cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use HWP capabilities in intel_cpufreq_adjust_perf()

If turbo P-states cannot be used, either due to the configuration of
the processor, or because intel_pstate is not allowed

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use HWP capabilities in intel_cpufreq_adjust_perf()

If turbo P-states cannot be used, either due to the configuration of
the processor, or because intel_pstate is not allowed to used them,
the maximum available P-state with HWP enabled corresponds to the
HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED value which is not static. It can be adjusted by
an out-of-band agent or during an Intel Speed Select performance
level change, so long as it remains less than or equal to
HWP_CAP.MAX.

However, if turbo P-states cannot be used, intel_cpufreq_adjust_perf()
always uses pstate.max_pstate (set during the initialization of the
driver only) as the maximum available P-state, so it may miss a change
of the HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED value.

Prevent that from happening by modifyig intel_cpufreq_adjust_perf()
to always read the "guaranteed" and "maximum turbo" performance
levels from the cached HWP_CAP value.

Fixes: a365ab6b9dfb ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement the ->adjust_perf() callback")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix fast-switch fallback path

When sugov_update_single_perf() falls back to the "frequency"
path due to the missing scale-invariance, it will call
cpufreq_driver_fast_switch()

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix fast-switch fallback path

When sugov_update_single_perf() falls back to the "frequency"
path due to the missing scale-invariance, it will call
cpufreq_driver_fast_switch() via sugov_fast_switch()
and the driver's ->fast_switch() callback will be invoked,
so it must not be NULL.

However, after commit a365ab6b9dfb ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement
the ->adjust_perf() callback") intel_pstate sets ->fast_switch() to
NULL when it is going to use intel_cpufreq_adjust_perf(), which is a
mistake, because on x86 the scale-invariance may be turned off
dynamically, so modify it to retain the original ->adjust_perf()
callback pointer.

Fixes: a365ab6b9dfb ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement the ->adjust_perf() callback")
Reported-by: Kenneth R. Crudup <kenny@panix.com>
Tested-by: Kenneth R. Crudup <kenny@panix.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use most recent guaranteed performance values

When turbo has been disabled by the BIOS, but HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED is
changed later, user space may want to take advantage of this

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use most recent guaranteed performance values

When turbo has been disabled by the BIOS, but HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED is
changed later, user space may want to take advantage of this increased
guaranteed performance.

HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED is not a static value. It can be adjusted by an
out-of-band agent or during an Intel Speed Select performance level
change. The HWP_CAP.MAX is still the maximum achievable performance
with turbo disabled by the BIOS, so HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED can still
change as long as it remains less than or equal to HWP_CAP.MAX.

When HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED is changed, the sysfs base_frequency
attribute shows the most recent guaranteed frequency value. This
attribute can be used by user space software to update the scaling
min/max limits of the CPU.

Currently, the ->setpolicy() callback already uses the latest
HWP_CAP values when setting HWP_REQ, but the ->verify() callback will
restrict the user settings to the to old guaranteed performance value
which prevents user space from making use of the extra CPU capacity
theoretically available to it after increasing HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED.

To address this, read HWP_CAP in intel_pstate_verify_cpu_policy()
to obtain the maximum P-state that can be used and use that to
confine the policy max limit instead of using the cached and
possibly stale pstate.max_freq value for this purpose.

For consistency, update intel_pstate_update_perf_limits() to use the
maximum available P-state returned by intel_pstate_get_hwp_max() to
compute the maximum frequency instead of using the return value of
intel_pstate_get_max_freq() which, again, may be stale.

This issue is a side-effect of fixing the scaling frequency limits in
commit eacc9c5a927e ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_get_hwp_max()
for turbo disabled") which corrected the setting of the reduced scaling
frequency values, but caused stale HWP_CAP.GUARANTEED to be used in
the case at hand.

Fixes: eacc9c5a927e ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_get_hwp_max() for turbo disabled")
Reported-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: 5.8+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.8+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement the ->adjust_perf() callback

Make intel_pstate expose the ->adjust_perf() callback when it
operates in the passive mode with HWP enabled which causes the
schedutil g

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement the ->adjust_perf() callback

Make intel_pstate expose the ->adjust_perf() callback when it
operates in the passive mode with HWP enabled which causes the
schedutil governor to use that callback instead of ->fast_switch().

