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authorDragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>2024-06-17 23:22:02 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-08-14 16:34:35 +0300
commitab023247c809da1a077b2562e81508721cce6d5b (patch)
tree012f8a6807ef93aa066e36529d672eee56778eb0
parentdc0027ff578d0dade4c998a65edc8b90e750d9e7 (diff)
downloadlinux-ab023247c809da1a077b2562e81508721cce6d5b.tar.xz
drm/lima: Mark simple_ondemand governor as softdep
commit 0c94f58cef319ad054fd909b3bf4b7d09c03e11c upstream. Lima DRM driver uses devfreq to perform DVFS, while using simple_ondemand devfreq governor by default. This causes driver initialization to fail on boot when simple_ondemand governor isn't built into the kernel statically, as a result of the missing module dependency and, consequently, the required governor module not being included in the initial ramdisk. Thus, let's mark simple_ondemand governor as a softdep for Lima, to have its kernel module included in the initial ramdisk. This is a rather longstanding issue that has forced distributions to build devfreq governors statically into their kernels, [1][2] or may have forced some users to introduce unnecessary workarounds. Having simple_ondemand marked as a softdep for Lima may not resolve this issue for all Linux distributions. In particular, it will remain unresolved for the distributions whose utilities for the initial ramdisk generation do not handle the available softdep information [3] properly yet. However, some Linux distributions already handle softdeps properly while generating their initial ramdisks, [4] and this is a prerequisite step in the right direction for the distributions that don't handle them properly yet. [1] https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/core/linux-pinephone/-/blob/6.7-megi/config?ref_type=heads#L5749 [2] https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/blob/7f64e287e7732c9eaa029653e73ca3d4ba1c8598/main/linux-postmarketos-allwinner/config-postmarketos-allwinner.aarch64#L4654 [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/commit/?id=49d8e0b59052999de577ab732b719cfbeb89504d [4] https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/commit/97ac4d37aae084a050be512f6d8f4489054668ad Cc: Philip Muller <philm@manjaro.org> Cc: Oliver Smith <ollieparanoid@postmarketos.org> Cc: Daniel Smith <danct12@disroot.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1996970773a3 ("drm/lima: Add optional devfreq and cooling device support") Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> Signed-off-by: Qiang Yu <yuq825@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/fdaf2e41bb6a0c5118ff9cc21f4f62583208d885.1718655070.git.dsimic@manjaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c
index 739c865b556f..10bce18b7c31 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/lima/lima_drv.c
@@ -501,3 +501,4 @@ module_platform_driver(lima_platform_driver);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Lima Project Developers");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Lima DRM Driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: governor_simpleondemand");