Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: scmi: Skip SCMI devices that aren't used by the CPUs

Peng Fan
2025-04-14T07:30:01Z

Hi Mike,
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 02:29:41PM -0700, Mike Tipton wrote:
>Currently, all SCMI devices with performance domains attempt to register
>a cpufreq driver,

The scmi cpufreq device is created based on entry
{ SCMI_PROTOCOL_PERF, "cpufreq" },

So the scmi-cpufreq driver could only probe the upper single device.

How could the driver work with all SCMI devices with performance domains?

THanks,
Peng

even if their performance domains aren't used to
>control the CPUs. The cpufreq framework only supports registering a
>single driver, so only the first device will succeed. And if that device
>isn't used for the CPUs, then cpufreq will scale the wrong domains.
>
>To avoid this, return early from scmi_cpufreq_probe() if the probing
>SCMI device isn't referenced by the CPU device phandles.
>
>This keeps the existing assumption that all CPUs are controlled by a
>single SCMI device.
>
>Signed-off-by: Mike Tipton <quic_mdtipton@quicinc.com>
>---
> drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c
>index 944e899eb1be..7981a879974b 100644
>--- a/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c
>+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c
>@@ -393,6 +393,32 @@ static struct cpufreq_driver scmi_cpufreq_driver = {
> .set_boost = cpufreq_boost_set_sw,
> };
>
>+static bool scmi_dev_used_by_cpus(struct device *scmi_dev)
>+{
>+ struct device_node *scmi_np = scmi_dev->of_node;
>+ struct device_node *np;
>+ struct device *cpu_dev;
>+ int cpu, idx;
>+
>+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>+ cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
>+ if (!cpu_dev)
>+ continue;
>+
>+ np = cpu_dev->of_node;
>+
>+ if (of_parse_phandle(np, "clocks", 0) == scmi_np)
>+ return true;
>+
>+ idx = of_property_match_string(np, "power-domain-names", "perf");
>+
>+ if (of_parse_phandle(np, "power-domains", idx) == scmi_np)
>+ return true;
>+ }
>+
>+ return false;
>+}
>+
> static int scmi_cpufreq_probe(struct scmi_device *sdev)
> {
> int ret;
>@@ -404,6 +430,9 @@ static int scmi_cpufreq_probe(struct scmi_device *sdev)
> if (!handle)
> return -ENODEV;
>
>+ if (!scmi_dev_used_by_cpus(dev))
>+ return 0;
>+
> scmi_cpufreq_driver.driver_data = sdev;
>
> perf_ops = handle->devm_protocol_get(sdev, SCMI_PROTOCOL_PERF, &ph);
>--
>2.34.1
>