provide disable_cpufreq() function to disable the API.

useful for disabling cpufreq altogether. The cpu frequency
scaling drivers and cpu frequency governors will fail to register.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 622013fb7890..7f2f149ae40f 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -126,6 +126,15 @@ static int __init init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list(void)
 }
 pure_initcall(init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list);
 
+static int off __read_mostly;
+int cpufreq_disabled(void)
+{
+        return off;
+}
+void disable_cpufreq(void)
+{
+        off = 1;
+}
 static LIST_HEAD(cpufreq_governor_list);
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(cpufreq_governor_mutex);
 
@@ -1441,6 +1450,9 @@ int __cpufreq_driver_target(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 {
         int retval = -EINVAL;
 
+        if (cpufreq_disabled())
+                return -ENODEV;
+
         pr_debug("target for CPU %u: %u kHz, relation %u\n", policy->cpu,
                 target_freq, relation);
         if (cpu_online(policy->cpu) && cpufreq_driver->target)
@@ -1549,6 +1561,9 @@ int cpufreq_register_governor(struct cpufreq_governor *governor)
         if (!governor)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
+        if (cpufreq_disabled())
+                return -ENODEV;
+
         mutex_lock(&cpufreq_governor_mutex);
 
         err = -EBUSY;
@@ -1572,6 +1587,9 @@ void cpufreq_unregister_governor(struct cpufreq_governor *governor)
         if (!governor)
                 return;
 
+        if (cpufreq_disabled())
+                return;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
         for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
                 if (cpu_online(cpu))
@@ -1814,6 +1832,9 @@ int cpufreq_register_driver(struct cpufreq_driver *driver_data)
         unsigned long flags;
         int ret;
 
+        if (cpufreq_disabled())
+                return -ENODEV;
+
         if (!driver_data || !driver_data->verify || !driver_data->init ||
             ((!driver_data->setpolicy) && (!driver_data->target)))
                 return -EINVAL;
@@ -1901,6 +1922,9 @@ static int __init cpufreq_core_init(void)
 {
         int cpu;
 
+        if (cpufreq_disabled())
+                return -ENODEV;
+
         for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
                 per_cpu(cpufreq_policy_cpu, cpu) = -1;
                 init_rwsem(&per_cpu(cpu_policy_rwsem, cpu));