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cpufreq: Select schedutil when using big.LITTLE
When we are using a system with big.LITTLE HMP configuration, we need to use EAS to schedule the system. As can be seen from kernel/sched/topology.c: "EAS can be used on a root domain if it meets all the following conditions: 1. an Energy Model (EM) is available; 2. the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag is set in the sched_domain hierarchy. 3. no SMT is detected. 4. the EM complexity is low enough to keep scheduling overheads low; 5. schedutil is driving the frequency of all CPUs of the rd;" This means that at the very least, schedutil needs to be available as a scheduling policy for EAS to work on these systems. Make this explicit by defaulting to the schedutil governor if BIG_LITTLE is selected. Currently users of the TC2 board (like me) has to figure these dependencies out themselves and it is not helpful. Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]> Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <[email protected]> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
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drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig

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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ config CPU_FREQ_STAT
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prompt "Default CPUFreq governor"
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default CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE if ARM_SA1100_CPUFREQ || ARM_SA1110_CPUFREQ
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default CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_SCHEDUTIL if BIG_LITTLE
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default CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_SCHEDUTIL if X86_INTEL_PSTATE && SMP
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default CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE
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