On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 11:23:00AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> In __cpufreq_cooling_register() we try to match min/max frequencies for all CPUs
> passed in 'clip_cpus' mask. This mask is the cpumask of cpus where the frequency
> constraints will be applied.
> 
> Same frequency constraint can be applied only to the CPUs belonging to the same
> cluster (i.e. CPUs sharing clock line). For all such CPUs we have a single
> 'struct cpufreq_policy' structure managing them and so getting policies for all
> CPUs wouldn't make any sense as they will all return the same pointer.
> 
> So, remove this useless check of checking min/max for all CPUs. Also update doc
> comment to make this more obvious that clip_cpus should be same as
> policy->related_cpus.

Shall we also review the users of this API then? Simple to double check
if they are passing the correct value?


> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
> Sorry if I don't understand cpu-cooling well, haven't done much work on it :(
> 
>  drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c | 19 ++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> index 1ab0018..1193cc4 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> @@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ static struct notifier_block thermal_cpufreq_notifier_block = {
>   * __cpufreq_cooling_register - helper function to create cpufreq cooling device
>   * @np: a valid struct device_node to the cooling device device tree node
>   * @clip_cpus: cpumask of cpus where the frequency constraints will happen.
> + * Normally this should be same as cpufreq policy->related_cpus.
>   *
>   * This interface function registers the cpufreq cooling device with the name
>   * "thermal-cpufreq-%x". This api can support multiple instances of cpufreq
> @@ -435,25 +436,9 @@ __cpufreq_cooling_register(struct device_node *np,
>  {
>  	struct thermal_cooling_device *cool_dev;
>  	struct cpufreq_cooling_device *cpufreq_dev = NULL;
> -	unsigned int min = 0, max = 0;
>  	char dev_name[THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH];
> -	int ret = 0, i;
> -	struct cpufreq_policy policy;
> +	int ret = 0;
>  
> -	/* Verify that all the clip cpus have same freq_min, freq_max limit */
> -	for_each_cpu(i, clip_cpus) {
> -		/* continue if cpufreq policy not found and not return error */
> -		if (!cpufreq_get_policy(&policy, i))
> -			continue;
> -		if (min == 0 && max == 0) {
> -			min = policy.cpuinfo.min_freq;
> -			max = policy.cpuinfo.max_freq;
> -		} else {
> -			if (min != policy.cpuinfo.min_freq ||
> -			    max != policy.cpuinfo.max_freq)
> -				return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> -		}
> -	}
>  	cpufreq_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cpufreq_cooling_device),
>  			      GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!cpufreq_dev)
> -- 
> 2.0.3.693.g996b0fd
>