This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cpufreq: speedstep-smi: enable interrupts when waiting
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cpufreq-speedstep-smi-enable-interrupts-when-waiting.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From d4d4eda23794c701442e55129dd4f8f2fefd5e4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:38:17 -0500
Subject: cpufreq: speedstep-smi: enable interrupts when waiting
From: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
commit d4d4eda23794c701442e55129dd4f8f2fefd5e4d upstream.
On Dell Latitude C600 laptop with Pentium 3 850MHz processor, the
speedstep-smi driver sometimes loads and sometimes doesn't load with
"change to state X failed" message.
The hardware sometimes refuses to change frequency and in this case, we
need to retry later. I found out that we need to enable interrupts while
waiting. When we enable interrupts, the hardware blockage that prevents
frequency transition resolves and the transition is possible. With
disabled interrupts, the blockage doesn't resolve (no matter how long do
we wait). The exact reasons for this hardware behavior are unknown.
This patch enables interrupts in the function speedstep_set_state that can
be called with disabled interrupts. However, this function is called with
disabled interrupts only from speedstep_get_freqs, so it shouldn't cause
any problem.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c | 3 +++
drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ unsigned int speedstep_get_freqs(enum sp
pr_debug("previous speed is %u\n", prev_speed);
+ preempt_disable();
local_irq_save(flags);
/* switch to low state */
@@ -464,6 +465,8 @@ unsigned int speedstep_get_freqs(enum sp
out:
local_irq_restore(flags);
+ preempt_enable();
+
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(speedstep_get_freqs);
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ static void speedstep_set_state(unsigned
return;
/* Disable IRQs */
+ preempt_disable();
local_irq_save(flags);
command = (smi_sig & 0xffffff00) | (smi_cmd & 0xff);
@@ -166,9 +167,19 @@ static void speedstep_set_state(unsigned
do {
if (retry) {
+ /*
+ * We need to enable interrupts, otherwise the blockage
+ * won't resolve.
+ *
+ * We disable preemption so that other processes don't
+ * run. If other processes were running, they could
+ * submit more DMA requests, making the blockage worse.
+ */
pr_debug("retry %u, previous result %u, waiting...\n",
retry, result);
+ local_irq_enable();
mdelay(retry * 50);
+ local_irq_disable();
}
retry++;
__asm__ __volatile__(
@@ -185,6 +196,7 @@ static void speedstep_set_state(unsigned
/* enable IRQs */
local_irq_restore(flags);
+ preempt_enable();
if (new_state == state)
pr_debug("change to %u MHz succeeded after %u tries "
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.18/cpufreq-speedstep-smi-enable-interrupts-when-waiting.patch
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