On 27 April 2015 at 15:21, Sudeep Holla <[email protected]> wrote:
> The actual frequency is set through "clk_change_rate" which is void
> function. If the underlying hardware fails and returns error, the error
> is lost in the clk layer. In order to track such failures, we need to
> read back the frequency(just the cached value as clk_recalc called after
> clk->ops->set_rate gets the frequency)
>
> This patch adds check to see if the frequency is set correctly or if
> they were any hardware failures and sends the appropriate errors to the
> cpufreq core.
>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Turquette <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c 
> b/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c
> index e1a6ba66a7f5..f65e19f340d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/arm_big_little.c
> @@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ bL_cpufreq_set_rate(u32 cpu, u32 old_cluster, u32 
> new_cluster, u32 rate)
>                 mutex_unlock(&cluster_lock[old_cluster]);
>         }
>
> +       /*
> +        * FIXME: clk_set_rate has to handle the case where clk_change_rate
> +        * can fail due to hardware or firmware issues. Until the clk core
> +        * layer is fixed, we can check here. In most of the cases we will
> +        * be reading only the cached value anyway. This needs to  be removed
> +        * once clk core is fixed.
> +        */
> +       if (bL_cpufreq_get_rate(cpu) != new_rate)
> +               return -EIO;
>         return 0;
>  }

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
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