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Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency"

From "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency"
Date 2016-07-22 23:50 +0200
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On Friday, July 22, 2016 02:28:52 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 22-07-16, 23:31, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > cpufreq.c
> > > 
> > > 	if (policy->governor->max_transition_latency &&
> > > 	    policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency >
> > > 	    policy->governor->max_transition_latency) {
> > > 
> > > - And this check will always fail, unless max_transition_latency is zero.
> > 
> > Why would it fail?  If governor->max_transition_latency is non-zero, but less
> > than UNIT_MAX, the condition checked will be true to my eyes.
> 
> Bad wording. Sorry.
> 
> I meant, this 'if' check will always succeed (as you also noted), and
> so we will always get the error message reported in this patch.

Not always, but for drivers setting cpuinfo.transition_latency to CPUFREQ_ETERNAL.

Thanks,
Rafael

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[PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of  cpuinfo_transition_latency" Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@suse.com> - 2016-07-22 17:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of  cpuinfo_transition_latency" Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 17:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency" "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-07-22 23:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of  cpuinfo_transition_latency" Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-22 23:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency" "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-07-22 23:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of  cpuinfo_transition_latency" Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-23 01:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency" "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-07-23 01:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of  cpuinfo_transition_latency" Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-07-23 02:00 +0200

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