linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/15] thermal: qcom: tsens: Add interrupt support

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:20:11 +0530
From:   Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>
To:     Luca Weiss <luca@...tu.xyz>,
        Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@...aro.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Marc Gonzalez <marc.w.gonzalez@...e.fr>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] thermal: qcom: tsens: Add interrupt support

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 3:03 PM Luca Weiss <luca@...tu.xyz> wrote:
>
> On Montag, 29. Juli 2019 11:07:35 CEST Brian Masney wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:58:54PM +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 4:59 PM Brian Masney <masneyb@...tation.org> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 04:40:16PM +0530, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> > > > > How well does cpufreq work on 8974? I haven't looked at it yet but
> > > > > we'll need it for thermal throttling.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure how to tell if the frequency is dynamically changed during
> > > > runtime on arm. x86-64 shows this information in /proc/cpuinfo. Here's
> > >
> > > > the /proc/cpuinfo on the Nexus 5:
> > > Nah. /proc/cpuinfo won't show what we need.
> > >
> > > Try the following:
> > >
> > > $ grep "" /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/*
> > >
> > > More specifically, the following files have the information you need.
> > > Run watch -n1 on them.
> > >
> > > $ grep "" /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy?/scaling_*_freq
> >
> > There's no cpufreq directory on msm8974:
> >
> >     # ls -1 /sys/devices/system/cpu/
> >     cpu0
> >     cpu1
> >     cpu2
> >     cpu3
> >     cpuidle
> >     hotplug
> >     isolated
> >     kernel_max
> >     modalias
> >     offline
> >     online
> >     possible
> >     power
> >     present
> >     smt
> >     uevent
> >
> > I'm using qcom_defconfig.
> >
> > Brian
>
> Hi Brian,
> cpufreq isn't supported on msm8974 yet.
> I have these patches [0] in my tree but I'm not sure they work correctly, but I haven't tested much with them. Feel free to try them on hammerhead.
>
> Luca
>
> [0] https://github.com/z3ntu/linux/compare/b0917f53ada0e929896a094b451219cd8091366e...6459ca6aff498c9d12acd35709b4903effc4c3f8

Niklas is working on refactoring some of the Krait code[1]. I'm not
sure if he looked at 8974 directly as part of the refactor adding him
here to get a better sense of the state of cpufreq on 8974.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/20190726080823.xwhxagv5iuhudmic@vireshk-i7/T/#t