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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2016-05-31 22:14:44 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2016-06-02 23:24:41 +0200
commit1aefc75b2449eb68a6fc3ca932e2a4ee353b748d (patch)
treedff2ffcc2d7738bcc93bb968f4d370996c63f9c2 /drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
parent910c6e881c3a610dfd7575b96975d4df21e3a920 (diff)
downloadlinux-1aefc75b2449eb68a6fc3ca932e2a4ee353b748d.tar.bz2
cpufreq: stats: Make the stats code non-modular
The modularity of cpufreq_stats is quite problematic. First off, the usage of policy notifiers for the initialization and cleanup in the cpufreq_stats module is inherently racy with respect to CPU offline/online and the initialization and cleanup of the cpufreq driver. Second, fast frequency switching (used by the schedutil governor) cannot be enabled if any transition notifiers are registered, so if the cpufreq_stats module (that registers a transition notifier for updating transition statistics) is loaded, the schedutil governor cannot use fast frequency switching. On the other hand, allowing cpufreq_stats to be built as a module doesn't really add much value. Arguably, there's not much reason for that code to be modular at all. For the above reasons, make the cpufreq stats code non-modular, modify the core to invoke functions provided by that code directly and drop the notifiers from it. Make the stats sysfs attributes appear empty if fast frequency switching is enabled as the statistics will not be updated in that case anyway (and returning -EBUSY from those attributes breaks powertop). While at it, clean up Kconfig help for the CPU_FREQ_STAT and CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS options. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig13
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
index b7445b6ae5a4..c822d72629d5 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig
@@ -31,23 +31,18 @@ config CPU_FREQ_BOOST_SW
depends on THERMAL
config CPU_FREQ_STAT
- tristate "CPU frequency translation statistics"
+ bool "CPU frequency transition statistics"
default y
help
- This driver exports CPU frequency statistics information through sysfs
- file system.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called cpufreq_stats.
+ Export CPU frequency statistics information through sysfs.
If in doubt, say N.
config CPU_FREQ_STAT_DETAILS
- bool "CPU frequency translation statistics details"
+ bool "CPU frequency transition statistics details"
depends on CPU_FREQ_STAT
help
- This will show detail CPU frequency translation table in sysfs file
- system.
+ Show detailed CPU frequency transition table in sysfs.
If in doubt, say N.