Re: [PATCH 4/8] cpufreq,vexpress-spc: fix Frequency Invariance (FI) for bL switching
From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Thu Jul 02 2020 - 07:46:22 EST
On 02-07-20, 12:41, Ionela Voinescu wrote:
> It was enabled until now, but it was partially broken. If you look over
> the driver you'll see arch_set_freq_scale() being called for both
> is_bL_switching_enabled() and for when it's not [1].
I missed that completely, it was indeed added here:
commit 518accf20629 ("cpufreq: arm_big_little: invoke frequency-invariance setter function")
and so this patch or a version of it is required here.
> If we just don't want frequency invariance for
> is_bL_switching_enabled(), I can just guard the setting of the flag
> suggested by Rafael at 1/8 by !CONFIG_BL_SWITCHER.
>
> I'll proceed to do that and remove the fix at 4/8.
I think it would be better to do that and avoid any complicate code
unnecessarily here.
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viresh