cpufreq: Support for fast frequency switching

Modify the ACPI cpufreq driver to provide a method for switching
CPU frequencies from interrupt context and update the cpufreq core
to support that method if available.

Introduce a new cpufreq driver callback, ->fast_switch, to be
invoked for frequency switching from interrupt context by (future)
governors supporting that feature via (new) helper function
cpufreq_driver_fast_switch().

Add two new policy flags, fast_switch_possible, to be set by the
cpufreq driver if fast frequency switching can be used for the
given policy and fast_switch_enabled, to be set by the governor
if it is going to use fast frequency switching for the given
policy.  Also add a helper for setting the latter.

Since fast frequency switching is inherently incompatible with
cpufreq transition notifiers, make it possible to set the
fast_switch_enabled only if there are no transition notifiers
already registered and make the registration of new transition
notifiers fail if fast_switch_enabled is set for at least one
policy.

Implement the ->fast_switch callback in the ACPI cpufreq driver
and make it set fast_switch_possible during policy initialization
as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cpufreq.h b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
index 2b4f248b8ef1..55e69ebb035c 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpufreq.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpufreq.h
@@ -102,6 +102,17 @@ struct cpufreq_policy {
 	 */
 	struct rw_semaphore	rwsem;
 
+	/*
+	 * Fast switch flags:
+	 * - fast_switch_possible should be set by the driver if it can
+	 *   guarantee that frequency can be changed on any CPU sharing the
+	 *   policy and that the change will affect all of the policy CPUs then.
+	 * - fast_switch_enabled is to be set by governors that support fast
+	 *   freqnency switching with the help of cpufreq_enable_fast_switch().
+	 */
+	bool			fast_switch_possible;
+	bool			fast_switch_enabled;
+
 	/* Synchronization for frequency transitions */
 	bool			transition_ongoing; /* Tracks transition status */
 	spinlock_t		transition_lock;
@@ -156,6 +167,7 @@ int cpufreq_get_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, unsigned int cpu);
 int cpufreq_update_policy(unsigned int cpu);
 bool have_governor_per_policy(void);
 struct kobject *get_governor_parent_kobj(struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
+void cpufreq_enable_fast_switch(struct cpufreq_policy *policy);
 #else
 static inline unsigned int cpufreq_get(unsigned int cpu)
 {
@@ -236,6 +248,8 @@ struct cpufreq_driver {
 				  unsigned int relation);	/* Deprecated */
 	int		(*target_index)(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 					unsigned int index);
+	unsigned int	(*fast_switch)(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
+				       unsigned int target_freq);
 	/*
 	 * Only for drivers with target_index() and CPUFREQ_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION
 	 * unset.
@@ -464,6 +478,8 @@ struct cpufreq_governor {
 };
 
 /* Pass a target to the cpufreq driver */
+unsigned int cpufreq_driver_fast_switch(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
+					unsigned int target_freq);
 int cpufreq_driver_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 				 unsigned int target_freq,
 				 unsigned int relation);