Help: Using cpufreq from kernel level

Help: Using cpufreq from kernel level

[Claudio Scordino]

Hi all,

   I'm writing a kernel module that needs to get info about the available 
frequencies on the current processor and to periodically change the current 
frequency.

At user level it can be done through

/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed

but I have no idea how to implement it at kernel level. 

I tried to declare

extern struct cpufreq_driver    *cpufreq_driver;
extern struct cpufreq_policy    *cpufreq_cpu_data[NR_CPUS];
extern spinlock_t cpufreq_driver_lock;
extern ssize_t show_available_freqs (struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char 
*buf);

and to do

char buffer [100000] = "\n";
spin_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
show_available_freqs(cpufreq_cpu_data[0], buffer);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);

but it crashes the system.

Please, can somebody tell me how this can be done ?

Many thanks,

        Claudio Scordino

Re: Help: Using cpufreq from kernel level

[Robert Hancock]

Claudio Scordino wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    I'm writing a kernel module that needs to get info about the available 
> frequencies on the current processor and to periodically change the current 
> frequency.
> 
> At user level it can be done through
> 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
> 
> but I have no idea how to implement it at kernel level. 
> 
> I tried to declare
> 
> extern struct cpufreq_driver    *cpufreq_driver;
> extern struct cpufreq_policy    *cpufreq_cpu_data[NR_CPUS];
> extern spinlock_t cpufreq_driver_lock;
> extern ssize_t show_available_freqs (struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char 
> *buf);
> 
> and to do
> 
> char buffer [100000] = "\n";
> spin_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> show_available_freqs(cpufreq_cpu_data[0], buffer);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> 
> but it crashes the system.
> 
> Please, can somebody tell me how this can be done ?

For one thing, you cannot put such a huge buffer on the kernel stack.

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Re: Help: Using cpufreq from kernel level

[Mattia Dongili]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Claudio Scordino wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    I'm writing a kernel module that needs to get info about the available 
> frequencies on the current processor and to periodically change the current 
> frequency.

So it seems you're writing a governor. See
Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_performance.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_powersave.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c

for a first reference.

> At user level it can be done through
> 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
> 
> but I have no idea how to implement it at kernel level. 
> 
> I tried to declare
> 
> extern struct cpufreq_driver    *cpufreq_driver;
> extern struct cpufreq_policy    *cpufreq_cpu_data[NR_CPUS];
> extern spinlock_t cpufreq_driver_lock;
> extern ssize_t show_available_freqs (struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char 
> *buf);
> 
> and to do
> 
> char buffer [100000] = "\n";
> spin_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> show_available_freqs(cpufreq_cpu_data[0], buffer);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> 
> but it crashes the system.

of course it does, this is just the sysfs -show function and you're
passing it a null pointer as first parameter. If you look at
show_available_freqs code you'll see that cpufreq_cpu_data is
dereferenced and this happening with interrupts disabled..

hth
-- 
mattia
:wq!

Re: Help: Using cpufreq from kernel level

[Mattia Dongili]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Claudio Scordino wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    I'm writing a kernel module that needs to get info about the available 
> frequencies on the current processor and to periodically change the current 
> frequency.

So it seems you're writing a governor. See
Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt and
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_performance.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_powersave.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c

for a first reference.

> At user level it can be done through
> 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
> 
> but I have no idea how to implement it at kernel level. 
> 
> I tried to declare
> 
> extern struct cpufreq_driver    *cpufreq_driver;
> extern struct cpufreq_policy    *cpufreq_cpu_data[NR_CPUS];
> extern spinlock_t cpufreq_driver_lock;
> extern ssize_t show_available_freqs (struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char 
> *buf);
> 
> and to do
> 
> char buffer [100000] = "\n";
> spin_lock_irqsave(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> show_available_freqs(cpufreq_cpu_data[0], buffer);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
> 
> but it crashes the system.

of course it does, this is just the sysfs -show function and you're
passing it a null pointer as first parameter. If you look at
show_available_freqs code you'll see that cpufreq_cpu_data is
dereferenced and this happening with interrupts disabled..

hth
-- 
mattia
:wq!

Re: Help: Using cpufreq from kernel level

[Dominik Brodowski]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:10:33PM -0500, Claudio Scordino wrote:
> At user level it can be done through
> 
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies

Only on _some_ CPUs, and therefore it isn't part of the information
available to governors.

	Dominik

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