Re: [PATCH v2 06/10] hwmon: (fam15h_power) Add ptsc counter value for accumulated power

[Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 06:59:19AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 10/19/2015 07:28 PM, Huang Rui wrote:
> >PTSC is the performance timestamp counter value in a cpu core and the
> >cores in one compute unit have the fixed frequency. So it picks up the
> >performance timestamp counter value of the first core per compute unit
> >to measure the interval for average power per compute unit.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
> >Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> >Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> >Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> >Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> >---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 1 +
> >  drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c     | 5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> >index c1c0a1c..3686eaa 100644
> >--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> >+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> >@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@
> >  #define MSR_F15H_PERF_CTR		0xc0010201
> >  #define MSR_F15H_NB_PERF_CTL		0xc0010240
> >  #define MSR_F15H_NB_PERF_CTR		0xc0010241
> >+#define MSR_F15H_PTSC			0xc0010280
> >
> >  /* Fam 10h MSRs */
> >  #define MSR_FAM10H_MMIO_CONF_BASE	0xc0010058
> >diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c b/drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c
> >index 88e4f3e..6321f73 100644
> >--- a/drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c
> >+++ b/drivers/hwmon/fam15h_power.c
> >@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ struct fam15h_power_data {
> >  	u64 max_cu_acc_power;
> >  	/* accumulated power of the compute units */
> >  	u64 cu_acc_power[MAX_CUS];
> >+	/* performance timestamp counter */
> >+	u64 cpu_sw_pwr_ptsc[MAX_CUS];
> >  };
> >
> >  static ssize_t show_power(struct device *dev,
> >@@ -132,6 +134,9 @@ static void do_read_registers_on_cu(void *_data)
> >
> >  	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_safe(MSR_F15H_CU_PWR_ACCUMULATOR,
> >  			    &data->cu_acc_power[cu]));
> >+
> >+	WARN_ON(rdmsrl_safe(MSR_F15H_PTSC,
> >+			    &data->cpu_sw_pwr_ptsc[cu]));
> >  }
> 
> I am not really happy with those WARN_ON, or even an error message.
> If the error is seen, it may be persistent.
> 
> If an error check is really needed here, it might make more sense to store
> the read error and return it to user space if the respective sysfs attribute
> is read.
> 

I am OK with removing WARN_ON here. Boris, if you also agree with it,
I will remove it on V3.

Thanks,
Rui