linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] arm64: topology: Remove redundant housekeeping_cpu() checks in arch_freq_get_on

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Message-ID: <20251104075544.3243606-4-yubowen8@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 15:55:44 +0800
From: Bowen Yu <yubowen8@...wei.com>
To: <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<catalin.marinas@....com>, <will@...nel.org>, <beata.michalska@....com>,
	<ptsm@...ux.microsoft.com>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
	<jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>
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	<wanghuiqiang@...wei.com>, <xuwei5@...wei.com>, <zhenglifeng1@...wei.com>,
	<yubowen8@...wei.com>, <zhangpengjie2@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] arm64: topology: Remove redundant housekeeping_cpu() checks in arch_freq_get_on_cpu

This patch removes redundant !housekeeping_cpu() check since it is
inherently done when checking jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Bowen Yu <yubowen8@...wei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
index f1370a4a4df9..6981ef3019d3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
@@ -310,20 +310,13 @@ int arch_freq_get_on_cpu(int cpu)
 		 * (and thus freq scale), if available, for given policy: this boils
 		 * down to identifying an active cpu within the same freq domain, if any.
 		 */
-		if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_TICK) ||
-		    time_is_before_jiffies(last_update + msecs_to_jiffies(AMU_SAMPLE_EXP_MS))) {
+		if (time_is_before_jiffies(last_update + msecs_to_jiffies(AMU_SAMPLE_EXP_MS))) {
 			struct cpufreq_policy *policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(cpu);
 			int ref_cpu;
 
 			if (!policy)
 				return -EINVAL;
 
-			if (!cpumask_intersects(policy->related_cpus,
-						housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_TICK))) {
-				cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
-				return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-			}
-
 			for_each_cpu_wrap(ref_cpu, policy->cpus, cpu + 1) {
 				if (ref_cpu == start_cpu) {
 					/* Prevent verifying same CPU twice */
-- 
2.33.0