[CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits
authorNagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com <Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com>
Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:40:52 +0000 (23:40 +0100)
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:55:16 +0000 (10:55 -0500)
commit1dbf58881f307e21a3df4b990a5bea401360d02e
treea79f9d4373c88a5451569f56d6b99952e982e832
parent557a701c16553b0b691dbb64ef30361115a80f64
[CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits

Dominik said:
target_freq cannot be below policy->min or above policy->max.
If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken.

But (answer):
I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is
below policy->min.
...
A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency
requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check:

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
# diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c