When sysfs for no_turbo is set, then also some p states in turbo regions
are observed. This patch will set IDA Engage bit when no_turbo is set to
explicitly disengage turbo.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Since the patch "cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: NULL is a valid regulator", cpu_reg
contains an error value if the regulator is not set, instead of NULL.
Accordingly, fix the remaining check for non-NULL cpu_reg.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
'clk_round_rate' returns a negative error code upon failure. This
will never get detected by unsigned 'newfreq'. Make it signed.
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
If 'dvfs_info' is NULL (due to devm_kzalloc failure) the failure
error message would try to dereference it. Use 'pdev' instead.
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
cpufreq_get() can be called from external drivers which might not be aware if
cpufreq driver is registered or not. And so we should actually check if cpufreq
driver is registered or not and also if cpufreq is active or disabled, at the
beginning of cpufreq_get().
Otherwise call to lock_policy_rwsem_read() might hit BUG_ON(!policy).
Reported-and-tested-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
If the hw supports intel_pstate and acpi_cpufreq, intel_pstate will
get loaded first.
acpi_cpufreq_init() will call acpi_cpufreq_early_init()
and that will allocate perf data and init those perf data in ACPI core,
(that will cover all CPUs). But later it will free them as
cpufreq_register_driver(acpi_cpufreq) will fail as intel_pstate is
already registered
Use cpufreq_get_current_driver() to check if we can skip the
acpi_cpufreq loading.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
On systems that support intel_pstate, acpi_cpufreq fails to load, and
udev keeps trying until trace gets filled up and kernel crashes.
The root cause is driver return ret from cpufreq_register_driver(),
because when some other driver takes over before, it will return
EBUSY and then udev will keep trying ...
cpufreq_register_driver() should return EEXIST instead so that the
system can boot without appending intel_pstate=disable and still use
intel_pstate.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Commit cdc58d602d "cpufreq: imx6q-cpufreq:
remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes" assumed the pdev->dev is set to
cpu0 device in the platform code. But it actually points to the virtual
cpufreq-cpu0 platform device which is not present in the device tree.
Most of the information needed by cpufreq is stored in cpu0 DT node.
So cpu_dev must point to cpu0 device.
This patch fixes the wrong assignment to cpu_dev.
Reported-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Commit f837a9b5ab "cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0:
remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes" assumed the pdev->dev is set to
cpu0 device in the platform code. But it actually points to the virtual
cpufreq-cpu0 platform device which is not present in the device tree.
Most of the information needed by cpufreq is stored in cpu0 DT node.
So cpu_dev must point to cpu0 device.
This patch fixes the wrong assignment to cpu_dev.
Reported-and-tested-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Current code looks like this:
WARN_ON(lock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu));
update_policy_cpu(policy, new_cpu);
unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
{lock|unlock}_policy_rwsem_write(cpu) takes/releases policy->cpu's rwsem.
Because cpu is changing with the call to update_policy_cpu(), the
unlock_policy_rwsem_write() will release the incorrect lock.
The right solution would be to release the same lock as was taken earlier. Also
update_policy_cpu() was also called from cpufreq_add_dev() without any locks and
so its better if we move this locking to inside update_policy_cpu().
This patch fixes a regression introduced in 3.12 by commit f9ba680d23
(cpufreq: Extract the handover of policy cpu to a helper function).
Reported-and-tested-by: Jon Medhurst<tixy@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This broke after a recent change "cedb70a cpufreq: Split __cpufreq_remove_dev()
into two parts" from Srivatsa.
Consider a scenario where we have two CPUs in a policy (0 & 1) and we are
removing CPU 1. On the call to __cpufreq_remove_dev_prepare() we have cleared 1
from policy->cpus and now on a call to __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish() we read
cpumask_weight of policy->cpus, which will come as 1 and this code will behave
as if we are removing the last CPU from policy :)
Fix it by clearing the CPU mask in __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish() instead of
__cpufreq_remove_dev_prepare().
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* pm-cpufreq:
cpufreq: Acquire the lock in cpufreq_policy_restore() for reading
cpufreq: Prevent problems in update_policy_cpu() if last_cpu == new_cpu
cpufreq: Restructure if/else block to avoid unintended behavior
cpufreq: Fix crash in cpufreq-stats during suspend/resume
In cpufreq_policy_restore() before system suspend policy is read from
percpu's cpufreq_cpu_data_fallback. It's a read operation rather
than a write one, so take the lock for reading in there.
