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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:20:51 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] ACPI: add "processor.broadcast_ppc" hook to
 broadcast _PPC to all online CPUs

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:16 AM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On 09-02-19, 20:02, Chen Yu wrote:
> > On Dell Inc. XPS13 9333, the BIOS changes the value of
> > MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_TURBO_DISABLE at runtime (e.g., when
> > the power source changes), the maximum frequency of the
> > CPU is not updated accordingly. This is due to the policy's
> > cpuinfo.max is not updated when _PPC notifier fires.
> >
> > Fix this problem by updating the policy's cpuinfo.max
> > and broadcast the _PPC notifier to all online CPUs.
> >
> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200759
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>
> > Originally-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> >  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c        |  2 ++
> >  drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c   | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> >  3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
> > index a303fd0e108c..737dbf5aa7f7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
> > @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ module_param(ignore_ppc, int, 0644);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_ppc, "If the frequency of your machine gets wrongly" \
> >                "limited by BIOS, this should help");
> >
> > +static int broadcast_ppc;
> > +module_param(broadcast_ppc, int, 0644);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(broadcast_ppc, "Broadcast the ppc to all online CPUs");
> > +
> >  #define PPC_REGISTERED   1
> >  #define PPC_IN_USE       2
> >
> > @@ -180,8 +184,16 @@ void acpi_processor_ppc_has_changed(struct acpi_processor *pr, int event_flag)
> >               else
> >                       acpi_processor_ppc_ost(pr->handle, 0);
> >       }
> > -     if (ret >= 0)
> > -             cpufreq_update_policy(pr->id);
> > +     if (ret >= 0) {
> > +             if (broadcast_ppc) {
> > +                     int cpu;
> > +
> > +                     for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> > +                             cpufreq_update_policy(cpu);
> > +             } else {
> > +                     cpufreq_update_policy(pr->id);
> > +             }
> > +     }
> >  }
> >
> >  int acpi_processor_get_bios_limit(int cpu, unsigned int *limit)
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > index e35a886e00bc..95e08816b512 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
> > @@ -2237,6 +2237,8 @@ static int cpufreq_set_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
> >
> >       policy->min = new_policy->min;
> >       policy->max = new_policy->max;
> > +     policy->cpuinfo.max_freq = new_policy->cpuinfo.max_freq;
> > +     policy->cpuinfo.min_freq = new_policy->cpuinfo.min_freq;
> >       trace_cpu_frequency_limits(policy);
> >
> >       policy->cached_target_freq = UINT_MAX;
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> > index dd66decf2087..e1881313c396 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> > @@ -2081,11 +2081,24 @@ static void intel_pstate_adjust_policy_max(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
> >
> >  static int intel_pstate_verify_policy(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> >  {
> > +     int max_freq;
> >       struct cpudata *cpu = all_cpu_data[policy->cpu];
> >
> >       update_turbo_state();
> > +     max_freq = intel_pstate_get_max_freq(cpu);
> > +
> > +     if (acpi_ppc && policy->max == policy->cpuinfo.max_freq &&
> > +         max_freq != policy->cpuinfo.max_freq) {
> > +             /*
> > +              * System was not running under any constraints, but the
> > +              * current max possible frequency is changed. So reset
> > +              * policy limits.
> > +              */
> > +             policy->cpuinfo.max_freq = policy->max = max_freq;
> > +     }
> > +
> >       cpufreq_verify_within_limits(policy, policy->cpuinfo.min_freq,
> > -                                  intel_pstate_get_max_freq(cpu));
> > +                                  max_freq);
> >
> >       if (policy->policy != CPUFREQ_POLICY_POWERSAVE &&
> >           policy->policy != CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE)
>
> By TURBO I believe this is about boost-frequencies and you should use
> that infrastructure to make it work, isn't it ?

I guess you mean the the "boost" attribute in the core, but that's not
applicable to intel_pstate.