* [PATCH] cpufreq: arm_big_little: set 'physical_cluster' for each CPU
@ 2014-09-30 4:25 Viresh Kumar
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From: Viresh Kumar @ 2014-09-30 4:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: stable; +Cc: Rafael Wysocki, linux-pm, tixy, broonie, viresh kumar
From: viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Upstream commit ID: 8f3ba3d3257be80636ed15cc221d6a2efb6a6e82
We have a per-CPU variable for managing which cluster a CPU belongs to.
Currently, physical_cluster is set for policy->cpu only which leads to
the following on some SoC's:
- There are two clusters:
- Cluster 0 has four ARM Cortex A7 CPUs (slower ones): 0,1,2,3
- Cluster 1 has four ARM Cortex A15 CPUs (faster ones): 4,5,6,7
- CPUs are booted in order 0,1..7 and so initially policy->cpu for A7 cluster
would be 0 and for A15 cluster would be 4.
- Now CPU4 (i.e. A15_0) is hotplugged out and so policy->cpu for A15 cluster
becomes 5 (i.e. A15_1).
- But physical cluster is only set for CPU0 and CPU4 in ARM big LITTLE driver
and isn't updated.
- Now freq change request comes for A15 cluster and we would try to update freq
of physical_cluster of CPU5, i.e. A15_1. And it is currently set to zero
(default value of uninitialized global variables).
- And so we actually try to change freq of A7 cluster instead of A15.
- This also results in kernel crash as sometimes we might request freq above
A7's limit and CPU may behave badly..
Fix this by initializing physical_cluster for all CPUs of a policy.
Based on previous work by Xin Wang.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
---
drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c b/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c
index 5519933..ee409f0 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c
@@ -446,9 +446,12 @@ static int bL_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
}
if (cur_cluster < MAX_CLUSTERS) {
+ int cpu;
+
cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, topology_core_cpumask(policy->cpu));
- per_cpu(physical_cluster, policy->cpu) = cur_cluster;
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, policy->cpus)
+ per_cpu(physical_cluster, cpu) = cur_cluster;
} else {
/* Assumption: during init, we are always running on A15 */
per_cpu(physical_cluster, policy->cpu) = A15_CLUSTER;
--
2.0.3.693.g996b0fd
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