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
If update_policy_cpu() is invoked with the existing policy->cpu itself
as the new-cpu parameter, then a lot of things can go terribly wrong.
In its present form, update_policy_cpu() always assumes that the new-cpu
is different from policy->cpu and invokes other functions to perform their
respective updates. And those functions implement the actual update like
this:
per_cpu(..., new_cpu) = per_cpu(..., last_cpu);
per_cpu(..., last_cpu) = NULL;
Thus, when new_cpu == last_cpu, the final NULL assignment makes the per-cpu
references vanish into thin air! (memory leak). From there, it leads to more
problems: cpufreq_stats_create_table() now doesn't find the per-cpu reference
and hence tries to create a new sysfs-group; but sysfs already had created
the group earlier, so it complains that it cannot create a duplicate filename.
In short, the repercussions of a rather innocuous invocation of
update_policy_cpu() can turn out to be pretty nasty.
Ideally update_policy_cpu() should handle this situation (new == last)
gracefully, and not lead to such severe problems. So fix it by adding an
appropriate check.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
In __cpufreq_remove_dev_prepare(), the code which decides whether to remove
the sysfs link or nominate a new policy cpu, is governed by an if/else block
with a rather complex set of conditionals. Worse, they harbor a subtlety
which leads to certain unintended behavior.
The code looks like this:
if (cpu != policy->cpu && !frozen) {
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "cpufreq");
} else if (cpus > 1) {
new_cpu = cpufreq_nominate_new_policy_cpu(...);
...
update_policy_cpu(..., new_cpu);
}
The original intention was:
If the CPU going offline is not policy->cpu, just remove the link.
On the other hand, if the CPU going offline is the policy->cpu itself,
handover the policy->cpu job to some other surviving CPU in that policy.
But because the 'if' condition also includes the 'frozen' check, now there
are *two* possibilities by which we can enter the 'else' block:
1. cpu == policy->cpu (intended)
2. cpu != policy->cpu && frozen (unintended)
Due to the second (unintended) scenario, we end up spuriously nominating
a CPU as the policy->cpu, even when the existing policy->cpu is alive and
well. This can cause problems further down the line, especially when we end
up nominating the same policy->cpu as the new one (ie., old == new),
because it totally confuses update_policy_cpu().
To avoid this mess, restructure the if/else block to only do what was
originally intended, and thus prevent any unwelcome surprises.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Stephen Warren reported that the cpufreq-stats code hits a NULL pointer
dereference during the second attempt to suspend a system. He also
pin-pointed the problem to commit 5302c3f "cpufreq: Perform light-weight
init/teardown during suspend/resume".
That commit actually ensured that the cpufreq-stats table and the
cpufreq-stats sysfs entries are *not* torn down (ie., not freed) during
suspend/resume, which makes it all the more surprising. However, it turns
out that the root-cause is not that we access an already freed memory, but
that the reference to the allocated memory gets moved around and we lose
track of that during resume, leading to the reported crash in a subsequent
suspend attempt.
In the suspend path, during CPU offline, the value of policy->cpu is updated
by choosing one of the surviving CPUs in that policy, as long as there is
atleast one CPU in that policy. And cpufreq_stats_update_policy_cpu() is
invoked to update the reference to the stats structure by assigning it to
the new CPU. However, in the resume path, during CPU online, we end up
assigning a fresh CPU as the policy->cpu, without letting cpufreq-stats
know about this. Thus the reference to the stats structure remains
(incorrectly) associated with the old CPU. So, in a subsequent suspend attempt,
during CPU offline, we end up accessing an incorrect location to get the
stats structure, which eventually leads to the NULL pointer dereference.
