[PATCH v2 0/5] Cpufreq frequency serialization fixes

[Srivatsa S. Bhat]

Hi,

Meelis Roos reported hangs during boot in the longhaul cpufreq driver, after
commit 12478cf0c55 (cpufreq: Make sure frequency transitions are serialized).
The root-cause of this issue is the extra invocation of the
cpufreq_freq_transition_begin() and cpufreq_freq_transition_end() APIs in the
longhaul driver. I found similar issues in the powernow-k6 and powernow-k7
drivers as well. This patchset fixes the issue in all the 3 drivers and also
adds a debug infrastructure to catch such issues easily.

Patches 1-4 fix the regression in longhaul, powernow-k6 and powernow-k7
drivers. (Patch 2 fixes a different bug in powernow-k6, and it is kept as a
separate patch instead of merging it with patch 3, because I felt that it was
a bit subtle and needed attention in a separate patch).

Patch 5 adds a debug infrastructure to the cpufreq core to catch such problems
more easily in the future.


Changes in v2:
--------------

* Modified patch 1 to take error returns into account, as pointed out by
  Viresh.
* Added patch 2 to fix the existing issue in the powernow-k6 driver, pointed
  out by Viresh.
* Added patch 5 to introduce a debug infrastructure to catch such issues
  easily.


 Srivatsa S. Bhat (5):
      cpufreq, longhaul: Fix double invocation of cpufreq_freq_transition_begin/end
      cpufreq, powernow-k6: Fix incorrect comparison with max_multipler
      cpufreq, powernow-k6: Fix double invocation of cpufreq_freq_transition_begin/end
      cpufreq, powernow-k7: Fix double invocation of cpufreq_freq_transition_begin/end
      cpufreq: Catch double invocations of cpufreq_freq_transition_begin/end


 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c     |   12 ++++++++++++
 drivers/cpufreq/longhaul.c    |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c |   23 +++++++++++++----------
 drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k7.c |    4 ----
 include/linux/cpufreq.h       |    1 +
 5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)


Thanks,
Srivatsa S. Bhat
IBM Linux Technology Center

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