Re: [PATCH 4.19 123/133] thermal/drivers/cpufreq_cooling: Fix wrong frequency converted from power

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> From: Finley Xiao <finley.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 371a3bc79c11b707d7a1b7a2c938dc3cc042fffb upstream.
> 
> The function cpu_power_to_freq is used to find a frequency and set the
> cooling device to consume at most the power to be converted. For example,
> if the power to be converted is 80mW, and the em table is as follow.
> struct em_cap_state table[] = {
> 	/* KHz     mW */
> 	{ 1008000, 36, 0 },
> 	{ 1200000, 49, 0 },
> 	{ 1296000, 59, 0 },
> 	{ 1416000, 72, 0 },
> 	{ 1512000, 86, 0 },
> };
> The target frequency should be 1416000KHz, not 1512000KHz.

It is possible that table is always sorted in the opposite direction
in 4.19...

@@ -86,7 +72,7 @@ struct cpufreq_cooling_device {
-       struct freq_table *freq_table;  /* In descending order */

(This was changed by a4e893e802e6a807df2e2f3f660f7399bc7e104e).

> --- a/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c
> @@ -278,11 +278,11 @@ static u32 cpu_power_to_freq(struct cpuf
>  	int i;
>  	struct freq_table *freq_table = cpufreq_cdev->freq_table;
>  
> -	for (i = 1; i <= cpufreq_cdev->max_level; i++)
> -		if (power > freq_table[i].power)
> +	for (i = 0; i < cpufreq_cdev->max_level; i++)
> +		if (power >= freq_table[i].power)
>  			break;
>  
> -	return freq_table[i - 1].frequency;
> +	return freq_table[i].frequency;
>  }

In that case the patch makes some sense.

Best regards,
								Pavel
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