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    PM / devfreq: Add cpu based scaling support to passive governor · a03dacb0
    Saravana Kannan authored
    Many CPU architectures have caches that can scale independent of the
    CPUs. Frequency scaling of the caches is necessary to make sure that the
    cache is not a performance bottleneck that leads to poor performance and
    power. The same idea applies for RAM/DDR.
    
    To achieve this, this patch adds support for cpu based scaling to the
    passive governor. This is accomplished by taking the current frequency
    of each CPU frequency domain and then adjust the frequency of the cache
    (or any devfreq device) based on the frequency of the CPUs. It listens
    to CPU frequency transition notifiers to keep itself up to date on the
    current CPU frequency.
    
    To decide the frequency of the device, the governor does one of the
    following:
    * Derives the optimal devfreq device opp from required-opps property of
      the parent cpu opp_table.
    
    * Scales the device frequency in proportion to the CPU frequency. So, if
      the CPUs are running at their max frequency, the device runs at its
      max frequency. If the CPUs are running at their min frequency, the
      device runs at its min frequency. It is interpolated for frequencies
      in between.
    Tested-by: default avatarChen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarJohnson Wang <johnson.wang@mediatek.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSaravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
    [Sibi: Integrated cpu-freqmap governor into passive_governor]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSibi Sankar <sibis@codeaurora.org>
    [Chanwoo: Fix conflict with latest code and cleanup code]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
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