Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] cpufreq: spacemit: Add cpufreq support for K1 SoC

From: Gong Shuai

Date: Sat Jun 20 2026 - 10:25:09 EST


On 6/12/2026 5:51 PM, Shuwei Wu wrote:
This series enables CPU frequency scaling for the SpacemiT K1 SoC.

K1 has two CPU cluster clocks but one shared CPU voltage rail. Add a
small K1-specific cpufreq driver so the two clocks and the shared OPP
transition can be handled together.

Tested on Banana Pi BPI-F3. The system boots with all eight CPUs online,
the K1 cpufreq driver registers one policy for CPUs 0-7, and both CPU
cluster clocks follow the selected cpufreq rate.

~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
0-7

~ # ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq
policy0

~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/affected_cpus
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_available_frequencies
614400 819000 1000000 1228800 1600000

With the userspace governor:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frequency | scaling_cur | cpu_c0_core | cpu_c1_core | Real | User
(kHz) | (kHz) | (Hz) | (Hz) | (s) | (s)
-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------+----------
1,600,000 | 1,600,000 | 1600000000 | 1600000000 | 1.80s | 1.80s
1,228,800 | 1,228,800 | 1228800000 | 1228800000 | 2.33s | 2.33s
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1000000000 | 1000000000 | 2.88s | 2.87s
819,000 | 819,000 | 819200000 | 819200000 | 3.53s | 3.52s
614,400 | 614,400 | 614400000 | 614400000 | 4.72s | 4.72s
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Shuwei Wu <shuwei.wu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v3:
- Add a K1-specific cpufreq driver for the shared-rail, dual-clock topology
- Use one shared CPU OPP table and one cpufreq policy for all CPUs
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260410-shadow-deps-v2-0-4e16b8c0f60e@xxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- Move OPP tables to dedicated k1-opp.dtsi
- Enable OPP only on BPI-F3 with cpu-supply present
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260308-shadow-deps-v1-0-0ceb5c7c07eb@xxxxxxxxxxx

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Shuwei Wu (2):
cpufreq: spacemit: Add K1 cpufreq driver
riscv: dts: spacemit: Add cpu scaling for K1 SoC

arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1-bananapi-f3.dts | 35 +++-
arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1-opp.dtsi | 70 +++++++
arch/riscv/boot/dts/spacemit/k1.dtsi | 8 +
drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig | 4 +
drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.riscv | 15 ++
drivers/cpufreq/Makefile | 3 +
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt-platdev.c | 2 +
drivers/cpufreq/spacemit-k1-cpufreq.c | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
8 files changed, 387 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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base-commit: 5164e95565d3fd508ca8a95351323f5716dfb695
change-id: 20260307-shadow-deps-3582a78aa756
prerequisite-patch-id: 154bd4f720ce5065d58b988de8f273207b44572e
prerequisite-message-id: <20260206-spacemit-p1-v4-0-8f695d93811e@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
prerequisite-patch-id: 5da3e75b18291a5540d4f66d7a0600fb8975ef62
prerequisite-patch-id: bcf41917414ecef8cf743095d130f6004c32f6a5
prerequisite-patch-id: cfe3800f8c791ec4c63e070af9628e88e0fc31b9
prerequisite-message-id: <20260305-k1-clk-fix-v1-1-abca85d6e266@xxxxxxxxxxx>
prerequisite-patch-id: 7c7fb9f87dba019ece4c97c45750349a7cd28f3a

Best regards,


Hi Shuwei and Vincent,

I have tested this series on the OrangePi RV2 board (4GB) on top of
linux-next (next-20260619), with the v3 cpufreq series and Vincent's
patch "k1-orangepi-rv2: Add cpu scaling" applied.

The driver works as expected: all 8 CPUs are online and share a single
policy (policy0). Writing to
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
correctly changes the frequency for all cores simultaneously, and all
scaling_setspeed files show the same value. The frequency transitions
are smooth, and performance (tested with a simple awk loop, following
Vincent's approach) scales linearly with the set frequency.

Both of you can add my tag:

Tested-by: Gong Shuai <gsh517025@xxxxxxxxx> # OrangePi-RV2

If you send a new version, I'm also willing to test it again.

Thanks for the work.

Regards,
Shuai