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Viresh Kumar 03d5eec000 cpufreq: conservative: remove 'enable' field
Conservative governor has its own 'enable' field to check if
conservative governor is used for a CPU or not

This can be checked by policy->governor with 'cpufreq_gov_conservative'
and so this field can be dropped.

Because its not guaranteed that dbs_info->cdbs.shared will a valid
pointer for all CPUs (will be NULL for CPUs that don't use
ondemand/conservative governors), we can't use it anymore. Lets get
policy with cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() instead.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-09-26 02:59:38 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 43e0ee361e cpufreq: governor: split out common part of {cs|od}_dbs_timer()
Some part of cs_dbs_timer() and od_dbs_timer() is exactly same and is
unnecessarily duplicated.

Create the real work-handler in cpufreq_governor.c and put the common
code in this routine (dbs_timer()).

Shouldn't make any functional change.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-07-21 01:12:01 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 44152cb82d cpufreq: governor: Keep single copy of information common to policy->cpus
Some information is common to all CPUs belonging to a policy, but are
kept on per-cpu basis. Lets keep that in another structure common to all
policy->cpus. That will make updates/reads to that less complex and less
error prone.

The memory for cpu_common_dbs_info is allocated/freed at INIT/EXIT, so
that it we don't reallocate it for STOP/START sequence. It will be also
be used (in next patch) while the governor is stopped and so must not be
freed that early.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-07-21 01:12:01 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 42994af63c cpufreq: governor: rename cur_policy as policy
Just call it 'policy', cur_policy is unnecessarily long and doesn't
have any special meaning.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-07-17 23:46:48 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 875b8508f9 cpufreq: governor: Rename 'cpu_dbs_common_info' to 'cpu_dbs_info'
Its not common info to all CPUs, but a structure representing common
type of cpu info to both governor types. Lets drop 'common_' from its
name.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-07-17 23:46:48 +02:00
Viresh Kumar d3574c8511 cpufreq: governor: Drop unused field 'cpu'
Its not used at all, drop it.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-07-17 23:46:47 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 386d46e6d5 cpufreq: governor: Name delayed-work as dwork
Delayed work was named as 'work' and to access work within it we do
work.work. Not much readable. Rename delayed_work as 'dwork'.

Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-07-17 23:46:47 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 732b6d617a cpufreq: governor: Serialize governor callbacks
There are several races reported in cpufreq core around governors (only
ondemand and conservative) by different people.

There are at least two race scenarios present in governor code:
 (a) Concurrent access/updates of governor internal structures.

 It is possible that fields such as 'dbs_data->usage_count', etc.  are
 accessed simultaneously for different policies using same governor
 structure (i.e. CPUFREQ_HAVE_GOVERNOR_PER_POLICY flag unset). And
 because of this we can dereference bad pointers.

 For example consider a system with two CPUs with separate 'struct
 cpufreq_policy' instances. CPU0 governor: ondemand and CPU1: powersave.
 CPU0 switching to powersave and CPU1 to ondemand:
	CPU0				CPU1

	store*				store*

	cpufreq_governor_exit()		cpufreq_governor_init()
					dbs_data = cdata->gdbs_data;

	if (!--dbs_data->usage_count)
		kfree(dbs_data);

					dbs_data->usage_count++;
					*Bad pointer dereference*

 There are other races possible between EXIT and START/STOP/LIMIT as
 well. Its really complicated.

 (b) Switching governor state in bad sequence:

 For example trying to switch a governor to START state, when the
 governor is in EXIT state. There are some checks present in
 __cpufreq_governor() but they aren't sufficient as they compare events
 against 'policy->governor_enabled', where as we need to take governor's
 state into account, which can be used by multiple policies.

These two issues need to be solved separately and the responsibility
should be properly divided between cpufreq and governor core.

The first problem is more about the governor core, as it needs to
protect its structures properly. And the second problem should be fixed
in cpufreq core instead of governor, as its all about sequence of
events.

This patch is trying to solve only the first problem.

There are two types of data we need to protect,
- 'struct common_dbs_data': No matter what, there is going to be a
  single copy of this per governor.
- 'struct dbs_data': With CPUFREQ_HAVE_GOVERNOR_PER_POLICY flag set, we
  will have per-policy copy of this data, otherwise a single copy.

