On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 15:48 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:Or this one. Advantage: You can still have cpufreq core without the performance governor built. Disadvantage: The logic whether transition latency checks are needed/done is moved to Kconfig. Means, if you write a governor that has transition latency values above 0, you must let it depend on the performance governor in Kconfig. Hope I got all .config possibilities with that one now. Attached is also a replacement patch for this one: cpufreq-allow-ondemand-and-conservative-cpufreq-governors-to-be-used-as-default.patch CPUfreq: Only check for transition latency on problematic governors Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> -- --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/include/linux/cpufreq.h 2007-08-02 16:01:36.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2_fixed/include/linux/cpufreq.h 2007-08-02 15:21:28.000000000 +0200 @@ -299,8 +299,10 @@ static inline unsigned int cpufreq_get(u Performance governor is fallback governor if any other gov failed to auto load due latency restrictions */ +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE extern struct cpufreq_governor cpufreq_gov_performance; #define CPUFREQ_PERFORMANCE_GOVERNOR (&cpufreq_gov_performance) +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE #define CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_GOVERNOR (&cpufreq_gov_performance) #elif defined(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c 2007-08-02 16:01:35.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2_fixed/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c 2007-08-02 16:23:09.000000000 +0200 @@ -1484,17 +1484,30 @@ static int __cpufreq_governor(struct cpu unsigned int event) { int ret; + + /* Only must be defined when default governor is known to have latency + restrictions, like e.g. conservative or ondemand. + That this is the case is already ensured in Kconfig + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE struct cpufreq_governor *gov = CPUFREQ_PERFORMANCE_GOVERNOR; +#else + struct cpufreq_governor *gov = NULL; +#endif if (policy->governor->max_transition_latency && policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency > policy->governor->max_transition_latency) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "%s governor failed, too long" - " transition latency of HW, fallback" - " to %s governor\n", - policy->governor->name, - gov->name); - policy->governor = gov; + if (!gov) + return -EINVAL; + else { + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s governor failed, too long" + " transition latency of HW, fallback" + " to %s governor\n", + policy->governor->name, + gov->name); + policy->governor = gov; + } } if (!try_module_get(policy->governor->owner))
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