Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Make sure CPU is running on a freq from freq-table

From: Nishanth Menon
Date: Fri Nov 22 2013 - 16:43:58 EST


On 11/22/2013 01:03 AM, viresh kumar wrote:
> On Thursday 21 November 2013 12:39 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:

[...]
> Copying another mail from Nishant here to get my cc'list back..
>
> On Friday 22 November 2013 05:12 AM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>> I gave this a quick run on my 3.12 kernel:
>> http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3649730 is what I applied and output
>> http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3649729
>>
>> I need to see what I might have mucked up.. or see if I can test this
>> on 3.13 master on a different board (since OMAP5 wont boot in master
>> without clock dts nodes :()..
>
> This happened because of common sense, which was missing in my patch :)
>
> Try this over existing patch:


Works like a charm :) thanks.

http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3655494 -> simple Ondemand governor testing.
http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3655493 -> simple Userspace governor testing.

>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index 6e8b226..e403388 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1126,13 +1126,19 @@ static int __cpufreq_add_dev(struct device *dev, struct
> subsys_interface *sif,
> * In case where CPU is already running on one of the frequencies
> * present in freq-table, this would turn into a dummy call as
> * __cpufreq_driver_target() would return early.
> + *
> + * We are passing target-freq as "policy->cur - 1" otherwise
> + * __cpufreq_driver_target() would simply fail, as policy->cur will be
> + * equal to target-freq.
> */
> if (has_target()) {
> - ret = __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->cur,
> + ret = __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->cur - 1,
> CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> pr_err("%s: Unable to set frequency from table: %d\n",
> __func__, ret);
> + goto err_out_unregister;
> + }
> }
>
> /* related cpus should atleast have policy->cpus */
>
--
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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