Because of such complexities, the mutex present in 'struct dbs_data' is
insufficient to solve our problem. For example we need to protect
fetching of 'dbs_data' from different structures at the beginning of
cpufreq_governor_dbs(), to make sure it isn't currently being updated.

This can be fixed if we can guarantee serialization of event parsing
code for an individual governor. This is best solved with a mutex per
governor, and the placeholder for that is 'struct common_dbs_data'.

And so this patch moves the mutex from 'struct dbs_data' to 'struct
common_dbs_data' and takes it at the beginning and drops it at the end
of cpufreq_governor_dbs().

Tested with and without following configuration options:

CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_PI_LIST=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-06-15 15:42:53 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 8e0484d2b3 cpufreq: governor: register notifier from cs_init()
Notifiers are required only for conservative governor and the common
governor code is unnecessarily polluted with that. Handle that from
cs_init/exit() instead of cpufreq_governor_dbs().

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2015-06-15 15:37:12 +02:00
Viresh Kumar c8ae481b9a cpufreq: governor: remove copy_prev_load from 'struct cpu_dbs_common_info'
'copy_prev_load' was recently added by commit: 18b46ab (cpufreq: governor: Be
friendly towards latency-sensitive bursty workloads).

It actually is a bit redundant as we also have 'prev_load' which can store any
integer value and can be used instead of 'copy_prev_load' by setting it zero.

True load can also turn out to be zero during long idle intervals (and hence the
actual value of 'prev_load' and the overloaded value can clash). However this is
not a problem because, if the true load was really zero in the previous
interval, it makes sense to evaluate the load afresh for the current interval
rather than copying the previous load.

So, drop 'copy_prev_load' and use 'prev_load' instead.

Update comments as well to make it more clear.

There is another change here which was probably missed by Srivatsa during the
last version of updates he made. The unlikely in the 'if' statement was covering
only half of the condition and the whole line should actually come under it.

Also checkpatch is made more silent as it was reporting this (--strict option):

CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
+		if (unlikely(wall_time > (2 * sampling_rate) &&
+						j_cdbs->prev_load)) {

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-06-09 12:58:21 +02:00
Srivatsa S. Bhat 18b46abd00 cpufreq: governor: Be friendly towards latency-sensitive bursty workloads
Cpufreq governors like the ondemand governor calculate the load on the CPU
periodically by employing deferrable timers. A deferrable timer won't fire
if the CPU is completely idle (and there are no other timers to be run), in
order to avoid unnecessary wakeups and thus save CPU power.

However, the load calculation logic is agnostic to all this, and this can
lead to the problem described below.

Time (ms)               CPU 1

100                Task-A running

110                Governor's timer fires, finds load as 100% in the last
                   10ms interval and increases the CPU frequency.

110.5              Task-A running

120		   Governor's timer fires, finds load as 100% in the last
		   10ms interval and increases the CPU frequency.

125		   Task-A went to sleep. With nothing else to do, CPU 1
		   went completely idle.

200		   Task-A woke up and started running again.

200.5		   Governor's deferred timer (which was originally programmed
		   to fire at time 130) fires now. It calculates load for the
		   time period 120 to 200.5, and finds the load is almost zero.
		   Hence it decreases the CPU frequency to the minimum.

210		   Governor's timer fires, finds load as 100% in the last
		   10ms interval and increases the CPU frequency.

So, after the workload woke up and started running, the frequency was suddenly
dropped to absolute minimum, and after that, there was an unnecessary delay of
10ms (sampling period) to increase the CPU frequency back to a reasonable value.
And this pattern repeats for every wake-up-from-cpu-idle for that workload.
This can be quite undesirable for latency- or response-time sensitive bursty
workloads. So we need to fix the governor's logic to detect such wake-up-from-
cpu-idle scenarios and start the workload at a reasonably high CPU frequency.

One extreme solution would be to fake a load of 100% in such scenarios. But
that might lead to undesirable side-effects such as frequency spikes (which
might also need voltage changes) especially if the previous frequency happened
to be very low.

We just want to avoid the stupidity of dropping down the frequency to a minimum
and then enduring a needless (and long) delay before ramping it up back again.
So, let us simply carry forward the previous load - that is, let us just pretend
that the 'load' for the current time-window is the same as the load for the
previous window. That way, the frequency and voltage will continue to be set
to whatever values they were set at previously. This means that bursty workloads
will get a chance to influence the CPU frequency at which they wake up from
cpu-idle, based on their past execution history. Thus, they might be able to
avoid suffering from slow wakeups and long response-times.

