linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/7] cpufreq / sched: Check cpu_of(rq) in cpufreq_update

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Message-ID: <20160801194818.GY19455@graphite.smuckle.net>
Date:	Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:48:18 -0700
From:	Steve Muckle <steve.muckle@...aro.org>
To:	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/7] cpufreq / sched: Check cpu_of(rq) in
 cpufreq_update_util()

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 09:29:57AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> A small nitpick:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 01:36:01AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > --- linux-pm.orig/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > +++ linux-pm/kernel/sched/sched.h
> > @@ -1760,7 +1760,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct update_util_data
> >  
> >  /**
> >   * cpufreq_update_util - Take a note about CPU utilization changes.
> > - * @time: Current time.
> > + * @rq: Runqueue to carry out the update for.
> >   *
> >   * This function is called by the scheduler on every invocation of
> >   * update_load_avg() on the CPU whose utilization is being updated.
> 
> This comment seems to need an update due to the smp_processor_id() check
> being moved into this function.

The callers of this have also changed - it is no longer called directly
by update_load_avg(), rather via cfs_rq_util_change() from several other
locations (I believe it was my patch that failed to update this
comment).

Could this be replaced with a more generic statement such as "called by
CFS in various paths?"

thanks,
Steve