When cpufreq's policy is 'single', there is a scenario that will
cause sg_policy's next_freq to be unable to update.
When the CPU's util is always max, the cpufreq will be max,
and then if we change the policy's scaling_max_freq to be a
lower freq, indeed, the sg_policy's next_freq need change to
be the lower freq, however, because the cpu_is_busy, the next_freq
would keep the max_freq.
For example:
The cpu7 is a single CPU:
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # while true;do done& [1] 4737
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # taskset -p 80 4737
pid 4737's current affinity mask: ff
pid 4737's new affinity mask: 80
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # cat scaling_max_freq
2301000
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # cat scaling_cur_freq
2301000
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # echo 2171000 > scaling_max_freq
unisoc:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy7 # cat scaling_max_freq
2171000
At this time, the sg_policy's next_freq would stay at 2301000, which
is wrong.
To fix this, add a check for the ->need_freq_update flag.
[ mingo: Clarified the changelog. ]
Co-developed-by: Guohua Yan <guohua.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Guohua Yan <guohua.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230719130527.8074-1-xuewen.yan@unisoc.com
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