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| author | Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com> | 2021-07-27 13:20:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> | 2021-08-08 20:42:01 +0200 |
| commit | 4b2dc4dbbf9e34af9828e2ccf8d2121f88ad9ab9 (patch) | |
| tree | fea701cbeca0624ac37f303fa3015abceb56fcdc /target/linux/mvebu/patches-5.10 | |
| parent | 0dcb03dc63ebe6477a3bf19347b340564ade82e0 (diff) | |
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mvebu: armada-37xx: add patch to forbid cpufreq for 1.2 GHz
This patch is backported from linux-arm-kernel [1] to improve situation, when
it was reported that 1.2 GHz variant is unstable with DFS.
It waits to be accepted upstream, however, it waits for Marvell people to respond.
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20210630225601.6372-1-kabel@kernel.org/
Fixes: 7b868fe04a89 ("Revert "mvebu: 5.4 fix DVFS caused random boot crashes"")
Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'target/linux/mvebu/patches-5.10')
| -rw-r--r-- | target/linux/mvebu/patches-5.10/101-cpufreq-armada-37xx-forbid-cpufreq-for-1.2-GHz-variant.patch | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/target/linux/mvebu/patches-5.10/101-cpufreq-armada-37xx-forbid-cpufreq-for-1.2-GHz-variant.patch b/target/linux/mvebu/patches-5.10/101-cpufreq-armada-37xx-forbid-cpufreq-for-1.2-GHz-variant.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6a5b8220f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/target/linux/mvebu/patches-5.10/101-cpufreq-armada-37xx-forbid-cpufreq-for-1.2-GHz-variant.patch @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +From: =?utf-8?q?Marek_Beh=C3=BAn?= <kabel@kernel.org> +Subject: [PATCH v2] cpufreq: armada-37xx: forbid cpufreq for 1.2 GHz variant +Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 00:56:01 +0200 + +The 1.2 GHz variant of the Armada 3720 SOC is unstable with DVFS: when +the SOC boots, the WTMI firmware sets clocks and AVS values that work +correctly with 1.2 GHz CPU frequency, but random crashes occur once +cpufreq driver starts scaling. + +We do not know currently what is the reason: +- it may be that the voltage value for L0 for 1.2 GHz variant provided + by the vendor in the OTP is simply incorrect when scaling is used, +- it may be that some delay is needed somewhere, +- it may be something else. + +The most sane solution now seems to be to simply forbid the cpufreq +driver on 1.2 GHz variant. + +Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> +Fixes: 92ce45fb875d ("cpufreq: Add DVFS support for Armada 37xx") +--- + drivers/cpufreq/armada-37xx-cpufreq.c | 6 +++++- + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) + +--- a/drivers/cpufreq/armada-37xx-cpufreq.c ++++ b/drivers/cpufreq/armada-37xx-cpufreq.c +@@ -102,7 +102,11 @@ struct armada_37xx_dvfs { + }; + + static struct armada_37xx_dvfs armada_37xx_dvfs[] = { +- {.cpu_freq_max = 1200*1000*1000, .divider = {1, 2, 4, 6} }, ++ /* ++ * The cpufreq scaling for 1.2 GHz variant of the SOC is currently ++ * unstable because we do not know how to configure it properly. ++ */ ++ /* {.cpu_freq_max = 1200*1000*1000, .divider = {1, 2, 4, 6} }, */ + {.cpu_freq_max = 1000*1000*1000, .divider = {1, 2, 4, 5} }, + {.cpu_freq_max = 800*1000*1000, .divider = {1, 2, 3, 4} }, + {.cpu_freq_max = 600*1000*1000, .divider = {2, 4, 5, 6} }, |