Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] cpufreq: apple-soc: Add new driver to control Apple SoC CPU P-states

From: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
	Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>,
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	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] cpufreq: apple-soc: Add new driver to control Apple SoC CPU P-states
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:39:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb0466ae-7a6c-20c8-4e90-e4b9b3432e72@marcan.st> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86v8nop5ts.wl-maz@kernel.org>

On 09/11/2022 23.20, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:13:33 +0000,
> Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:
>>
>> On 24/10/2022 17.27, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:39:24 +0100,
>>> Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This driver implements CPU frequency scaling for Apple Silicon SoCs,
>>>> including M1 (t8103), M1 Max/Pro/Ultra (t600x), and M2 (t8112).
>>>>
>>>> Each CPU cluster has its own register set, and frequency management is
>>>> fully automated by the hardware; the driver only has to write one
>>>> register. There is boost frequency support, but the hardware will only
>>>> allow their use if only a subset of cores in a cluster are in
>>>> non-deep-idle. Since we don't support deep idle yet, these frequencies
>>>> are not achievable, but the driver supports them. They will remain
>>>> disabled in the device tree until deep idle is implemented, to avoid
>>>> confusing users.
>>>>
>>>> This driver does not yet implement the memory controller performance
>>>> state tuning that usually accompanies higher CPU p-states. This will be
>>>> done in a future patch.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm          |   9 +
>>>>  drivers/cpufreq/Makefile             |   1 +
>>>>  drivers/cpufreq/apple-soc-cpufreq.c  | 352 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt-platdev.c |   2 +
>>>>  4 files changed, 364 insertions(+)
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/cpufreq/apple-soc-cpufreq.c
>>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> +static struct freq_attr *apple_soc_cpufreq_hw_attr[] = {
>>>> +	&cpufreq_freq_attr_scaling_available_freqs,
>>>> +	NULL,
>>>> +	NULL,
>>>
>>> nit: extra NULL?
>>
>> That slot gets filled in later if boost is enabled, hence the need for
>> an extra terminating NULL in that case.
> 
> Right. Consider placing a comment next to the first NULL so that
> someone else doesn't consider it useless and accidentally removes
> it...
> 

Good point, done :)

- Hector