cpufreq: Simplify __cpufreq_remove_dev()

__cpufreq_remove_dev() is called on multiple occasions: cpufreq_driver
unregister and cpu removals.

Current implementation of this routine is overly complex without much need. If
the cpu to be removed is the policy->cpu, we remove the policy first and add all
other cpus again from policy->cpus and then finally call __cpufreq_remove_dev()
again to remove the cpu to be deleted. Haahhhh..

There exist a simple solution to removal of a cpu:
- Simply use the old policy structure
- update its fields like: policy->cpu, etc.
- notify any users of cpufreq, which depend on changing policy->cpu

Hence this patch, which tries to implement the above theory. It is tested well
by myself on ARM big.LITTLE TC2 SoC, which has 5 cores (2 A15 and 3 A7). Both
A15's share same struct policy and all A7's share same policy structure.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c b/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
index 49cda25..aa5bd39 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/freq_table.c
@@ -227,6 +227,15 @@ void cpufreq_frequency_table_put_attr(unsigned int cpu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpufreq_frequency_table_put_attr);
 
+void cpufreq_frequency_table_update_policy_cpu(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
+{
+	pr_debug("Updating show_table for new_cpu %u from last_cpu %u\n",
+			policy->cpu, policy->last_cpu);
+	per_cpu(cpufreq_show_table, policy->cpu) = per_cpu(cpufreq_show_table,
+			policy->last_cpu);
+	per_cpu(cpufreq_show_table, policy->last_cpu) = NULL;
+}
+
 struct cpufreq_frequency_table *cpufreq_frequency_get_table(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	return per_cpu(cpufreq_show_table, cpu);