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Mike Frysinger
9101be532a [CPUFREQ] cleanup kconfig options
Adds proper lines to help output of kconfig so people can find the module names.
Also fixed some broken leading spaces versus tabs.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-04-26 14:32:03 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
632786ce9f [CPUFREQ] Remove deprecated /proc/acpi/processor/performance write support
Remove deprecated /proc/acpi/processor/performance write support

Writing to /proc/acpi/processor/xy/performance interferes with sysfs
cpufreq interface. Also removes buggy cpufreq_set_policy exported symbol.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-04-26 14:32:02 -04:00
Thomas Renninger
22c970f346 [CPUFREQ] Fix limited cpufreq when booted on battery
References:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231107
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264077

Fix limited cpufreq when booted on battery

If booted on battery:
cpufreq_set_policy (evil) is invoked which calls verify_within_limits.
max_freq gets lowered and therefore users_policy.max, which
is used to restore higher freqs via update_policy later is set to the
already limited frequency -> you can never go up again, even BIOS
allows higher freqs later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-04-26 14:32:02 -04:00
Venki Pallipadi
ec28297a56 [PATCH] Fix maxcpus=1 trigerring BUG() in cpufreq
Ingo reported it on lkml in the thread
  "2.6.21-rc5: maxcpus=1 crash in cpufreq: kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:82!"

This check added to remove_dev  is symmetric to one in add_dev and handles
callbacks for offline cpus cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-27 08:55:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
221dee285e Revert "[CPUFREQ] constify cpufreq_driver where possible."
This reverts commit aeeddc1435, which was
half-baked and broken.  It just resulted in compile errors, since
cpufreq_register_driver() still changes the 'driver_data' by setting
bits in the flags field.  So claiming it is 'const' _really_ doesn't
work.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-26 14:55:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6f8c480f99 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] constify some data tables.
  [CPUFREQ] constify cpufreq_driver where possible.
  {rd,wr}msr_on_cpu SMP=n optimization
  [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_ondemand.c: don't use _WORK_NAR
  rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu
  [CPUFREQ] Revert default on deprecated config X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI
2007-02-26 14:17:50 -08:00
Dave Jones
aeeddc1435 [CPUFREQ] constify cpufreq_driver where possible.
Not all cases are possible due to ->flags being set at runtime
on some drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-22 19:08:27 -05:00
Oleg Nesterov
48ac3271e5 [CPUFREQ] cpufreq_ondemand.c: don't use _WORK_NAR
Looks like dbs_timer() is very careful wrt per_cpu(cpu_dbs_info),
and it doesn't need the help of WORK_STRUCT_NOAUTOREL.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-20 14:23:43 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
ef29498655 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Redo Longhaul ver. 2
  [CPUFREQ] EPS - Correct 2nd brand test
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Separate frequency and voltage transition
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Models of Nehemiah
  [CPUFREQ] Whitespace fixup
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Simplier minmult
  [CPUFREQ] CPU_FREQ_TABLE shouldn't be a def_tristate
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor use new cpufreq rwsem locking in work callback
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor restructure the work callback
  [CPUFREQ] Rewrite lock in cpufreq to eliminate cpufreq/hotplug related issues
  [CPUFREQ] Remove hotplug cpu crap
  [CPUFREQ] Enhanced PowerSaver driver
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Add VT8235 support
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Fix guess_fsb function
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Remove duplicate tables
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Introduce Nehemiah C
  [CPUFREQ] fix cpuinfo_cur_freq for CPU_HW_PSTATE
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Remove "ignore_latency" option
2007-02-16 08:16:01 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Dave Jones
c18a1483f4 [CPUFREQ] Whitespace fixup
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:03:51 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
f0ec313a89 [CPUFREQ] CPU_FREQ_TABLE shouldn't be a def_tristate
CPU_FREQ_TABLE enables helper code and gets select'ed when it's required.

Building it as a module when it's not required doesn't seem to make much sense.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:48 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
56463b78cd [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor use new cpufreq rwsem locking in work callback
Eliminate flush_workqueue in cpufreq_governor(STOP) callpath. Using flush
there has a deadlock potential as in

http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0611.3/1223.html

Also, cleanup the locking issues with do_dbs_timer delayed_work callback.  As
it changes the CPU frequency using __cpufreq_target, it needs to have
policy_rwsem in write mode, which also protects it from hot plug.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:48 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
529af7a14f [CPUFREQ] ondemand governor restructure the work callback
Restructure the delayed_work callback in ondemand.

This eliminates the need for smp_processor_id in the callback function and
also helps in proper locking and avoiding flush_workqueue when stopping the
governor (done in subsequent patch).

