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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt index 7fedc00..555c8cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt @@ -153,10 +153,13 @@ scaling_governor, and by "echoing" the name of another that some governors won't load - they only work on some specific architectures or processors. -scaling_min_freq and +scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq show the current "policy limits" (in kHz). By echoing new values into these files, you can change these limits. + NOTE: when setting a policy you need to + first set scaling_max_freq, then + scaling_min_freq. If you have selected the "userspace" governor which allows you to diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c index bc1088d..ad996c7 100644 --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -1343,6 +1343,11 @@ static int __cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *data, struct cpufreq_poli memcpy(&policy->cpuinfo, &data->cpuinfo, sizeof(struct cpufreq_cpuinfo)); + if (policy->min > data->min && policy->min > policy->max) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto error_out; + } + /* verify the cpu speed can be set within this limit */ ret = cpufreq_driver->verify(policy); if (ret) |
