Hi Viresh
Some times ago, I sent these two cpufreq patches to fix frequency
transition problem on speedstep-smi, but you didn't put them to the
upstream kernel. I am resending the patches. If you would like a different
solution to this problem, please explain it.
Mikulas
On Dell Latitude C600 laptop with Pentium 3 850MHz processor, the
speedstep-smi driver sometimes loads and sometimes doesn't load with
"change to state X failed" message.
The hardware sometimes refuses to change frequency and in this case, we
need to retry later. I found out that we need to enable interrupts while
waiting for retry. When we enable interrupts, the hardware blockage that
prevents frequency transition resolves and the transition is possible.
With disabled interrupts, the blockage doesn't resolve (no matter how long
do we wait). The exact reasons for this hardware behavior are unknown.
This patch enables interrupts in the function speedstep_set_state that can
be called with disabled interrupts. However, this function is called with
disabled interrupts only from speedstep_get_freqs, so it shouldn't cause
any problem.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c | 3 +++
drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
Index: linux-3.14-rc1/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.14-rc1.orig/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c 2014-02-03 18:56:44.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-3.14-rc1/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c 2014-02-03 19:06:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ static void speedstep_set_state(unsigned
return;
/* Disable IRQs */
+ preempt_disable();
local_irq_save(flags);
command = (smi_sig & 0xffffff00) | (smi_cmd & 0xff);
@@ -166,9 +167,19 @@ static void speedstep_set_state(unsigned
do {
if (retry) {
+ /*
+ * We need to enable interrupts, otherwise the blockage
+ * won't resolve.
+ *
+ * We disable preemption so that other processes don't
+ * run. If other processes were running, they could
+ * submit more DMA requests, making the blockage worse.
+ */
pr_debug("retry %u, previous result %u, waiting...\n",
retry, result);
+ local_irq_enable();
mdelay(retry * 50);
+ local_irq_disable();
}
retry++;
__asm__ __volatile__(
@@ -185,6 +196,7 @@ static void speedstep_set_state(unsigned
/* enable IRQs */
local_irq_restore(flags);
+ preempt_enable();
if (new_state == state)
pr_debug("change to %u MHz succeeded after %u tries "
Index: linux-3.14-rc1/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.14-rc1.orig/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c 2014-02-03 18:54:39.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-3.14-rc1/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c 2014-02-03 19:06:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ unsigned int speedstep_get_freqs(enum sp
pr_debug("previous speed is %u\n", prev_speed);
+ preempt_disable();
local_irq_save(flags);
/* switch to low state */
@@ -464,6 +465,8 @@ unsigned int speedstep_get_freqs(enum sp
out:
local_irq_restore(flags);
+ preempt_enable();
+
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(speedstep_get_freqs);
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