kernel.git/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c, branch linux-4.15.y

Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race"

2018-04-08T12:27:40Z

This reverts commit a853301f77b5c4feb5e17aebfd92018269525523 which was commit a8b149d32b663c1a4105273295184b78f53d33cf upstream. The backport was not correct, so just drop it entirely. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race

2018-03-19T08:09:54Z

[ Upstream commit a8b149d32b663c1a4105273295184b78f53d33cf ] It is possible to remove a cpufreq governor module after cpufreq_parse_governor() has returned success in store_scaling_governor() and before cpufreq_set_policy() acquires a reference to it, because the governor list is not protected during that period and nothing prevents the governor from being unregistered then. Prevent that from happening by acquiring an extra reference to the governor module temporarily in cpufreq_parse_governor(), under cpufreq_governor_mutex, and dropping it in store_scaling_governor(), when cpufreq_set_policy() returns. Note that the second cpufreq_parse_governor() call site is fine, because it only cares about the policy member of new_policy. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpufreq: provide default frequency-invariance setter function

2017-10-03T00:37:53Z

Frequency-invariant accounting support based on the ratio of current frequency and maximum supported frequency is an optional feature an arch can implement. Since there are cpufreq drivers (e.g. cpufreq-dt) which can be build for different arch's a default implementation of the frequency-invariance setter function arch_set_freq_scale() is needed. This default implementation is an empty weak function which will be overwritten by a strong function in case the arch provides one. The setter function passes the cpumask of related (to the frequency change) cpus (online and offline cpus), the (new) current frequency and the maximum supported frequency. Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq-sched'

2017-09-03T22:05:22Z

* pm-cpufreq-sched: cpufreq: schedutil: Always process remote callback with slow switching cpufreq: schedutil: Don't restrict kthread to related_cpus unnecessarily cpufreq: Return 0 from ->fast_switch() on errors cpufreq: Simplify cpufreq_can_do_remote_dvfs() cpufreq: Process remote callbacks from any CPU if the platform permits sched: cpufreq: Allow remote cpufreq callbacks cpufreq: schedutil: Use unsigned int for iowait boost cpufreq: schedutil: Make iowait boost more energy efficient

cpufreq: Cap the default transition delay value to 10 ms

2017-08-22T13:50:03Z

If transition_delay_us isn't defined by the cpufreq driver, the default value of transition delay (time after which the cpufreq governor will try updating the frequency again) is currently calculated by multiplying transition_latency (nsec) with LATENCY_MULTIPLIER (1000) and then converting this time to usec. That gives the exact same value as transition_latency, just that the time unit is usec instead of nsec. With acpi-cpufreq for example, transition_latency is set to around 10 usec and we get transition delay as 10 ms. Which seems to be a reasonable amount of time to reevaluate the frequency again. But for platforms where frequency switching isn't that fast (like ARM), the transition_latency varies from 500 usec to 3 ms, and the transition delay becomes 500 ms to 3 seconds. Of course, that is a pretty bad default value to start with. We can try to come across a better formula (instead of multiplying with LATENCY_MULTIPLIER) to solve this problem, but will that be worth it ? This patch tries a simple approach and caps the maximum value of default transition delay to 10 ms. Of course, userspace can still come in and change this value anytime or individual drivers can rather provide transition_delay_us instead. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

cpufreq: Return 0 from ->fast_switch() on errors

2017-08-09T23:26:35Z

CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID is a special symbol which is used to specify that an entry in the cpufreq table is invalid. But using it outside of the scope of the cpufreq table looks a bit incorrect. We can represent an invalid frequency by writing it as 0 instead if we need. Note that it is already done that way for the return value of the ->get() callback. Lets do the same for ->fast_switch() and not use CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID outside of the scope of cpufreq table. Also update the comment over cpufreq_driver_fast_switch() to clearly mention what this returns. None of the drivers return CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID as of now from ->fast_switch() callback and so we don't need to update any of those. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

cpufreq: Allow dynamic switching with CPUFREQ_ETERNAL latency

2017-07-25T22:15:47Z

With the recent updates, CPUFREQ_ETERNAL is only used by the drivers which don't know their transition latency but want to use dynamic switching. Anyway, the routine cpufreq_policy_transition_delay_us() caps the value of transition latency to 10 ms now and that can be used safely with such platforms. Remove the check from cpufreq_init_governor() and allow dynamic switching for such configurations as well. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

cpufreq: Add CPUFREQ_NO_AUTO_DYNAMIC_SWITCHING cpufreq driver flag

2017-07-25T22:15:46Z

The policy->transition_latency field is used for multiple purposes today and its not straight forward at all. This is how it is used: A. Set the correct transition_latency value. B. Set it to CPUFREQ_ETERNAL because: 1. We don't want automatic dynamic switching (with ondemand/conservative) to happen at all. 2. We don't know the transition latency. This patch handles the B.1. case in a more readable way. A new flag for the cpufreq drivers is added to disallow use of cpufreq governors which have dynamic_switching flag set. All the current cpufreq drivers which are setting transition_latency unconditionally to CPUFREQ_ETERNAL are updated to use it. They don't need to set transition_latency anymore. There shouldn't be any functional change after this patch. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

cpufreq: Replace "max_transition_latency" with "dynamic_switching"

2017-07-25T22:15:45Z

There is no limitation in the ondemand or conservative governors which disallow the transition_latency to be greater than 10 ms. The max_transition_latency field is rather used to disallow automatic dynamic frequency switching for platforms which didn't wanted these governors to run. Replace max_transition_latency with a boolean (dynamic_switching) and check for transition_latency == CPUFREQ_ETERNAL along with that. This makes it pretty straight forward to read/understand now. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

cpufreq: Use transition_delay_us for legacy governors as well

2017-07-22T00:25:20Z

The policy->transition_delay_us field is used only by the schedutil governor currently, and this field describes how fast the driver wants the cpufreq governor to change CPUs frequency. It should rather be a common thing across all governors, as it doesn't have any schedutil dependency here. Create a new helper cpufreq_policy_transition_delay_us() to get the transition delay across all governors. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki