linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 00/17] thermal: cpu_cooling: improve interaction with cpufreq core

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Message-ID: <20170524024148.GA5004@localhost.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 19:41:49 -0700
From:   Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     Javi Merino <javi.merino@...nel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>,
        linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
        Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@...il.com>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 00/17] thermal: cpu_cooling: improve interaction with
 cpufreq core

Hey,

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 03:57:07PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> The cpu_cooling driver is designed to use CPU frequency scaling to avoid
> high thermal states for a platform. But it wasn't glued really well with
> cpufreq core. For example clipped-cpus is copied from the policy
> structure and its much better to use the policy->cpus (or related_cpus)
> fields directly as they may have got updated. Not that things were
> broken before this series, but they can be optimized a bit more.
> 
> This series tries to improve interactions between cpufreq core and
> cpu_cooling driver and does some fixes/cleanups to the cpu_cooling
> driver.
> 
> I have tested it on ARM 32 (exynos) and 64 bit (hikey) boards (haven't
> tested the power specific bits).
> 
> Lukasz from ARM has been very generous in testing and finding out few
> bugs in the earlier versions and getting those fixed.  He has
> successfully tested the new version on his ARM big LITTLE Juno board.
> 
> Pushed here as well:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vireshk/pm.git thermal/cooling
> 
> V3->V4:


Took this version into my -linus branch for the next merge window.
Including the patch to remove the checkpatch warning. But please send
an extra patch to fix the style pointed on patch 8.


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