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Commit a28b2bfc authored by Ionela Voinescu's avatar Ionela Voinescu Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
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cppc_cpufreq: replace per-cpu data array with a list



The cppc_cpudata per-cpu storage was inefficient (1) additional to causing
functional issues (2) when CPUs are hotplugged out, due to per-cpu data
being improperly initialised.

(1) The amount of information needed for CPPC performance control in its
    cpufreq driver depends on the domain (PSD) coordination type:

    ANY:    One set of CPPC control and capability data (e.g desired
            performance, highest/lowest performance, etc) applies to all
            CPUs in the domain.

    ALL:    Same as ANY. To be noted that this type is not currently
            supported. When supported, information about which CPUs
            belong to a domain is needed in order for frequency change
            requests to be sent to each of them.

    HW:     It's necessary to store CPPC control and capability
            information for all the CPUs. HW will then coordinate the
            performance state based on their limitations and requests.

    NONE:   Same as HW. No HW coordination is expected.

    Despite this, the previous initialisation code would indiscriminately
    allocate memory for all CPUs (all_cpu_data) and unnecessarily
    duplicate performance capabilities and the domain sharing mask and type
    for each possible CPU.

(2) With the current per-cpu structure, when having ANY coordination,
    the cppc_cpudata cpu information is not initialised (will remain 0)
    for all CPUs in a policy, other than policy->cpu. When policy->cpu is
    hotplugged out, the driver will incorrectly use the uninitialised (0)
    value of the other CPUs when making frequency changes. Additionally,
    the previous values stored in the perf_ctrls.desired_perf will be
    lost when policy->cpu changes.

Therefore replace the array of per cpu data with a list. The memory for
each structure is allocated at policy init, where a single structure
can be allocated per policy, not per cpu. In order to accommodate the
struct list_head node in the cppc_cpudata structure, the now unused cpu
and cur_policy variables are removed.

For example, on a arm64 Juno platform with 6 CPUs: (0, 1, 2, 3) in PSD1,
(4, 5) in PSD2 - ANY coordination, the memory allocation comparison shows:

Before patch:

 - ANY coordination:
   total    slack      req alloc/free  caller
       0        0        0     0/1     _kernel_size_le_hi32+0x0xffff800008ff7810
       0        0        0     0/6     _kernel_size_le_hi32+0x0xffff800008ff7808
     128       80       48     1/0     _kernel_size_le_hi32+0x0xffff800008ffc070
     768        0      768     6/0     _kernel_size_le_hi32+0x0xffff800008ffc0e4

After patch:

 - ANY coordination:
    total    slack      req alloc/free  caller
     256        0      256     2/0     _kernel_size_le_hi32+0x0xffff800008fed410
       0        0        0     0/2     _kernel_size_le_hi32+0x0xffff800008fed274

Additional notes:
 - A pointer to the policy's cppc_cpudata is stored in policy->driver_data
 - Driver registration is skipped if _CPC entries are not present.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIonela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMian Yousaf Kaukab <ykaukab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
parent cfdc589f
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