linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] cpufreq: Make sure CPU is running on a freq from freq-table

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Date:	Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:22:01 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@...il.com>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Patch Tracking <patches@...aro.org>,
	"cpufreq@...r.kernel.org" <cpufreq@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, Carlos Hernandez <ceh@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] cpufreq: Make sure CPU is running on a freq from freq-table

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013 08:31:02 AM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 27 November 2013 01:51, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
> > I was talking about the case when your
> >
> > __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, policy->cur - 1, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L);
> >
> > fails.  The other case is not really interesting.
> 
> Okay.. I actually thought the context of this chat is about "not fixing the
> frequency silently". That's what Dirk pointed out, if I am not wrong.

In that case you can simply print a message bashing the boot loader. :-)

> And hence I also support the new pr_warn I have added in those cases.

Sure.

> But yes a WARN_ON() can be printed out in case
> __cpufreq_driver_target() fails.

And here my question was: Is it safe to continue at all in that case?

Rafael

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