Re: [PATCH] kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil: remove stale comment

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun May 13 2018 - 04:40:40 EST


On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 10:41:54 AM CEST Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 09-05-18, 10:40, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > After commit 794a56ebd9a57 ("sched/cpufreq: Change the worker kthread to
> > SCHED_DEADLINE") schedutil kthreads are "ignored" for a clock frequency
> > selection point of view, so the potential corner case for RT tasks is not
> > possible at all now.
> >
> > Remove the stale comment mentioning it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c | 13 -------------
> > 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> > index d2c6083304b4..23ef19070137 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c
> > @@ -396,19 +396,6 @@ static void sugov_irq_work(struct irq_work *irq_work)
> >
> > sg_policy = container_of(irq_work, struct sugov_policy, irq_work);
> >
> > - /*
> > - * For RT tasks, the schedutil governor shoots the frequency to maximum.
> > - * Special care must be taken to ensure that this kthread doesn't result
> > - * in the same behavior.
> > - *
> > - * This is (mostly) guaranteed by the work_in_progress flag. The flag is
> > - * updated only at the end of the sugov_work() function and before that
> > - * the schedutil governor rejects all other frequency scaling requests.
> > - *
> > - * There is a very rare case though, where the RT thread yields right
> > - * after the work_in_progress flag is cleared. The effects of that are
> > - * neglected for now.
> > - */
> > kthread_queue_work(&sg_policy->worker, &sg_policy->work);
> > }
>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and pushed for 4.17-rc5.