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Message-ID: <37e3477c-db6c-4fa2-9799-f23a0f37d20c@amd.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:50:15 -0500
From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
To: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@....com>, gautham.shenoy@....com
Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, viresh.kumar@...aro.org, Ray.Huang@....com,
 Borislav.Petkov@....com, Alexander.Deucher@....com, Xinmei.Huang@....com,
 Xiaojian.Du@....com, Li.Meng@....com, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] cpufreq: amd-pstate: optimize the initial
 frequency values verification

On 6/11/2024 03:52, Perry Yuan wrote:
> To enhance the debugging capability of the driver loading failure for
> broken CPPC ACPI tables, it can optimize the expression by moving the
> verification of `min_freq`, `nominal_freq`, and other dependency values
> to the `amd_pstate_init_freq()` function where they are initialized.
> If any of these values are incorrect, the `amd-pstate` driver will not be registered.
> 
> By ensuring that these values are correct before they are used, it will facilitate
> the debugging process when encountering driver loading failures due to faulty CPPC
> ACPI tables from BIOS
> 
> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@....com>
> Acked-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@....com>

Acked-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>

> ---
>   drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> index 9ad62dbe8bfb..37fce0569d06 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c
> @@ -921,6 +921,24 @@ static int amd_pstate_init_freq(struct amd_cpudata *cpudata)
>   	WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->nominal_freq, nominal_freq);
>   	WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->max_freq, max_freq);
>   
> +	/**
> +	 * Below values need to be initialized correctly, otherwise driver will fail to load
> +	 * max_freq is calculated according to (nominal_freq * highest_perf)/nominal_perf
> +	 * lowest_nonlinear_freq is a value between [min_freq, nominal_freq]
> +	 * Check _CPC in ACPI table objects if any values are incorrect
> +	 */
> +	if (min_freq <= 0 || max_freq <= 0 || nominal_freq <= 0 || min_freq > max_freq) {
> +		pr_err("min_freq(%d) or max_freq(%d) or nominal_freq(%d) value is incorrect\n",
> +			min_freq, max_freq, nominal_freq * 1000);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (lowest_nonlinear_freq <= min_freq || lowest_nonlinear_freq > nominal_freq * 1000) {
> +		pr_err("lowest_nonlinear_freq(%d) value is out of range [min_freq(%d), nominal_freq(%d)]\n",
> +			lowest_nonlinear_freq, min_freq, nominal_freq * 1000);
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	}
> +
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> @@ -959,15 +977,6 @@ static int amd_pstate_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>   	max_freq = READ_ONCE(cpudata->max_freq);
>   	nominal_freq = READ_ONCE(cpudata->nominal_freq);
>   
> -	if (min_freq <= 0 || max_freq <= 0 ||
> -	    nominal_freq <= 0 || min_freq > max_freq) {
> -		dev_err(dev,
> -			"min_freq(%d) or max_freq(%d) or nominal_freq (%d) value is incorrect, check _CPC in ACPI tables\n",
> -			min_freq, max_freq, nominal_freq);
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		goto free_cpudata1;
> -	}
> -
>   	policy->cpuinfo.transition_latency = amd_pstate_get_transition_latency(policy->cpu);
>   	policy->transition_delay_us = amd_pstate_get_transition_delay_us(policy->cpu);
>   
> @@ -1420,14 +1429,6 @@ static int amd_pstate_epp_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
>   	min_freq = READ_ONCE(cpudata->min_freq);
>   	max_freq = READ_ONCE(cpudata->max_freq);
>   	nominal_freq = READ_ONCE(cpudata->nominal_freq);
> -	if (min_freq <= 0 || max_freq <= 0 ||
> -	    nominal_freq <= 0 || min_freq > max_freq) {
> -		dev_err(dev,
> -			"min_freq(%d) or max_freq(%d) or nominal_freq(%d) value is incorrect, check _CPC in ACPI tables\n",
> -			min_freq, max_freq, nominal_freq);
> -		ret = -EINVAL;
> -		goto free_cpudata1;
> -	}
>   
>   	policy->cpuinfo.min_freq = min_freq;
>   	policy->cpuinfo.max_freq = max_freq;


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