Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPUFreq: Implement per policy instances of governors

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Wed Feb 06 2013 - 05:04:44 EST


On 5 February 2013 21:51, Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> commit 15b5548c9ccfb8088270f7574710d9d67edfe33b
> Author: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Feb 5 21:29:05 2013 +0530
>
> cpufreq: Make governors directory sysfs location based on
> have_multiple_policies
>
> Until now directory for governors tunables was getting created in
> cpu/cpufreq/<gov-name>. With the introduction of following patch:
> "cpufreq: governor: Implement per policy instances of governors"
>
> this directory would be created in
> cpu/cpu<num>/cpufreq/<gov-name>. This might
> break userspace of existing platforms. Lets do this change only
> for platforms
> which need support for multiple policies and thus above mentioned patch.
>
> From now on, such platforms would be require to do following from
> their init()
> routines:
>
> policy->have_multiple_policies = true;
>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/cpufreq.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi Rafael,

Because this patch was quite big (317 insertions(+), 238 deletions(-)), i was
planning a detailed self review to capture any mistakes and luckily i found
one for above patch :)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
index 41ee86f..fe037c0 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.c
@@ -342,7 +342,8 @@ int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
mutex_lock(&dbs_data->mutex);
mutex_destroy(&cpu_cdbs->timer_mutex);

- sysfs_remove_group(&policy->kobj, dbs_data->cdata->attr_group);
+ sysfs_remove_group(get_governor_parent_kobj(policy),
+ dbs_data->cdata->attr_group);
if (dbs_data->cdata->governor == GOV_CONSERVATIVE)
cpufreq_unregister_notifier(cs_ops->notifier_block,
CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER);

I have pushed the complete patchset here:

http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/vireshk/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cpufreq-updates
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