Re: [PATCH] OMAP2+: CPUfreq: Allow the CPU scaling when secondary CPUs are offline.

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Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> writes:

> Current OMAP2PLUS CPUfreq tagret() functions returns when all
> the CPU's are not online. This will break DVFS when secondary
> CPUs are offlined.
>
> The intention of that check was just avoid CPU frequency change
> during the window when CPU becomes online but it's cpufreq_init is
> not done yet.
>
> Fix the check accordingly.
>
> Thanks for Nishant Menon <nm@xxxxxx> for reporting it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Vishwanath BS <vishwanath.bs@xxxxxx>
> ---
> There were some question of making the variable atomic etc
> in an internal discussion. After some thinking, I realised
> there is no need of that since this is just a counter which
> maintains the count for online_cpus = cpufreq_init_cpus. 

Since this is init-time only check, the check for every call to
->target() seems excessive.

How about leaving the ->target callback empty until all the CPUs are
online.

Also, how will this handle an SMP kernel booted with maxcpus=1 on the
cmdline?

Kevin
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