[PATCH v5 4/8] arm64: parse cpu capacity-dmips-mhz from DT
Juri Lelli
juri.lelli at arm.com
Wed Jun 15 07:48:21 PDT 2016
On 15/06/16 14:49, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:17:53AM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
>
> > + if (!raw_capacity) {
> > + raw_capacity = kzalloc(sizeof(*raw_capacity) *
> > + num_possible_cpus(), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> kcalloc()?
>
Right. Will change.
> > + if (!raw_capacity) {
> > + pr_err("cpu_capacity: failed to allocate memory"
> > + " for raw capacities\n");
>
> It's normally better to avoid splitting errors message so people can
> grep if they see the error.
>
Tried to avoid breaking 80 columns. But, we seem to have longer pr_err
strings already. I'll change that.
> > + } else {
> > + pr_err("cpu_capacity: missing %s raw capacity "
> > + "(fallback to 1024 for all CPUs)\n",
> > + cpu_node->full_name);
>
> That's going to complain fairly loudly for all existing DTs isn't it and
> it's kind of redundant if all the cores have the same capacity (which is
> a very common case)? How about printing an error only if we already
> found one, or printing a single warning at the end if we didn't get
> anything?
Right, I'll change the condition for which pr_err is emitted. I think
the situation for which we care the most about is when we find partial
information in DT.
Thanks,
- Juri
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