabc
cpuidle: Skip governor when only one idle state is available

On certain platforms (PowerNV systems without a power-mgt DT node),
cpuidle may register only a single idle state. In cases where that
single state is a polling state (state 0), the ladder governor may
incorrectly treat state 1 as the first usable state and pass an
out-of-bounds index. This can lead to a NULL enter callback being
invoked, ultimately resulting in a system crash.

[   13.342636] cpuidle-powernv : Only Snooze is available
[   13.351854] Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000
[   13.376489] NIP [0000000000000000] 0x0
[   13.378351] LR  [c000000001e01974] cpuidle_enter_state+0x2c4/0x668

Fix this by adding a bail-out in cpuidle_select() that returns state 0
directly when state_count <= 1, bypassing the governor and keeping the
tick running.

Fixes: dc2251bf98c6 ("cpuidle: Eliminate the CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START symbol")
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216185005.1131593-2-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c