[PATCH v5 1/5] arch_topology: init capacity_freq_ref to 0

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Thu Apr 18 03:50:08 PDT 2024


On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:38:44AM +0100, Beata Michalska wrote:
> From: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu at arm.com>
> 
> It's useful to have capacity_freq_ref initialized to 0 for users of
> arch_scale_freq_ref() to detect when capacity_freq_ref was not
> yet set.
> 
> The only scenario affected by this change in the init value is when a
> cpufreq driver is never loaded. As a result, the only setter of a
> cpu scale factor remains the call of topology_normalize_cpu_scale()
> from parse_dt_topology(). There we cannot use the value 0 of
> capacity_freq_ref so we have to compensate for its uninitialized state.
>

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>

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Regards,
Sudeep



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