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[V2,2/5] cpufreq: Replace few CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS checks with has_target()

Message ID 88da7cfabad5e19a361fe2843e5ef547d50fd221.1560999838.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org
State New
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Series [V2,1/5] cpufreq: Remove the redundant !setpolicy check | expand

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Viresh Kumar June 20, 2019, 3:05 a.m. UTC
CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS was introduced in a very old commit from pre-2.6
kernel release commit 6a4a93f9c0d5 ("[CPUFREQ] Fix 'out of sync'
issue").

Probably the initial idea was to just avoid these checks for set_policy
type drivers and then things got changed over the years. And it is very
unclear why these checks are there at all.

Replace the CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS check with has_target(), which makes
more sense now.

cpufreq_notify_transition() is only called for has_target() type driver
and not for set_policy type, and the check is simply redundant. Remove
it as well.

Also remove () around freq comparison statement as they aren't required
and checkpatch also warns for them.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

-- 
2.21.0.rc0.269.g1a574e7a288b

Comments

Viresh Kumar June 27, 2019, 5 a.m. UTC | #1
On 20-06-19, 08:35, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS was introduced in a very old commit from pre-2.6

> > kernel release commit 6a4a93f9c0d5 ("[CPUFREQ] Fix 'out of sync'

> > issue").

> > 

> > Probably the initial idea was to just avoid these checks for set_policy

> > type drivers and then things got changed over the years. And it is very

> > unclear why these checks are there at all.

> > 

> > Replace the CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS check with has_target(), which makes

> > more sense now.

> > 

> > cpufreq_notify_transition() is only called for has_target() type driver

> > and not for set_policy type, and the check is simply redundant. Remove

> > it as well.

> > 

> > Also remove () around freq comparison statement as they aren't required

> > and checkpatch also warns for them.

> > 

> > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

> > ---

> >  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 13 +++++--------

> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

> > 

> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

> > index 54befd775bd6..41ac701e324f 100644

> > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

> > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

> > @@ -359,12 +359,10 @@ static void cpufreq_notify_transition(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,

> >  		 * which is not equal to what the cpufreq core thinks is

> >  		 * "old frequency".

> >  		 */

> > -		if (!(cpufreq_driver->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {

> > -			if (policy->cur && (policy->cur != freqs->old)) {

> > -				pr_debug("Warning: CPU frequency is %u, cpufreq assumed %u kHz\n",

> > -					 freqs->old, policy->cur);

> > -				freqs->old = policy->cur;

> > -			}

> > +		if (policy->cur && policy->cur != freqs->old) {

> > +			pr_debug("Warning: CPU frequency is %u, cpufreq assumed %u kHz\n",

> > +				 freqs->old, policy->cur);

> > +			freqs->old = policy->cur;

> >  		}

> >  

> >  		srcu_notifier_call_chain(&cpufreq_transition_notifier_list,

> > @@ -1618,8 +1616,7 @@ static unsigned int __cpufreq_get(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)

> >  	if (policy->fast_switch_enabled)

> >  		return ret_freq;

> >  

> > -	if (ret_freq && policy->cur &&

> > -		!(cpufreq_driver->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {

> > +	if (has_target() && ret_freq && policy->cur) {

> >  		/* verify no discrepancy between actual and

> >  					saved value exists */

> >  		if (unlikely(ret_freq != policy->cur)) {


@Rafael: Here are your comments from the IRC exchange we had
yesterday:

> <rafael>:

> 

> so the problem is that, because of the CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS check in

> __cpufreq_get(), it almost never does the cpufreq_out_of_sync() thing

> now. Because many drivers set CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS most of the time,

> some of them even unconditionally. This patch changes the code that

> runs very rarely into code that runs relatively often.


Right, we will do the frequency verification on has_target() platforms
with CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS set after this patch. But why is it the wrong
thing to do ?

What we do here is that we verify that the cached value of current
frequency is same as the real frequency the hardware is running at. It
makes sense to not do this check for setpolicy type drivers as the
cpufreq core isn't always aware of what the driver will end up doing
with the frequency and so no verification.

But for has_target() type drivers, cpufreq core caches the value with
it and it should check it to make sure everything is fine. I don't see
a correlation with CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS flag here, that's it. Either we
do this verification or we don't, but there is no reason (as per my
understanding) of skipping it using this flag.

So if you look at the commit I pointed in the history git [1], it does
two things:
- It adds the verification code (which is quite similar today as
  well).
- And it sets the CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS flag only for setpolicy drivers,
  rightly so.

The problem happened when we started to use CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS for
constant loops-per-jiffy thing as well and many has_target() drivers
started using the same flag and unknowingly skipped the verification
of frequency.

So, I think the current code is doing the wrong thing by skipping the
verification using CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS flag.

-- 
viresh

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=6a4a93f9c0d51b5f4ac1bd3efab53e43584330dd
Rafael J. Wysocki June 27, 2019, 9:52 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 7:00 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> wrote:
>

> On 20-06-19, 08:35, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> > > CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS was introduced in a very old commit from pre-2.6

> > > kernel release commit 6a4a93f9c0d5 ("[CPUFREQ] Fix 'out of sync'

> > > issue").