However, we should take care not to over-do this. For example, such a "copy
previous load" logic will benefit cases like this: (where # represents busy
and . represents idle)

##########.........#########.........###########...........##########........

but it will be detrimental in cases like the one shown below, because it will
retain the high frequency (copied from the previous interval) even in a mostly
idle system:

##########.........#.................#.....................#...............

(i.e., the workload finished and the remaining tasks are such that their busy
periods are smaller than the sampling interval, which causes the timer to
always get deferred. So, this will make the copy-previous-load logic copy
the initial high load to subsequent idle periods over and over again, thus
keeping the frequency high unnecessarily).

So, we modify this copy-previous-load logic such that it is used only once
upon every wakeup-from-idle. Thus if we have 2 consecutive idle periods, the
previous load won't get blindly copied over; cpufreq will freshly evaluate the
load in the second idle interval, thus ensuring that the system comes back to
its normal state.

[ The right way to solve this whole problem is to teach the CPU frequency
governors to also track load on a per-task basis, not just a per-CPU basis,
and then use both the data sources intelligently to set the appropriate
frequency on the CPUs. But that involves redesigning the cpufreq subsystem,
so this patch should make the situation bearable until then. ]

Experimental results:
+-------------------+

I ran a modified version of ebizzy (called 'sleeping-ebizzy') that sleeps in
between its execution such that its total utilization can be a user-defined
value, say 10% or 20% (higher the utilization specified, lesser the amount of
sleeps injected). This ebizzy was run with a single-thread, tied to CPU 8.

Behavior observed with tracing (sample taken from 40% utilization runs):
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Without patch:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kworker/8:2-12137  416.335742: cpu_frequency: state=2061000 cpu_id=8
kworker/8:2-12137  416.335744: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40753  416.345741: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
kworker/8:2-12137  416.345744: cpu_frequency: state=4123000 cpu_id=8
kworker/8:2-12137  416.345746: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40753  416.355738: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
<snip>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------  <snip>
      <...>-40753  416.402202: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=swapper/8
     <idle>-0      416.502130: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/8 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40753  416.505738: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
kworker/8:2-12137  416.505739: cpu_frequency: state=2061000 cpu_id=8
kworker/8:2-12137  416.505741: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40753  416.515739: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
kworker/8:2-12137  416.515742: cpu_frequency: state=4123000 cpu_id=8
kworker/8:2-12137  416.515744: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy

Observation: Ebizzy went idle at 416.402202, and started running again at
416.502130. But cpufreq noticed the long idle period, and dropped the frequency
at 416.505739, only to increase it back again at 416.515742, realizing that the
workload is in-fact CPU bound. Thus ebizzy needlessly ran at the lowest frequency
for almost 13 milliseconds (almost 1 full sample period), and this pattern
repeats on every sleep-wakeup. This could hurt latency-sensitive workloads quite
a lot.