The minimum and target performance-level values passed by the
governor to ->adjust_perf() are converted to HWP.REQ.MIN and
HWP.REQ.DESIRED, respectively, which allows the processor to
adjust its configuration to maximize energy-efficiency while
providing sufficient capacity.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Simplify intel_cpufreq_update_pstate()

Avoid doing the same assignment in both branches of a conditional,
do it after the whole conditional instead.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J.

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Simplify intel_cpufreq_update_pstate()

Avoid doing the same assignment in both branches of a conditional,
do it after the whole conditional instead.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Take CPUFREQ_GOV_STRICT_TARGET into account

Make intel_pstate take the new CPUFREQ_GOV_STRICT_TARGET governor
flag into account when it operates in the passive mode with HWP
e

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Take CPUFREQ_GOV_STRICT_TARGET into account

Make intel_pstate take the new CPUFREQ_GOV_STRICT_TARGET governor
flag into account when it operates in the passive mode with HWP
enabled, so as to fix the "powersave" governor behavior in that
case (currently, HWP is allowed to scale the performance all the
way up to the policy max limit when the "powersave" governor is
used, but it should be constrained to the policy min limit then).

Fixes: f6ebbcf08f37 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive mode with HWP enabled")
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: 5.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.9+: 9a2a9ebc0a75 cpufreq: Introduce governor flags
Cc: 5.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.9+: 218f66870181 cpufreq: Introduce CPUFREQ_GOV_STRICT_TARGET
Cc: 5.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.9+: ea9364bbadf1 cpufreq: Add strict_target to struct cpufreq_policy

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid missing HWP max updates in passive mode

If the cpufreq policy max limit is changed when intel_pstate operates
in the passive mode with HWP enabled and the "powersave" go

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid missing HWP max updates in passive mode

If the cpufreq policy max limit is changed when intel_pstate operates
in the passive mode with HWP enabled and the "powersave" governor is
used on top of it, the HWP max limit is not updated as appropriate.

Namely, in the "powersave" governor case, the target P-state
is always equal to the policy min limit, so if the latter does
not change, intel_cpufreq_adjust_hwp() is not invoked to update
the HWP Request MSR due to the "target_pstate != old_pstate" check
in intel_cpufreq_update_pstate(), so the HWP max limit is not
updated as a result.

Also, if the CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS flag is not set for the
driver and the target frequency does not change along with the
policy max limit, the "target_freq == policy->cur" check in
__cpufreq_driver_target() prevents the driver's ->target() callback
from being invoked at all, so the HWP max limit is not updated.

To prevent that occurring, set the CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS flag
in the intel_cpufreq driver structure if HWP is enabled and modify
intel_cpufreq_update_pstate() to do the "target_pstate != old_pstate"
check only in the non-HWP case and let intel_cpufreq_adjust_hwp()
always run in the HWP case (it will update HWP Request only if the
cached value of the register is different from the new one including
the limits, so if neither the target P-state value nor the max limit
changes, the register write will still be avoided).

Fixes: f6ebbcf08f37 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive mode with HWP enabled")
Reported-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: 5.9+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.9+: 1c534352f47f cpufreq: Introduce CPUFREQ_NEED_UPDATE_LIMITS ...
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Delete intel_pstate sysfs if failed to register the driver

There is a corner case that if the intel_pstate driver fails to be
registered (might be due to invalid MSR access) a

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Delete intel_pstate sysfs if failed to register the driver

There is a corner case that if the intel_pstate driver fails to be
registered (might be due to invalid MSR access) and acpi_cpufreq
takse over, the intel_pstate sysfs interface is still populated
which may confuse user space (turbostat for example):

grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver
acpi-cpufreq

grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/*
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct:0
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct:0
grep: /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo: Resource temporarily unavailable
grep: /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/num_pstates: Resource temporarily unavailable
/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/status:off
grep: /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/turbo_pct: Resource temporarily unavailable

The mere presence of the intel_pstate sysfs interface does not mean
that intel_pstate is in use (for example, echo "off" to "status"),
but it should not be created in the failing case.

