linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] cpufreq: vexpress: Use auto-registration for energy model

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Date:   Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:36:52 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Lukasz Luba <lukasz.luba@....com>
Cc:     Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@....com>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] cpufreq: vexpress: Use auto-registration for energy
 model

On 10-08-21, 11:05, Lukasz Luba wrote:
> I can see that this driver calls explicitly the
> of_cpufreq_cooling_register()
> It does this in the cpufreq_driver->ready() callback
> implementation: ve_spc_cpufreq_ready()
> 
> With that in mind, the new code in the patch 1/8, which
> registers the EM, should be called even earlier, above:
> ---------------------8<---------------------------------
> /* Callback for handling stuff after policy is ready */
> 	if (cpufreq_driver->ready)
> 		cpufreq_driver->ready(policy);
> ------------------->8----------------------------------

Thanks. I will look at this sequencing issue again.

> This also triggered a question:
> If this new flag can be set in the cpufreq driver which hasn't set
> CPUFREQ_IS_COOLING_DEV
> ?

Why not ?

> I can only see one driver (this one in the patch) which has such
> configuration.

-- 
viresh