[PATCH 1/4] arm: topology: remove cpu_efficiency

Dietmar Eggemann dietmar.eggemann at arm.com
Wed Aug 30 07:41:17 PDT 2017


Remove the 'cpu_efficiency/clock-frequency dt property' based solution
to set cpu capacity which was only working for Cortex-A15/A7 arm
big.LITTLE systems.

I.e. the 'capacity-dmips-mhz' based solution is now the only one. It is
shared between arm and arm64 and works for every big.LITTLE system no
matter which core types it consists of.

Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot at linaro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm/kernel/topology.c | 113 ++-------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
index bf949a763dbe..04ccfdd94213 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/topology.c
@@ -47,52 +47,10 @@
  */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF
-struct cpu_efficiency {
-	const char *compatible;
-	unsigned long efficiency;
-};
-
-/*
- * Table of relative efficiency of each processors
- * The efficiency value must fit in 20bit and the final
- * cpu_scale value must be in the range
- *   0 < cpu_scale < 3*SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE/2
- * in order to return at most 1 when DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST
- * is used to compute the capacity of a CPU.
- * Processors that are not defined in the table,
- * use the default SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE value for cpu_scale.
- */
-static const struct cpu_efficiency table_efficiency[] = {
-	{"arm,cortex-a15", 3891},
-	{"arm,cortex-a7",  2048},
-	{NULL, },
-};
-
-static unsigned long *__cpu_capacity;
-#define cpu_capacity(cpu)	__cpu_capacity[cpu]
-
-static unsigned long middle_capacity = 1;
-static bool cap_from_dt = true;
-
-/*
- * Iterate all CPUs' descriptor in DT and compute the efficiency
- * (as per table_efficiency). Also calculate a middle efficiency
- * as close as possible to  (max{eff_i} - min{eff_i}) / 2
- * This is later used to scale the cpu_capacity field such that an
- * 'average' CPU is of middle capacity. Also see the comments near
- * table_efficiency[] and update_cpu_capacity().
- */
 static void __init parse_dt_topology(void)
 {
-	const struct cpu_efficiency *cpu_eff;
-	struct device_node *cn = NULL;
-	unsigned long min_capacity = ULONG_MAX;
-	unsigned long max_capacity = 0;
-	unsigned long capacity = 0;
-	int cpu = 0;
-
-	__cpu_capacity = kcalloc(nr_cpu_ids, sizeof(*__cpu_capacity),
-				 GFP_NOWAIT);
+	struct device_node *cn;
+	int cpu;
 
 	cn = of_find_node_by_path("/cpus");
 	if (!cn) {
@@ -101,9 +59,6 @@ static void __init parse_dt_topology(void)
 	}
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
-		const u32 *rate;
-		int len;
-
 		/* too early to use cpu->of_node */
 		cn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
 		if (!cn) {
@@ -115,73 +70,13 @@ static void __init parse_dt_topology(void)
 			of_node_put(cn);
 			continue;
 		}
-
-		cap_from_dt = false;
-
-		for (cpu_eff = table_efficiency; cpu_eff->compatible; cpu_eff++)
-			if (of_device_is_compatible(cn, cpu_eff->compatible))
-				break;
-
-		if (cpu_eff->compatible == NULL)
-			continue;
-
-		rate = of_get_property(cn, "clock-frequency", &len);
-		if (!rate || len != 4) {
-			pr_err("%s missing clock-frequency property\n",
-				cn->full_name);
-			continue;
-		}
-
-		capacity = ((be32_to_cpup(rate)) >> 20) * cpu_eff->efficiency;
-
-		/* Save min capacity of the system */
-		if (capacity < min_capacity)
-			min_capacity = capacity;
-
-		/* Save max capacity of the system */
-		if (capacity > max_capacity)
-			max_capacity = capacity;
-
-		cpu_capacity(cpu) = capacity;
 	}
 
-	/* If min and max capacities are equals, we bypass the update of the
-	 * cpu_scale because all CPUs have the same capacity. Otherwise, we
-	 * compute a middle_capacity factor that will ensure that the capacity
-	 * of an 'average' CPU of the system will be as close as possible to
-	 * SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE, which is the default value, but with the
-	 * constraint explained near table_efficiency[].
-	 */
-	if (4*max_capacity < (3*(max_capacity + min_capacity)))
-		middle_capacity = (min_capacity + max_capacity)
-				>> (SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT+1);
-	else
-		middle_capacity = ((max_capacity / 3)
-				>> (SCHED_CAPACITY_SHIFT-1)) + 1;
-
-	if (cap_from_dt)
-		topology_normalize_cpu_scale();
-}
-
-/*
- * Look for a customed capacity of a CPU in the cpu_capacity table during the
- * boot. The update of all CPUs is in O(n^2) for heteregeneous system but the
- * function returns directly for SMP system.
- */
-static void update_cpu_capacity(unsigned int cpu)
-{
-	if (!cpu_capacity(cpu) || cap_from_dt)
-		return;
-
-	topology_set_cpu_scale(cpu, cpu_capacity(cpu) / middle_capacity);
-
-	pr_info("CPU%u: update cpu_capacity %lu\n",
-		cpu, topology_get_cpu_scale(NULL, cpu));
+	topology_normalize_cpu_scale();
 }
 
 #else
 static inline void parse_dt_topology(void) {}
-static inline void update_cpu_capacity(unsigned int cpuid) {}
 #endif
 
  /*
@@ -277,8 +172,6 @@ void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
 
 	update_siblings_masks(cpuid);
 
-	update_cpu_capacity(cpuid);
-
 	pr_info("CPU%u: thread %d, cpu %d, socket %d, mpidr %x\n",
 		cpuid, cpu_topology[cpuid].thread_id,
 		cpu_topology[cpuid].core_id,
-- 
2.11.0




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