Fix this by letting cpufreq-stats know about the update of the policy->cpu
during CPU online in the resume path. (Also, move the update_policy_cpu()
function higher up in the file, so that __cpufreq_add_dev() can invoke
it).
Reported-and-tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* pm-cpufreq:
intel_pstate: Add Haswell CPU models
Revert "cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized"
cpufreq: Use signed type for 'ret' variable, to store negative error values
cpufreq: Remove temporary fix for race between CPU hotplug and sysfs-writes
cpufreq: Synchronize the cpufreq store_*() routines with CPU hotplug
cpufreq: Invoke __cpufreq_remove_dev_finish() after releasing cpu_hotplug.lock
cpufreq: Split __cpufreq_remove_dev() into two parts
cpufreq: Fix wrong time unit conversion
cpufreq: serialize calls to __cpufreq_governor()
cpufreq: don't allow governor limits to be changed when it is disabled
Enable the intel_pstate driver for Haswell CPUs. One missing Ivy Bridge
model (0x3E) is also included. Models referenced from
tools/power/x86/turbostat/turbostat.c:has_nehalem_turbo_ratio_limit
Signed-off-by: Nell Hardcastle <nell@spicious.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Commit 7c30ed5 (cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are
serialized) attempted to serialize frequency transitions by
adding checks to the CPUFREQ_PRECHANGE and CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE
notifications. However, it assumed that the notifications will
always originate from the driver's .target() callback, but they
also can be triggered by cpufreq_out_of_sync() and that leads to
warnings like this on some systems:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 14543 at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:317
__cpufreq_notify_transition+0x238/0x260()
In middle of another frequency transition
accompanied by a call trace similar to this one:
[<ffffffff81720daa>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[<ffffffff8106534c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0
[<ffffffff815b8560>] ? acpi_cpufreq_target+0x320/0x320
[<ffffffff81065436>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffff815b1ec8>] __cpufreq_notify_transition+0x238/0x260
[<ffffffff815b33be>] cpufreq_notify_transition+0x3e/0x70
[<ffffffff815b345d>] cpufreq_out_of_sync+0x6d/0xb0
[<ffffffff815b370c>] cpufreq_update_policy+0x10c/0x160
[<ffffffff815b3760>] ? cpufreq_update_policy+0x160/0x160
[<ffffffff81413813>] cpufreq_set_cur_state+0x8c/0xb5
[<ffffffff814138df>] processor_set_cur_state+0xa3/0xcf
[<ffffffff8158e13c>] thermal_cdev_update+0x9c/0xb0
[<ffffffff8159046a>] step_wise_throttle+0x5a/0x90
[<ffffffff8158e21f>] handle_thermal_trip+0x4f/0x140
[<ffffffff8158e377>] thermal_zone_device_update+0x57/0xa0
[<ffffffff81415b36>] acpi_thermal_check+0x2e/0x30
[<ffffffff81415ca0>] acpi_thermal_notify+0x40/0xdc
[<ffffffff813e7dbd>] acpi_device_notify+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffff813f8241>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x41/0x5c
[<ffffffff813e3fbe>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x25/0x32
[<ffffffff81081060>] process_one_work+0x170/0x4a0
[<ffffffff81082121>] worker_thread+0x121/0x390
[<ffffffff81082000>] ? manage_workers.isra.20+0x170/0x170
[<ffffffff81088fe0>] kthread+0xc0/0xd0
[<ffffffff81088f20>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0
[<ffffffff8173582c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff81088f20>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xb0/0xb0
For this reason, revert commit 7c30ed5 along with the fix 266c13d
(cpufreq: Fix serialization of frequency transitions) on top of it
and we will revisit the serialization problem later.
Reported-by: Alessandro Bono <alessandro.bono@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
There are places where the variable 'ret' is declared as unsigned int
and then used to store negative return values such as -EINVAL. Fix them
by declaring the variable as a signed quantity.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Commit "cpufreq: serialize calls to __cpufreq_governor()" had been a temporary
and partial solution to the race condition between writing to a cpufreq sysfs
file and taking a CPU offline. Now that we have a proper and complete solution
to that problem, remove the temporary fix.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The functions that are used to write to cpufreq sysfs files (such as
store_scaling_max_freq()) are not hotplug safe. They can race with CPU
hotplug tasks and lead to problems such as trying to acquire an already
destroyed timer-mutex etc.
