[PATCH v7 0/6] cpufreq: powernv: Redesign the presentation of throttle notification and solve bug-fixes in the driver

[Balbir Singh]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Shilpasri G Bhat
<shilpa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> In POWER8, OCC(On-Chip-Controller) can throttle the frequency of the
> CPU when the chip crosses its thermal and power limits. Currently,
> powernv-cpufreq driver detects and reports this event as a console
> message. Some machines may not sustain the max turbo frequency in all
> conditions and can be throttled frequently. This can lead to the
> flooding of console with throttle messages. So this patchset aims to
> redesign the presentation of this event via sysfs counters and
> tracepoints. And it also fixes couple of bugs reported in the driver.
>
> - Patch [1] fixes a memory leak bug
> - Patch [2] fixes the cpu hot-plug bug in powernv_cpufreq_work_fn().
> - Patch [3] solves a bug in powernv_cpufreq_throttle_check(), which
>   calls in to cpu_to_chip_id() in hot path which reads DT every time
>   to find the chip id.
> - Patches [4] to [6] will add a perf trace point
>   "power:powernv_throttle" and sysfs throttle counter stats in
>   /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/chipN.
>

Looks good to me. You've got the reviews and acks you need.

Balbir Singh