Fix some typos in comments.
Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
In order to avoid the calculation of up_threshold - down_differential
every time that the frequency must be decreased, we replace the
down_differential tuner with the adj_up_threshold which keeps the
difference across multiple checks.
Update the adj_up_threshold only when the up_theshold is also updated.
Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
With the inclusion of following patches:
9f4eb10 cpufreq: conservative: call dbs_check_cpu only when necessary
772b4b1 cpufreq: ondemand: call dbs_check_cpu only when necessary
code redundancy between the conservative and ondemand governors is
introduced again, so get rid of it.
[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fix governors code to set all cpu's cdbs->cpu to the the actual cpu id
and use cur_policy->cpu istead of cdbs->cpu to track current governor's
leader cpu.
Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Implement a generic helper function policy_is_shared() to replace the
current dbs_sw_coordinated_cpus() at cpufreq level, so that it can be
used by code other than cpufreq governors.
Suggested-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Modify update_sampling_rate() to check, and eventually immediately
schedule, all CPU's do_dbs_timer delayed work.
This is required in case of software coordinated CPUs, as we now have a
separate delayed work for each CPU.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Modify ondemand timer to not resample CPU utilization if recently
sampled from another SW coordinated core.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
This patch fixes a bug that occurred when we had load on a secondary CPU
and the primary CPU was sleeping. Only one sampling timer was spawned
and it was spawned as a deferred timer on the primary CPU, so when a
secondary CPU had a change in load this was not detected by the cpufreq
governor (both ondemand and conservative).
This patch make sure that deferred timers are run on all CPUs in the
case of software controlled CPUs that run on the same frequency.
Signed-off-by: Rickard Andersson <rickard.andersson@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fix cpufreq_gov_ondemand to skip CPU where another governor is used.
The bug present itself as NULL pointer access on the mutex_lock() call,
an can be reproduced on an SMP machine by setting the default governor
to anything other than ondemand, setting a single CPU's governor to
ondemand, then changing the sample rate by writing on:
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_rate
Backtrace:
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.585241] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.585311] IP: [<ffffffff8174e082>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xb2/0x170
[snip]
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587005] Call Trace:
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587030] [<ffffffff8174da82>] mutex_lock+0x22/0x40
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587067] [<ffffffff81610b8f>] store_sampling_rate+0xbf/0x150
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587110] [<ffffffff81031e9c>] ? __do_page_fault+0x1cc/0x4c0
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587153] [<ffffffff813309bf>] kobj_attr_store+0xf/0x20
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587192] [<ffffffff811bb62d>] sysfs_write_file+0xcd/0x140
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587234] [<ffffffff8114c12c>] vfs_write+0xac/0x180
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587271] [<ffffffff8114c472>] sys_write+0x52/0xa0
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587306] [<ffffffff810321ce>] ? do_page_fault+0xe/0x10
Nov 26 17:36:54 balto kernel: [ 839.587345] [<ffffffff81751202>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Restore the correct delay value for ondemand's od_dbs_timer, as it was
changed erroneously in commit 83f0e55 (cpufreq: governors: remove
redundant code).
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Initially ondemand governor was written and then using its code conservative
governor is written. It used a lot of code from ondemand governor, but copy of
code was created instead of using the same routines from both governors. Which
increased code redundancy, which is difficult to manage.
This patch is an attempt to move common part of both the governors to
cpufreq_governor.c file to come over above mentioned issues.
This shouldn't change anything from functionality point of view.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Multiple cpufreq governers have defined similar get_cpu_idle_time_***()
routines. These routines must be moved to some common place, so that all
governors can use them.
So moving them to cpufreq_governor.c, which seems to be a better place for
keeping these routines.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* Improved system suspend/resume and runtime PM handling for the SH TMU, CMT
and MTU2 clock event devices (also used by ARM/shmobile).
* Generic PM domains framework extensions related to cpuidle support and
domain objects lookup using names.
* ARM/shmobile power management updates including improved support for the
SH7372's A4S power domain containing the CPU core.
* cpufreq changes related to AMD CPUs support from Matthew Garrett, Andre
Przywara and Borislav Petkov.
* cpu0 cpufreq driver from Shawn Guo.
* cpufreq governor fixes related to the relaxing of limit from Michal Pecio.
* OMAP cpufreq updates from Axel Lin and Richard Zhao.
* cpuidle ladder governor fixes related to the disabling of states from
Carsten Emde and me.