Eg:
__cpufreq_remove_dev()
__cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
policy->governor->governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
cpufreq_governor_dbs()
case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP:
mutex_destroy(&cpu_cdbs->timer_mutex)
cpu_cdbs->cur_policy = NULL;
<PREEMPT>
store()
__cpufreq_set_policy()
__cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS);
policy->governor->governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS);
case CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS:
mutex_lock(&cpu_cdbs->timer_mutex); <-- Warning (destroyed mutex)
if (policy->max < cpu_cdbs->cur_policy->cur) <- cur_policy == NULL
So use get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() in the store_*() functions, to
synchronize with CPU hotplug. However, there is an additional point to note
here: some parts of the CPU teardown in the cpufreq subsystem are done in
the CPU_POST_DEAD stage, with cpu_hotplug.lock *released*. So, using the
get/put_online_cpus() functions alone is insufficient; we should also ensure
that we don't race with those latter steps in the hotplug sequence. We can
easily achieve this by checking if the CPU is online before proceeding with
the store, since the CPU would have been marked offline by the time the
CPU_POST_DEAD notifiers are executed.
Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
__cpufreq_remove_dev_finish() handles the kobject cleanup for a CPU going
offline. But because we destroy the kobject towards the end of the CPU offline
phase, there are certain race windows where a task can try to write to a
cpufreq sysfs file (eg: using store_scaling_max_freq()) while we are taking
that CPU offline, and this can bump up the kobject refcount, which in turn might
hinder the CPU offline task from running to completion. (It can also cause
other more serious problems such as trying to acquire a destroyed timer-mutex
etc., depending on the exact stage of the cleanup at which the task managed to
take a new refcount).
To fix the race window, we will need to synchronize those store_*() call-sites
with CPU hotplug, using get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus(). However, that
in turn can cause a total deadlock because it can end up waiting for the
CPU offline task to complete, with incremented refcount!
Write to sysfs CPU offline task
-------------- ----------------
kobj_refcnt++
Acquire cpu_hotplug.lock
get_online_cpus();
Wait for kobj_refcnt to drop to zero
**DEADLOCK**
A simple way to avoid this problem is to perform the kobject cleanup in the
CPU offline path, with the cpu_hotplug.lock *released*. That is, we can
perform the wait-for-kobj-refcnt-to-drop as well as the subsequent cleanup
in the CPU_POST_DEAD stage of CPU offline, which is run with cpu_hotplug.lock
released. Doing this helps us avoid deadlocks due to holding kobject refcounts
and waiting on each other on the cpu_hotplug.lock.
(Note: We can't move all of the cpufreq CPU offline steps to the
CPU_POST_DEAD stage, because certain things such as stopping the governors
have to be done before the outgoing CPU is marked offline. So retain those
parts in the CPU_DOWN_PREPARE stage itself).
Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
During CPU offline, the cpufreq core invokes __cpufreq_remove_dev()
to perform work such as stopping the cpufreq governor, clearing the
CPU from the policy structure etc, and finally cleaning up the
kobject.
There are certain subtle issues related to the kobject cleanup, and
it would be much easier to deal with them if we separate that part
from the rest of the cleanup-work in the CPU offline phase. So split
the __cpufreq_remove_dev() function into 2 parts: one that handles
the kobject cleanup, and the other that handles the rest of the work.
Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The time spent by a CPU under a given frequency is stored in jiffies unit
in the cpu var cpufreq_stats_table->time_in_state[i], i being the index of
the frequency.
This is what is displayed in the following file on the right column:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
2301000 19835820
2300000 3172
[...]
Now cpufreq converts this jiffies unit delta to clock_t before returning it
to the user as in the above file. And that conversion is achieved using the API
cputime64_to_clock_t().
