Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] cpufreq: ondemand: call dbs_check_cpu only when necessary

[Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>]

Hello Viresh,

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:41:08PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 30 January 2013 22:16, Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Isn't that how it works now?  The current cpu ktime is not checked
> > against its own, but against the "leader" cpu (dbs_info_local->cdbs.cpu),
> > that's why it's initialized only for the first.
> >
> > Maybe I should have used dbs_info_leader/dbs_info instead of
> > dbs_info_local/dbs_info.
> 
> This routine is called as wq handler. Which will recover dbs_info from work
> using container_of. Which would give dbs_info_local for the cpu j.
> 
> Then we will execute below code.
> 
> +       /* use leader CPU's dbs_info */
> +       dbs_info = &per_cpu(od_cpu_dbs_info, dbs_info_local->cdbs.cpu);
> 
> dbs_info_local->cdbs.cpu was uninitialized for all cpus except policy->cpu.

Ok, now I see the problem: cdbs->cpu is initialized only on the leader
cpu and this is working by coincidence on my system, while
cdbs->time_stamp is initialized only on the leader cpu, and that should
be correct even when cpu hotplugging as that's reinitialized every time.

That's a fix so I'll send a patch just to set ->cpu into the
for_each_cpu cycle.

Thanks,
Fabio

> And so, might be initialized with 0 as its a global variable... But if you
> offline cpu 0 and online it back, then policy->cpu would be 1 and this logic,
> which worked by mistake will fail.
> 
> +       mutex_lock(&dbs_info->cdbs.timer_mutex);
> +
> +       time_now = ktime_get();
> +       delta_us = ktime_us_delta(time_now, dbs_info->cdbs.time_stamp);
> 
> and so as this.
> 
> Correct?
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Fabio Baltieri