linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/11] cpufreq: tegra: select CPU_FREQ_TABLE for ARCH

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:43:55 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
CC:	rjw@...k.pl, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	cpufreq@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, robin.randhawa@....com,
	Steve.Bannister@....com, Liviu.Dudau@....com,
	charles.garcia-tobin@....com, arvind.chauhan@....com,
	arnd@...db.de, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] cpufreq: tegra: select CPU_FREQ_TABLE for ARCH_TEGRA

On 06/12/2013 10:24 PM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 12 June 2013 21:20, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 06/12/2013 02:15 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>> ARCH_TEGRA selects ARCH_HAS_CPUFREQ, so CPUFREQ will be enabled for all variants
>>> of TEGRA. CPUFreq driver for tegra is enabled if ARCH_TEGRA is selected. Driver
>>> uses APIs from freq_table.c and so we must select CPU_FREQ_TABLE for ARCH_TEGRA.
>>>
>>> This also removes select CPU_FREQ_TABLE from individual tegra variants.
>>
>> I guess the real issue here is that drivers/cpufreq/tegra-cpufreq.c gets
>> built based on ARCH_TEGRA, which doesn't depend on nor select CPU_FREQ
>> itself, so:
>>
>>         select CPU_FREQ_TABLE if CPU_FREQ
>>
>> ... isn't guaranteed to fire.
>>
>> The correct solution seems to be:
>>
>> * Add CONFIG_ARM_TEGRA_CPUFREQ to drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.arm.
>> * Make that Kconfig option selct CPU_FREQ_TABLE.
>> * Make that Kconfig option be def_bool ARCH_TEGRA.
>> * Modify drivers/cpufreq/Makefile to build tegra-cpufreq.c based on that.
>> * Remove all the cpufreq-related stuff from arch/arm/mach-tegra/Kconfig.
>>
>> That way, tegra-cpufreq.c can't be built if !CPU_FREQ, and Tegra's
>> cpufreq works the same way as all the other cpufreq drivers.
> 
> Hmmm. check this out (attached too for you to test):

This certainly generates the correct .config when I "make
tegra_defconfig" after applying it, and a build after disabling CPU_FREQ
links OK, so,

Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>

(I assume this patch would go through the cpufreq tree?)

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/