Although it accidentally works on traditional tick based cputime accounting, where
cputime_t maps directly to jiffies, it doesn't work with other types of cputime
accounting such as CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_* where cputime_t can map to nsecs
or any granularity preffered by the architecture.
For example we get a buggy zero delta on full dyntick configurations:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/stats/time_in_state
2301000 0
2300000 0
[...]
Fix this with using the proper jiffies_64_t to clock_t conversion.
Reported-and-tested-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
We can't take a big lock around __cpufreq_governor() as this causes
recursive locking for some cases. But calls to this routine must be
serialized for every policy. Otherwise we can see some unpredictable
events.
For example, consider following scenario:
__cpufreq_remove_dev()
__cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
policy->governor->governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP);
cpufreq_governor_dbs()
case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP:
mutex_destroy(&cpu_cdbs->timer_mutex)
cpu_cdbs->cur_policy = NULL;
<PREEMPT>
store()
__cpufreq_set_policy()
__cpufreq_governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS);
policy->governor->governor(policy, CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS);
case CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS:
mutex_lock(&cpu_cdbs->timer_mutex); <-- Warning (destroyed mutex)
if (policy->max < cpu_cdbs->cur_policy->cur) <- cur_policy == NULL
And so store() will eventually result in a crash if cur_policy is
NULL at this point.
Introduce an additional variable which would guarantee serialization
here.
Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
__cpufreq_governor() returns with -EBUSY when governor is already
stopped and we try to stop it again, but when it is stopped we must
not allow calls to CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS event as well.
This patch adds this check in __cpufreq_governor().
Reported-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) subsystem rework and introduction
of Intel Thunderbolt support on systems that use ACPI for signalling
Thunderbolt hotplug events. This also should make ACPIPHP work in
some cases in which it was known to have problems. From
Rafael J Wysocki, Mika Westerberg and Kirill A Shutemov.
2) ACPI core code cleanups and dock station support cleanups from
Jiang Liu and Rafael J Wysocki.
3) Fixes for locking problems related to ACPI device hotplug from
Rafael J Wysocki.
4) ACPICA update to version 20130725 includig fixes, cleanups, support
for more than 256 GPEs per GPE block and a change to make the ACPI
PM Timer optional (we've seen systems without the PM Timer in the
field already). One of the fixes, related to the DeRefOf operator,
is necessary to prevent some Windows 8 oriented AML from causing
problems to happen. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, and Jung-uk Kim.
5) Removal of the old and long deprecated /proc/acpi/event interface
and related driver changes from Thomas Renninger.
6) ACPI and Xen changes to make the reduced hardware sleep work with
the latter from Ben Guthro.
7) ACPI video driver cleanups and a blacklist of systems that should
not tell the BIOS that they are compatible with Windows 8 (or ACPI
backlight and possibly other things will not work on them). From
Felipe Contreras.
8) Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Aaron Lu, Hanjun Guo,
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, Lan Tianyu, Sachin Kamat, Tang Chen,
Toshi Kani, and Wei Yongjun.
9) cpufreq ondemand governor target frequency selection change to
reduce oscillations between min and max frequencies (essentially,
it causes the governor to choose target frequencies proportional
to load) from Stratos Karafotis.
10) cpufreq fixes allowing sysfs attributes file permissions to be
preserved over suspend/resume cycles Srivatsa S Bhat.
11) Removal of Device Tree parsing for CPU device nodes from multiple
cpufreq drivers that required some changes related to
of_get_cpu_node() to be made in a few architectures and in the
driver core. From Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.
12) cpufreq core fixes and cleanups related to mutual exclusion and
driver module references from Viresh Kumar, Lukasz Majewski and
Rafael J Wysocki.
13) Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Amit Daniel Kachhap,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Hanjun Guo, Jingoo Han, Joseph Lo,
Julia Lawall, Li Zhong, Mark Brown, Sascha Hauer, Stephen Boyd,
Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.
14) Fixes to prevent race conditions in coupled cpuidle from happening
from Colin Cross.
15) cpuidle core fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano and
Tuukka Tikkanen.
