Re: [PATCH] arm64: topology: Drop the useless update to per-cpu cycles

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Fri Dec 11 2020 - 01:52:04 EST


On 10-12-20, 11:17, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> The previous call to update_freq_counters_refs() has already updated the
> per-cpu variables, don't overwrite them with the same value again.
>
> Fixes: 4b9cf23c179a ("arm64: wrap and generalise counter read functions")
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 6 +-----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> index c8308befdb1e..f6faa697e83e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ void topology_scale_freq_tick(void)
>
> if (unlikely(core_cnt <= prev_core_cnt ||
> const_cnt <= prev_const_cnt))
> - goto store_and_exit;
> + return;
>
> /*
> * /\core arch_max_freq_scale
> @@ -331,10 +331,6 @@ void topology_scale_freq_tick(void)
>
> scale = min_t(unsigned long, scale, SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE);
> this_cpu_write(freq_scale, (unsigned long)scale);
> -
> -store_and_exit:
> - this_cpu_write(arch_core_cycles_prev, core_cnt);
> - this_cpu_write(arch_const_cycles_prev, const_cnt);
> }
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_CPPC_LIB

Catalin: Can you please pick this up for 5.11-rc1, the earlier patch
(from fixes) is already in your tree. Thanks.

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viresh