Re: [PATCH] PM / devfreq: Init user limits from OPP limits, not viceversa

From: Chanwoo Choi
Date: Wed May 16 2018 - 20:35:32 EST


Hi,

On 2018ë 05ì 17ì 07:57, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> Commit ab8f58ad72c4 ("PM / devfreq: Set min/max_freq when adding
> the devfreq device") introduced the initialization of the user
> limits min/max_freq from the lowest/highest available OPPs. Later
> commit f1d981eaecf8 ("PM / devfreq: Use the available min/max
> frequency") added scaling_min/max_freq, which actually represent
> the frequencies of the lowest/highest available OPP. scaling_min/
> max_freq are initialized with the values from min/max_freq, which
> is totally correct in the context, but a bit awkward to read.
>
> Swap the initialization and assign scaling_min/max_freq with the
> OPP freqs and then the user limts min/max_freq with scaling_min/
> max_freq.
>
> Needless to say that this change is a NOP, intended to improve
> readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Additional context: I'm considering to introduce the concept of
> a devfreq policy, which would probably move min/max_freq inside
> of a struct policy, this would make the initialization even
> more awkward to read. If this moves forward I might also propose
> to rename scaling_min/max_freq to something like min/max_opp_freq
> to avoid confusion with the frequencies in the policy (cpufreq uses
> scaling_min/max_freq for the sysfs attributes of the policy
> limits).
>
> drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> index fe2af6aa88fc..0057ef5b0a98 100644
> --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> @@ -604,21 +604,21 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
> mutex_lock(&devfreq->lock);
> }
>
> - devfreq->min_freq = find_available_min_freq(devfreq);
> - if (!devfreq->min_freq) {
> + devfreq->scaling_min_freq = find_available_min_freq(devfreq);
> + if (!devfreq->scaling_min_freq) {
> mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
> err = -EINVAL;
> goto err_dev;
> }
> - devfreq->scaling_min_freq = devfreq->min_freq;
> + devfreq->min_freq = devfreq->scaling_min_freq;
>
> - devfreq->max_freq = find_available_max_freq(devfreq);
> - if (!devfreq->max_freq) {
> + devfreq->scaling_max_freq = find_available_max_freq(devfreq);
> + if (!devfreq->scaling_max_freq) {
> mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
> err = -EINVAL;
> goto err_dev;
> }
> - devfreq->scaling_max_freq = devfreq->max_freq;
> + devfreq->max_freq = devfreq->scaling_max_freq;
>
> dev_set_name(&devfreq->dev, "devfreq%d",
> atomic_inc_return(&devfreq_no));
>

This patch just clean-up codes related to min/max_freq and scaling_min/max_freq.
It seems be good.

Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@xxxxxxxxxxx>

But, I don't want to change the name from 'scaling_min/max_freq'
to 'min/max_opp_freq'. You can check the meaning of variables
in comment of struct devfreq.

--
Best Regards,
Chanwoo Choi
Samsung Electronics