With patch:
~~~~~~~~~~~

kworker/8:2-29802  464.832535: cpu_frequency: state=2061000 cpu_id=8
<snip>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------  <snip>
kworker/8:2-29802  464.962538: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40738  464.972533: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
kworker/8:2-29802  464.972536: cpu_frequency: state=4123000 cpu_id=8
kworker/8:2-29802  464.972538: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40738  464.982531: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
<snip>  ---------------------------------------------------------------------  <snip>
kworker/8:2-29802  465.022533: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40738  465.032531: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
kworker/8:2-29802  465.032532: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40738  465.035797: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=swapper/8
     <idle>-0      465.240178: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/8 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40738  465.242533: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2
kworker/8:2-29802  465.242535: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/8:2 ==> next_comm=ebizzy
      <...>-40738  465.252531: sched_switch: prev_comm=ebizzy ==> next_comm=kworker/8:2

Observation: Ebizzy went idle at 465.035797, and started running again at
465.240178. Since ebizzy was the only real workload running on this CPU,
cpufreq retained the frequency at 4.1Ghz throughout the run of ebizzy, no
matter how many times ebizzy slept and woke-up in-between. Thus, ebizzy
got the 10ms worth of 4.1 Ghz benefit during every sleep-wakeup (as compared
to the run without the patch) and this boost gave a modest improvement in total
throughput, as shown below.

Sleeping-ebizzy records-per-second:
-----------------------------------

Utilization  Without patch  With patch  Difference (Absolute and % values)
    10%         274767        277046        +  2279 (+0.829%)
    20%         543429        553484        + 10055 (+1.850%)
    40%        1090744       1107959        + 17215 (+1.578%)
    60%        1634908       1662018        + 27110 (+1.658%)

A rudimentary and somewhat approximately latency-sensitive workload such as
sleeping-ebizzy itself showed a consistent, noticeable performance improvement
with this patch. Hence, workloads that are truly latency-sensitive will benefit
quite a bit from this change. Moreover, this is an overall win-win since this
patch does not hurt power-savings at all (because, this patch does not reduce
the idle time or idle residency; and the high frequency of the CPU when it goes
to cpu-idle does not affect/hurt the power-savings of deep idle states).

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-06-07 22:53:51 +02:00
Jane Li 6f1e4efd88 cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption by protecting reading governor_enabled
When a CPU is hot removed we'll cancel all the delayed work items via
gov_cancel_work(). Sometimes the delayed work function determines that
it should adjust the delay for all other CPUs that the policy is
managing. If this scenario occurs, the canceling CPU will cancel its own
work but queue up the other CPUs works to run.

Commit 3617f2 (cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption due to double
queueing) has tried to fix this, but reading governor_enabled is not
protected by cpufreq_governor_lock. Even though od_dbs_timer() checks
governor_enabled before gov_queue_work(), this scenario may occur. For
example:

 CPU0                                        CPU1
 ----                                        ----
 cpu_down()
  ...                                        <work runs>
  __cpufreq_remove_dev()                     od_dbs_timer()
   __cpufreq_governor()                       policy->governor_enabled
    policy->governor_enabled = false;
    cpufreq_governor_dbs()
     case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP:
      gov_cancel_work(dbs_data, policy);
       cpu0 work is canceled
        timer is canceled
        cpu1 work is canceled
        <waits for cpu1>
                                              gov_queue_work(*, *, true);
                                               cpu0 work queued
                                               cpu1 work queued
                                               cpu2 work queued
                                               ...
        cpu1 work is canceled
        cpu2 work is canceled
        ...

At the end of the GOV_STOP case cpu0 still has a work queued to
run although the code is expecting all of the works to be
canceled. __cpufreq_remove_dev() will then proceed to
re-initialize all the other CPUs works except for the CPU that is
going down. The CPUFREQ_GOV_START case in cpufreq_governor_dbs()
will trample over the queued work and debugobjects will spit out
a warning:

WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:260 debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc()
ODEBUG: init active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x14
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1205 Comm: sh Tainted: G        W    3.10.0 #200
[<c01144f0>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf8) from [<c0111d98>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c0111d98>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14) from [<c01272cc>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x68)
[<c01272cc>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x68) from [<c012737c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
