From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
stable@dpdk.org, Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tummala@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH] power/amd_pstate: fix frequency matching for continuous scaling
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:34:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260328193419.106100-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
The power_init_for_setting_freq() function fails on systems using the
amd-pstate-epp driver because the current CPU frequency read from
scaling_setspeed does not exactly match any of the synthesized
frequency buckets. Unlike acpi_cpufreq which provides a discrete list
of frequencies, amd-pstate operates with continuously variable
frequencies, so an exact match will rarely succeed.
For example, on a Ryzen 9 7945HX the sysfs file reports 2797172
which rounds to 2797000, but this value does not appear in the
generated frequency table.
Replace the exact match lookup with a nearest-frequency search.
Also fix several issues in the same function:
- strtoul() was called with NULL endptr, making parse failures
undetectable
- errno was not checked, so stale errors could cause false positives
- freq was declared as uint32_t, truncating the unsigned long
return value of strtoul() on LP64 platforms
- no error was logged when frequency matching failed
Bugzilla ID: 1915
Fixes: 1ed04d33cf19 ("power: support amd-pstate cpufreq driver")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
drivers/power/amd_pstate/amd_pstate_cpufreq.c | 56 ++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/power/amd_pstate/amd_pstate_cpufreq.c b/drivers/power/amd_pstate/amd_pstate_cpufreq.c
index 95495bff7d..14625ffd73 100644
--- a/drivers/power/amd_pstate/amd_pstate_cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/power/amd_pstate/amd_pstate_cpufreq.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <errno.h>
#include <rte_memcpy.h>
#include <rte_stdatomic.h>
@@ -291,15 +292,21 @@ power_get_available_freqs(struct amd_pstate_power_info *pi)
return ret;
}
-/**
- * It is to fopen the sys file for the future setting the lcore frequency.
- */
+static inline unsigned long
+abs_diff(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
+{
+ return (a > b) ? a - b : b - a;
+}
+
static int
power_init_for_setting_freq(struct amd_pstate_power_info *pi)
{
- FILE *f = NULL;
+ FILE *f;
char buf[BUFSIZ];
- uint32_t i, freq;
+ char *endptr;
+ unsigned long freq, freq_conv;
+ unsigned long best_diff, diff;
+ uint32_t i, best_idx;
int ret;
open_core_sysfs_file(&f, "rw+", POWER_SYSFILE_SETSPEED, pi->lcore_id);
@@ -308,7 +315,6 @@ power_init_for_setting_freq(struct amd_pstate_power_info *pi)
POWER_SYSFILE_SETSPEED);
goto err;
}
-
ret = read_core_sysfs_s(f, buf, sizeof(buf));
if (ret < 0) {
POWER_LOG(ERR, "Failed to read %s",
@@ -316,25 +322,45 @@ power_init_for_setting_freq(struct amd_pstate_power_info *pi)
goto err;
}
- freq = strtoul(buf, NULL, POWER_CONVERT_TO_DECIMAL);
+ errno = 0;
+ freq = strtoul(buf, &endptr, POWER_CONVERT_TO_DECIMAL);
+ if (errno != 0 || endptr == buf || freq == 0) {
+ POWER_LOG(ERR, "Failed to parse frequency '%s' for lcore %u",
+ buf, pi->lcore_id);
+ goto err;
+ }
/* convert the frequency to nearest 1000 value
* Ex: if freq=1396789 then freq_conv=1397000
* Ex: if freq=800030 then freq_conv=800000
*/
- unsigned int freq_conv = 0;
- freq_conv = (freq + FREQ_ROUNDING_DELTA)
- / ROUND_FREQ_TO_N_1000;
+ freq_conv = (freq + FREQ_ROUNDING_DELTA) / ROUND_FREQ_TO_N_1000;
freq_conv = freq_conv * ROUND_FREQ_TO_N_1000;
- for (i = 0; i < pi->nb_freqs; i++) {
- if (freq_conv == pi->freqs[i]) {
- pi->curr_idx = i;
- pi->f = f;
- return 0;
+ /* Find the nearest frequency in the table.
+ * With amd-pstate the CPU runs at continuously variable
+ * frequencies so the current frequency will not exactly
+ * match one of the synthesized frequency buckets.
+ */
+ best_idx = 0;
+ best_diff = abs_diff(freq_conv, pi->freqs[0]);
+
+ for (i = 1; i < pi->nb_freqs; i++) {
+ diff = abs_diff(freq_conv, pi->freqs[i]);
+ if (diff < best_diff) {
+ best_diff = diff;
+ best_idx = i;
}
}
+ POWER_DEBUG_LOG("Freq %lu rounded to %lu matched bucket [%u] = %u "
+ "for lcore %u", freq, freq_conv, best_idx,
+ pi->freqs[best_idx], pi->lcore_id);
+
+ pi->curr_idx = best_idx;
+ pi->f = f;
+ return 0;
+
err:
if (f != NULL)
fclose(f);
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-28 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-28 19:34 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-04-03 4:09 ` [PATCH] power/amd_pstate: fix frequency matching for continuous scaling Tummala, Sivaprasad
2026-06-10 22:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2026-09-08 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] power: fixes for amd-pstate frequency scaling Stephen Hemminger
2026-09-08 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] power/amd_pstate: fix frequency matching for continuous scaling Stephen Hemminger
2026-09-08 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] power: check for errors when writing frequency Stephen Hemminger
2026-09-08 16:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] test/power: fix nominal frequency check with amd-pstate Stephen Hemminger
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