Re: [PATCH V3 10/15] cpufreq: mediatek: Add counter to prevent infinite loop when tracking voltage

[AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>]

Il 15/04/22 08:14, Hsin-Yi Wang ha scritto:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 1:59 PM Rex-BC Chen <rex-bc.chen@mediatek.com> wrote:
>>
>> To prevent infinite loop when tracking voltage, we calculate the maximum
>> value for each platform data.
>> We assume min voltage is 0 and tracking target voltage using
>> min_volt_shift for each iteration.
>> The retry_max is 3 times of expeted iteration count.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rex-BC Chen <rex-bc.chen@mediatek.com>

I'm sorry Rex, but this commit has to be squashed with 09/15, as the logic is
that each commit has to be acceptable, and 09/15 is not, without this fix.

Besides, as Hsin-Yi suggested, calculating this every time may hit performance,
but at the same time I don't want to lose this explicit calculation...

>> ---
>>   drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq.c
>> index cc44a7a9427a..d4c00237e862 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq.c
>> @@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ static int mtk_cpufreq_voltage_tracking(struct mtk_cpu_dvfs_info *info,
>>          struct regulator *proc_reg = info->proc_reg;
>>          struct regulator *sram_reg = info->sram_reg;
>>          int pre_vproc, pre_vsram, new_vsram, vsram, vproc, ret;
>> +       int retry_max;
>> +
>> +       /*
>> +        * We assume min voltage is 0 and tracking target voltage using
>> +        * min_volt_shift for each iteration.
>> +        * The retry_max is 3 times of expeted iteration count.
>> +        */
>> +       retry_max = 3 * DIV_ROUND_UP(max(info->soc_data->sram_max_volt,
>> +                                        info->soc_data->proc_max_volt),
>> +                                    info->soc_data->min_volt_shift);
> 
> mtk_cpufreq_voltage_tracking() will be called very frequently.
> retry_max is the same every time mtk_cpufreq_voltage_tracking() is
> called. Is it better to calculate before and store in
> mtk_cpu_dvfs_info?
> 

...so I agree with this solution: perhaps you can add a "vtrack_max" variable to
mtk_cpu_dvfs_info as suggested, and fill in that one in function
mtk_cpu_dvfs_info_init(), where we effectively initialize all-the-things.

Cheers,
Angelo