[PATCHv3 0/7] cpufreq support for Marvell Armada XP

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Sun Jul 13 15:33:21 PDT 2014


Mike,

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 05:45:08PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Mike, Viresh, Rafael, Jason, Gregory, Andrew, Sebastian,
> 
> Here is the third version of the patches adding cpufreq support for
> the Marvell Armada XP processor.
> 
> Changes since v2
> ================
> 
>  - As suggested by Stephen Boyd, instead of using a new clock notifier
>    that somewhat "hides" the dependency of the clk-cpu clock driver on
>    the PMSU, use a direct call from the clk-cpu driver to the PMSU
>    driver.
> 
>  - Add a comment that explains why the OPP are not removed on failure
>    in the PMSU code initializing the cpufreq logic, in answer to the
>    review from Ezequiel Garcia.
> 
> Changes since v1
> ================
> 
>  - Rework the patch series to use the generalized cpufreq-cpu0
>    (renamed cpufreq-generic) driver instead of having an Armada XP
>    specific cpufreq driver. This was suggested by Viresh
>    Kumar. Basically, it only involved adding a "clock-latency"
>    property in the DT, and changing the PMSU code to register the two
>    OPPs supported by each CPU, and registering the "cpufreq-generic"
>    platform device instead of the "armadaxp-cpufreq" one.
> 
> Jason, this patch series is based on 3.16-rc3, but it applies fine
> even with mvebu/fixes and mvebu/soc merged (which contain some PMSU
> changes), so I haven't based the patch series on those branches. To
> _work_, the code needs the new cpufreq-generic driver which is pending
> in Viresh Kumar's tree for 3.17, but there is no build dependency.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Thomas Petazzoni (7):
>   ARM: mvebu: ensure CPU clocks are enabled
>   ARM: mvebu: extend PMSU code to support dynamic frequency scaling
>   clk: mvebu: extend clk-cpu for dynamic frequency scaling
>   ARM: mvebu: update Armada XP DT for dynamic frequency scaling
>   ARM: mvebu: allow enabling of cpufreq on Armada XP
>   ARM: mvebu: update mvebu_v7_defconfig with cpufreq support
>   ARM: configs: add cpufreq-generic in multi_v7_defconfig
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/clock/mvebu-cpu-clock.txt  |   5 +-
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-mv78230.dtsi           |   2 +
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-mv78260.dtsi           |   2 +
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp-mv78460.dtsi           |   4 +
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/armada-xp.dtsi                   |   2 +-
>  arch/arm/configs/multi_v7_defconfig                |   1 +
>  arch/arm/configs/mvebu_v7_defconfig                |   2 +
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/Kconfig                        |   1 +
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/platsmp.c                      |   1 +
>  arch/arm/mach-mvebu/pmsu.c                         | 162 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c                        |  80 +++++++++-
>  include/linux/mvebu-pmsu.h                         |  20 +++
>  12 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/mvebu-pmsu.h

Creating a clock branch for you to pull makes this series an unwieldy
knot of dependencies. :(  Mind giving me an Ack to take it through the
mvebu tree?

thx,

Jason.



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