linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / devfreq: Generic cpufreq governor

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Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 11:58:34 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@...sung.com>,
        Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rajendra Nayak <rjendra@...eaurora.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] PM / devfreq: Generic cpufreq governor

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 01:24:48AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> This devfreq governor is a generic implementation that can scale any
> devfreq device based on the current CPU frequency of all ONLINE CPUs. It
> allows for specifying CPU freq to devfreq mapping for specific devices.
> When such a mapping is not present, it defaults to scaling the device
> frequency in proportion to the CPU frequency.
> 
> Change-Id: I7f786b9059435afe85b9ec8c504a4655731ee20e

drop this.

> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  .../bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt           |  53 ++

Please split bindings to separate patch.

>  drivers/devfreq/Kconfig                            |   8 +
>  drivers/devfreq/Makefile                           |   1 +
>  drivers/devfreq/governor_cpufreq.c                 | 628 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 690 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/devfreq/governor_cpufreq.c
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6537538
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/devfreq/devfreq-cpufreq.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
> +Devfreq CPUfreq governor
> +
> +devfreq-cpufreq is a parent device that contains one or more child devices.
> +Each child device provides CPU frequency to device frequency mapping for a
> +specific device. Examples of devices that could use this are: DDR, cache and
> +CCI.
> +
> +Parent device name shall be "devfreq-cpufreq".

I don't really understand any of this and how it relates to the other 
QCom cpufreq and devfreq bindings. Seems like this all needs some 
discussion amongst the PM folks first.

Rob