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  • * Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpupower: fix amd cpu (family < 0x17) active state issue
           [not found] <20210324082838.41462-1-xufuhai1992@gmail.com>
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    @ 2021-03-29 11:10 ` Thomas Renninger
      2021-03-30  3:47   ` xufuhai
      1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
    From: Thomas Renninger @ 2021-03-29 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: linux, sherry.hurwitz, linux-pm, xufuhai; +Cc: lishujin, xufuhai
    
    Hi,
    
    Am Mittwoch, 24. März 2021, 09:28:37 CEST schrieb xufuhai:
    > From: xufuhai <xufuhai@kuaishou.com>
    > 
    > For the old  AMD processor (family < 0x17), cpupower will call the
    > amd_pci_get_num_boost_states function, but for the non-root user
    > pci_read_byte function (implementation comes from the psutil library),
    > val will be set to 0xff, indicating that there is no read function
    > callback. At this time, the original logic will set the cpupower turbo
    > active state to yes. This is an obvious issue~
    > 
    > Reproduce procedure:
    > 	cpupower frequency-info
    > 
    > Signed-off-by: xufuhai <xufuhai@kuaishou.com>
    > ---
    >  tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/amd.c | 7 +++++++
    >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
    > 
    > diff --git a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/amd.c
    > b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/amd.c index 97f2c857048e..6f9504906afa
    > 100644
    > --- a/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/amd.c
    > +++ b/tools/power/cpupower/utils/helpers/amd.c
    > @@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ int amd_pci_get_num_boost_states(int *active, int
    > *states) return -ENODEV;
    > 
    >  	val = pci_read_byte(device, 0x15c);
    > +
    > +	/* If val is 0xff, meaning has no permisson to
    > +	 * get the boost states, return -1
    > +	 */
    > +	if (val == 0xff)
    > +		return -1;
    > +
    There is certainly a cleaner way to do this.., theoretically
    pci_read_byte can return 0xff in other cases?
    
    But I guess this is a sufficient way to handle this for now.
    
    Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
    
    Thanks,
    
            Thomas
    
    
    
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    2021-03-29 10:58   ` [PATCH 2/2] cpupower: fix amd cpu (family >= 0x17) active state issue Thomas Renninger
    2021-03-30  2:46     ` xufuhai
    2021-04-08  2:21       ` xufuhai
    2021-04-15  7:02         ` [PATCH v2 " xufuhai
    2021-04-15 13:45           ` Huang Rui
    2021-04-15 23:07           ` Shuah Khan
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    2021-04-16 15:04               ` Shuah Khan
    2021-03-29 11:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] cpupower: fix amd cpu (family < " Thomas Renninger
    2021-03-30  3:47   ` xufuhai
    2021-04-08  2:22     ` xufuhai
    

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