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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:34:51 +0530
From:   Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@....com>
To:     Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@....com>, rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com,
        ray.huang@....com, viresh.kumar@...aro.org,
        Mario.Limonciello@....com
Cc:     Nathan.Fontenot@....com, Alexander.Deucher@....com,
        Deepak.Sharma@....com, Shimmer.Huang@....com, Li.Meng@....com,
        Xiaojian.Du@....com, gautham.shenoy@....com,
        ananth.narayan@....com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] cpufreq: amd-pstate: change amd-pstate driver to be
 built-in type



On 11/17/2022 8:19 AM, Perry Yuan wrote:
> Currently when the amd-pstate and acpi_cpufreq are both built into
> kernel as module driver, amd-pstate will not be loaded by default
> in this case.
> 
> Change amd-pstate driver as built-in type, it will resolve the loading
> sequence problem to allow user to make amd-pstate driver as the default
> cpufreq scaling driver.
> 
> Fixes: ec437d71db77 ("cpufreq: amd-pstate: Introduce a new AMD P-State driver to support future processors")
> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@....com>

Tested-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@....com>

> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.x86  |  2 +-
>  drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 11 +----------
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.x86 b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.x86
> index 310779b07daf..00476e94db90 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.x86
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.x86
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ config X86_PCC_CPUFREQ
>  	  If in doubt, say N.
>  
>  config X86_AMD_PSTATE
> -	tristate "AMD Processor P-State driver"
> +	bool "AMD Processor P-State driver"
>  	depends on X86 && ACPI
>  	select ACPI_PROCESSOR
>  	select ACPI_CPPC_LIB if X86_64
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> index d844c6f97caf..701f49d6d240 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> @@ -663,16 +663,7 @@ static int __init amd_pstate_init(void)
>  
>  	return ret;
>  }
> -
> -static void __exit amd_pstate_exit(void)
> -{
> -	cpufreq_unregister_driver(&amd_pstate_driver);
> -
> -	amd_pstate_enable(false);
> -}
> -
> -module_init(amd_pstate_init);
> -module_exit(amd_pstate_exit);
> +device_initcall(amd_pstate_init);
>  
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("AMD Processor P-state Frequency Driver");

-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Wyes