[<c012737c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40) from [<c034c640>] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc)
[<c034c640>] (debug_print_object+0x94/0xbc) from [<c034c7f8>] (__debug_object_init+0xc8/0x3c0)
[<c034c7f8>] (__debug_object_init+0xc8/0x3c0) from [<c01360e0>] (init_timer_key+0x20/0x104)
[<c01360e0>] (init_timer_key+0x20/0x104) from [<c04872ac>] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x1dc/0x68c)
[<c04872ac>] (cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x1dc/0x68c) from [<c04833a8>] (__cpufreq_governor+0x80/0x1b0)
[<c04833a8>] (__cpufreq_governor+0x80/0x1b0) from [<c0483704>] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.12+0x22c/0x380)
[<c0483704>] (__cpufreq_remove_dev.isra.12+0x22c/0x380) from [<c0692f38>] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x48/0x5c)
[<c0692f38>] (cpufreq_cpu_callback+0x48/0x5c) from [<c014fb40>] (notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x84)
[<c014fb40>] (notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x84) from [<c012ae44>] (__cpu_notify+0x2c/0x48)
[<c012ae44>] (__cpu_notify+0x2c/0x48) from [<c068dd40>] (_cpu_down+0x80/0x258)
[<c068dd40>] (_cpu_down+0x80/0x258) from [<c068df40>] (cpu_down+0x28/0x3c)
[<c068df40>] (cpu_down+0x28/0x3c) from [<c068e4c0>] (store_online+0x30/0x74)
[<c068e4c0>] (store_online+0x30/0x74) from [<c03a7308>] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24)
[<c03a7308>] (dev_attr_store+0x18/0x24) from [<c0256fe0>] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x180)
[<c0256fe0>] (sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x180) from [<c01fec9c>] (vfs_write+0xbc/0x184)
[<c01fec9c>] (vfs_write+0xbc/0x184) from [<c01ff034>] (SyS_write+0x40/0x68)
[<c01ff034>] (SyS_write+0x40/0x68) from [<c010e200>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x48)

In gov_queue_work(), lock cpufreq_governor_lock before gov_queue_work,
and unlock it after __gov_queue_work(). In this way, governor_enabled
is guaranteed not changed in gov_queue_work().

Signed-off-by: Jane Li <jiel@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2014-01-06 01:22:02 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 0b981e7074 cpufreq: use cpufreq_driver->flags to mark CPUFREQ_HAVE_GOVERNOR_PER_POLICY
Use cpufreq_driver->flags to mark CPUFREQ_HAVE_GOVERNOR_PER_POLICY instead
of a separate field within cpufreq_driver. This will save some bytes of
memory.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-10-16 00:50:23 +02:00
Stratos Karafotis c4afc41094 cpufreq: governor: Fix typos in comments
- 'Governer' should be 'Governor'.
 - 'S' is used for Siemens (electrical conductance) in SI units,
   so use small 's' for seconds.

Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-28 22:04:54 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki c49a089c3e Merge back earlier 'pm-cpufreq' material 2013-08-14 22:21:16 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 3a3e9e06d0 cpufreq: Give consistent names to cpufreq_policy objects
They are called policy, cur_policy, new_policy, data, etc.  Just call
them policy wherever possible.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:34:10 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 5ff0a26803 cpufreq: Clean up header files included in the core
This patch addresses the following issues in the header files in the
cpufreq core:
 - Include headers in ascending order, so that we don't add same
   many times by mistake.
 - <asm/> must be included after <linux/>, so that they override
   whatever they need to.
 - Remove unnecessary includes.
 - Don't include files already included by cpufreq.h or
   cpufreq_governor.h.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 23:34:09 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 6c4640c3ad cpufreq: rename ignore_nice as ignore_nice_load
This sysfs file was called ignore_nice_load earlier and commit
4d5dcc4 (cpufreq: governor: Implement per policy instances of
governors) changed its name to ignore_nice by mistake.

Lets get it renamed back to its original name.

Reported-by: Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: 3.10+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-08-07 22:25:06 +02:00
Stratos Karafotis dfa5bb6225 cpufreq: ondemand: Change the calculation of target frequency
The ondemand governor calculates load in terms of frequency and
increases it only if load_freq is greater than up_threshold
multiplied by the current or average frequency.  This appears to
produce oscillations of frequency between min and max because,
for example, a relatively small load can easily saturate minimum
frequency and lead the CPU to the max.  Then, it will decrease
back to the min due to small load_freq.

Change the calculation method of load and target frequency on the
basis of the following two observations:

 - Load computation should not depend on the current or average
   measured frequency.  For example, absolute load of 80% at 100MHz
   is not necessarily equivalent to 8% at 1000MHz in the next
   sampling interval.

 - It should be possible to increase the target frequency to any
   value present in the frequency table proportional to the absolute
   load, rather than to the max only, so that:

   Target frequency = C * load

   where we take C = policy->cpuinfo.max_freq / 100.

Tested on Intel i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz and on Quad core 1500MHz Krait.
Phoronix benchmark of Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 test shows an
increase ~1.5% in performance. cpufreq_stats (time_in_state) shows
that middle frequencies are used more, with this patch.  Highest
