Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: CPPC: Avoid overflow when calculating desired_perf

[Al Stone]

On 09/14/2016 09:06 PM, Hoan Tran wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 04:08:28 PM Hoan Tran wrote:
>>> This patch fixes overflow issue when calculating the desired_perf.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c
>>> index 894e465..3e0961e 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c
>>> @@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ static int cppc_cpufreq_set_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
>>>
>>>       cpu = all_cpu_data[policy->cpu];
>>>
>>> -     cpu->perf_ctrls.desired_perf = target_freq * policy->max / cppc_dmi_max_khz;
>>> +     cpu->perf_ctrls.desired_perf =
>>> +             (u64)target_freq * policy->max / cppc_dmi_max_khz;
>>>       freqs.old = policy->cur;
>>>       freqs.new = target_freq;
>>
>> That's on top of the CPPC material in linux-next I gather?
> 
> Yes, it's on TOP of linux-next.
> 
>>
>> Which commit does it fix?
> 
> This is a fix for ad38677df44b67e0f5b6c4d31e9c2734abde8ed9 (cpufreq:
> CPPC: Force reporting values in KHz to fix user space interface)
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c?id=ad38677df44b67e0f5b6c4d31e9c2734abde8ed9
> 
> Thanks
> Hoan
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rafael
>>

Nice catch, Hoan.  Thanks!

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ciao,
al
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