Re: [PATCH] [CPUFREQ] EXYNOS: bugfix on retrieving old_index from freqs.old

From: Inderpal Singh
Date: Tue Apr 10 2012 - 06:05:39 EST


Hi MyungJoo,

On 4 April 2012 15:53, MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The policy might have been changed since last call of target().
> Thus, using cpufreq_frequency_table_target(), which depends on
> policy to find the correspoding index from a frequency, may return
> inconsistent index for freqs.old. Thus, old_index should be
> calculated not based on the current policy.
>
> We have been observing such issue when scaling_min/max_freq were
> updated and sometimes caused system lockups due to incorrectly
> configured voltages.
>
> Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c |   13 +++++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c
> index b243a7e..1577522 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/exynos-cpufreq.c
> @@ -62,8 +62,17 @@ static int exynos_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
>                goto out;
>        }
>
> -       if (cpufreq_frequency_table_target(policy, freq_table,
> -                                          freqs.old, relation, &old_index)) {
> +       /*
> +        * The policy may have been changed so that we cannot get proper
> +        * old_index with cpufreq_frequency_table_target(). Thus, ignore
> +        * policy and get the index from the raw frequency table.
> +        */
> +       for (old_index = 0;
> +            freq_table[old_index].frequency != CPUFREQ_TABLE_END;
> +            old_index++)
> +               if (freq_table[old_index].frequency == freqs.old)
> +                       break;
> +       if (freq_table[old_index].frequency == CPUFREQ_TABLE_END) {
>                ret = -EINVAL;
>                goto out;
>        }

I also had the same issue and same fix while testing powertop 1.98 as
it changes the scaling_min/max_freq.

The only concern I have is when this code gets called for the very
first time, the freqs.old will be the freq set by bootloader. Now if
bootloader sets a freq which is not in the freq_table (not sure if its
practical but theoretically its possible ), this code will error out.


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Thanks,
Inder
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