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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:42:16 +0100
From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
To: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
Simon Schricker <sschricker@...e.de>,
Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] [RESEND] Do not modify perf bias performance setting by default at boot
This is a revert of mainline git commits:
commit b51ef52df71cb28e9d90cd1d48b79bf19f0bab06
commit 17edf2d79f1ea6dfdb4c444801d928953b9f98d6
commit abe48b108247e9b90b4c6739662a2e5c765ed114
It is about this kernel message showing up on quite a lot servers:
[ 0.072652] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[ 0.076003] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with x86_energy_perf_policy(8)
The background afaik were some BIOS which "forgot to set a default value".
Certainly some (one?) broken laptop BIOS was meant, because
the value zero (performance) is quite a reasonable default value on server systems
and this is how a lot CPUs typically come up there.
Another sever bug with above patches:
If you really set performance BIAS MSR value to 'performance'
as mentioned in kernel boot log, it is reset on next CPU offline/online cycle
(see below). Unfortunately one does not see this in the logs anymore, because
of the printk_once() usage:
dmesg |grep -i bias
[ 0.026642] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'
[ 0.028002] ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with x86_energy_perf_policy(8)
liszt:~/:[0]# x86_energy_perf_policy
cpu0: EPB 6
cpu1: EPB 6
cpu2: EPB 6
cpu3: EPB 6
liszt:~/:[0]# x86_energy_perf_policy 0
liszt:~/:[0]# x86_energy_perf_policy
cpu0: EPB 0
cpu1: EPB 0
cpu2: EPB 0
cpu3: EPB 0
liszt:~/:[0]# echo offline > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
liszt:~/:[0]# echo online > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
liszt:~/:[0]# x86_energy_perf_policy
cpu0: EPB 0
cpu1: EPB 6
cpu2: EPB 0
cpu3: EPB 0
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Tested-by: Simon Schricker <sschricker@...e.de>
Index: do_not_modify_perf_bias/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
===================================================================
--- do_not_modify_perf_bias.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c 2019-03-13 17:33:06.849890801 +0100
+++ do_not_modify_perf_bias/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c 2019-03-13 18:01:54.781983906 +0100
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
#include <linux/kgdb.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
-#include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
#include <asm/stackprotector.h>
#include <asm/perf_event.h>
@@ -1864,23 +1863,6 @@ void cpu_init(void)
}
#endif
-static void bsp_resume(void)
-{
- if (this_cpu->c_bsp_resume)
- this_cpu->c_bsp_resume(&boot_cpu_data);
-}
-
-static struct syscore_ops cpu_syscore_ops = {
- .resume = bsp_resume,
-};
-
-static int __init init_cpu_syscore(void)
-{
- register_syscore_ops(&cpu_syscore_ops);
- return 0;
-}
-core_initcall(init_cpu_syscore);
-
/*
* The microcode loader calls this upon late microcode load to recheck features,
* only when microcode has been updated. Caller holds microcode_mutex and CPU
Index: do_not_modify_perf_bias/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h
===================================================================
--- do_not_modify_perf_bias.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h 2019-03-13 17:33:06.849890801 +0100
+++ do_not_modify_perf_bias/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpu.h 2019-03-13 18:01:53.973983863 +0100
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ struct cpu_dev {
void (*c_init)(struct cpuinfo_x86 *);
void (*c_identify)(struct cpuinfo_x86 *);
void (*c_detect_tlb)(struct cpuinfo_x86 *);
- void (*c_bsp_resume)(struct cpuinfo_x86 *);
int c_x86_vendor;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
/* Optional vendor specific routine to obtain the cache size. */
Index: do_not_modify_perf_bias/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
===================================================================
--- do_not_modify_perf_bias.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c 2019-03-13 17:33:06.853890801 +0100
+++ do_not_modify_perf_bias/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c 2019-03-13 18:01:52.789983799 +0100
@@ -596,36 +596,6 @@ detect_keyid_bits:
c->x86_phys_bits -= keyid_bits;
}
-static void init_intel_energy_perf(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
-{
- u64 epb;
-
- /*
- * Initialize MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS if not already initialized.
- * (x86_energy_perf_policy(8) is available to change it at run-time.)
- */
- if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_EPB))
- return;
-
- rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, epb);
- if ((epb & 0xF) != ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_PERFORMANCE)
- return;
-
- pr_warn_once("ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: Set to 'normal', was 'performance'\n");
- pr_warn_once("ENERGY_PERF_BIAS: View and update with x86_energy_perf_policy(8)\n");
- epb = (epb & ~0xF) | ENERGY_PERF_BIAS_NORMAL;
- wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, epb);
-}
-
-static void intel_bsp_resume(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
-{
- /*
- * MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS is lost across suspend/resume,
- * so reinitialize it properly like during bootup:
- */
- init_intel_energy_perf(c);
-}
-
static void init_cpuid_fault(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
u64 msr;
@@ -763,8 +733,6 @@ static void init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x8
if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_TME))
detect_tme(c);
- init_intel_energy_perf(c);
-
init_intel_misc_features(c);
}
@@ -1023,7 +991,6 @@ static const struct cpu_dev intel_cpu_de
.c_detect_tlb = intel_detect_tlb,
.c_early_init = early_init_intel,
.c_init = init_intel,
- .c_bsp_resume = intel_bsp_resume,
.c_x86_vendor = X86_VENDOR_INTEL,
};
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