Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Work around for Hisilicon CPPC cpufreq

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Feb 19 2019 - 05:00:29 EST


On Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:54:13 AM CET Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
> Hisilicon chips do not support delivered performance counter register
> and reference performance counter register. But the platform can
> calculate the real performance using its own method. This patch provide
> a workaround for this problem, and other platforms can also use this
> workaround framework. We reuse the desired performance register to
> store the real performance calculated by the platform. After the
> platform finished the frequency adjust, it gets the real performance and
> writes it into desired performance register. OS can use it to calculate
> the real frequency.
>
> Changlog:
>
> v2 -> v3:
> Recontruct 'cppc_get_desired_perf'.
> Rename 'cppc_workaround_info' to 'cppc_workaround_oem_info'
> Drop 'get_rate' member from struct cppc_workaround_oem_info
> Change 'cppc_wa_get_rate' pointer to a flag to indicate whether
> we need to aplly the workaround.
> Move the new functions to the beginning of cppc-cpufreq.c
>
>
> Xiongfeng Wang (2):
> ACPI / CPPC: Add a helper to get desired performance
> cpufreq / cppc: Work around for Hisilicon CPPC cpufreq
>
> drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/acpi/cppc_acpi.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
>
>

Both patches applied, thanks!