From: Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com <Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:40:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc8~39^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1dbf58881f307e21a3df4b990a5bea401360d02e;p=pandora-kernel.git

[CPUFREQ] Fix ondemand to not request targets outside policy limits

Dominik said:
target_freq cannot be below policy->min or above policy->max.
If it were, the whole cpufreq subsystem is broken.

But (answer):
I think the "ondemand" governor can ask for a target frequency that is
below policy->min.
...
A patch such as below may be needed to sanitize the target frequency
requested by "ondemand". The "conservative" governor already has this check:

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

# diff -bur x/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c.orig y/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
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