diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a.h b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a.h
index 49c2a3482..02d3ffe07 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a.h
@@ -950,6 +950,7 @@ struct gk20a {
 	struct devfreq *devfreq;
 
 	struct gk20a_scale_profile *scale_profile;
+	unsigned long last_freq;
 
 	struct gk20a_ctxsw_trace *ctxsw_trace;
 	struct gk20a_fecs_trace *fecs_trace;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a_scale.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a_scale.c
index e3b21c5a5..dbc2f06c7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a_scale.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/gk20a/gk20a_scale.c
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static int gk20a_scale_target(struct device *dev, unsigned long *freq,
 		local_freq = max_freq;
 
 	/* Check for duplicate request */
-	if (local_freq == g->devfreq->previous_freq)
+	if (local_freq == g->last_freq)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* set the final frequency */
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ static int gk20a_scale_target(struct device *dev, unsigned long *freq,
 		*freq = platform->clk_get_rate(dev);
 	}
 
+	g->last_freq = *freq;
+
 	/* postscale will only scale emc (dram clock) if evaluating
 	 * gk20a_tegra_get_emc_rate() produces a new or different emc
 	 * target because the load or_and gpufreq has changed */
@@ -259,6 +261,7 @@ void gk20a_scale_resume(struct device *dev)
 	if (!devfreq)
 		return;
 
+	g->last_freq = 0;
 	devfreq_resume_device(devfreq);
 }