From 1dbf58881f307e21a3df4b990a5bea401360d02e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com" Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:40:52 +0100 Subject: [CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits Dominik said: target_freq cannot be below policy->min or above policy->max. If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken. But (answer): I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is below policy->min. ... A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check: Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger Signed-off-by: Dave Jones # diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c index 4b34ade2332b..bd444dc93cf2 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c @@ -554,6 +554,9 @@ static void dbs_check_cpu(struct cpu_dbs_info_s *this_dbs_info) (dbs_tuners_ins.up_threshold - dbs_tuners_ins.down_differential); + if (freq_next < policy->min) + freq_next = policy->min; + if (!dbs_tuners_ins.powersave_bias) { __cpufreq_driver_target(policy, freq_next, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L); -- cgit v1.2.1