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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/6] drivers base/arch_topology: frequency-invariant load-tracking support
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On 14/06/17 14:08, Vincent Guittot wrote:
> On 14 June 2017 at 09:55, Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 06/12/2017 04:27 PM, Vincent Guittot wrote:
>>> On 8 June 2017 at 09:55, Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> wrote:

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>>
>> Yes, we should free cpus_to_visit if the policy notifier registration
>> fails. But IMHO also, once the parsing of the capacity-dmips-mhz property
>> is done. free cpus_to_visit is only used in the notifier call
>> init_cpu_capacity_callback() after being allocated and initialized in
>> register_cpufreq_notifier().
>>
>> We could add something like this as the first patch of this set. Only
>> mildly tested on Juno. Juri, what do you think?
>>
>> Author: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
>> Date: Tue Jun 13 23:21:59 2017 +0100
>>
>> drivers base/arch_topology: free cpumask cpus_to_visit
>>
>> Free cpumask cpus_to_visit in case registering
>> init_cpu_capacity_notifier has failed or the parsing of the cpu
>> capacity-dmips-mhz property is done. The cpumask cpus_to_visit is
>> only used inside the notifier call init_cpu_capacity_callback.
>>
>> Reported-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
>
> your proposal for freeing cpus_to_visit looks good for me
>
> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>

Thanks.

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>> IMHO, that's not necessary.
>>
>> The transition notifier works completely independent from the policy
>> notifier. In case the latter gets registered correctly and the registration
>> of the former fails, the notifier call of the policy notifier still parses
>> the capacity-dmips-mhz property information and sets per_cpu(max_freq, cpu).
>>
>> The notifier call set_freq_scale_callback() of the transition notifier will
>> not be called so that frequency invariance always returns
>> SCHED_CAPACITY_SCALE.
>>
>> After the policy notifier has finished its work, it schedules
>> parsing_done_work() in which it gets unregistered.
>
> Ok so IIUC, the transition notifier is somehow optional and we still
> have the cpu invariance.
> In this case, you should not return the error code of
> cpufreq_register_notifier(&set_freq_scale_notifier,
> CPUFREQ_TRANSITION_NOTIFIER) as the error code of the
> register_cpufreq_notifier function.
> you should better print a warning like " failed to init frequency
> invariance" and return 0 for register_cpufreq_notifier()

Makes sense. Will change this.

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