Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpufreq: arm_big_little: check if the frequency is set correctly

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

On 13/04/15 06:08, Michael Turquette wrote:
> Quoting Sudeep Holla (2015-04-02 01:55:05)
>>
>>
>> On 01/04/15 22:48, Michael Turquette wrote:
>>> Quoting Sudeep Holla (2015-03-31 02:24:29)

[...]

>>
>>> I'm thinking of ways to do this ... would require some surgery to the
>>> clock framework but it might give us a more elegant way to recover from
>>> a failure and roll back to a known good state.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed. I avoid doing that for 2 reasons: firstly as you said it needs
>> changes at multiple places and secondly I assumed alternate ways to
>> handle it as the designed way.
>
> So your patch for cpufreq is hopefully a temporary bandage until we fix
> the clk framework. Please feel free to add my Reviewed-by.
>

Thanks Mike.

Viresh, is it OK if we carry this patch until the clk framework can
handle this case ? I will add a *TODO* stating it's temporary change
and can be dropped once the clk layer handle it if that helps in any way
:).

This issue is seen on TC2 when firmware is stress tested with continuous
DVFS requests.

Regards,
Sudeep