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
5a01f2e8f3 [CPUFREQ] Rewrite lock in cpufreq to eliminate cpufreq/hotplug related issues
Yet another attempt to resolve cpufreq and hotplug locking issues.

Patchset has 3 patches:
* Rewrite the lock infrastructure of cpufreq using a per cpu rwsem.
* Minor restructuring of work callback in ondemand driver.
* Use the new cpufreq rwsem infrastructure in ondemand work.

This patch:

Convert policy->lock to rwsem and move it to per_cpu area.
This rwsem will protect against both changing/accessing policy
related parameters and CPU hot plug/unplug.

[malattia@linux.it: fix oops in kref_put()]
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Dave Jones
c120069779 [CPUFREQ] Remove hotplug cpu crap
The hotplug CPU locking in cpufreq is horrendous.  No-one seems to care
enough to fix it, so just remove it so that the 99.9% of the real world
users of this code can use cpufreq without being bothered by warnings.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-02-10 20:01:47 -05:00
Ahmed S. Darwish
0142f9dce8 [CPUFREQ] check sysfs_create_link return value
Trivial patch to check sysfs_create_link return values.
Fail gracefully if needed.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-01-29 00:06:27 -05:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
8edc59d939 [CPUFREQ] Bug fix for acpi-cpufreq and cpufreq_stats oops on frequency change notification
Fixes the oops in cpufreq_stats with acpi_cpufreq driver.  The issue was
that the frequency was reported as 0 in acpi-cpufreq.c.  The bug is due to
different indicies for freq_table and ACPI perf table.

Also adds a check in cpufreq_stats to check for error return from
freq_table_get_index() and avoid using the error return value.

Patch fixes the issue reported at
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0611.2/0629.html
and also other similar issue here
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7383 comment 53

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-12-22 22:45:41 -05:00
Dhaval Giani
4ab70df451 [CPUFREQ] fixes typo in cpufreq.c
This patch fixes a typo in cpufreq.c

From: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-12-13 10:11:25 -05:00
Dave Jones
c4366889dd Merge ../linus
Conflicts:

	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2006-12-12 17:41:41 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
0231606785 [PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.

the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.before
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.after

[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:39 -08:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
David Howells
65f27f3844 WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
Dave Jones
6af6e1efb1 [PATCH] Fix CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=y compile error
The ONDEMAND governor needs FREQ_TABLE

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-21 14:07:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b3438f8266 Add "pure_initcall" for static variable initialization
This is a quick hack to overcome the fact that SRCU currently does not
allow static initializers, and we need to sometimes initialize those
things before any other initializers (even "core" ones) can do so.

Currently we don't allow this at all for modules, and the only user that
needs is right now is cpufreq. As reported by Thomas Gleixner:

   "Commit b4dfdbb3c7 ("[PATCH] cpufreq:
    make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU breaks cpu frequency
    notification users, which register the callback > on core_init
    level."

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@timesys.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-20 11:47:18 -08:00
Gautham R Shenoy
e08f5f5bb5 [CPUFREQ] Fix coding style issues in cpufreq.
Clean up cpufreq subsystem to fix coding style issues and to improve
the readability.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-11-06 19:16:34 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
914f7c31b0 [CPUFREQ] handle sysfs errors
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-21 01:33:12 -04:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
dfde5d62ed [CPUFREQ][8/8] acpi-cpufreq: Add support for freq feedback from hardware
Enable ondemand governor and acpi-cpufreq to use IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSR
to get active frequency feedback for the last sampling interval. This will
make ondemand take right frequency decisions when hardware coordination of
frequency is going on.

Without APERF/MPERF, ondemand can take wrong decision at times due
to underlying hardware coordination or TM2.
Example:
* CPU 0 and CPU 1 are hardware cooridnated.
* CPU 1 running at highest frequency.
* CPU 0 was running at highest freq. Now ondemand reduces it to
  some intermediate frequency based on utilization.
* Due to underlying hardware coordination with other CPU 1, CPU 0 continues to
  run at highest frequency (as long as other CPU is at highest).
* When ondemand samples CPU 0 again next time, without actual frequency
  feedback from APERF/MPERF, it will think that previous frequency change
  was successful and can go to wrong target frequency. This is because it
  thinks that utilization it has got this sampling interval is when running at
  intermediate frequency, rather than actual highest frequency.

More information about IA32_APERF IA32_MPERF MSR:
Refer to IA-32 Intel® Architecture Software Developer's Manual at
http://developer.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-15 19:57:11 -04:00
Alan Stern
b4dfdbb3c7 [PATCH] cpufreq: make the transition_notifier chain use SRCU
This patch (as762) changes the cpufreq_transition_notifier_list from a
blocking_notifier_head to an srcu_notifier_head.  This will prevent errors
caused attempting to call down_read() to access the notifier chain at a
time when interrupts must remain disabled, during system suspend.

