Re: [PATCH] cpufreq: Remove the weakly defined cpufreq_default_governor()

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jun 30 2020 - 14:39:52 EST


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:48 PM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The default cpufreq governor is chosen with the help of a "choice"
> option in the Kconfig which will always end up selecting one of the
> governors and so the weakly defined definition of
> cpufreq_default_governor() will never get called.
>
> Moreover, this makes us skip the checking of the return value of that
> routine as it will always be non NULL.
>
> If the Kconfig option changes in future, then we will start getting a
> link error instead (and it won't go unnoticed as in the case of the weak
> definition).
>
> Suggested-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Based over the following series:
> - [PATCH V4 0/3] cpufreq: Allow default governor on cmdline and fix
> locking issues
>
> drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 7 -------
> 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> index ad94b1d47ddb..036f4cc42ede 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> @@ -1056,11 +1056,6 @@ static int cpufreq_add_dev_interface(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -__weak struct cpufreq_governor *cpufreq_default_governor(void)
> -{
> - return NULL;
> -}
> -
> static int cpufreq_init_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> {
> struct cpufreq_governor *gov = NULL;
> @@ -1079,8 +1074,6 @@ static int cpufreq_init_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>
> if (!gov) {
> gov = cpufreq_default_governor();
> - if (!gov)
> - return -ENODATA;
> __module_get(gov->owner);
> }
>
> --

Applied as 5.9 material, thanks!