Fix this issue by deleting the intel_pstate sysfs if the driver
registration fails.

Reported-by: Wendy Wang <wendy.wang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com
[ rjw: Refactor code to avoid jumps, change function name, changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix missing return statement

Fix missing return statement when writing "off" to intel_pstate status
sysfs I/F.

Fixes: 55671ea3257a ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Free memory only w

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix missing return statement

Fix missing return statement when writing "off" to intel_pstate status
sysfs I/F.

Fixes: 55671ea3257a ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Free memory only when turning off")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_get_hwp_max() for turbo disabled

This fixes the behavior of the scaling_max_freq and scaling_min_freq
sysfs files in systems which had turbo disabled by the B

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_get_hwp_max() for turbo disabled

This fixes the behavior of the scaling_max_freq and scaling_min_freq
sysfs files in systems which had turbo disabled by the BIOS.

Caleb noticed that the HWP is programmed to operate in the wrong
P-state range on his system when the CPUFREQ policy min/max frequency
is set via sysfs. This seems to be because in his system
intel_pstate_get_hwp_max() is returning the maximum turbo P-state even
though turbo was disabled by the BIOS, which causes intel_pstate to
scale kHz frequencies incorrectly e.g. setting the maximum turbo
frequency whenever the maximum guaranteed frequency is requested via
sysfs.

Tested-by: Caleb Callaway <caleb.callaway@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
[ rjw: Minor subject edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Free memory only when turning off

When intel_pstate switches the operation mode from "active" to
"passive" or the other way around, freeing its data structures
representing CP

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Free memory only when turning off

When intel_pstate switches the operation mode from "active" to
"passive" or the other way around, freeing its data structures
representing CPUs and allocating them again from scratch is not
necessary and wasteful. Moreover, if these data structures are
preserved, the cached HWP Request MSR value from there may be
written to the MSR to start with to reinitialize it and help to
restore the EPP value set previously (it is set to 0xFF when CPUs
go offline to allow their SMT siblings to use the full range of
EPP values and that also happens when the driver gets unregistered).

Accordingly, modify the driver to only do a full cleanup on driver
object registration errors and when its status is changed to "off"
via sysfs and to write the cached HWP Request MSR value back to
the MSR on CPU init if the data structure representing the given
CPU is still there.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add ->offline and ->online callbacks

Add ->offline and ->online driver callbacks to prepare for taking a
CPU offline and to restore its working configuration when it goes
back

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add ->offline and ->online callbacks

Add ->offline and ->online driver callbacks to prepare for taking a
CPU offline and to restore its working configuration when it goes
back online, respectively, to avoid invoking the ->init callback on
every CPU online which is quite a bit of unnecessary overhead.

Define ->offline and ->online so that they can be used in the
passive mode as well as in the active mode and because ->offline
will do the majority of ->stop_cpu work, the passive mode does
not need that callback any more, so drop it from there.

Also modify the active mode ->suspend and ->resume callbacks to
prevent them from interfering with the new ->offline and ->online
ones in case the latter are invoked withing the system-wide suspend
and resume code flow and make the passive mode use them too.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Tweak the EPP sysfs interface

Modify the EPP sysfs interface to reject attempts to change the EPP
to values different from 0 ("performance") in the active mode with
the "perfo

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Tweak the EPP sysfs interface

Modify the EPP sysfs interface to reject attempts to change the EPP
to values different from 0 ("performance") in the active mode with
the "performance" policy (ie. scaling_governor set to "performance"),
to avoid situations in which the kernel appears to discard data
passed to it via the EPP sysfs attribute.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update cached EPP in the active mode

Make intel_pstate update the cached EPP value when setting the EPP
via sysfs in the active mode just like it is the case in the passive
mo

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update cached EPP in the active mode

Make intel_pstate update the cached EPP value when setting the EPP
via sysfs in the active mode just like it is the case in the passive
mode, for consistency, but also for the benefit of subsequent
changes.

No intentional functional impact.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Refuse to turn off with HWP enabled

After commit f6ebbcf08f37 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive
mode with HWP enabled") it is possible to change the driver status
to

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Refuse to turn off with HWP enabled

After commit f6ebbcf08f37 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive
mode with HWP enabled") it is possible to change the driver status
to "off" via sysfs with HWP enabled, which effectively causes the
driver to unregister itself, but HWP remains active and it forces the
minimum performance, so even if another cpufreq driver is loaded,
it will not be able to control the CPU frequency.

