[PATCH 2/2] cpufreq: scpi: remove arm_big_little dependency

Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar at linaro.org
Wed Jan 10 06:46:31 PST 2018


On 09-01-18, 16:49, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> The dependency on physical_package_id from the topology to get the
> cluster identifier is wrong. The concept of cluster used in ARM topology
> is unfortunately not well defined in the architecture, we should avoid
> using it. Further the frequency domain need not be mapped to so called
> "clusters" one to one.
> 
> SCPI already provides means to obtain the frequency domain id from the
> device tree. In order to support some new topologies(e.g. DSU which
> contains 2 frequency domains within the physical cluster), pseudo
> clusters are created to make this driver work which is wrong again.
> 
> In order to solve those issues and also remove dependency of topological
> physical id for frequency domain, this patch removes the arm_big_little
> dependency from scpi driver.
> 
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw at rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c | 193 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 178 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>

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viresh



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