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From: Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Apr 25, 2007 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] _TPC support
To: Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 3/20/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:30 +0800, Luming Yu wrote:
> adds _TPC support which support Throttling Present Capabilities
> change for ACPI processor driver
>
> signed-off-by: Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --
>
> drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 4 ++++
> drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c | 30
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> include/acpi/processor.h | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
> b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
> index ddc9e20..b2093ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c
> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_FILE_THROTTLING "
> #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_FILE_LIMIT "limit"
> #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_NOTIFY_PERFORMANCE 0x80
> #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_NOTIFY_POWER 0x81
> +#define ACPI_PROCESSOR_NOTIFY_THROTTLING 0x82
>
> #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_LIMIT_USER 0
> #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_LIMIT_THERMAL 1
> @@ -702,6 +703,9 @@ static void acpi_processor_notify(acpi_h
> acpi_processor_cst_has_changed(pr);
> acpi_bus_generate_event(device, event, 0);
> break;
> + case ACPI_PROCESSOR_NOTIFY_THROTTLING:
> + acpi_processor_tstate_has_changed(pr);
> + acpi_bus_generate_event(device, event, 0);
> default:
> ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO,
> "Unsupported event [0x%x]\n",
> event));
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
> b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
> index b334860..0528b27 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,27 @@ #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_CLASS
> #define _COMPONENT ACPI_PROCESSOR_COMPONENT
> ACPI_MODULE_NAME("processor_throttling");
>
> +static int acpi_processor_get_platform_limit(struct acpi_processor
> *pr)
> +{
> + acpi_status status = 0;
> + unsigned long tpc = 0;
> +
> + if(!pr)
> + return -EINVAL;
> + status = acpi_evaluate_integer(pr->handle, "_TPC", NULL,
> &tpc);
> + if(ACPI_FAILURE(status) && status != AE_NOT_FOUND){
> + ACPI_EXCEPTION((AE_INFO, status, "Evaluating _TPC"));
> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
> + pr->throttling_platform_limit = (int)tpc;
> + return 0;
> +}
I think we should reset throttling here, as limit is changed, previous
throttling setting might not be feasible.
It may make sense to change the current throttling level to be in line
with the changes of the throttling platform limit. Through I expect it
would be initiated from user land (a event has be sent to user space)
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