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Date:   Sun, 25 Sep 2022 17:01:19 +0000
From:   "Yuan, Perry" <Perry.Yuan@....com>
To:     "Limonciello, Mario" <Mario.Limonciello@....com>,
        "rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "Huang, Ray" <Ray.Huang@....com>,
        "viresh.kumar@...aro.org" <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
CC:     "Sharma, Deepak" <Deepak.Sharma@....com>,
        "Fontenot, Nathan" <Nathan.Fontenot@....com>,
        "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@....com>,
        "Su, Jinzhou (Joe)" <Jinzhou.Su@....com>,
        "Huang, Shimmer" <Shimmer.Huang@....com>,
        "Du, Xiaojian" <Xiaojian.Du@....com>,
        "Meng, Li (Jassmine)" <Li.Meng@....com>,
        "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/7] cpufreq: amd_pstate: add AMD pstate EPP support for
 shared memory type processor

[AMD Official Use Only - General]

HI Mario.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Limonciello, Mario <Mario.Limonciello@....com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2022 2:53 AM
> To: Yuan, Perry <Perry.Yuan@....com>; rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com; Huang,
> Ray <Ray.Huang@....com>; viresh.kumar@...aro.org
> Cc: Sharma, Deepak <Deepak.Sharma@....com>; Fontenot, Nathan
> <Nathan.Fontenot@....com>; Deucher, Alexander
> <Alexander.Deucher@....com>; Su, Jinzhou (Joe) <Jinzhou.Su@....com>;
> Huang, Shimmer <Shimmer.Huang@....com>; Du, Xiaojian
> <Xiaojian.Du@....com>; Meng, Li (Jassmine) <Li.Meng@....com>; linux-
> pm@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] cpufreq: amd_pstate: add AMD pstate EPP support
> for shared memory type processor
> 
> On 9/9/2022 11:45, Perry Yuan wrote:
> > Add Energy Performance Preference support for AMD SOCs which only
> > support the shared memory interface that implemented on Zen2 and Zen3
> > processors, because this type CPU has no MSR supported, it will use
> > ACPI PCC channel to enable EPP and reset desired perf to be zero.
> 
> This reads like all Zen2 and Zen3 processors don't have the MSR, but that's
> not true. How about:
> 
> "Add Energy Performance Preference support for AMD SOCs which do not
> contain a designated MSR for CPPC support. A shared memory interface is
> used for CPPC on these SOCs and the ACPI PCC channel is used to enable EPP
> and reset the desired performance."
> 

This is more correctly to describe the detail, take this into V2.
Thank you !

Perry.  

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <Perry.Yuan@....com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> > b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c index 451295284a26..fff298744a8e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> > @@ -133,12 +133,24 @@ static inline int pstate_enable(bool enable)
> >
> >   static int cppc_enable(bool enable)
> >   {
> > +	struct cppc_perf_ctrls perf_ctrls;
> >   	int cpu, ret = 0;
> >
> >   	for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
> >   		ret = cppc_set_enable(cpu, enable);
> >   		if (ret)
> >   			return ret;
> > +
> > +	/* Enable active mode for EPP */
> > +	ret = cppc_set_auto_epp(cpu, enable);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		return ret;
> > +
> > +	/* Set zero to desired perf to enable EPP control*/
> > +	perf_ctrls.desired_perf = 0;
> > +	ret = cppc_set_perf(cpu, &perf_ctrls);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		return ret;
> >   	}
> >
> >   	return ret;