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<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix policy data management in passive mode</title>
<updated>2017-03-21T21:19:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
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<published>2017-03-21T21:19:07+00:00</published>
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The policy-&gt;cpuinfo.max_freq and policy-&gt;max updates in
intel_cpufreq_turbo_update() are excessive as they are done for no
good reason and may lead to problems in principle, so they should be
dropped.  However, after dropping them intel_cpufreq_turbo_update()
becomes almost entirely pointless, because the check made by it is
made again down the road in intel_pstate_prepare_request().  The
only thing in it that still needs to be done is the call to
update_turbo_state(), so drop intel_cpufreq_turbo_update() altogether
and make its callers invoke update_turbo_state() directly instead of
it.

In addition to that, fix intel_cpufreq_verify_policy() so that it
checks global.no_turbo in addition to global.turbo_disabled when
updating policy-&gt;cpuinfo.max_freq to make it consistent with
intel_pstate_verify_policy().

Fixes: 001c76f05b01 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Generic governors support)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The policy-&gt;cpuinfo.max_freq and policy-&gt;max updates in
intel_cpufreq_turbo_update() are excessive as they are done for no
good reason and may lead to problems in principle, so they should be
dropped.  However, after dropping them intel_cpufreq_turbo_update()
becomes almost entirely pointless, because the check made by it is
made again down the road in intel_pstate_prepare_request().  The
only thing in it that still needs to be done is the call to
update_turbo_state(), so drop intel_cpufreq_turbo_update() altogether
and make its callers invoke update_turbo_state() directly instead of
it.

In addition to that, fix intel_cpufreq_verify_policy() so that it
checks global.no_turbo in addition to global.turbo_disabled when
updating policy-&gt;cpuinfo.max_freq to make it consistent with
intel_pstate_verify_policy().

Fixes: 001c76f05b01 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Generic governors support)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: One set of global limits in active mode</title>
<updated>2017-03-17T23:57:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-17T23:57:39+00:00</published>
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In the active mode intel_pstate currently uses two sets of global
limits, each associated with one of the possible scaling_governor
settings in that mode: "powersave" or "performance".

The driver switches over from one of those sets to the other
depending on the scaling_governor setting for the last CPU whose
per-policy cpufreq interface in sysfs was last used to change
parameters exposed in there.  That obviously leads to no end of
issues when the scaling_governor settings differ between CPUs.

The most recent issue was introduced by commit a240c4aa5d0f (cpufreq:
intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in -&gt;setpolicy)
that eliminated the reinitialization of "performance" limits in
intel_pstate_set_policy() preventing the max limit from being set
to anything below 100, among other things.

Namely, an undesirable side effect of commit a240c4aa5d0f is that
now, after setting scaling_governor to "performance" in the active
mode, the per-policy limits for the CPU in question go to the highest
level and stay there even when it is switched back to "powersave"
later.

As it turns out, some distributions set scaling_governor to
"performance" temporarily for all CPUs to speed-up system
initialization, so that change causes them to misbehave later.

To fix that, get rid of the performance/powersave global limits
split and use just one set of global limits for everything.

From the user's persepctive, after this modification, when
scaling_governor is switched from "performance" to "powersave"
or the other way around on one CPU, the limits settings (ie. the
global max/min_perf_pct and per-policy scaling_max/min_freq for
any CPUs) will not change.  Still, switching from "performance"
to "powersave" or the other way around changes the way in which
P-states are selected and in particular "performance" causes the
driver to always request the highest P-state it is allowed to ask
for for the given CPU.

Fixes: a240c4aa5d0f (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in -&gt;setpolicy)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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In the active mode intel_pstate currently uses two sets of global
limits, each associated with one of the possible scaling_governor
settings in that mode: "powersave" or "performance".

The driver switches over from one of those sets to the other
depending on the scaling_governor setting for the last CPU whose
per-policy cpufreq interface in sysfs was last used to change
parameters exposed in there.  That obviously leads to no end of
issues when the scaling_governor settings differ between CPUs.

