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PM/devfreq: governor: Add a private governor_data for governor

Steve Best requested to merge sfbest/centos-stream-9:2212961 into main

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2212961

Build Info: https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=53130361

Tested: Did sanity devfreq testing on (nvidia-jetson-agx-orin-03) system.

commit 5fdded8448924e3631d466eea499b11606c43640 Author: Kant Fan kant@allwinnertech.com Date: Tue Oct 25 15:21:09 2022 +0800

PM/devfreq: governor: Add a private governor_data for governor

The member void *data in the structure devfreq can be overwrite
by governor_userspace. For example:
1. The device driver assigned the devfreq governor to simple_ondemand
by the function devfreq_add_device() and init the devfreq member
void *data to a pointer of a static structure devfreq_simple_ondemand_data
by the function devfreq_add_device().
2. The user changed the devfreq governor to userspace by the command
"echo userspace > /sys/class/devfreq/.../governor".
3. The governor userspace alloced a dynamic memory for the struct
userspace_data and assigend the member void *data of devfreq to
this memory by the function userspace_init().
4. The user changed the devfreq governor back to simple_ondemand
by the command "echo simple_ondemand > /sys/class/devfreq/.../governor".
5. The governor userspace exited and assigned the member void *data
in the structure devfreq to NULL by the function userspace_exit().
6. The governor simple_ondemand fetched the static information of
devfreq_simple_ondemand_data in the function
devfreq_simple_ondemand_func() but the member void *data of devfreq was
assigned to NULL by the function userspace_exit().
7. The information of upthreshold and downdifferential is lost
and the governor simple_ondemand can't work correctly.

The member void *data in the structure devfreq is designed for
a static pointer used in a governor and inited by the function
devfreq_add_device(). This patch add an element named governor_data
in the devfreq structure which can be used by a governor(E.g userspace)
who want to assign a private data to do some private things.

Fixes: ce26c5bb9569 ("PM / devfreq: Add basic governors")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+
Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cwchoi00@gmail.com>
Acked-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kant Fan <kant@allwinnertech.com>
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>

Signed-off-by: Steve Best sbest@redhat.com

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