Add the delayed timer to devfreq framework in order to support the periodical polling mode without stop caused by CPU idle state. Some Non-CPU device must need to monitor the device status like utilization regardless of CPU state. - patch1 explains the detailed reason why the delayed timer is required. - patch2 initializes that exynos5422-dmc device use delayed timer as default instead of deferrable timer. Changes from v2: - Add reviewed-by tag - Fix typo on patch description - Remove 'RFC' work from patch title - Check whether 'df->governor' is NULL or not on timer_store() Chanwoo Choi (2): PM / devfreq: Add support delayed timer for polling mode memory: samsung: exynos5422-dmc: Use delayed timer as default Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devfreq | 12 +++ drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++- drivers/memory/samsung/exynos5422-dmc.c | 1 + include/linux/devfreq.h | 9 ++ 4 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.17.1
