[PATCH] ARM: tegra: cpufreq: move clk_get/put out of function tegra_cpu_init/exit
Richard Zhao
linuxzsc at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 21:26:25 EST 2012
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Prashant Gaikwad <pgaikwad at nvidia.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 December 2012 02:57 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>
>> On 12/21/2012 03:09 AM, Richard Zhao wrote:
>>>
>>> tegra_cpu_init/exit will be called every time one cpu core is online or
>>> offline. And all cpu cores share same clocks, redundant clk_get/put
>>> wast time, so I move them out.
>>
>> I think this is reasonable.
>>
>> Prashant, Peter, any comments?
>>
>> Is any other work in tegra_cpu_init() redundant? Is tegra_cpu_init()
>> supposed to be called due to hotplug, or is that a bug in the cpufreq
>> core?
When cpu goes offline, kernel don't know whether it'll come back.
Sounds reasonable.
>
>
> Looks good. Also, instead of array we can use single variable for
> target_cpu_speed.
I think yes. If one day the cores support rate changing independently,
we can create another driver. It supposed to be another patch to do it.
Thanks
Richard
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