It's not clear to me whether this is really necessary; perhaps the chain
could be made into an atomic_notifier.  However a couple of the callout
routines do use blocking operations, so this approach seems safer.

The head of the notifier chain needs to be initialized before use; this is
done by an __init routine at core_initcall time.  If this turns out not to
be a good choice, it can easily be changed.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
Dave Jones
0e37b159aa [CPUFREQ] Fix cut-n-paste bug in suspend printk
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-26 23:02:34 -04:00
Dave Jones
ddad65df00 [CPUFREQ] Fix some more CPU hotplug locking.
Lukewarm IQ detected in hotplug locking
BUG: warning at kernel/cpu.c:38/lock_cpu_hotplug()
[<b0134a42>] lock_cpu_hotplug+0x42/0x65
[<b02f8af1>] cpufreq_update_policy+0x25/0xad
[<b0358756>] kprobe_flush_task+0x18/0x40
[<b0355aab>] schedule+0x63f/0x68b
[<b01377c2>] __link_module+0x0/0x1f
[<b0119e7d>] __cond_resched+0x16/0x34
[<b03560bf>] cond_resched+0x26/0x31
[<b0355b0e>] wait_for_completion+0x17/0xb1
[<f965c547>] cpufreq_stat_cpu_callback+0x13/0x20 [cpufreq_stats]
[<f9670074>] cpufreq_stats_init+0x74/0x8b [cpufreq_stats]
[<b0137872>] sys_init_module+0x91/0x174
[<b0102c81>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x79

As there are other places that call cpufreq_update_policy without
the hotplug lock, it seems better to keep the hotplug locking
at the lower level for the time being until this is revamped.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-22 19:15:23 -04:00
Dave Jones
3906f4edee [CPUFREQ] Fix sparse warning in ondemand
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:323:2: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-05 17:15:47 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
b5ecf60fe6 [CPUFREQ] make drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c:powersave_bias_target() static
This patch makes the needlessly global powersave_bias_target() static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-08-14 01:18:54 -04:00
Alexey Starikovskiy
05ca0350e8 [CPUFREQ][2/2] ondemand: updated add powersave_bias tunable
ondemand selects the minimum frequency that can retire
a workload with negligible idle time -- ideally resulting in the highest
performance/power efficiency with negligible performance impact.

But on some systems and some workloads, this algorithm
is more performance biased than necessary, and
de-tuning it a bit to allow some performance impact
can save measurable power.

This patch adds a "powersave_bias" tunable to ondemand
to allow it to reduce its target frequency by a specified percent.

By default, the powersave_bias is 0 and has no effect.
powersave_bias is in units of 0.1%, so it has an effective range
of 1 through 1000, resulting in 0.1% to 100% impact.

In practice, users will not be able to detect a difference between
0.1% increments, but 1.0% increments turned out to be too large.
Also, the max value of 1000 (100%) would simply peg the system
in its deepest power saving P-state, unless the processor really has
a hardware P-state at 0Hz:-)

For example, If ondemand requests 2.0GHz based on utilization,
and powersave_bias=100, this code will knock 10% off the target
and seek  a target of 1.8GHz instead of 2.0GHz until the
next sampling.  If 1.8 is an exact match with an hardware frequency
we use it, otherwise we average our time between the frequency
next higher than 1.8 and next lower than 1.8.

Note that a user or administrative program can change powersave_bias
at run-time depending on how they expect the system to be used.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-08-11 17:59:57 -04:00
Alexey Starikovskiy
1ce28d6b19 [CPUFREQ][1/2] ondemand: updated tune for hardware coordination
Try to make dbs_check_cpu() call on all CPUs at the same jiffy.
This will help when multiple cores share P-states via Hardware Coordination.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-08-11 17:59:56 -04:00
Dave Jones
cd87847979 [CPUFREQ] Fix typo.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-08-11 17:59:28 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
ea71497020 [CPUFREQ] [2/2] demand load governor modules.
Demand-load cpufreq governor modules if needed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-07-31 18:37:06 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
3bcb09a356 [CPUFREQ] [1/2] add __find_governor helper and clean up some error handling.
Adds a __find_governor() helper function to look up a governor by
name.  Also restructures some error handling to conform to the
"single-exit" model which is generally preferred for kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-07-31 18:37:06 -04:00
Mattia Dongili
9c9a43ed27 [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
I just stumbled on this bug/feature, this is how to reproduce it:

# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
# echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
# echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave
# echo 1800000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq ; echo $?
0
# cpufreq-info -p
450000 450000 powersave

Here it is. The kernel refuses to set a min_freq higher than the
max_freq but it allows a max_freq lower than min_freq (lowering min_freq
also).

