cpufreq: speedstep-smi: enable interrupts when waiting
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:38:17 +0000 (13:38 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 6 Mar 2015 22:40:48 +0000 (14:40 -0800)
commitea9bc74573040bb38b143a743281bc808a2136ba
treecfb51c84b5ea2500bb953d9bfb0246a3ee1d84ff
parentc1b940de40bc1cc28dbbe41c7416ef5031e093f8
cpufreq: speedstep-smi: enable interrupts when waiting

commit d4d4eda23794c701442e55129dd4f8f2fefd5e4d upstream.

On Dell Latitude C600 laptop with Pentium 3 850MHz processor, the
speedstep-smi driver sometimes loads and sometimes doesn't load with
"change to state X failed" message.

The hardware sometimes refuses to change frequency and in this case, we
need to retry later. I found out that we need to enable interrupts while
waiting. When we enable interrupts, the hardware blockage that prevents
frequency transition resolves and the transition is possible. With
disabled interrupts, the blockage doesn't resolve (no matter how long do
we wait). The exact reasons for this hardware behavior are unknown.

This patch enables interrupts in the function speedstep_set_state that can
be called with disabled interrupts. However, this function is called with
disabled interrupts only from speedstep_get_freqs, so it shouldn't cause
any problem.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c
drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c