Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] powernv, cpufreq: Add per-core locking to serialize frequency transitions

From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:32:08 +0530

From: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email-masked]>

On POWER systems, the CPU frequency is controlled at a core-level and
hence we need to serialize so that only one of the threads in the core
switches the core's frequency at a time.

Using a global mutex lock would needlessly serialize _all_ frequency
transitions in the system (across all cores). So introduce per-core
locking to enable finer-grained synchronization and thereby enhance
the speed and responsiveness of the cpufreq driver to varying workload
demands.

The design of per-core locking is very simple and straight-forward: we
first define a Per-CPU lock and use the ones that belongs to the first
thread sibling of the core.

cpu_first_thread_sibling() macro is used to find the *common* lock for
all thread siblings belonging to a core.

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c |   21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
index ea3b630..8240e90 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
@@ -24,8 +24,15 @@
 #include <linux/of.h>
 #include <asm/cputhreads.h>
 
-/* FIXME: Make this per-core */
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(freq_switch_mutex);
+/* Per-Core locking for frequency transitions */
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mutex, freq_switch_lock);
+
+#define lock_core_freq(cpu)				\
+			mutex_lock(&per_cpu(freq_switch_lock,\
+				cpu_first_thread_sibling(cpu)));
+#define unlock_core_freq(cpu)				\
+			mutex_unlock(&per_cpu(freq_switch_lock,\
+				cpu_first_thread_sibling(cpu)));
 
 #define POWERNV_MAX_PSTATES	256
 
@@ -219,7 +226,7 @@ static int powernv_cpufreq_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 	freqs.new = powernv_freqs[new_index].frequency;
 	freqs.cpu = policy->cpu;
 
-	mutex_lock(&freq_switch_mutex);
+	lock_core_freq(policy->cpu);
 	cpufreq_notify_transition(policy, &freqs, CPUFREQ_PRECHANGE);
 
 	pr_debug("setting frequency for cpu %d to %d kHz index %d pstate %d",
@@ -231,7 +238,7 @@ static int powernv_cpufreq_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 	rc = powernv_set_freq(policy->cpus, new_index);
 
 	cpufreq_notify_transition(policy, &freqs, CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE);
-	mutex_unlock(&freq_switch_mutex);
+	unlock_core_freq(policy->cpu);
 
 	return rc;
 }
@@ -248,7 +255,7 @@ static struct cpufreq_driver powernv_cpufreq_driver = {
 
 static int __init powernv_cpufreq_init(void)
 {
-	int rc = 0;
+	int cpu, rc = 0;
 
 	/* Discover pstates from device tree and init */
 
@@ -258,6 +265,10 @@ static int __init powernv_cpufreq_init(void)
 		pr_info("powernv-cpufreq disabled\n");
 		return rc;
 	}
+	/* Init per-core mutex */
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		mutex_init(&per_cpu(freq_switch_lock, cpu));
+	}
 
 	rc = cpufreq_register_driver(&powernv_cpufreq_driver);
 	return rc;