This behaviour is pretty straightforward (but undocumented) and it
doesn't return an error altough failing to accomplish the requested
action (set min_freq).
The problem (IMO) is basically that userspace is not allowed to set a
full policy atomically while the kernel always does that thus it must
enforce an ordering on operations.

The attached patch returns -EINVAL if trying to increase frequencies
starting from scaling_min_freq and documents the correct ordering of writes.

Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--
2006-07-31 18:37:05 -04:00
Arjan van de Ven
153d7f3fca [PATCH] Reorganize the cpufreq cpu hotplug locking to not be totally bizare
The patch below moves the cpu hotplugging higher up in the cpufreq
layering; this is needed to avoid recursive taking of the cpu hotplug
lock and to otherwise detangle the mess.

The new rules are:
1. you must do lock_cpu_hotplug() around the following functions:
   __cpufreq_driver_target
   __cpufreq_governor (for CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS operation only)
   __cpufreq_set_policy
2. governer methods (.governer) must NOT take the lock_cpu_hotplug()
   lock in any way; they are called with the lock taken already
3. if your governer spawns a thread that does things, like calling
   __cpufreq_driver_target, your thread must honor rule #1.
4. the policy lock and other cpufreq internal locks nest within
   the lock_cpu_hotplug() lock.

I'm not entirely happy about how the __cpufreq_governor rule ended up
(conditional locking rule depending on the argument) but basically all
callers pass this as a constant so it's not too horrible.

The patch also removes the cpufreq_governor() function since during the
locking audit it turned out to be entirely unused (so no need to fix it)

The patch works on my testbox, but it could use more testing
(otoh... it can't be much worse than the current code)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-26 07:21:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2cd7cbdf4b [cpufreq] ondemand: make shutdown sequence more robust
Shutting down the ondemand policy was fraught with potential
problems, causing issues for SMP suspend (which wants to hot-
unplug) all but the last CPU.

This should fix at least the worst problems (divide-by-zero
and infinite wait for the workqueue to shut down).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-23 12:05:00 -07:00
Dave Jones
a496e25dfb [PATCH] Fix cpufreq vs hotplug lockdep recursion.
[ There's some not quite baked bits in cpufreq-git right now
  so sending this on as a patch instead ]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:58 -0700, Tom London wrote:

> After installing .2356 I get this each time I boot:
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> S06cpuspeed/1620 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (dbs_mutex){--..}, at: [<c060d6bb>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (cpucontrol){--..}, at: [<c060d6bb>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
>

make sure the cpu hotplug recursive mutex (yuck) is taken early in the
cpufreq codepaths to avoid a AB-BA deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-07 09:46:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ca78f6baca Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  Move workqueue exports to where the functions are defined.
  [CPUFREQ] Misc cleanups in ondemand.
  [CPUFREQ] Make ondemand sampling per CPU and remove the mutex usage in sampling path.
  [CPUFREQ] Add queue_delayed_work_on() interface for workqueues.
  [CPUFREQ] Remove slowdown from ondemand sampling path.
2006-07-04 14:00:26 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
ffac80e925 [CPUFREQ] Misc cleanups in ondemand.
Misc cleanups in ondemand. Should have zero functional impact.
Also adding Alexey as author.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-30 01:36:40 -04:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
2f8a835c70 [CPUFREQ] Make ondemand sampling per CPU and remove the mutex usage in sampling path.
Make ondemand sampling per CPU and remove the mutex usage in sampling path.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-30 01:33:31 -04:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
ccb2fe209d [CPUFREQ] Remove slowdown from ondemand sampling path.
Remove slowdown from ondemand sampling path. This reduces the code path length
in dbs_check_cpu() by half. slowdown was not used by ondemand by default.
If there are any user level tools that were using this tunable, they
may report error now.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-06-30 01:29:47 -04:00
Chandra Seetharaman
74b85f3790 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make cpu_notifier related notifier blocks __cpuinit only
Make notifier_blocks associated with cpu_notifier as __cpuinitdata.

__cpuinitdata makes sure that the data is init time only unless
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman
65edc68c34 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make [un]register_cpu_notifier init time only
CPUs come online only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).
So, cpu_notifier functionality need to be available only at init time.

This patch makes register_cpu_notifier() available only at init time, unless
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

This patch exports register_cpu_notifier() and unregister_cpu_notifier() only
if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman
9c7b216d23 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17
In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS.  I provided a
band-aid solution to solve that problem.  In the process, i undid all the
changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available
only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).

We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18.  Here is a set of patches that fixes the
XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time
(unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).

If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run
time.

This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:40 -07:00