* Runtime PM core updates related to the interactions with the system suspend
core from Alan Stern and Kevin Hilman.
* Wakeup sources modification allowing more helper functions to be called from
interrupt context from John Stultz and additional diagnostic code from Todd
Poynor.
* System suspend error code path fix from Feng Hong.
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Merge tag 'pm-for-3.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael J Wysocki:
- Improved system suspend/resume and runtime PM handling for the SH
TMU, CMT and MTU2 clock event devices (also used by ARM/shmobile).
- Generic PM domains framework extensions related to cpuidle support
and domain objects lookup using names.
- ARM/shmobile power management updates including improved support for
the SH7372's A4S power domain containing the CPU core.
- cpufreq changes related to AMD CPUs support from Matthew Garrett,
Andre Przywara and Borislav Petkov.
- cpu0 cpufreq driver from Shawn Guo.
- cpufreq governor fixes related to the relaxing of limit from Michal
Pecio.
- OMAP cpufreq updates from Axel Lin and Richard Zhao.
- cpuidle ladder governor fixes related to the disabling of states from
Carsten Emde and me.
- Runtime PM core updates related to the interactions with the system
suspend core from Alan Stern and Kevin Hilman.
- Wakeup sources modification allowing more helper functions to be
called from interrupt context from John Stultz and additional
diagnostic code from Todd Poynor.
- System suspend error code path fix from Feng Hong.
Fixed up conflicts in cpufreq/powernow-k8 that stemmed from the
workqueue fixes conflicting fairly badly with the removal of support for
hardware P-state chips. The changes were independent but somewhat
intertwined.
* tag 'pm-for-3.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits)
Revert "PM QoS: Use spinlock in the per-device PM QoS constraints code"
PM / Runtime: let rpm_resume() succeed if RPM_ACTIVE, even when disabled, v2
cpuidle: rename function name "__cpuidle_register_driver", v2
cpufreq: OMAP: Check IS_ERR() instead of NULL for omap_device_get_by_hwmod_name
cpuidle: remove some empty lines
PM: Prevent runtime suspend during system resume
PM QoS: Use spinlock in the per-device PM QoS constraints code
PM / Sleep: use resume event when call dpm_resume_early
cpuidle / ACPI : move cpuidle_device field out of the acpi_processor_power structure
ACPI / processor: remove pointless variable initialization
ACPI / processor: remove unused function parameter
cpufreq: OMAP: remove loops_per_jiffy recalculate for smp
sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/cpufreq
cpufreq: conservative: update frequency when limits are relaxed
cpufreq / ondemand: update frequency when limits are relaxed
properly __init-annotate pm_sysrq_init()
cpufreq: Add a generic cpufreq-cpu0 driver
PM / OPP: Initialize OPP table from device tree
ARM: add cpufreq transiton notifier to adjust loops_per_jiffy for smp
cpufreq: Remove support for hardware P-state chips from powernow-k8
...
Reevaluate CPU load and update frequency immediately whenever limits
are changed. Currently ondemand doesn't do that when limits are
relaxed, wasting power on systems with relatively low sampling rate.
Signed-off-by: Michal Pecio <mpecio@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Initalizers for deferrable delayed_work are confused.
* __DEFERRED_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRED_WORK()
* INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE()
Rename them to
* __DEFERRABLE_WORK_INITIALIZER()
* DECLARE_DEFERRABLE_WORK()
* INIT_DEFERRABLE_WORK()
This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
When a new sampling rate is shorter than the current one, (e.g., 1 sec
--> 10 ms) regardless how short the new one is, the current ondemand
mechanism wait for the previously set timer to be expired.
For example, if the user has just expressed that the sampling rate
should be 10 ms from now and the previous was 1000 ms, the new rate may
become effective 999 ms later, which could be not acceptable for the
user if the user has intended to speed up sampling because the system is
expected to react to CPU load fluctuation quickly from __now__.
In order to address this issue, we need to cancel the previously set
timer (schedule_delayed_work) and reset the timer if resetting timer is
expected to trigger the delayed_work ealier.
Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (23 commits)
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS: Removed useless headers and codes
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS: Make EXYNOS common cpufreq driver
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Update copyright, maintainer and documentation information
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Fix indexing issue
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Avoid Pstate MSR accesses on systems supporting CPB
[CPUFREQ] update lpj only if frequency has changed
[CPUFREQ] cpufreq:userspace: fix cpu_cur_freq updation
[CPUFREQ] Remove wall variable from cpufreq_gov_dbs_init()
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS4210: cpufreq code is changed for stable working
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS4210: Update frequency table for cpu divider
[CPUFREQ] EXYNOS4210: Remove code about bus on cpufreq
[CPUFREQ] s3c64xx: Use pr_fmt() for consistent log messages
cpufreq: OMAP: fixup for omap_device changes, include <linux/module.h>
cpufreq: OMAP: fix freq_table leak
cpufreq: OMAP: put clk if cpu_init failed
cpufreq: OMAP: only supports OPP library
cpufreq: OMAP: dont support !freq_table
cpufreq: OMAP: deny initialization if no mpudev
cpufreq: OMAP: move clk name decision to init
cpufreq: OMAP: notify even with bad boot frequency
...
Make cputime_t and cputime64_t nocast to enable sparse checking to
detect incorrect use of cputime. Drop the cputime macros for simple
scalar operations. The conversion macros are still needed.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CPUFREQ Remove wall variable from cpufreq_gov_dbs_init()
Remove wall variable from cpufreq_gov_dbs_init() as
get_cpu_idle_time_us() no longer updates the last_update_time
unconditionally. Passing non-NULL last_update_time address
will result in accounting additional idle time with
update_ts_time_stats() before returning idle_sleeptime.
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
--
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
This patch changes fields in cpustat from a structure, to an
u64 array. Math gets easier, and the code is more flexible.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Tuner <pjt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322498719-2255-2-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
time, s390: Get rid of compile warning
dw_apb_timer: constify clocksource name
time: Cleanup old CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME references that snuck in
time: Change jiffies_to_clock_t() argument type to unsigned long
alarmtimers: Fix error handling
clocksource: Make watchdog reset lockless
posix-cpu-timers: Cure SMP accounting oddities
s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device
clockevents: Add direct ktime programming function
clockevents: Make minimum delay adjustments configurable
nohz: Remove "Switched to NOHz mode" debugging messages
proc: Consider NO_HZ when printing idle and iowait times
nohz: Make idle/iowait counter update conditional
nohz: Fix update_ts_time_stat idle accounting
cputime: Clean up cputime_to_usecs and usecs_to_cputime macros
alarmtimers: Rework RTC device selection using class interface
alarmtimers: Add try_to_cancel functionality
alarmtimers: Add more refined alarm state tracking
alarmtimers: Remove period from alarm structure
alarmtimers: Remove interval cap limit hack
...
update_ts_time_stat currently updates idle time even if we are in
iowait loop at the moment. The only real users of the idle counter
(via get_cpu_idle_time_us) are CPU governors and they expect to get
cumulative time for both idle and iowait times.
The value (idle_sleeptime) is also printed to userspace by print_cpu
but it prints both idle and iowait times so the idle part is misleading.
Let's clean this up and fix update_ts_time_stat to account both counters
properly and update consumers of idle to consider iowait time as well.
If we do this we might use get_cpu_{idle,iowait}_time_us from other
contexts as well and we will get expected values.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c909c221a8da402c4da07e4cd968c3218f8eb1.1314172057.git.mhocko@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There cannot be any concurrent access to these through
different cpu sysfs files anymore, because these tunables
are now all global (not per cpu).
I still have some doubts whether some of these locks
were needed at all. Anyway, let's get rid of them.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Marked deprecated for quite a whilte now...
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Marked deprecated for quite a while now...
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
calculate ondemand delay after dbs_check_cpu call because it can
modify rate_mult value
use freq_lo_jiffies value for the sub sample period of powersave_bias mode
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
With cmwq, there's no reason for cpufreq drivers to use separate
workqueues. Remove the dedicated workqueues from cpufreq_conservative
and cpufreq_ondemand and use system_wq instead. The work items are
already sync canceled on stop, so it's already guaranteed that no work
is running on module exit.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Adds a new global tunable, sampling_down_factor. Set to 1 it makes no
changes from existing behavior, but set to greater than 1 (e.g. 100)
it acts as a multiplier for the scheduling interval for reevaluating
load when the CPU is at its top speed due to high load. This improves
performance by reducing the overhead of load evaluation and helping
the CPU stay at its top speed when truly busy, rather than shifting
back and forth in speed. This tunable has no effect on behavior at
lower speeds/lower CPU loads.
This patch is against 2.6.36-rc6.
This patch should help solve kernel bug 19672 "ondemand is slow".
