On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 07:16, Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> wrote: > Current OMAP2PLUS CPUfreq tagret() functions returns when all > the CPU's are not online. This breaks CPUfreq when secondary CPUs > are offlined on SMP system. > > 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. Otherwise it can lead to notifiers being sent on > a CPU which is not yet registered to the governor. > > But this race conditions is already managed by the CPUfreq > core driver by updating the available cpumask accordingly. > > OMAP CPUFReq driver make use same cpumask for the notifiers > so the above problem doesn't exist. In my initial implementation > of the OMAP4 CPUFreq driver, I was using 'for_each_online_cpu()' > for notifiers which lead me to add that check. Later I fixed > the notifies but didn't realise that the check has become > redundant then. > > Fix it by removing the superfluous check in target(). > > Thanks for Nishant Menon <nm@xxxxxx> for reporting issue > with hot-plug and Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxx> for his > comment on excessive check in target(). > > Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx> > Reported-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> > Tested-by: Vishwanath BS <vishwanath.bs@xxxxxx> > Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> Regards, Nishanth Menon > --- > This change is an outcome of discussion on another patch to fix > the hot-plug issue. For details refer below thread: > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg50348.html > > arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap2plus-cpufreq.c | 4 ---- > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap2plus-cpufreq.c b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap2plus-cpufreq.c > index 33a91ec..3bf1704 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap2plus-cpufreq.c > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap2plus-cpufreq.c > @@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ static int omap_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, > int i, ret = 0; > struct cpufreq_freqs freqs; > > - /* Changes not allowed until all CPUs are online */ > - if (is_smp() && (num_online_cpus() < NR_CPUS)) > - return ret; > - > /* Ensure desired rate is within allowed range. Some govenors > * (ondemand) will just pass target_freq=0 to get the minimum. */ > if (target_freq < policy->min) > -- > 1.6.0.4 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
