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authorVenki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2007-06-20 23:24:52 +0200
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2007-06-21 18:57:53 +0200
commit0af99b13c9f323e658b4f1d69a1ccae7d6f3f80a (patch)
tree531d6ae823c0e7facfd375106f79c213c4a1290b /drivers/cpufreq
parent[CPUFREQ] Keep userspace governor quiet when it is not being used (diff)
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[CPUFREQ] ondemand: add a check to avoid negative load calculation
Due to rounding and inexact jiffy accounting, idle_ticks can sometimes be higher than total_ticks. Make sure those cases are handled as zero load case. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpufreq')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
index 8532bb79e5fc..dc6f357390e2 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static struct attribute_group dbs_attr_group = {
static void dbs_check_cpu(struct cpu_dbs_info_s *this_dbs_info)
{
unsigned int idle_ticks, total_ticks;
- unsigned int load;
+ unsigned int load = 0;
cputime64_t cur_jiffies;
struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ static void dbs_check_cpu(struct cpu_dbs_info_s *this_dbs_info)
if (tmp_idle_ticks < idle_ticks)
idle_ticks = tmp_idle_ticks;
}
- load = (100 * (total_ticks - idle_ticks)) / total_ticks;
+ if (likely(total_ticks > idle_ticks))
+ load = (100 * (total_ticks - idle_ticks)) / total_ticks;
/* Check for frequency increase */
if (load > dbs_tuners_ins.up_threshold) {