From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
"Mario Limonciello (AMD)" <superm1@kernel.org>,
Jie Zhan <zhanjie9@hisilicon.com>,
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] cpufreq: Make drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL specify transition latency
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:45:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251015184516.1496577-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025101528-barcode-doorstop-420a@gregkh>
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
[ Upstream commit f97aef092e199c10a3da96ae79b571edd5362faa ]
Commit a755d0e2d41b ("cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over
transition_delay_us") caused platforms where cpuinfo.transition_latency
is CPUFREQ_ETERNAL to get a very large transition latency whereas
previously it had been capped at 10 ms (and later at 2 ms).
This led to a user-observable regression between 6.6 and 6.12 as
described by Shawn:
"The dbs sampling_rate was 10000 us on 6.6 and suddently becomes
6442450 us (4294967295 / 1000 * 1.5) on 6.12 for these platforms
because the default transition delay was dropped [...].
It slows down dbs governor's reacting to CPU loading change
dramatically. Also, as transition_delay_us is used by schedutil
governor as rate_limit_us, it shows a negative impact on device
idle power consumption, because the device gets slightly less time
in the lowest OPP."
Evidently, the expectation of the drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL as
cpuinfo.transition_latency was that it would be capped by the core,
but they may as well return a default transition latency value instead
of CPUFREQ_ETERNAL and the core need not do anything with it.
Accordingly, introduce CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS and make
all of the drivers in question use it instead of CPUFREQ_ETERNAL. Also
update the related Rust binding.
Fixes: a755d0e2d41b ("cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20250922125929.453444-1-shawnguo2@yeah.net/
Reported-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jie Zhan <zhanjie9@hisilicon.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: 6.6+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 6.6+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2264949.irdbgypaU6@rafael.j.wysocki
[ rjw: Fix typo in new symbol name, drop redundant type cast from Rust binding ]
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> # with cpufreq-dt driver
Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
[ omitted Rust changes ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c | 2 +-
drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c | 2 +-
drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c | 2 +-
drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c | 2 +-
drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c | 2 +-
drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c | 2 +-
include/linux/cpufreq.h | 3 +++
7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c
index 983443396f8f2..30e1b64d0558f 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
transition_latency = dev_pm_opp_get_max_transition_latency(cpu_dev);
if (!transition_latency)
- transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL;
+ transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, priv->cpus);
policy->driver_data = priv;
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c
index c20d3ecc5a81e..33c1df7f683e4 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static int imx6q_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
}
if (of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-latency", &transition_latency))
- transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL;
+ transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
/*
* Calculate the ramp time for max voltage change in the
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c b/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c
index aeb5e63045421..1f1ec43aad7ca 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int mtk_cpufreq_hw_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
latency = readl_relaxed(data->reg_bases[REG_FREQ_LATENCY]) * 1000;
if (!latency)
- latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL;
+ latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency;
policy->fast_switch_possible = true;
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c
index a2ec1addafc93..bb265541671a5 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int scmi_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
latency = perf_ops->transition_latency_get(ph, domain);
if (!latency)
- latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL;
+ latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency;
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c
index a191d9bdf667a..bdbc3923629e7 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static int scpi_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
latency = scpi_ops->get_transition_latency(cpu_dev);
if (!latency)
- latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL;
+ latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency;
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
index d8ab5b01d46d0..c032dd5d12d3c 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int spear_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-latency",
&spear_cpufreq.transition_latency))
- spear_cpufreq.transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL;
+ spear_cpufreq.transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS;
cnt = of_property_count_u32_elems(np, "cpufreq_tbl");
if (cnt <= 0) {
diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
index a604c54ae44da..794e38320f568 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
*/
#define CPUFREQ_ETERNAL (-1)
+
+#define CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS NSEC_PER_MSEC
+
#define CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN 16
/* Print length for names. Extra 1 space for accommodating '\n' in prints */
#define CPUFREQ_NAME_PLEN (CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN + 1)
--
2.51.0
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