and lowest frequencies were used less by ~9%.

[rjw: We have run multiple other tests on kernels with this
 change applied and in the vast majority of cases it turns out
 that the resulting performance improvement also leads to reduced
 consumption of energy.  The change is additionally justified by
 the overall simplification of the code in question.]

Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-26 01:06:43 +02:00
Viresh Kumar bb176f7d03 cpufreq: Fix minor formatting issues
There were a few noticeable formatting issues in core cpufreq code.
This cleans them up to make code look better.  The changes include:
 - Whitespace cleanup.
 - Rearrangements of code.
 - Multiline comments fixes.
 - Formatting changes to fit 80 columns.

Copyright information in cpufreq.c is also updated to include my name
for 2013.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-06-21 01:06:34 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 72a4ce340a cpufreq: Move get_cpu_idle_time() to cpufreq.c
Governors other than ondemand and conservative can also use
get_cpu_idle_time() and they aren't required to compile
cpufreq_governor.c. So, move these independent routines to
cpufreq.c instead.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-05-27 13:20:56 +02:00
Viresh Kumar a97c98addd cpufreq: governors: Fix CPUFREQ_GOV_POLICY_{INIT|EXIT} notifiers
There are two types of INIT/EXIT activities that we need to do for
governors:
 - Done only once per governor (doesn't depend how many instances of
   the governor there are). eg: cpufreq_register_notifier() for
   conservative governor.
 - Done per governor instance, eg: sysfs_{create|remove}_group().

There were some corner cases where current code isn't able to handle
them separately and so failing for some test cases.

We use two separate variables now for keeping track of above two
requirements.
 - governor->initialized for first one
 - dbs_data->usage_count for per governor instance

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-05-12 14:04:16 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 885f925eef Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'
* pm-cpufreq: (57 commits)
  cpufreq: MAINTAINERS: Add co-maintainer
  cpufreq: pxa2xx: initialize variables
  ARM: S5pv210: compiling issue, ARM_S5PV210_CPUFREQ needs CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=y
  cpufreq: cpu0: Put cpu parent node after using it
  cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: Adapt to latest cpufreq updates
  cpufreq: ARM big LITTLE: put DT nodes after using them
  cpufreq: Don't call __cpufreq_governor() for drivers without target()
  cpufreq: exynos5440: Protect OPP search calls with RCU lock
  cpufreq: dbx500: Round to closest available freq
  cpufreq: Call __cpufreq_governor() with correct policy->cpus mask
  cpufreq / intel_pstate: Optimize intel_pstate_set_policy
  cpufreq: OMAP: instantiate omap-cpufreq as a platform_driver
  arm: exynos: Enable OPP library support for exynos5440
  cpufreq: exynos: Remove error return even if no soc is found
  cpufreq: exynos: Add cpufreq driver for exynos5440
  cpufreq: AMD "frequency sensitivity feedback" powersave bias for ondemand governor
  cpufreq: ondemand: allow custom powersave_bias_target handler to be registered
  cpufreq: convert cpufreq_driver to using RCU
  cpufreq: powerpc/platforms/cell: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq
  cpufreq: sparc: move cpufreq driver to drivers/cpufreq
  ...

Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS (with commit a8e39c3 from pm-cpuidle)
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_governor.h (with commit beb0ff3)
2013-04-28 02:10:46 +02:00
Jacob Shin fb30809efa cpufreq: ondemand: allow custom powersave_bias_target handler to be registered
This allows for another [arch specific] driver to hook into existing
powersave bias function of the ondemand governor. i.e. This allows AMD
specific powersave bias function (in a separate AMD specific driver)
to aid ondemand governor's frequency transition decisions.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-04-10 13:19:26 +02:00
Borislav Petkov beb0ff390e cpufreq: Correct header guards typo
It should be "governor".

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-04-02 15:14:29 +02:00
Stratos Karafotis 9366d84052 cpufreq: governors: Calculate iowait time only when necessary
Currently we always calculate the CPU iowait time and add it to idle time.
If we are in ondemand and we use io_is_busy, we re-calculate iowait time
and we subtract it from idle time.

With this patch iowait time is calculated only when necessary avoiding
the double call to get_cpu_iowait_time_us. We use a parameter in
function get_cpu_idle_time to distinguish when the iowait time will be
added to idle time or not, without the need of keeping the prev_io_wait.

Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.,org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-04-01 01:11:35 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 031299b3be cpufreq: governors: Avoid unnecessary per cpu timer interrupts
Following patch has introduced per cpu timers or works for ondemand and
conservative governors.

	commit 2abfa876f1
	Author: Rickard Andersson <rickard.andersson@stericsson.com>
	Date:   Thu Dec 27 14:55:38 2012 +0000

	    cpufreq: handle SW coordinated CPUs

This causes additional unnecessary interrupts on all cpus when the load is
recently evaluated by any other cpu. i.e. When load is recently evaluated by cpu
x, we don't really need any other cpu to evaluate this load again for the next
sampling_rate time.

Some sort of code is present to avoid that but we are still getting timer
