[PATCH v1 2/4] cpufreq: Add boost_freq_req QoS request

From: Pierre Gondois

Date: Thu Dec 04 2025 - 05:14:04 EST


The Power Management Quality of Service (PM QoS) allows to
aggregate constraints from multiple entities. It is currently
used to manage the min/max frequency of a given policy.

Frequency constraints can come for instance from:
- Thermal framework: acpi_thermal_cpufreq_init()
- Firmware: _PPC objects: acpi_processor_ppc_init()
- User: by setting policyX/scaling_[min|max]_freq
The minimum of the max frequency constraints is used to compute
the resulting maximum allowed frequency.

When enabling boost frequencies, the same frequency request object
(policy->max_freq_req) as to handle requests from users is used.
As a result, when setting:
- scaling_max_freq
- boost
The last sysfs file used overwrites the request from the other
sysfs file.

To avoid this, create a per-policy boost_freq_req to save the boost
constraints instead of overwriting the last scaling_max_freq
constraint.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/cpufreq.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 11b29c7dbea9e..23f64346b80f8 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -1370,6 +1370,18 @@ static void cpufreq_policy_free(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
freq_qos_remove_request(policy->max_freq_req);
}

+ if (policy->boost_freq_req) {
+ /*
+ * Remove boost_freq_req after sending CPUFREQ_REMOVE_POLICY
+ * notification, since CPUFREQ_CREATE_POLICY notification was
+ * sent after adding boost_freq_req earlier.
+ */
+ blocking_notifier_call_chain(&cpufreq_policy_notifier_list,
+ CPUFREQ_REMOVE_POLICY, policy);
+ freq_qos_remove_request(policy->boost_freq_req);
+ kfree(policy->boost_freq_req);
+ }
+
freq_qos_remove_request(policy->min_freq_req);
kfree(policy->min_freq_req);

@@ -1476,6 +1488,29 @@ static int cpufreq_policy_online(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
goto out_destroy_policy;
}

+ if (policy->boost_supported) {
+ policy->boost_freq_req = kzalloc(sizeof(*policy->boost_freq_req),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!policy->boost_freq_req) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out_destroy_policy;
+ }
+
+ ret = freq_qos_add_request(&policy->constraints,
+ policy->boost_freq_req,
+ FREQ_QOS_MAX,
+ FREQ_QOS_MAX_DEFAULT_VALUE);
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ /*
+ * So we don't call freq_qos_remove_request() for an
+ * uninitialized request.
+ */
+ kfree(policy->boost_freq_req);
+ policy->boost_freq_req = NULL;
+ goto out_destroy_policy;
+ }
+ }
+
blocking_notifier_call_chain(&cpufreq_policy_notifier_list,
CPUFREQ_CREATE_POLICY, policy);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
index 0465d1e6f72ac..c292a6a19e4f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct cpufreq_policy {
struct freq_constraints constraints;
struct freq_qos_request *min_freq_req;
struct freq_qos_request *max_freq_req;
+ struct freq_qos_request *boost_freq_req;

struct cpufreq_frequency_table *freq_table;
enum cpufreq_table_sorting freq_table_sorted;
--
2.43.0