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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Linux PM list <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Invoke cpufreq hooks for CONFIG_SMP unset
Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 08:13:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160507061310.GA15728@worktop.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6282396.VVEdgVYxO3@vostro.rjw.lan>

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:58:43PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> 
> Commit 34e2c555f3e1 (cpufreq: Add mechanism for registering utilization
> update callbacks) overlooked the fact that update_load_avg(), where
> CFS invokes cpufreq utilization update hooks, becomes an empty stub for
> CONFIG_SMP unset.  In consequence, if CONFIG_SMP is not set, cpufreq
> governors are never invoked from CFS and they do not have a chance to
> evaluate CPU performace levels and update them often enough.  Needless
> to say, things don't work as expected then.
> 
> Fix the problem by making the !CONFIG_SMP stub of update_load_avg()
> invoke cpufreq update hooks too.
> 
> Fixes: 34e2c555f3e1 (cpufreq: Add mechanism for registering utilization update callbacks)
> Reported-by: Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

Rafael; feel free to push this through the pm tree.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-07  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-06 12:58 [PATCH] sched/fair: Invoke cpufreq hooks for CONFIG_SMP unset Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-05-06 19:08 ` Steve Muckle
2016-05-06 19:36   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-05-07  6:13 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-05-07  6:30   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-05-09  8:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-09 23:53     ` Steve Muckle
2016-05-09 23:58       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-05-10  8:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2016-05-07  6:37 ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched/fair: Fix !CONFIG_SMP kernel cpufreq governor breakage tip-bot for Rafael J. Wysocki

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