The most recent issue was introduced by commit a240c4aa5d0f (cpufreq:
intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in -&gt;setpolicy)
that eliminated the reinitialization of "performance" limits in
intel_pstate_set_policy() preventing the max limit from being set
to anything below 100, among other things.

Namely, an undesirable side effect of commit a240c4aa5d0f is that
now, after setting scaling_governor to "performance" in the active
mode, the per-policy limits for the CPU in question go to the highest
level and stay there even when it is switched back to "powersave"
later.

As it turns out, some distributions set scaling_governor to
"performance" temporarily for all CPUs to speed-up system
initialization, so that change causes them to misbehave later.

To fix that, get rid of the performance/powersave global limits
split and use just one set of global limits for everything.

From the user's persepctive, after this modification, when
scaling_governor is switched from "performance" to "powersave"
or the other way around on one CPU, the limits settings (ie. the
global max/min_perf_pct and per-policy scaling_max/min_freq for
any CPUs) will not change.  Still, switching from "performance"
to "powersave" or the other way around changes the way in which
P-states are selected and in particular "performance" causes the
driver to always request the highest P-state it is allowed to ask
for for the given CPU.

Fixes: a240c4aa5d0f (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in -&gt;setpolicy)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid percentages in limits-related computations</title>
<updated>2017-03-15T15:52:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-14T15:18:34+00:00</published>
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Currently, intel_pstate_update_perf_limits() first converts the
policy minimum and maximum limits into percentages of the maximum
turbo frequency (rounding up to an integer) and then converts these
percentages to fractions (by using fixed-point arithmetic to divide
them by 100).

That introduces a rounding error unnecessarily, because the fractions
can be obtained by carrying out fixed-point divisions directly on the
input numbers.

Rework the computations in intel_pstate_hwp_set() to use fractions
instead of percentages (and drop redundant local variables from
there) and modify intel_pstate_update_perf_limits() to compute the
fractions directly and percentages out of them.

While at it, introduce percent_ext_fp() for converting percentages
to fractions (with extended number of fraction bits) and use it in
the computations.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Currently, intel_pstate_update_perf_limits() first converts the
policy minimum and maximum limits into percentages of the maximum
turbo frequency (rounding up to an integer) and then converts these
percentages to fractions (by using fixed-point arithmetic to divide
them by 100).

That introduces a rounding error unnecessarily, because the fractions
can be obtained by carrying out fixed-point divisions directly on the
input numbers.

Rework the computations in intel_pstate_hwp_set() to use fractions
instead of percentages (and drop redundant local variables from
there) and modify intel_pstate_update_perf_limits() to compute the
fractions directly and percentages out of them.

While at it, introduce percent_ext_fp() for converting percentages
to fractions (with extended number of fraction bits) and use it in
the computations.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Correct frequency setting in the HWP mode</title>
<updated>2017-03-14T02:56:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srinivas Pandruvada</name>
<email>srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-14T01:30:12+00:00</published>
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In the functions intel_pstate_hwp_set(), min/max range from HWP capability
MSR along with max_perf_pct and min_perf_pct, is used to set the HWP
request MSR. In some cases this doesn't result in the correct HWP max/min
in HWP request.

For example: In the following case:

HWP capabilities from MSR 0x771
0x70a1220

Here cpufreq min/max frequencies from above MSR dump are 700MHz and 3.2GHz
respectively.

This will result in
hwp_min = 0x07
hwp_max = 0x20

To limit max frequency to 2GHz:

perf_limits-&gt;max_perf_pct = 63 (2GHz as a percent of 3.2GHz rounded up)

With the current calculation:
adj_range = max_perf_pct * range / 100;
adj_range = 63 * (32 - 7) / 100
adj_range = 15

max = hw_min + adj_range;
max = 7 + 15 = 22

This will result in HWP request of 0x160f, which will result in a
frequency cap of 2.2GHz not 2GHz.

The problem with the above calculation is that hwp_min of 7 is treated
as 0% in the range. But max_perf_pct is calculated with respect to minimum
as 0 and max as 3.2GHz or hwp_max, so adding hwp_min to it will result in
more than the desired.