Signed-off-by: David Niemi <dniemi@verisign.com>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
CC: Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher@gmail.com>
CC: <cpufreq-list@vger.kernel.org>
CC: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
For UP systems this is not required, and results in a more consistent
sample interval.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jocelyn Falempe <jocelyn.falempe@motorola.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Make simpler to read and call.
*** v3 - Always call when powersave_bias is enabled.
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Chan <mike@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, hypervisor: add missing <linux/module.h>
Modify the VMware balloon driver for the new x86_hyper API
x86, hypervisor: Export the x86_hyper* symbols
x86: Clean up the hypervisor layer
x86, HyperV: fix up the license to mshyperv.c
x86: Detect running on a Microsoft HyperV system
x86, cpu: Make APERF/MPERF a normal table-driven flag
x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled
x86, cacheinfo: Disable index in all four subcaches
x86, cacheinfo: Make L3 cache info per node
x86, cacheinfo: Reorganize AMD L3 cache structure
x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments
x86, cacheinfo: Unify AMD L3 cache index disable checking
cpufreq: Unify sysfs attribute definition macros
powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
x86, cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors
x86: Unify APERF/MPERF support
powernow-k8: Add core performance boost support
x86, cpu: Add AMD core boosting feature flag to /proc/cpuinfo
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
Pavel Machek pointed out that not all CPUs have an efficient
idle at high frequency. Specifically, older Intel and various
AMD cpus would get a higher powerusage when copying files from
USB.
Mike Chan pointed out that the same is true for various ARM
chips as well.
Thomas Renninger suggested to make this a sysfs tunable with a
reasonable default.
This patch adds a sysfs tunable for the new behavior, and uses
a very simple function to determine a reasonable default,
depending on the CPU vendor/type.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: davej@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20100509082651.46914d04@infradead.org>
[ minor tidyup ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ondemand cpufreq governor uses CPU busy time (e.g. not-idle
time) as a measure for scaling the CPU frequency up or down.
If the CPU is busy, the CPU frequency scales up, if it's idle,
the CPU frequency scales down. Effectively, it uses the CPU busy
time as proxy variable for the more nebulous "how critical is
performance right now" question.
This algorithm falls flat on its face in the light of workloads
where you're alternatingly disk and CPU bound, such as the ever
popular "git grep", but also things like startup of programs and
maildir using email clients... much to the chagarin of Andrew
Morton.
This patch changes the ondemand algorithm to count iowait time
as busy, not idle, time. As shown in the breakdown cases above,
iowait is performance critical often, and by counting iowait,
the proxy variable becomes a more accurate representation of the
"how critical is performance" question.
The problem and fix are both verified with the "perf timechar"
tool.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100509082606.3d9f00d0@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Multiple modules used to define those which are with identical
functionality and were needlessly replicated among the different cpufreq
drivers. Push them into the header and remove duplication.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270065406-1814-7-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Dominik said:
target_freq cannot be below policy->min or above policy->max.
If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken.
But (answer):
I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is
below policy->min.
...
A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency
requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check:
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
# diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
ondemand and conservative governors are messing up time units in the
code path where NO_HZ is not enabled and ignore_nice is set. The walltime
idletime stored is in jiffies and nice time calculation is happening in
microseconds.
The problem was reported and diagnosed by Alexander here.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125752550404513&w=2
The patch below fixes this thinko.
Reported-by: Alexander Miller <Miller@fmi.uni-stuttgart.de>
Tested-by: Alexander Miller <Miller@fmi.uni-stuttgart.de>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
[CPUFREQ] Fix NULL ptr regression in powernow-k8
[CPUFREQ] Create a blacklist for processors that should not load the acpi-cpufreq module.
[CPUFREQ] Powernow-k8: Enable more than 2 low P-states
[CPUFREQ] remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call (second call site)
[CPUFREQ] ondemand - Use global sysfs dir for tuning settings
[CPUFREQ] Introduce global, not per core: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq
[CPUFREQ] Bail out of cpufreq_add_dev if the link for a managed CPU got created
[CPUFREQ] Factor out policy setting from cpufreq_add_dev
[CPUFREQ] Factor out interface creation from cpufreq_add_dev
[CPUFREQ] Factor out symlink creation from cpufreq_add_dev
[CPUFREQ] cleanup up -ENOMEM handling in cpufreq_add_dev
[CPUFREQ] Reduce scope of cpu_sys_dev in cpufreq_add_dev
[CPUFREQ] update Doc for cpuinfo_cur_freq and scaling_cur_freq
Ondemand has only global variables for userspace tunings via sysfs.