For this reason, make the driver refuse to change the status to
"off" with HWP enabled.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive mode with HWP enabled

Allow intel_pstate to work in the passive mode with HWP enabled and
make it set the HWP minimum performance limit (HWP floor) to the
P-

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Implement passive mode with HWP enabled

Allow intel_pstate to work in the passive mode with HWP enabled and
make it set the HWP minimum performance limit (HWP floor) to the
P-state value given by the target frequency supplied by the cpufreq
governor, so as to prevent the HWP algorithm and the CPU scheduler
from working against each other, at least when the schedutil governor
is in use, and update the intel_pstate documentation accordingly.

Among other things, this allows utilization clamps to be taken
into account, at least to a certain extent, when intel_pstate is
in use and makes it more likely that sufficient capacity for
deadline tasks will be provided.

After this change, the resulting behavior of an HWP system with
intel_pstate in the passive mode should be close to the behavior
of the analogous non-HWP system with intel_pstate in the passive
mode, except that the HWP algorithm is generally allowed to make the
CPU run at a frequency above the floor P-state set by intel_pstate in
the entire available range of P-states, while without HWP a CPU can
run in a P-state above the requested one if the latter falls into the
range of turbo P-states (referred to as the turbo range) or if the
P-states of all CPUs in one package are coordinated with each other
at the hardware level.

[Note that in principle the HWP floor may not be taken into account
by the processor if it falls into the turbo range, in which case the
processor has a license to choose any P-state, either below or above
the HWP floor, just like a non-HWP processor in the case when the
target P-state falls into the turbo range.]

With this change applied, intel_pstate in the passive mode assumes
complete control over the HWP request MSR and concurrent changes of
that MSR (eg. via the direct MSR access interface) are overridden by
it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix cpuinfo_max_freq when MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT is 0

The MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT can be 0. This is not an error. User can update
this MSR via BIOS settings on some systems or ca

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix cpuinfo_max_freq when MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT is 0

The MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT can be 0. This is not an error. User can update
this MSR via BIOS settings on some systems or can use msr tools to update.
Also some systems boot with value = 0.

This results in display of cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq wrong. This value
will be equal to cpufreq/base_frequency, even though turbo is enabled.

But platform will still function normally in HWP mode as we get max
1-core frequency from the MSR_HWP_CAPABILITIES. This MSR is already used
to calculate cpu->pstate.turbo_freq, which is used for to set
policy->cpuinfo.max_freq. But some other places cpu->pstate.turbo_pstate
is used. For example to set policy->max.

To fix this, also update cpu->pstate.turbo_pstate when updating
cpu->pstate.turbo_freq.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix EPP setting via sysfs in active mode

Because intel_pstate_set_energy_pref_index() reads and writes the
MSR_HWP_REQUEST register without using the cached value of it used b

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix EPP setting via sysfs in active mode

Because intel_pstate_set_energy_pref_index() reads and writes the
MSR_HWP_REQUEST register without using the cached value of it used by
intel_pstate_hwp_boost_up() and intel_pstate_hwp_boost_down(), those
functions may overwrite the value written by it and so the EPP value
set via sysfs may be lost.

To avoid that, make intel_pstate_set_energy_pref_index() take the
cached value of MSR_HWP_REQUEST just like the other two routines
mentioned above and update it with the new EPP value coming from
user space in addition to updating the MSR.

Note that the MSR itself still needs to be updated too in case
hwp_boost is unset or the boosting mechanism is not active at the
EPP change time.

Fixes: e0efd5be63e8 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add HWP boost utility and sched util hooks")
Reported-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Cc: 4.18+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.18+: 3da97d4db8ee cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange ...
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange the storing of new EPP values

Move the locking away from intel_pstate_set_energy_pref_index()
into its only caller and drop the (now redundant) return_pref label
fro

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Rearrange the storing of new EPP values

Move the locking away from intel_pstate_set_energy_pref_index()
into its only caller and drop the (now redundant) return_pref label
from it.

