linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] cpufreq: schedutil: map raw required frequency to driver frequency

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Message-ID: <20160531090251.GJ3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Tue, 31 May 2016 11:02:51 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@...aro.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@....com>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Juri Lelli <Juri.Lelli@....com>,
	Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] cpufreq: schedutil: map raw required frequency to
 driver frequency

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 09:02:33PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> But this is something that is fundamentally broken for now. The user writes
> updates the policy->max/min, we return the call to the user thinks that it has

IMO the presence of these user min/max files is the broken part.