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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [RFC] cpufreq: can't raise max frequency with cpu_thermal
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org> wrote:
> The cpu_thermal generic thermal management code has a bug where once
> max cpu frequency has been lowered in sysfs (scaling_max_freq) it is
> not possible to raise the max back up later. The bug is that the
> notifer gets called by __cpufreq_set_policy() before the user policy
> max is raised, and is incorrectly trying to enforce the max frequency
> policy even when we are trying to change the policy. It is also not
> clear why this driver is looking at the user policy since it is
> primarily supposed to enforce thermal policy, not user set policy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
> ---
> drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c | 4 ----
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> index 836828e..63bc708 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> @@ -219,10 +219,6 @@ static int cpufreq_thermal_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb,
> if (cpumask_test_cpu(policy->cpu, &notify_device->allowed_cpus))
> max_freq = notify_device->cpufreq_val;
>
> - /* Never exceed user_policy.max*/
> - if (max_freq > policy->user_policy.max)
> - max_freq = policy->user_policy.max;
> -
> if (policy->max != max_freq)
> cpufreq_verify_within_limits(policy, 0, max_freq);
>
> --
> 1.7.7.3
>

Sonny's change matches what the "ACPI version" of this code
(drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c) does as well. I would certainly be
interested to know why the code was added here in the first place.
Amit: do you know?

Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>


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