pwr: Low-power idle power state for idle CPUs

Add functionality to the BaseCPU that will put the entire CPU
into a low-power idle state whenever all threads in it are idle.

Change-Id: I984d1656eb0a4863c87ceacd773d2d10de5cfd2b

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/cpu/simple/timing.cc b/src/cpu/simple/timing.cc
index 6b63d894f..515d6b23c 100644
--- a/src/cpu/simple/timing.cc
+++ b/src/cpu/simple/timing.cc
@@ -218,6 +218,8 @@ TimingSimpleCPU::activateContext(ThreadID thread_num)
          == activeThreads.end()) {
         activeThreads.push_back(thread_num);
     }
+
+    BaseCPU::activateContext(thread_num);
 }
 
 
@@ -243,6 +245,8 @@ TimingSimpleCPU::suspendContext(ThreadID thread_num)
             deschedule(fetchEvent);
         }
     }
+
+    BaseCPU::suspendContext(thread_num);
 }
 
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