Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Work around for Hisilicon CPPC cpufreq

[Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>]

On 2019/2/14 19:39, John Garry wrote:
> On 14/02/2019 07:46, Xiongfeng Wang wrote:
>> Hisilicon chips do not support delivered performance counter register
>> and reference performance counter register. But the platform can
>> calculate the real performance using its own method. This patch provide
>> a workaround for this problem, and other platforms can also use this
>> workaround framework. We reuse the desired performance register to
>> store the real performance calculated by the platform. After the
>> platform finished the frequency adjust, it gets the real performance and
>> writes it into desired performance register. OS can use it to calculate
>> the real frequency.
>>
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> It would be convenient for reviewers to detail what changed between versions in future.

Thanks, I will add changelog next time.

Xiongfeng

> 
> John
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>> Xiongfeng Wang (2):
>>   ACPI / CPPC: Add a helper to get desired performance
>>   cpufreq / cppc: Work around for Hisilicon CPPC cpufreq
>>
>>  drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c       | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/acpi/cppc_acpi.h       |  1 +
>>  3 files changed, 109 insertions(+)
>>
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