Re: kernel 3.7+ cpufreq regression on AMD system running as dom0

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-01-15T17:53:41Z

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:34:45PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 04:58:54PM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote:
> > Starting with kernel v3.7 the following commit added a quirk
> > to obtain the real frequencies of certain AMD systems:
> >
> > commit f594065faf4f9067c2283a34619fc0714e79a98d
> > Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> > Date: Tue Sep 4 08:28:06 2012 +0000
> >
> > ACPI: Add fixups for AMD P-state figures
> >
> > When running bare-metal, on my Opteron 6128 test box results
> > in the frequencies remaining effectively unchanged:
> > [ 5.475735] P0: MSR(hi,lo): 8000015c-50004004
> > [ 5.479049] P0: fid=0x4, did=0x0, freq: 2000 -> 2000
> > [ 5.484001] P1: MSR(hi,lo): 8000014c-50004a4e
> > [ 5.487314] P1: fid=0xe, did=0x1, freq: 1500 -> 1500
> > [ 5.492272] P2: MSR(hi,lo): 80000141-50005048
> > [ 5.495584] P2: fid=0x8, did=0x1, freq: 1200 -> 1200
> > [ 5.500540] P3: MSR(hi,lo): 80000138-50005844
> > [ 5.503853] P3: fid=0x4, did=0x1, freq: 1000 -> 1000
> > [ 5.508812] P4: MSR(hi,lo): 80000131-50005c40
> > [ 5.512125] P4: fid=0x0, did=0x1, freq: 800 -> 800
> >
> > However running as dom0 under Xen 4.2, reading this MSR returns
> > null:
> > [ 11.613068] P0: MSR(hi,lo): 00000000-00000000
> > [ 11.613074] P0: fid=0x0, did=0x0, freq: 2000 -> 1600
> > [ 11.613078] P1: MSR(hi,lo): 00000000-00000000
> > [ 11.613081] P1: fid=0x0, did=0x0, freq: 1500 -> 1600
> > [ 11.613085] P2: MSR(hi,lo): 00000000-00000000
> > [ 11.613088] P2: fid=0x0, did=0x0, freq: 1200 -> 1600
> > [ 11.613091] P3: MSR(hi,lo): 00000000-00000000
> > [ 11.613094] P3: fid=0x0, did=0x0, freq: 1000 -> 1600
> > [ 11.613098] P4: MSR(hi,lo): 00000000-00000000
> > [ 11.613101] P4: fid=0x0, did=0x0, freq: 800 -> 1600
> >
> > And this results in Xen failing to change the governor:
> > "(XEN) Fail change to ondemand governor"
> >
> > I suppose this ultimately requires some support in the hypervisor
> > to pass through the real values. But since this is at least on my
> > combination of Xen 4.2 + kernel v3.7+ and AMD family 0x10 CPU a
> > regression compared to older kernels, I wonder whether the following
> > change might be something that should go into mainline:
> >
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
> > @@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ static void amd_fixup_frequency(struct acpi_processor_px *px
> > if ((boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0x10 && boot_cpu_data.x86_model < 10)
> > || boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0x11) {
> > rdmsr(MSR_AMD_PSTATE_DEF_BASE + index, lo, hi);
> > + /* Bit 63 indicates whether contents are valid */
> > + if (!(hi & 0x8000000))
> > + return;
>
> I don't think that's the right change - this is fixing baremetal so that
> it works on xen. And besides, this code was in powernow-k8 before so I'm
> wondering why did it work then.

Powernow-k8 only populated the cpufreq policy information. This library
(processor_perflib) is the generic library used for ACPI P-states parsing.
This specific function (acpi_processor_get_performance_states) is just
used to fetch and parse the P-states.

Xen-acpi-processor (which we use to upload the P and C-states to the
hypervisor) ends up calling this library to parse the P-states
and this unfortunate quirk clamps the P-states based on the MSRS.

It is odd that this CPU specific quirk got added in this generic
library. Is there no ACPI quirk system similar to how DMI quirks
are handled?

Anyhow, I think this patch makes sense - it makes sure that the
MSR value is sane.

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

>
> > fid = lo & 0x3f;
> > did = (lo >> 6) & 7;
> > if (boot_cpu_data.x86 == 0x10)
> >
> > I tested something similar (so hopefully I have not failed on slapping
> > together a cleaned up version), which did resolve the problem.
> >
> > -Stefan
> >
> > Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1078619
>
> Adding the new Andre. :-) Andre, what did we do for powernow-k8 on xen
> so that the F10h 50MHz steps quirk would work?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> Boris.
>
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