Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / devfreq: Generic cpufreq governor

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed May 23 2018 - 12:05:19 EST


On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 01:24:48AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> This devfreq governor is a generic implementation that can scale any
> devfreq device based on the current CPU frequency of all ONLINE CPUs. It
> allows for specifying CPU freq to devfreq mapping for specific devices.
> When such a mapping is not present, it defaults to scaling the device
> frequency in proportion to the CPU frequency.
>
> Change-Id: I7f786b9059435afe85b9ec8c504a4655731ee20e

drop this.

> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt | 53 ++

Please split bindings to separate patch.

> drivers/devfreq/Kconfig | 8 +
> drivers/devfreq/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/devfreq/governor_cpufreq.c | 628 +++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 690 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/devfreq/governor_cpufreq.c
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6537538
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> +Devfreq CPUfreq governor
> +
> +devfreq-cpufreq is a parent device that contains one or more child devices.
> +Each child device provides CPU frequency to device frequency mapping for a
> +specific device. Examples of devices that could use this are: DDR, cache and
> +CCI.
> +
> +Parent device name shall be "devfreq-cpufreq".

I don't really understand any of this and how it relates to the other
QCom cpufreq and devfreq bindings. Seems like this all needs some
discussion amongst the PM folks first.

Rob