linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/3] x86, sched: Bail out of frequency invariance if turbo frequency is unknown

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Message-Id: <20200531182453.15254-3-ggherdovich@suse.cz>
Date:   Sun, 31 May 2020 20:24:52 +0200
From:   Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>
To:     Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>,
        Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86, sched: Bail out of frequency invariance if turbo frequency is unknown

There may be CPUs that support turbo boost but don't declare any turbo
ratio, i.e. their MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT is all zeroes. In that condition
scale-invariant calculations can't be performed.

Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@...e.cz>
Suggested-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
Fixes: 1567c3e3467c ("x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance")
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index d660966d7de7..fe154c8226ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -2001,9 +2001,11 @@ static bool intel_set_max_freq_ratio(void)
 	/*
 	 * Some hypervisors advertise X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF
 	 * but then fill all MSR's with zeroes.
+	 * Some CPUs have turbo boost but don't declare any turbo ratio
+	 * in MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT.
 	 */
-	if (!base_freq) {
-		pr_debug("Couldn't determine cpu base frequency, necessary for scale-invariant accounting.\n");
+	if (!base_freq || !turbo_freq) {
+		pr_debug("Couldn't determine cpu base or turbo frequency, necessary for scale-invariant accounting.\n");
 		return false;
 	}
 
-- 
2.16.4