Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] PM / devfreq: Use PM QoS for sysfs min/max_freq

[Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 12:05:07PM +0200, Leonard Crestez wrote:
> Switch the handling of min_freq and max_freq from sysfs to use the
> dev_pm_qos_request interface.
> 
> Since PM QoS handles frequencies as kHz this change reduces the
> precision of min_freq and max_freq. This shouldn't introduce problems
> because frequencies which are not an integer number of kHz are likely
> not an integer number of Hz either.
> 
> Try to ensure compatibility by rounding min values down and rounding
> max values up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
> Acked-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  include/linux/devfreq.h   |  9 ++---
>  2 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> index e8b943fc4259..bcb286509547 100644
> --- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
> @@ -139,14 +139,10 @@ static void get_freq_range(struct devfreq *devfreq,
>  	*min_freq = max(*min_freq, (unsigned long)HZ_PER_KHZ * qos_min_freq);
>  	if (qos_max_freq != PM_QOS_MAX_FREQUENCY_DEFAULT_VALUE)
>  		*max_freq = min(*max_freq,
>  				(unsigned long)HZ_PER_KHZ * qos_max_freq);
>  
> -	/* Apply constraints from sysfs */
> -	*min_freq = max(*min_freq, devfreq->min_freq);
> -	*max_freq = min(*max_freq, devfreq->max_freq);
> -
>  	/* Apply constraints from OPP interface */
>  	*min_freq = max(*min_freq, devfreq->scaling_min_freq);
>  	*max_freq = min(*max_freq, devfreq->scaling_max_freq);
>  
>  	if (*min_freq > *max_freq)
> @@ -703,10 +699,23 @@ static void devfreq_dev_release(struct device *dev)
>  					 DEV_PM_QOS_MIN_FREQUENCY);
>  	if (err && err != -ENOENT)
>  		dev_warn(dev->parent,
>  			"Failed to remove min_freq notifier: %d\n", err);
>  
> +	if (dev_pm_qos_request_active(&devfreq->user_max_freq_req)) {
> +		err = dev_pm_qos_remove_request(&devfreq->user_max_freq_req);
> +		if (err)
> +			dev_warn(dev->parent,
> +				"Failed to remove max_freq request: %d\n", err);
> +	}
> +	if (dev_pm_qos_request_active(&devfreq->user_min_freq_req)) {
> +		err = dev_pm_qos_remove_request(&devfreq->user_min_freq_req);
> +		if (err)
> +			dev_warn(dev->parent,
> +				"Failed to remove min_freq request: %d\n", err);
> +	}
> +
>  	if (devfreq->profile->exit)
>  		devfreq->profile->exit(devfreq->dev.parent);
>  
>  	mutex_destroy(&devfreq->lock);
>  	kfree(devfreq);
> @@ -776,19 +785,17 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
>  	if (!devfreq->scaling_min_freq) {
>  		mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
>  		err = -EINVAL;
>  		goto err_dev;
>  	}
> -	devfreq->min_freq = devfreq->scaling_min_freq;
>  
>  	devfreq->scaling_max_freq = find_available_max_freq(devfreq);
>  	if (!devfreq->scaling_max_freq) {
>  		mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
>  		err = -EINVAL;
>  		goto err_dev;
>  	}
> -	devfreq->max_freq = devfreq->scaling_max_freq;
>  
>  	devfreq->suspend_freq = dev_pm_opp_get_suspend_opp_freq(dev);
>  	atomic_set(&devfreq->suspend_count, 0);
>  
>  	dev_set_name(&devfreq->dev, "devfreq%d",
> @@ -825,10 +832,20 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
>  
>  	srcu_init_notifier_head(&devfreq->transition_notifier_list);
>  
>  	mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
>  
> +	err = dev_pm_qos_add_request(dev, &devfreq->user_min_freq_req,
> +				     DEV_PM_QOS_MIN_FREQUENCY, 0);
> +	if (err < 0)
> +		goto err_devfreq;
> +	err = dev_pm_qos_add_request(dev, &devfreq->user_max_freq_req,
> +				     DEV_PM_QOS_MAX_FREQUENCY,
> +				     PM_QOS_MAX_FREQUENCY_DEFAULT_VALUE);
> +	if (err < 0)
> +		goto err_devfreq;
> +
>  	devfreq->nb_min.notifier_call = qos_min_notifier_call;
>  	err = dev_pm_qos_add_notifier(devfreq->dev.parent, &devfreq->nb_min,
>  				      DEV_PM_QOS_MIN_FREQUENCY);
>  	if (err)
>  		goto err_devfreq;
> @@ -1418,18 +1435,26 @@ static ssize_t min_freq_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
>  {
>  	struct devfreq *df = to_devfreq(dev);
>  	unsigned long value;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Protect against theoretical sysfs writes between
> +	 * device_add and dev_pm_qos_add_request
> +	 */
> +	if (!dev_pm_qos_request_active(&df->user_min_freq_req))
> +		return -EINVAL;

The error code -EINVAL is a bit misleading. I guess it's not super
important, especially since this is a very rare case. In case you
re-spin you could consider returning -EAGAIN ('Resource temporarily
unavailable') in this case from min/max_freq_store/show()

Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>

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