But they were exposed per CPU which wrongly implies to the user that
his settings are applied per cpu. Also locking sysfs against concurrent
access won't be necessary anymore after deprecation time.
This means the ondemand config dir is moved:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/ondemand ->
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand
The old files will still exist, but reading or writing to them will
result in one (printk_once) deprecation msg to syslog per file.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
mm/percpu.c
Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Redesign the locking inside ondemand driver. Make dbs_mutex handle all the
global state changes inside the driver and invent a new percpu mutex
to serialize percpu timer and frequency limit change.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Commit b14893a62c although it was very
much needed to properly cleanup ondemand timer, opened-up a can of worms
related to locking dependencies in cpufreq.
Patch here defines the need for dbs_mutex and cleans up its usage in
ondemand governor. This also resolves the lockdep warnings reported here
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0906.1/01925.htmlhttp://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0907.0/00820.html
and few others..
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Percpu variable definition is about to be updated such that all percpu
symbols including the static ones must be unique. Update percpu
variable definitions accordingly.
* as,cfq: rename ioc_count uniquely
* cpufreq: rename cpu_dbs_info uniquely
* xen: move nesting_count out of xen_evtchn_do_upcall() and rename it
* mm: move ratelimits out of balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() and
rename it
* ipv4,6: rename cookie_scratch uniquely
* x86 perf_counter: rename prev_left to pmc_prev_left, irq_entry to
pmc_irq_entry and nmi_entry to pmc_nmi_entry
* perf_counter: rename disable_count to perf_disable_count
* ftrace: rename test_event_disable to ftrace_test_event_disable
* kmemleak: rename test_pointer to kmemleak_test_pointer
* mce: rename next_interval to mce_next_interval
[ Impact: percpu usage cleanups, no duplicate static percpu var names ]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Update the documentation accordingly.
Cleanup and use printk_once.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
With this patch you have following minimal sampling rate restrictions:
Kernel restrictions:
If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, the limit is 10ms fixed.
If CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set or no_hz=off boot parameter is used, the
limits depend on the CONFIG_HZ option:
HZ=1000: min=20000us (20ms)
HZ=250: min=80000us (80ms)
HZ=100: min=200000us (200ms)
HW restrictions:
Do not sample/poll more often than HW latency * 100 exported by the low
level cpufreq HW driver
The higher value of above restrictions is the minimal sampling rate
that can be set (and can be seen via ondemand/sampling_rate_min sysfs file)
Default sampling rate still is HW latency * 1000, but this will now end
up in lower values on latest (Intel and AMD) hardware as these can switch
really fast and sampling rate mostly was limited to the 80ms or 200ms
(depending on whether HZ=250 or HZ=1000 is used).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Pallipadi Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw@sisk.pl) wrote:
> This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report
> of regressions introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29.
>
> The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> introduced between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29. Please verify if it still should
> be listed and let me know (either way).
>
>
> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13186
> Subject : cpufreq timer teardown problem
> Submitter : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Date : 2009-04-23 14:00 (24 days old)
> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124049523515036&w=4
> Handled-By : Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
> Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19754/
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19753/
>
(updated changelog)
cpufreq fix timer teardown in ondemand governor
The problem is that dbs_timer_exit() uses cancel_delayed_work() when it should
use cancel_delayed_work_sync(). cancel_delayed_work() does not wait for the
workqueue handler to exit.
The ondemand governor does not seem to be affected because the
"if (!dbs_info->enable)" check at the beginning of the workqueue handler returns
immediately without rescheduling the work. The conservative governor in
2.6.30-rc has the same check as the ondemand governor, which makes things
usually run smoothly. However, if the governor is quickly stopped and then
started, this could lead to the following race :
dbs_enable could be reenabled and multiple do_dbs_timer handlers would run.
This is why a synchronized teardown is required.
The following patch applies to, at least, 2.6.28.x, 2.6.29.1, 2.6.30-rc2.
Depends on patch
cpufreq: remove rwsem lock from CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP call
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: gregkh@suse.de
CC: stable@kernel.org
CC: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: rjw@sisk.pl
CC: Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Limit sampling rate to transition_latency * 100 or kernel limits.
If sampling_rate is tried to be set too low, set the lowest allowed value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