interrupts for all cpus. A good way of avoiding this would be to modify delays
for all cpus (policy->cpus) whenever any cpu has evaluated load.

This patch does this change and some related code cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-04-01 01:11:35 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 98104ee28f cpufreq: governor: Set MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER to 20
Currently MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER is set defined as 100 and so on a system with
transition latency of 1 ms, the minimum sampling time comes to be around 100 ms.
That is quite big if you want to get better performance for your system.

Redefine MIN_LATENCY_MULTIPLIER to 20 so that we can support 20ms sampling rate
for such platforms.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-04-01 01:11:34 +02:00
Viresh Kumar 4d5dcc4211 cpufreq: governor: Implement per policy instances of governors
Currently, there can't be multiple instances of single governor_type.
If we have a multi-package system, where we have multiple instances
of struct policy (per package), we can't have multiple instances of
same governor. i.e. We can't have multiple instances of ondemand
governor for multiple packages.

Governors directory in sysfs is created at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/
governor-name/. Which again reflects that there can be only one
instance of a governor_type in the system.

This is a bottleneck for multicluster system, where we want different
packages to use same governor type, but with different tunables.

This patch uses the infrastructure provided by earlier patch and
implements init/exit routines for ondemand and conservative
governors.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-04-01 01:11:34 +02:00
Namhyung Kim e5dde92cb2 cpufreq: Fix a typo in comment
Fix a typo in a comment in cpufreq_governor.h.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-03-04 14:23:11 +01:00
Stratos Karafotis 4bd4e42819 cpufreq: ondemand: Replace down_differential tuner with adj_up_threshold
In order to avoid the calculation of up_threshold - down_differential
every time that the frequency must be decreased, we replace the
down_differential tuner with the adj_up_threshold which keeps the
difference across multiple checks.

Update the adj_up_threshold only when the up_theshold is also updated.

Signed-off-by: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-09 01:18:47 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 4447266b84 cpufreq: governors: Remove code redundancy between governors
With the inclusion of following patches:

9f4eb10 cpufreq: conservative: call dbs_check_cpu only when necessary
772b4b1 cpufreq: ondemand: call dbs_check_cpu only when necessary

code redundancy between the conservative and ondemand governors is
introduced again, so get rid of it.

[rjw: Changelog]
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-02 01:02:44 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 8eeed09566 cpufreq: governors: Get rid of dbs_data->enable field
CPUFREQ_GOV_START/STOP are called only once for all policy->cpus and hence we
don't need to adapt cpufreq_governor_dbs() routine for multiple calls.

So, this patch removes dbs_data->enable field entirely. And rearrange code a
bit.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-02 00:01:16 +01:00
Fabio Baltieri 2624f90c16 cpufreq: governors: implement generic policy_is_shared
Implement a generic helper function policy_is_shared() to replace the
current dbs_sw_coordinated_cpus() at cpufreq level, so that it can be
used by code other than cpufreq governors.

Suggested-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-02 00:01:16 +01:00
Fabio Baltieri da53d61e21 cpufreq: ondemand: call dbs_check_cpu only when necessary
Modify ondemand timer to not resample CPU utilization if recently
sampled from another SW coordinated core.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-02 00:01:13 +01:00
Rickard Andersson 2abfa876f1 cpufreq: handle SW coordinated CPUs
This patch fixes a bug that occurred when we had load on a secondary CPU
and the primary CPU was sleeping. Only one sampling timer was spawned
and it was spawned as a deferred timer on the primary CPU, so when a
secondary CPU had a change in load this was not detected by the cpufreq
governor (both ondemand and conservative).

This patch make sure that deferred timers are run on all CPUs in the
case of software controlled CPUs that run on the same frequency.

Signed-off-by: Rickard Andersson <rickard.andersson@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-02-02 00:01:13 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 1e7586a18a cpufreq: Fix sparse warnings by updating cputime64_t to u64
There were few sparse warnings due to mismatch of type on function arguments.
Two types were used u64 and cputime64_t. Both are actually u64, so use u64 only.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-11-15 00:33:08 +01:00
Viresh Kumar 4471a34f9a cpufreq: governors: remove redundant code
Initially ondemand governor was written and then using its code conservative
governor is written. It used a lot of code from ondemand governor, but copy of
code was created instead of using the same routines from both governors. Which
increased code redundancy, which is difficult to manage.

This patch is an attempt to move common part of both the governors to
cpufreq_governor.c file to come over above mentioned issues.

This shouldn't change anything from functionality point of view.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2012-11-15 00:33:07 +01:00