16) Assorted cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Jingoo Han, Julia Lawall, Linus Walleij,
and Sahara.
17) System sleep tracing changes from Todd E Brandt and Shuah Khan.
18) PNP subsystem conversion to using struct dev_pm_ops for power
management from Shuah Khan.
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) subsystem rework and introduction
of Intel Thunderbolt support on systems that use ACPI for signalling
Thunderbolt hotplug events. This also should make ACPIPHP work in
some cases in which it was known to have problems. From
Rafael J Wysocki, Mika Westerberg and Kirill A Shutemov.
2) ACPI core code cleanups and dock station support cleanups from
Jiang Liu and Rafael J Wysocki.
3) Fixes for locking problems related to ACPI device hotplug from
Rafael J Wysocki.
4) ACPICA update to version 20130725 includig fixes, cleanups, support
for more than 256 GPEs per GPE block and a change to make the ACPI
PM Timer optional (we've seen systems without the PM Timer in the
field already). One of the fixes, related to the DeRefOf operator,
is necessary to prevent some Windows 8 oriented AML from causing
problems to happen. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, and Jung-uk Kim.
5) Removal of the old and long deprecated /proc/acpi/event interface
and related driver changes from Thomas Renninger.
6) ACPI and Xen changes to make the reduced hardware sleep work with
the latter from Ben Guthro.
7) ACPI video driver cleanups and a blacklist of systems that should
not tell the BIOS that they are compatible with Windows 8 (or ACPI
backlight and possibly other things will not work on them). From
Felipe Contreras.
8) Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Aaron Lu, Hanjun Guo,
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, Lan Tianyu, Sachin Kamat, Tang Chen,
Toshi Kani, and Wei Yongjun.
9) cpufreq ondemand governor target frequency selection change to
reduce oscillations between min and max frequencies (essentially,
it causes the governor to choose target frequencies proportional
to load) from Stratos Karafotis.
10) cpufreq fixes allowing sysfs attributes file permissions to be
preserved over suspend/resume cycles Srivatsa S Bhat.
11) Removal of Device Tree parsing for CPU device nodes from multiple
cpufreq drivers that required some changes related to
of_get_cpu_node() to be made in a few architectures and in the
driver core. From Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.
12) cpufreq core fixes and cleanups related to mutual exclusion and
driver module references from Viresh Kumar, Lukasz Majewski and
Rafael J Wysocki.
13) Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Amit Daniel Kachhap,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Hanjun Guo, Jingoo Han, Joseph Lo,
Julia Lawall, Li Zhong, Mark Brown, Sascha Hauer, Stephen Boyd,
Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.
14) Fixes to prevent race conditions in coupled cpuidle from happening
from Colin Cross.
15) cpuidle core fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano and
Tuukka Tikkanen.
16) Assorted cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Jingoo Han, Julia Lawall, Linus Walleij,
and Sahara.
17) System sleep tracing changes from Todd E Brandt and Shuah Khan.
18) PNP subsystem conversion to using struct dev_pm_ops for power
management from Shuah Khan.
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (217 commits)
cpufreq: Don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
cpuidle: coupled: fix race condition between pokes and safe state
cpuidle: coupled: abort idle if pokes are pending
cpuidle: coupled: disable interrupts after entering safe state
ACPI / hotplug: Remove containers synchronously
driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues
cpufreq: governor: Fix typos in comments
cpufreq: governors: Remove duplicate check of target freq in supported range
cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption due to double queueing
ACPI / EC: Add ASUSTEK L4R to quirk list in order to validate ECDT
ACPI / thermal: Add check of "_TZD" availability and evaluating result
cpufreq: imx6q: Fix clock enable balance
ACPI: blacklist win8 OSI for buggy laptops
cpufreq: tegra: fix the wrong clock name
cpuidle: Change struct menu_device field types
cpuidle: Add a comment warning about possible overflow
cpuidle: Fix variable domains in get_typical_interval()
cpuidle: Fix menu_device->intervals type
cpuidle: CodingStyle: Break up multiple assignments on single line
cpuidle: Check called function parameter in get_typical_interval()
...