> > >

> > > Probably the initial idea was to just avoid these checks for set_policy

> > > type drivers and then things got changed over the years. And it is very

> > > unclear why these checks are there at all.

> > >

> > > Replace the CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS check with has_target(), which makes

> > > more sense now.

> > >

> > > cpufreq_notify_transition() is only called for has_target() type driver

> > > and not for set_policy type, and the check is simply redundant. Remove

> > > it as well.

> > >

> > > Also remove () around freq comparison statement as they aren't required

> > > and checkpatch also warns for them.

> > >

> > > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

> > > ---

> > >  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 13 +++++--------

> > >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

> > >

> > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

> > > index 54befd775bd6..41ac701e324f 100644

> > > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

> > > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

> > > @@ -359,12 +359,10 @@ static void cpufreq_notify_transition(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,

> > >              * which is not equal to what the cpufreq core thinks is

> > >              * "old frequency".

> > >              */

> > > -           if (!(cpufreq_driver->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {

> > > -                   if (policy->cur && (policy->cur != freqs->old)) {

> > > -                           pr_debug("Warning: CPU frequency is %u, cpufreq assumed %u kHz\n",

> > > -                                    freqs->old, policy->cur);

> > > -                           freqs->old = policy->cur;

> > > -                   }

> > > +           if (policy->cur && policy->cur != freqs->old) {

> > > +                   pr_debug("Warning: CPU frequency is %u, cpufreq assumed %u kHz\n",

> > > +                            freqs->old, policy->cur);

> > > +                   freqs->old = policy->cur;

> > >             }

> > >

> > >             srcu_notifier_call_chain(&cpufreq_transition_notifier_list,

> > > @@ -1618,8 +1616,7 @@ static unsigned int __cpufreq_get(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)

> > >     if (policy->fast_switch_enabled)

> > >             return ret_freq;

> > >

> > > -   if (ret_freq && policy->cur &&

> > > -           !(cpufreq_driver->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {

> > > +   if (has_target() && ret_freq && policy->cur) {

> > >             /* verify no discrepancy between actual and

> > >                                     saved value exists */

> > >             if (unlikely(ret_freq != policy->cur)) {

>

> @Rafael: Here are your comments from the IRC exchange we had

> yesterday:

>

> > <rafael>:

> >

> > so the problem is that, because of the CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS check in

> > __cpufreq_get(), it almost never does the cpufreq_out_of_sync() thing

> > now. Because many drivers set CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS most of the time,

> > some of them even unconditionally. This patch changes the code that

> > runs very rarely into code that runs relatively often.

>

> Right, we will do the frequency verification on has_target() platforms

> with CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS set after this patch. But why is it the wrong

> thing to do ?


Well, my point was exactly what I said.

The patch pretended to be a cleanup and changed the code in a
meaningful way (at least for some drivers).

> What we do here is that we verify that the cached value of current

> frequency is same as the real frequency the hardware is running at. It

> makes sense to not do this check for setpolicy type drivers as the

> cpufreq core isn't always aware of what the driver will end up doing

> with the frequency and so no verification.

>

> But for has_target() type drivers, cpufreq core caches the value with

> it and it should check it to make sure everything is fine. I don't see

> a correlation with CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS flag here, that's it. Either we

> do this verification or we don't, but there is no reason (as per my

> understanding) of skipping it using this flag.

>

> So if you look at the commit I pointed in the history git [1], it does

> two things:

> - It adds the verification code (which is quite similar today as

>   well).

> - And it sets the CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS flag only for setpolicy drivers,

>   rightly so.

>

> The problem happened when we started to use CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS for

> constant loops-per-jiffy thing as well and many has_target() drivers

> started using the same flag and unknowingly skipped the verification

> of frequency.

>

> So, I think the current code is doing the wrong thing by skipping the

> verification using CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS flag.


All right then, thanks for explaining it here.

The patch is a bug fix, not a cleanup, and it fixes the changes that
caused CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS to be used for a different purpose without
adjusting the original code accordingly.

I can agree with this rationale, but please fix the changelog.
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diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 54befd775bd6..41ac701e324f 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -359,12 +359,10 @@  static void cpufreq_notify_transition(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 		 * which is not equal to what the cpufreq core thinks is
 		 * "old frequency".
 		 */
-		if (!(cpufreq_driver->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {
-			if (policy->cur && (policy->cur != freqs->old)) {
-				pr_debug("Warning: CPU frequency is %u, cpufreq assumed %u kHz\n",
-					 freqs->old, policy->cur);
-				freqs->old = policy->cur;
-			}
+		if (policy->cur && policy->cur != freqs->old) {
+			pr_debug("Warning: CPU frequency is %u, cpufreq assumed %u kHz\n",
+				 freqs->old, policy->cur);
+			freqs->old = policy->cur;
 		}
 
 		srcu_notifier_call_chain(&cpufreq_transition_notifier_list,
@@ -1618,8 +1616,7 @@  static unsigned int __cpufreq_get(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	if (policy->fast_switch_enabled)
 		return ret_freq;
 
-	if (ret_freq && policy->cur &&
-		!(cpufreq_driver->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {
+	if (has_target() && ret_freq && policy->cur) {
 		/* verify no discrepancy between actual and
 					saved value exists */
 		if (unlikely(ret_freq != policy->cur)) {