Added DVFS CPU hot-plug driver for EXYNOS4x12#19
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mdrjr merged 1 commit intohardkernel:odroid-3.8.yfrom Apr 18, 2013
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Added DVFS CPU hot-plug driver for EXYNOS4x12#19mdrjr merged 1 commit intohardkernel:odroid-3.8.yfrom
mdrjr merged 1 commit intohardkernel:odroid-3.8.yfrom
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Driver launches a repeatitive timer event, and watches policy and fequency changes in order to deploy cpu hot-plugging for power saving.
Have tunables to tune the hotplug policy in minimal level.
TODO: tunables will be exported to sysfs for easy userland reconfiguration.
TODO: anticipation step can be improved.
ISSUES: Current cpuidle driver on EXYNOS have extra "POWER DOWN" state for cpu0 when all other cores are down! So if hotplug driver shuts down all cores except core0, then system tries to put cpu0 into power down mode which results in oops. There are two ways to overcome that: 1- setting cpu_min_count of this hotplug driver's tunable to 2, 2- removing this extra state from exynos cpuidle driver. I choosed the first option to be not intrusive at the moment. However tried second approach and it works fine too.