Workqueues are preemptible even if works are queued on them with
queue_work_on(). Let's use raw_smp_processor_id() here to silence
the warning.
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kworker/3:2/674
caller is gov_queue_work+0x28/0xb0
CPU: 0 PID: 674 Comm: kworker/3:2 Tainted: G W 3.10.0 #30
Workqueue: events od_dbs_timer
[<c010c178>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x11c) from [<c0109dec>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c0109dec>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c03885a4>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0)
[<c03885a4>] (debug_smp_processor_id+0xbc/0xf0) from [<c0635864>] (gov_queue_work+0x28/0xb0)
[<c0635864>] (gov_queue_work+0x28/0xb0) from [<c0635618>] (od_dbs_timer+0x108/0x134)
[<c0635618>] (od_dbs_timer+0x108/0x134) from [<c01aa8f8>] (process_one_work+0x25c/0x444)
[<c01aa8f8>] (process_one_work+0x25c/0x444) from [<c01aaf88>] (worker_thread+0x200/0x344)
[<c01aaf88>] (worker_thread+0x200/0x344) from [<c01b03bc>] (kthread+0xa0/0xb0)
[<c01b03bc>] (kthread+0xa0/0xb0) from [<c01061b8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
- 'Governer' should be 'Governor'.
- 'S' is used for Siemens (electrical conductance) in SI units,
so use small 's' for seconds.
Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Function __cpufreq_driver_target() checks if target_freq is within
policy->min and policy->max range. generic_powersave_bias_target() also
checks if target_freq is valid via a cpufreq_frequency_table_target()
call. So, drop the unnecessary duplicate check in *_check_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
When a CPU is hot removed we'll cancel all the delayed work items
via gov_cancel_work(). Normally this will just cancels a delayed
timer on each CPU that the policy is managing and the work won't
run, but if the work is already running the workqueue code will
wait for the work to finish before continuing to prevent the
work items from re-queuing themselves like they normally do. This
scheme will work most of the time, except for the case where the
work function determines that it should adjust the delay for all
other CPUs that the policy is managing. If this scenario occurs,
the canceling CPU will cancel its own work but queue up the other
CPUs works to run. For example:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
cpu_down()
...
__cpufreq_remove_dev()
cpufreq_governor_dbs()
case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP:
gov_cancel_work(dbs_data, policy);
cpu0 work is canceled
timer is canceled
cpu1 work is canceled <work runs>
<waits for cpu1> od_dbs_timer()
gov_queue_work(*, *, true);
cpu0 work queued
cpu1 work queued
cpu2 work queued
...
cpu1 work is canceled
cpu2 work is canceled
...
At the end of the GOV_STOP case cpu0 still has a work queued to
run although the code is expecting all of the works to be
canceled. __cpufreq_remove_dev() will then proceed to
re-initialize all the other CPUs works except for the CPU that is
going down. The CPUFREQ_GOV_START case in cpufreq_governor_dbs()
will trample over the queued work and debugobjects will spit out
a warning:
WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc()
ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x10
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1491 Comm: sh Tainted: G W 3.10.0 #19
[<c010c178>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x11c) from [<c0109dec>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c0109dec>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c01904cc>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x6c)
[<c01904cc>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x6c) from [<c019056c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2c/0x3c)
[<c019056c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2c/0x3c) from [<c0388a7c>] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc)
[<c0388a7c>] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc) from [<c0388e34>] (__debug_object_init+0x2d0/0x340)
[<c0388e34>] (__debug_object_init+0x2d0/0x340) from [<c019e3b0>] (init_timer_key+0x14/0xb0)
[<c019e3b0>] (init_timer_key+0x14/0xb0) from [<c0635f78>] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x3e8/0x5f8)
[<c0635f78>] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x3e8/0x5f8) from [<c06325a0>] (__cpufreq_governor+0xdc/0x1a4)
[<c06325a0>] (__cpufreq_governor+0xdc/0x1a4) from [<c0633704>] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.10+0x3b4/0x434)
[<c0633704>] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.10+0x3b4/0x434) from [<c08989f4>] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x60/0x80)
[<c08989f4>] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x60/0x80) from [<c08a43c0>] (notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x68)
