On 21-07-20, 13:43, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2020-07-20 17:37:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Finley Xiao <finley.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 371a3bc79c11b707d7a1b7a2c938dc3cc042fffb upstream.
> >
> > The function cpu_power_to_freq is used to find a frequency and set the
> > cooling device to consume at most the power to be converted. For example,
> > if the power to be converted is 80mW, and the em table is as follow.
> > struct em_cap_state table[] = {
> > /* KHz mW */
> > { 1008000, 36, 0 },
> > { 1200000, 49, 0 },
> > { 1296000, 59, 0 },
> > { 1416000, 72, 0 },
> > { 1512000, 86, 0 },
> > };
> > The target frequency should be 1416000KHz, not 1512000KHz.
> >
> > Fixes: 349d39dc5739 ("thermal: cpu_cooling: merge frequency and power tables")
>
> Wow, this is completely different from the upstream patch.
Right, I have mentioned this in the patch I sent for stable.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bc3978d0b7472c140e4d87f61138168a2a7b995c.1594194577.git.viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx/
> There the
> loops goes down, not up. The code does not match the changelog here.
Yes, the order is different in earlier kernels but I would say that
the changelog still matches as it doesn't necessarily talks about any
ordering here.
> > --- a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> > +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> > @@ -278,11 +278,11 @@ static u32 cpu_power_to_freq(struct cpuf
> > int i;
> > struct freq_table *freq_table = cpufreq_cdev->freq_table;
> >
> > - for (i = 1; i <= cpufreq_cdev->max_level; i++)
> > - if (power > freq_table[i].power)
> > + for (i = 0; i < cpufreq_cdev->max_level; i++)
> > + if (power >= freq_table[i].power)
> > break;
> >
> > - return freq_table[i - 1].frequency;
> > + return freq_table[i].frequency;
> > }
>
>
> Something is very wrong here, if table is sorted like described in the
> changelog, it will always break at i==0 or i==1... not working at all
> in the old or the new version.
As I understand from the other email you sent, this works fine now.
Right ?
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viresh
