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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: rjw@rjwysocki.net
Cc: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, l.majewski@samsung.com,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cpufreq: set value of CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ to 0xABABABAB
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:18:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78187ea173460c871eef31432ec2a80ec657fe30.1395643393.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org> (raw)

Ideally, .driver_data field of struct cpufreq_frequency_table must not be used
by core at all. But during a recent change if its value is same as
CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ macro, then it is treated specially by core.

The value of this macro was set to ~2 earlier, i.e. 0xFFFFFFFD. In case some
driver is using this field for its own data and sets this field to -3, then with
two's complement that value will also become 0xFFFFFFFD.

To fix this issue, lets change value of this flag to a very uncommon value which
shouldn't be used by any driver unless they want to use BOOST feature.

Along with this update comments to make this more clear.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---

Gautham/Vaidy: I hope this fixes the problem we discussed for your patchset.

 include/linux/cpufreq.h | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
index c48e595..9f25d9d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -455,12 +455,18 @@ extern struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_conservative;
  *                     FREQUENCY TABLE HELPERS                       *
  *********************************************************************/
 
+/* Special Values of .frequency field */
 #define CPUFREQ_ENTRY_INVALID ~0
 #define CPUFREQ_TABLE_END     ~1
-#define CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ    ~2
+/* Special Values of .driver_data field */
+#define CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ    0xABABABAB
 
 struct cpufreq_frequency_table {
-	unsigned int	driver_data; /* driver specific data, not used by core */
+	/*
+	 * driver specific data, not used by core unless it is set to
+	 * CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ.
+	 */
+	unsigned int	driver_data;
 	unsigned int	frequency; /* kHz - doesn't need to be in ascending
 				    * order */
 };
-- 
1.7.12.rc2.18.g61b472e


             reply	other threads:[~2014-03-24  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-24  6:48 Viresh Kumar [this message]
2014-03-24  8:21 ` [PATCH] cpufreq: set value of CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ to 0xABABABAB Lukasz Majewski
2014-03-24  8:33   ` Viresh Kumar
2014-03-24  8:52 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2014-03-28  8:53 ` [PATCH] cpufreq: create another field .flags in cpufreq_frequency_table Viresh Kumar
2014-03-28 10:14   ` [PATCH] cpufreq: use kzalloc() to allocate memory for cpufreq_frequency_table Viresh Kumar
2014-03-28 10:44     ` Gautham R Shenoy
2014-03-28 13:29     ` Joe Perches
2014-03-28 13:32       ` Viresh Kumar
2014-03-28 10:19   ` [PATCH] cpufreq: create another field .flags in cpufreq_frequency_table Lukasz Majewski
2014-03-28 10:33     ` Viresh Kumar
2014-03-28 10:43   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2014-03-28  8:55 ` [PATCH] cpufreq: set value of CPUFREQ_BOOST_FREQ to 0xABABABAB Viresh Kumar

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