Re: [PATCH V4 00/17] thermal: cpu_cooling: improve interaction with cpufreq core
From: Eduardo Valentin
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 22:41:57 EST
Hey,
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 03:57:07PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> The cpu_cooling driver is designed to use CPU frequency scaling to avoid
> high thermal states for a platform. But it wasn't glued really well with
> cpufreq core. For example clipped-cpus is copied from the policy
> structure and its much better to use the policy->cpus (or related_cpus)
> fields directly as they may have got updated. Not that things were
> broken before this series, but they can be optimized a bit more.
>
> This series tries to improve interactions between cpufreq core and
> cpu_cooling driver and does some fixes/cleanups to the cpu_cooling
> driver.
>
> I have tested it on ARM 32 (exynos) and 64 bit (hikey) boards (haven't
> tested the power specific bits).
>
> Lukasz from ARM has been very generous in testing and finding out few
> bugs in the earlier versions and getting those fixed. He has
> successfully tested the new version on his ARM big LITTLE Juno board.
>
> Pushed here as well:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm.git thermal/cooling
>
> V3->V4:
Took this version into my -linus branch for the next merge window.
Including the patch to remove the checkpatch warning. But please send
an extra patch to fix the style pointed on patch 8.
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