cpufreq: add function to get the hardware max frequency
authorIonela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Thu, 5 Mar 2020 09:06:25 +0000 (09:06 +0000)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 6 Mar 2020 16:02:50 +0000 (16:02 +0000)
commitbbce8eaa603236bf958b0d24e6377b3f3b623991
tree496e87419e608317e2ac43a45ca53b66dbcdebc1
parent6abde90881a5ea3a383c0959fdd7f575f95db4b3
cpufreq: add function to get the hardware max frequency

Add weak function to return the hardware maximum frequency of a CPU,
with the default implementation returning cpuinfo.max_freq, which is
the best information we can generically get from the cpufreq framework.

The default can be overwritten by a strong function in platforms
that want to provide an alternative implementation, with more accurate
information, obtained either from hardware or firmware.

Signed-off-by: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
include/linux/cpufreq.h