Re: [PATCH 3/5] cpufreq: Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors

[Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>]

From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Date: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:26:22PM +0100

> On Monday 22 March 2010 19:38:39 Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > From: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
> > 
> > Starting with model 10 of Family 0x10, AMD processors may have
> > support for APERF/MPERF.  Add support for identifying it and using
> > it within cpufreq.  Move the APERF/MPERF functions out of the
> > acpi-cpufreq code and into their own file so they can easily be
> > shared.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c                  |    6 +++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Makefile       |    4 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c |   44 +-----------------------
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/mperf.c        |   50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/mperf.h        |    9 +++++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c  |    8 ++++
> >  6 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/mperf.c
> >  create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/mperf.h
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> > index e485825..796f662 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
> > @@ -537,6 +537,12 @@ static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> >  		set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
> >  	}
> >  
> > +	if (c->cpuid_level >= 6) {
> > +		unsigned ecx = cpuid_ecx(6);
> > +		if (ecx & 0x01)
> > +			set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF);
> > +	}
> This is nearly identical to (beside c->cpuid_level > 6),
> in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c:
> if (c->cpuid_level > 6) {
>                 unsigned ecx = cpuid_ecx(6);
>                 if (ecx & 0x01)
>                         set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF);
> }
> I expect you are correct... or could it get moved to general x86 init code?

Sounds good...

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Boris.

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