Since the min_perf_pct and max_perf_pct is already a percent of max
frequency or hwp_max, this min/max HWP request value can be calculated
directly applying these percentage to hwp_max.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada &lt;srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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In the functions intel_pstate_hwp_set(), min/max range from HWP capability
MSR along with max_perf_pct and min_perf_pct, is used to set the HWP
request MSR. In some cases this doesn't result in the correct HWP max/min
in HWP request.

For example: In the following case:

HWP capabilities from MSR 0x771
0x70a1220

Here cpufreq min/max frequencies from above MSR dump are 700MHz and 3.2GHz
respectively.

This will result in
hwp_min = 0x07
hwp_max = 0x20

To limit max frequency to 2GHz:

perf_limits-&gt;max_perf_pct = 63 (2GHz as a percent of 3.2GHz rounded up)

With the current calculation:
adj_range = max_perf_pct * range / 100;
adj_range = 63 * (32 - 7) / 100
adj_range = 15

max = hw_min + adj_range;
max = 7 + 15 = 22

This will result in HWP request of 0x160f, which will result in a
frequency cap of 2.2GHz not 2GHz.

The problem with the above calculation is that hwp_min of 7 is treated
as 0% in the range. But max_perf_pct is calculated with respect to minimum
as 0 and max as 3.2GHz or hwp_max, so adding hwp_min to it will result in
more than the desired.

Since the min_perf_pct and max_perf_pct is already a percent of max
frequency or hwp_max, this min/max HWP request value can be calculated
directly applying these percentage to hwp_max.

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada &lt;srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update pid_params.sample_rate_ns in pid_param_set()</title>
<updated>2017-03-13T22:55:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-12T17:12:56+00:00</published>
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Fix the debugfs interface for PID tuning to actually update
pid_params.sample_rate_ns on PID parameters updates, as changing
pid_params.sample_rate_ms via debugfs has no effect now.

Fixes: a4675fbc4a7a (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace timers with utilization update callbacks)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
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Fix the debugfs interface for PID tuning to actually update
pid_params.sample_rate_ns on PID parameters updates, as changing
pid_params.sample_rate_ms via debugfs has no effect now.

Fixes: a4675fbc4a7a (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace timers with utilization update callbacks)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'</title>
<updated>2017-03-09T14:12:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-09T14:12:27+00:00</published>
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* pm-cpufreq:
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in -&gt;setpolicy
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_verify_policy()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix global settings in active mode
  cpufreq: Add the "cpufreq.off=1" cmdline option
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid triggering cpu_frequency tracepoint unnecessarily
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_cpufreq_verify_policy()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use performance_limits in passive mode
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* pm-cpufreq:
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in -&gt;setpolicy
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_verify_policy()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix global settings in active mode
  cpufreq: Add the "cpufreq.off=1" cmdline option
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid triggering cpu_frequency tracepoint unnecessarily
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_cpufreq_verify_policy()
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use performance_limits in passive mode
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in -&gt;setpolicy</title>
<updated>2017-03-05T23:06:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-02T22:29:12+00:00</published>
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If the current P-state selection algorithm is set to "performance"
in intel_pstate_set_policy(), the limits may be initialized from
scratch, but only if no_turbo is not set and the maximum frequency
allowed for the given CPU (i.e. the policy object representing it)
is at least equal to the max frequency supported by the CPU.  In all
of the other cases, the limits will not be updated.

For example, the following can happen:

 # cat intel_pstate/status
 active
 # echo performance &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 100
 # echo 94 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 100
 # cat cpufreq/policy0/scaling_max_freq
 3100000
 echo 3000000 &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_max_freq
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 94
 # echo 95 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 95

That is confusing for two reasons.  First, the initial attempt to
change min_perf_pct to 94 seems to have no effect, even though
setting the global limits should always work.  Second, after
changing scaling_max_freq for policy0 the global min_perf_pct
attribute shows 94, even though it should have not been affected
by that operation in principle.

Moreover, the final attempt to change min_perf_pct to 95 worked
as expected, because scaling_max_freq for the only policy with
scaling_governor equal to "performance" was different from the
maximum at that time.