Also move the "raw" EPP value check into the caller of that function,
so as to do it before acquiring the mutex, and reduce code duplication
related to the "raw" EPP values processing somewhat.

No intentional functional impact.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported

Although there are processors supporting hardware-managed P-states
(HWP) without the energy-performance preference (EPP) feature, th

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid enabling HWP if EPP is not supported

Although there are processors supporting hardware-managed P-states
(HWP) without the energy-performance preference (EPP) feature, they
are not expected to be run with HWP enabled (the BIOS should disable
HWP on those systems). Missing EPP support generally indicates an
incomplete HWP implementation and so it is better to avoid using
HWP on those systems in production.

However, intel_pstate currently enables HWP on such systems, which
is questionable, so prevent it from doing that by making it check
EPP support before enabling HWP and avoid enabling it if EPP is not
supported by the processor at hand.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up aperf_mperf_shift description

The kerneldoc description of the aperf_mperf_shift field in
struct global_params is unclear and there is a typo in it, so
simplify it an

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up aperf_mperf_shift description

The kerneldoc description of the aperf_mperf_shift field in
struct global_params is unclear and there is a typo in it, so
simplify it and clean it up.

Reported-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Supply struct attribute description for get_aperf_mperf_shift()

Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):

drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:293: warning: Function parame

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Supply struct attribute description for get_aperf_mperf_shift()

Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):

drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:293: warning: Function parameter or member 'get_aperf_mperf_shift' not described in 'pstate_funcs'

Suggested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
[ rjw: Remove line break ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix active mode setting from command line

If intel_pstate starts in the passive mode by default (that happens
when the processor in the system doesn't support HWP), passing
in

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix active mode setting from command line

If intel_pstate starts in the passive mode by default (that happens
when the processor in the system doesn't support HWP), passing
intel_pstate=active in the kernel command line doesn't work, so
fix that.

Fixes: 33aa46f252c7 ("cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use passive mode by default without HWP")
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix static checker warning for epp variable

Fix warning for:
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:731 store_energy_performance_preference()
error: uninitialized symbol 'epp'.

This

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix static checker warning for epp variable

Fix warning for:
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c:731 store_energy_performance_preference()
error: uninitialized symbol 'epp'.

This warning is for a case, when energy_performance_preference attribute
matches pre defined strings. In this case the value of raw epp will not
be used to set EPP bits in MSR_HWP_REQUEST. So initializing with any
value is fine.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Allow raw energy performance preference value

Currently using attribute "energy_performance_preference", user space can
write one of the four per-defined preference string. Th

cpufreq: intel_pstate: Allow raw energy performance preference value

Currently using attribute "energy_performance_preference", user space can
write one of the four per-defined preference string. These preference
strings gets mapped to a hard-coded Energy-Performance Preference (EPP) or
Energy-Performance Bias (EPB) knob.

These four values are supposed to cover broad spectrum of use cases, but
are not uniformly distributed in the range. There are number of cases,
where this is not enough. For example:

Suppose user wants more performance when connected to AC. Instead of using
default "balance performance", the "performance" setting can be used. This
changes EPP value from 0x80 to 0x00. But setting EPP to 0, results in
electrical and thermal issues on some platforms. This results in
aggressive throttling, which causes a drop in performance. But some value
between 0x80 and 0x00 results in better performance. But that value can't
be fixed as the power curve is not linear. In some cases just changing EPP
from 0x80 to 0x75 is enough to get significant performance gain.

Similarly on battery the default "balance_performance" mode can be
aggressive in power consumption. But picking up the next choice
"balance power" results in too much loss of performance, which results in
bad user experience in use cases like "Google Hangout". It was observed
that some value between these two EPP is optimal.

This change allows fine grain EPP tuning for platform like Chromebook or
for users who wants to fine tune power and performance.
Here based on the product and use cases, different EPP values can be set.
This change is similar to the change done for:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/power/energy_perf_bias
where user has choice to write a predefined string or raw value.

The change itself is trivial. When user preference doesn't match
predefined string preferences and value is an unsigned integer and in
range, use that value for EPP. When the EPP feature is not present
writing raw value is not supported.

Suggested-by: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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