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

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Message-ID: <20170524035352.GO6510@vireshk-i7>
Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 09:23:52 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>
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

On 23-05-17, 19:41, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Eduardo.

But I am not sure what's left there to be fixed :(

There were two warnings with patch 8, s/kmalloc/kmalloc_array and line
over 80 columns and both were fixed by the patch I sent separately.

-- 
viresh