On Monday, February 11, 2013 01:20:02 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> have_multiple_policies is required by platforms having multiple clock-domains
> for cpus, i.e. supporting multiple policies for cpus. This patch adds in a
> Kconfig option for enabling execution of this code.
> 
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 3 +++
>  include/linux/cpufreq.h | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
> index cbcb21e..e6e6939 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
> @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ config CPU_FREQ_TABLE
>  config CPU_FREQ_GOV_COMMON
>       bool
>  
> +config CPU_FREQ_HAVE_MULTIPLE_POLICIES
> +     bool
> +

So I suppose some architectures will select this, right?

What architecture they are?

>  config CPU_FREQ_STAT
>       tristate "CPU frequency translation statistics"
>       select CPU_FREQ_TABLE
> diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> index c5ac9a5..0d84bfa 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
> @@ -107,11 +107,13 @@ struct cpufreq_policy {
>       unsigned int            policy; /* see above */
>       struct cpufreq_governor *governor; /* see below */
>       void                    *governor_data;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_HAVE_MULTIPLE_POLICIES
>       /* This should be set by init() of platforms having multiple
>        * clock-domains, i.e.  supporting multiple policies. With this sysfs
>        * directories of governor would be created in cpu/cpu<num>/cpufreq/
>        * directory */
>       bool                    have_multiple_policies;
> +#endif

I'm not really sure I like this. ->

>       struct work_struct      update; /* if update_policy() needs to be
>                                        * called, but you're in IRQ context */
> @@ -142,9 +144,11 @@ static inline bool policy_is_shared(struct 
> cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  static inline struct kobject *
>  get_governor_parent_kobj(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>  {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_HAVE_MULTIPLE_POLICIES
>       if (policy->have_multiple_policies)
>               return &policy->kobj;
>       else
> +#endif
>               return cpufreq_global_kobject;

-> I wonder why don't you arrange things so that policy->kobj is always
returned, but it points to cpufreq_global_kobject in case there's only one
(i.e. make policy->kobj a pointer)?

>  }

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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