Re: [v2 PATCH] cpufreq: powernv: Correctly parse the sign of pstates on POWER8 vs POWER9

[Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Gautham R. Shenoy
<ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> From: "Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> On POWERNV platform, Pstates are 8-bit values. On POWER8 they are
> negatively numbered while on POWER9 they are positively
> numbered. Thus, on POWER9, the maximum number of pstates could be as
> high as 256.
>
> The current code interprets pstates as a signed 8-bit value. This
> causes a problem on POWER9 platforms which have more than 128 pstates.
> On such systems, on a CPU that is in a lower pstate whose number is
> greater than 128, querying the current pstate returns a "pstate X is
> out of bound" error message and the current pstate is reported as the
> nominal pstate.
>
> This patch fixes the aforementioned issue by correctly differentiating
> the sign whenever a pstate value read, depending on whether the
> pstates are positively numbered or negatively numbered.

Yikes! Is there no better way of fixing this?

>
> Fixes: commit 09ca4c9b5958 ("cpufreq: powernv: Replacing pstate_id with frequency table index")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v4.8
> Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Tested-and-reviewed-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
> index b6d7c4c..bb7586e 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
> @@ -41,11 +41,14 @@
>  #define POWERNV_MAX_PSTATES    256
>  #define PMSR_PSAFE_ENABLE      (1UL << 30)
>  #define PMSR_SPR_EM_DISABLE    (1UL << 31)
> -#define PMSR_MAX(x)            ((x >> 32) & 0xFF)
> +#define EXTRACT_BYTE(x, shift) (((x) >> shift) & 0xFF)
> +#define MAX_SHIFT              32
>  #define LPSTATE_SHIFT          48
>  #define GPSTATE_SHIFT          56
> -#define GET_LPSTATE(x)         (((x) >> LPSTATE_SHIFT) & 0xFF)
> -#define GET_GPSTATE(x)         (((x) >> GPSTATE_SHIFT) & 0xFF)
> +#define GET_PMSR_MAX(x)                EXTRACT_BYTE(x, MAX_SHIFT)
> +#define GET_LPSTATE(x)         EXTRACT_BYTE(x, LPSTATE_SHIFT)
> +#define GET_GPSTATE(x)         EXTRACT_BYTE(x, GPSTATE_SHIFT)
> +

Can you hide all of this in pstate_to_idx(), do the casting inside? I
was reviewing this
code earlier before being distracted with something else, this did
come across as
strange and I was looking at using abs values to simplify the code,
but I did not get
to it.

Balbir Singh.