[<c08a43c0>] (notifier_call_chain+0x38/0x68) from [<c01938e0>] (__cpu_notify+0x28/0x40)
[<c01938e0>] (__cpu_notify+0x28/0x40) from [<c0892ad4>] (_cpu_down+0x7c/0x2c0)
[<c0892ad4>] (_cpu_down+0x7c/0x2c0) from [<c0892d3c>] (cpu_down+0x24/0x40)
[<c0892d3c>] (cpu_down+0x24/0x40) from [<c0893ea8>] (store_online+0x2c/0x74)
[<c0893ea8>] (store_online+0x2c/0x74) from [<c04519d8>] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24)
[<c04519d8>] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24) from [<c02a69d4>] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x148)
[<c02a69d4>] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x148) from [<c0255c18>] (vfs_write+0xcc/0x174)
[<c0255c18>] (vfs_write+0xcc/0x174) from [<c0255f70>] (SyS_write+0x38/0x64)
[<c0255f70>] (SyS_write+0x38/0x64) from [<c0106120>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30)
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Pull cpufreq fixes for v3.12 from Viresh Kumar.
* 'cpufreq-fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/vireshk/linux:
cpufreq: imx6q: Fix clock enable balance
cpufreq: tegra: fix the wrong clock name
For changing the cpu frequency the i.MX6q has to be switched to some
intermediate clock during the PLL reprogramming. The driver tries
to be clever to keep the enable count correct but gets it wrong. If
the cpufreq is increased it calls clk_disable_unprepare twice
on pll2_pfd2_396m. This puts all other devices which get their clock
from pll2_pfd2_396m into a nonworking state.
Fix this by removing the clk enabling/disabling altogether since the
clk core will do this automatically during a reparent.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
The "cpu" and "pclk_p_cclk" was a virtual clock name that was used in
the legacy Tegra clock framework. It was not used after converting to
CCF. Fix it as the correct clock name that we are using.
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Joseph Lo <josephl@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Pull DT/core/cpufreq cpu_ofnode updates for v3.12 from Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.
* 'cpu_of_node' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-skn:
cpufreq: pmac32-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: pmac64-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: maple-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: arm_big_little: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: kirkwood-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: spear-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: highbank-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: cpufreq-cpu0: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
cpufreq: imx6q-cpufreq: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
drivers/bus: arm-cci: avoid parsing DT for cpu device nodes
ARM: mvebu: remove device tree parsing for cpu nodes
ARM: topology: remove hwid/MPIDR dependency from cpu_capacity
of/device: add helper to get cpu device node from logical cpu index
driver/core: cpu: initialize of_node in cpu's device struture
ARM: DT/kernel: define ARM specific arch_match_cpu_phys_id
of: move of_get_cpu_node implementation to DT core library
powerpc: refactor of_get_cpu_node to support other architectures
openrisc: remove undefined of_get_cpu_node declaration
microblaze: remove undefined of_get_cpu_node declaration
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Acked-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Cc: Deepak Sikri <sikrid@qti.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Cc: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Now that the cpu device registration initialises the of_node(if available)
appropriately for all the cpus, parsing here is redundant.
This patch removes all DT parsing and uses cpu->of_node instead.
Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
To iterate over all policies we currently iterate over all online
CPUs and then get the policy for each of them which is suboptimal.
Use the newly created cpufreq_policy_list for this purpose instead.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
cpufreq_policy_cpu per-cpu variables are used for storing the ID of
the CPU that manages the given CPU's policy. However, we also store
a policy pointer for each cpu in cpufreq_cpu_data, so the
cpufreq_policy_cpu information is simply redundant.
It is better to use cpufreq_cpu_data to retrieve a policy and get
policy->cpu from there, so make that happen everywhere and drop the
cpufreq_policy_cpu per-cpu variables which aren't necessary any more.
[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
We don't need to check if event is CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_INIT and put
governor module as we are sure event can only be START/STOP here.
Remove the useless check.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
