Re: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: arm_big_little: fix frequency check when bL switcher is active

From: Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
Date: Fri Oct 30 2015 - 06:48:27 EST


On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 15:27 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 21-10-15, 10:55, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > The check for correct frequency being set in bL_cpufreq_set_rate is
> > broken when the big.LITTLE switcher is active, for two reasons.
> >
> > 1. The 'new_rate' variable gets overwritten before the test by the
> > code calculating the frequency of the old cluster.
> >
> > 2. The frequency returned by bL_cpufreq_get_rate will be the virtual
> > frequency, not the actual one the intended version of new_rate contains.
> >
> > This means the function always returns an error causing an endless
> > stream of: "cpufreq: __target_index: Failed to change cpu frequency: -5"
> >
> > As the intent is to check for errors that clk_set_rate doesn't report
> > lets move the check to immediately after that and directly use
> > clk_get_rate, rather than the arm_big_little helpers which only confuse
> > matters. Also, update the comment to be hopefully clearer about the
> > purpose of the code.
> >
> > Fixes: 0a95e630b49a ("cpufreq: arm_big_little: check if the frequency is set correctly")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jon Medhurst <tixy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
[...]
>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Do I need to send this again with that Ack and Michael's Reviewed-by
added?

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Tixy

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