On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 9:41 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> The cpufreq core doesn't remove the cpufreq policy anymore on CPU
> offline operation, rather that happens when the CPU device gets
> unregistered from the kernel. This allows faster recovery when the CPU
> comes back online. This is also very useful during system wide
> suspend/resume where we offline all non-boot CPUs during suspend and
> then bring them back on resume.
>
> This commit takes the same idea a step ahead to allow drivers to do
> light weight tear-down during CPU offline operation.
>
> A new callback is introduced, light_weight_exit(), which gets called
> when all the CPUs of a policy are removed/offlined and the existing
> exit() callback gets called when the policy gets freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
> include/linux/cpufreq.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index 96a69c67a545..215a8bfc78bb 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1421,11 +1421,12 @@ static int cpufreq_offline(unsigned int cpu)
> cpufreq_exit_governor(policy);
>
> /*
> - * Perform the ->exit() even during light-weight tear-down,
> - * since this is a core component, and is essential for the
> - * subsequent light-weight ->init() to succeed.
> + * Perform the ->light_weight_exit() during light-weight tear-down, as
> + * that allows fast recovery when the CPU comes back.
> */
> - if (cpufreq_driver->exit) {
> + if (cpufreq_driver->light_weight_exit) {
> + cpufreq_driver->light_weight_exit(policy);
> + } else if (cpufreq_driver->exit) {
> cpufreq_driver->exit(policy);
> policy->freq_table = NULL;
> }
> @@ -1454,8 +1455,13 @@ static void cpufreq_remove_dev(struct device *dev,
> struct subsys_interface *sif)
> cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, policy->real_cpus);
> remove_cpu_dev_symlink(policy, dev);
>
> - if (cpumask_empty(policy->real_cpus))
> + if (cpumask_empty(policy->real_cpus)) {
> + /* We did light-weight exit earlier, do full tear down now */
> + if (cpufreq_driver->light_weight_exit)
> + cpufreq_driver->exit(policy);
> +
> cpufreq_policy_free(policy);
> + }
> }
>
> /**
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> index 9db074ecbbd7..36ce31516041 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> @@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ struct cpufreq_driver {
> /* optional */
> int (*bios_limit)(int cpu, unsigned int *limit);
>
> + int (*light_weight_exit)(struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
Can you call it "offline"?
> int (*exit)(struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
> void (*stop_cpu)(struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
> int (*suspend)(struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
> --
