Re: [PATCH 195/228] cpufreq: kirkwood: remove calls to cpufreq_notify_transition()

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Fri Sep 13 2013 - 12:24:26 EST


On 13 September 2013 21:48, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:32:21PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>
>> - if (freqs.old != freqs.new) {
>> - local_irq_disable();
>> -
>> - /* Disable interrupts to the CPU */
>> - reg = readl_relaxed(priv.base);
>> - reg |= CPU_SW_INT_BLK;
>> - writel_relaxed(reg, priv.base);
>> -
>> - switch (state) {
>> - case STATE_CPU_FREQ:
>> - clk_disable(priv.powersave_clk);
>> - break;
>> - case STATE_DDR_FREQ:
>> - clk_enable(priv.powersave_clk);
>> - break;
>> - }
>
> Hi Viresh
>
> I see you removed the test that the old and the new frequency are
> different. Is this guaranteed by the core? Because if not, you can
> lockup the CPU. The call to cpu_do_idle() will never return.

Yes, that's guaranteed by core: patch 181..
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