Hi Lukasz,
On 06/04/2020 15:29, Lukasz Luba wrote:
Hi Daniel,
Thank you for the review.
On 4/3/20 5:05 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
Hi Lukasz,
On 18/03/2020 12:45, Lukasz Luba wrote:
Add support of other devices into the Energy Model framework not only the CPUs. Change the interface to be more unified which can handle other devices as well.
thanks for taking care of that. Overall I like the changes in this patch but it hard to review in details because the patch is too big :/
Could you split this patch into smaller ones?
eg. (at your convenience)
- One patch renaming s/cap/perf/
- One patch adding a new function:
em_dev_register_perf_domain(struct device *dev, unsigned int nr_states, struct em_data_callback *cb);
(+ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL)
And em_register_perf_domain() using it.
- One converting the em_register_perf_domain() user to em_dev_register_perf_domain
- One adding the different new 'em' functions
- And finally one removing em_register_perf_domain().
I agree and will do the split. I could also break the dependencies for future easier merge.
Acked-by: Quentin Perret qperret@google.com Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba lukasz.luba@arm.com
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2. Core APIs @@ -70,14 +72,16 @@ CONFIG_ENERGY_MODEL must be enabled to use the EM framework. Drivers are expected to register performance domains into the EM framework by calling the following API:: - int em_register_perf_domain(cpumask_t *span, unsigned int nr_states, - struct em_data_callback *cb); + int em_register_perf_domain(struct device *dev, unsigned int nr_states, + struct em_data_callback *cb, cpumask_t *cpus);
Isn't possible to get rid of this cpumask by using cpufreq_cpu_get() which returns the cpufreq's policy and from their get the related cpus ?
We had similar thoughts with Quentin and I've checked this.
Yeah, I suspected you already think about that :)
Unfortunately, if the policy is a 'new policy' [1] it gets allocated and passed into cpufreq driver ->init(policy) [2]. Then that policy is set into per_cpu pointer for each related_cpu [3]:
for_each_cpu(j, policy->related_cpus) per_cpu(cpufreq_cpu_data, j) = policy;
Thus, any calls of functions (i.e. cpufreq_cpu_get()) which try to take this ptr before [3] won't work.
We are trying to register EM from cpufreq_driver->init(policy) and the per_cpu policy is likely to be not populated at that phase.
What is the problem of registering at the end of the cpufreq_online ?
[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c#L13...
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c#L13...
[3] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c#L13...