drivers: cpuidle: Add idle-state-name description to ARM idle states

On ARM machines, where generally speaking the idle state numbering has
no fixed and standard meaning it is useful to provide a description
of the idle state inner workings for benchmarking and monitoring purposes.

This patch adds a property to the idle states bindings that if present
gives platform firmware a means of describing the idle state and export
the string description to user space.

The patch updates the DT parsing code accordingly to take the description,
if present, into consideration.

Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
index 5e5151130c20..a8274eabae2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
@@ -331,6 +331,12 @@ follows:
 			    If the property is not present the idle-state must
 			    be considered operational.
 
+	- idle-state-name:
+		Usage: Optional
+		Value type: <string>
+		Definition: A string used as a descriptive name for the idle
+			    state.
+
 	In addition to the properties listed above, a state node may require
 	additional properties specifics to the entry-method defined in the
 	idle-states node, please refer to the entry-method bindings