From: Rafael J. Wysocki Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:45:16 +0000 (-0400) Subject: cpufreq: Make drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL specify transition latency X-Git-Tag: v6.12.54~42 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=81c5d23a297517bd2fcba4adfa7bcbeb70c7f86e;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git cpufreq: Make drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL specify transition latency [ Upstream commit f97aef092e199c10a3da96ae79b571edd5362faa ] Commit a755d0e2d41b ("cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us") caused platforms where cpuinfo.transition_latency is CPUFREQ_ETERNAL to get a very large transition latency whereas previously it had been capped at 10 ms (and later at 2 ms). This led to a user-observable regression between 6.6 and 6.12 as described by Shawn: "The dbs sampling_rate was 10000 us on 6.6 and suddently becomes 6442450 us (4294967295 / 1000 * 1.5) on 6.12 for these platforms because the default transition delay was dropped [...]. It slows down dbs governor's reacting to CPU loading change dramatically. Also, as transition_delay_us is used by schedutil governor as rate_limit_us, it shows a negative impact on device idle power consumption, because the device gets slightly less time in the lowest OPP." Evidently, the expectation of the drivers using CPUFREQ_ETERNAL as cpuinfo.transition_latency was that it would be capped by the core, but they may as well return a default transition latency value instead of CPUFREQ_ETERNAL and the core need not do anything with it. Accordingly, introduce CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS and make all of the drivers in question use it instead of CPUFREQ_ETERNAL. Also update the related Rust binding. Fixes: a755d0e2d41b ("cpufreq: Honour transition_latency over transition_delay_us") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20250922125929.453444-1-shawnguo2@yeah.net/ Reported-by: Shawn Guo Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) Reviewed-by: Jie Zhan Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Cc: 6.6+ # 6.6+ Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2264949.irdbgypaU6@rafael.j.wysocki [ rjw: Fix typo in new symbol name, drop redundant type cast from Rust binding ] Tested-by: Shawn Guo # with cpufreq-dt driver Reviewed-by: Qais Yousef Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [ omitted Rust changes ] Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c index 983443396f8f2..30e1b64d0558f 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq-dt.c @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static int cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy) transition_latency = dev_pm_opp_get_max_transition_latency(cpu_dev); if (!transition_latency) - transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS; cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, priv->cpus); policy->driver_data = priv; diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c index c20d3ecc5a81e..33c1df7f683e4 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/imx6q-cpufreq.c @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ soc_opp_out: } if (of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-latency", &transition_latency)) - transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS; /* * Calculate the ramp time for max voltage change in the diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c b/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c index aeb5e63045421..1f1ec43aad7ca 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/mediatek-cpufreq-hw.c @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int mtk_cpufreq_hw_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy) latency = readl_relaxed(data->reg_bases[REG_FREQ_LATENCY]) * 1000; if (!latency) - latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS; policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency; policy->fast_switch_possible = true; diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c index a2ec1addafc93..bb265541671a5 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/scmi-cpufreq.c @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int scmi_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy) latency = perf_ops->transition_latency_get(ph, domain); if (!latency) - latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS; policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency; diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c index a191d9bdf667a..bdbc3923629e7 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/scpi-cpufreq.c @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static int scpi_cpufreq_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy) latency = scpi_ops->get_transition_latency(cpu_dev); if (!latency) - latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS; policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = latency; diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c index d8ab5b01d46d0..c032dd5d12d3c 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/spear-cpufreq.c @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int spear_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) if (of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-latency", &spear_cpufreq.transition_latency)) - spear_cpufreq.transition_latency = CPUFREQ_ETERNAL; + spear_cpufreq.transition_latency = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS; cnt = of_property_count_u32_elems(np, "cpufreq_tbl"); if (cnt <= 0) { diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h index a604c54ae44da..794e38320f568 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h +++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h @@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ */ #define CPUFREQ_ETERNAL (-1) + +#define CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_TRANSITION_LATENCY_NS NSEC_PER_MSEC + #define CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN 16 /* Print length for names. Extra 1 space for accommodating '\n' in prints */ #define CPUFREQ_NAME_PLEN (CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN + 1)