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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 2/5] ACPI / processor: always compile perflib if CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR
On 2015年05月07日 02:36, Ashwin Chaugule wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 6 May 2015 at 10:31, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> wrote:
>> Similar to the idle, thermal and throttling libraries, always compile
>> the perflib if CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR is enabled. This not only makes
>> perflib alligned with other libraries but also helps in some sanity
>> testing of these ACPI methods even when a particular feature is not
>> enabled in the kernel configuration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/acpi/Makefile | 2 +-
>> include/acpi/processor.h | 29 -----------------------------
>> include/linux/cpufreq.h | 4 ++++
>> 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> index 8a063e276530..33aef9d8b260 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
>> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BGRT) += bgrt.o
>> # processor has its own "processor." module_param namespace
>> processor-y := processor_driver.o processor_throttling.o
>> processor-y += processor_idle.o processor_thermal.o
>> -processor-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ) += processor_perflib.o
>> +processor-y += processor_perflib.o
>
> I'd prefer that we create a separate kconfig option for this. (perhaps
> even default it to 'y'). This library is quite specific to a certain
> type of CPU performance management methods (includes _PSS and friends)
> which are superseded by CPPC. The OS is not expected to support both
> at runtime, so by keeping this a config option, we can then disable it
> at compile time when CPPC is enabled. We could couple

I agree. CPPC and _PSS are different way of controlling CPU freq,
and I think _PSS may not be used on ARM.

Thanks
Hanjun


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