[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}

The same info can be obtained via the transition_latency sysfs file

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
index 5b0cfa67aff9c89ebc6d0f9dd4d467e8be8ae71f..9b1851297d4e253313b12a26577829db8df69d89 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
@@ -119,8 +119,14 @@ want the kernel to look at the CPU usage and to make decisions on
 what to do about the frequency.  Typically this is set to values of
 around '10000' or more.
 
-show_sampling_rate_(min|max): the minimum and maximum sampling rates
-available that you may set 'sampling_rate' to.
+show_sampling_rate_(min|max): THIS INTERFACE IS DEPRECATED, DON'T USE IT.
+You can use wider ranges now and the general
+cpuinfo_transition_latency variable (cmp. with user-guide.txt) can be
+used to obtain exactly the same info:
+show_sampling_rate_min = transtition_latency * 500    / 1000
+show_sampling_rate_max = transtition_latency * 500000 / 1000
+(divided by 1000 is to illustrate that sampling rate is in us and
+transition latency is exported ns).
 
 up_threshold: defines what the average CPU usage between the samplings
 of 'sampling_rate' needs to be for the kernel to make a decision on

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
index c6b3c6a02fc9ca957ca0211d6331d7a66ca30b88..0912d7ca8cd7285f80a664e0f6acb365bd58f573 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_conservative.c
@@ -140,11 +140,26 @@ static struct notifier_block dbs_cpufreq_notifier_block = {
 /************************** sysfs interface ************************/
 static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_max(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
 {
+       static int print_once;
+
+       if (!print_once) {
+               printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: conservative sampling_rate_max "
+                      "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n",
+                      current->comm);
+               print_once = 1;
+       }
        return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MAX_SAMPLING_RATE);
 }
 
 static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_min(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
 {
+       static int print_once;
+
+       if (!print_once) {
+               printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: conservative sampling_rate_max "
+                      "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n", current->comm);
+               print_once = 1;
+       }
        return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MIN_SAMPLING_RATE);
 }
 

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
index 1fa4420eb33c71a3414825c582e89760ef1155aa..32ddeaa42244465ecb187a32763615f89bcfad42 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
 #include <linux/tick.h>
 #include <linux/ktime.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 
 /*
  * dbs is used in this file as a shortform for demandbased switching
@@ -203,11 +204,27 @@ static void ondemand_powersave_bias_init(void)
 /************************** sysfs interface ************************/
 static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_max(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
 {
+       static int print_once;
+
+       if (!print_once) {
+               printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: ondemand sampling_rate_max "
+                      "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n",
+                      current->comm);
+               print_once = 1;
+       }
        return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MAX_SAMPLING_RATE);
 }
 
 static ssize_t show_sampling_rate_min(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, char *buf)
 {
+       static int print_once;
+
+       if (!print_once) {
+               printk(KERN_INFO "CPUFREQ: ondemand sampling_rate_min "
+                      "sysfs file is deprecated - used by: %s\n",
+                      current->comm);
+               print_once = 1;
+       }
        return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", MIN_SAMPLING_RATE);
 }