On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Amit,
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:17 PM, amit daniel kachhap
> <amit.dan...@samsung.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Sonny Rao <sonny...@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> The cpu_thermal generic thermal management code has a bug where once
>>> max cpu frequency has been lowered in sysfs (scaling_max_freq) it is
>>> not possible to raise the max back up later. The bug is that the
>>> notifer gets called by __cpufreq_set_policy() before the user policy
>>> max is raised, and is incorrectly trying to enforce the max frequency
>>> policy even when we are trying to change the policy. It is also not
>>> clear why this driver is looking at the user policy since it is
>>> primarily supposed to enforce thermal policy, not user set policy.
>>
>> Hi Sunny,
>>
>> I am not sure if this change is needed.
>
> Do you have a machine that's running with your code? Can you go into
> sysfs (/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/) and try lowering then
> raising the max frequency by doing something like this (assumes that
> you can scale down to 200MHz):
>
> cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/
> OLD_VAL=$(cat scaling_max_freq)
> cat scaling_min_freq > scaling_max_freq
> echo ${OLD_VAL} > scaling_max_freq
>
> echo "$(cat scaling_max_freq) should be ${OLD_VAL}. Is it?"
>
> ...when I run the above without Sonny's patch on my system I see:
> 200000 should be 1700000. Is it?
>
> ...after Sonny's patch then the above works.
Hi Doug,
I tested the above steps on exynos origen board with all cpufreq
cooling configs enabled in kernel version 3.8-rc1.
In my tests I am able to vary scaling_max_freq to all values. Also I
am in normal temperature threshold. So basically I am not able to
reproduce the error reported,
Thanks,
Amit Daniel
>
>> There is a check in cpufreq_thermal_notifier function to return 0 if
>> notify_device == NOTIFY_INVALID. So the user will be always able to
>> change the max frequency in normal situation. Did you tested this for
>> some corner cases?
>> The reason behind putting this check is that I don't want to override
>> the user constraints.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amit Daniel
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonny...@chromium.org>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c | 4 ----
>>> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
>>> index 836828e..63bc708 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
>>> @@ -219,10 +219,6 @@ static int cpufreq_thermal_notifier(struct
>>> notifier_block *nb,
>>> if (cpumask_test_cpu(policy->cpu, ¬ify_device->allowed_cpus))
>>> max_freq = notify_device->cpufreq_val;
>>>
>>> - /* Never exceed user_policy.max*/
>>> - if (max_freq > policy->user_policy.max)
>>> - max_freq = policy->user_policy.max;
>>> -
>>> if (policy->max != max_freq)
>>> cpufreq_verify_within_limits(policy, 0, max_freq);
>>>
>>> --
>>> 1.7.7.3
>>>
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