To make all that confusion go away, modify intel_pstate_set_policy()
so that it doesn't reinitialize the limits at all.

At the same time, change intel_pstate_set_performance_limits() to
set min_sysfs_pct to 100 in the "performance" limits set so that
switching the P-state selection algorithm to "performance" causes
intel_pstate/min_perf_pct in sysfs to go to 100 (or whatever value
min_sysfs_pct in the "performance" limits is set to later).

That requires per-CPU limits to be initialized explicitly rather
than by copying the global limits to avoid setting min_sysfs_pct
in the per-CPU limits to 100.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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If the current P-state selection algorithm is set to "performance"
in intel_pstate_set_policy(), the limits may be initialized from
scratch, but only if no_turbo is not set and the maximum frequency
allowed for the given CPU (i.e. the policy object representing it)
is at least equal to the max frequency supported by the CPU.  In all
of the other cases, the limits will not be updated.

For example, the following can happen:

 # cat intel_pstate/status
 active
 # echo performance &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 100
 # echo 94 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 100
 # cat cpufreq/policy0/scaling_max_freq
 3100000
 echo 3000000 &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_max_freq
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 94
 # echo 95 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 95

That is confusing for two reasons.  First, the initial attempt to
change min_perf_pct to 94 seems to have no effect, even though
setting the global limits should always work.  Second, after
changing scaling_max_freq for policy0 the global min_perf_pct
attribute shows 94, even though it should have not been affected
by that operation in principle.

Moreover, the final attempt to change min_perf_pct to 95 worked
as expected, because scaling_max_freq for the only policy with
scaling_governor equal to "performance" was different from the
maximum at that time.

To make all that confusion go away, modify intel_pstate_set_policy()
so that it doesn't reinitialize the limits at all.

At the same time, change intel_pstate_set_performance_limits() to
set min_sysfs_pct to 100 in the "performance" limits set so that
switching the P-state selection algorithm to "performance" causes
intel_pstate/min_perf_pct in sysfs to go to 100 (or whatever value
min_sysfs_pct in the "performance" limits is set to later).

That requires per-CPU limits to be initialized explicitly rather
than by copying the global limits to avoid setting min_sysfs_pct
in the per-CPU limits to 100.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_verify_policy()</title>
<updated>2017-03-05T23:06:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-28T23:11:05+00:00</published>
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The code added to intel_pstate_verify_policy() by commit 1443ebbacfd7
(cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix sysfs limits enforcement for performance
policy) should use perf_limits instead of limits, because otherwise
setting global limits via sysfs may affect policies inconsistently.

For example, in the sequence of shell commands below, the
scaling_min_freq attribute for policy1 and policy2 should be
affected in the same way, because scaling_governor is set in
the same way for both of them:

 # cat cpufreq/policy1/scaling_governor
 powersave
 # cat cpufreq/policy2/scaling_governor
 powersave
 # echo performance &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
 # echo 94 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat cpufreq/policy0/scaling_min_freq
 2914000
 # cat cpufreq/policy1/scaling_min_freq
 2914000
 # cat cpufreq/policy2/scaling_min_freq
 800000

The are affected differently, because intel_pstate_verify_policy()
is invoked with limits set to &amp;performance_limits (left behind by
policy0) for policy1 and with limits set to &amp;powersave_limits (left
behind by policy1) for policy2.  Since perf_limits is set to the
set of limits matching the policy being updated, using it instead
of limits fixes the inconsistency.

Fixes: 1443ebbacfd7 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix sysfs limits enforcement for performance policy)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The code added to intel_pstate_verify_policy() by commit 1443ebbacfd7
(cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix sysfs limits enforcement for performance
policy) should use perf_limits instead of limits, because otherwise
setting global limits via sysfs may affect policies inconsistently.

For example, in the sequence of shell commands below, the
scaling_min_freq attribute for policy1 and policy2 should be
affected in the same way, because scaling_governor is set in
the same way for both of them:

 # cat cpufreq/policy1/scaling_governor
 powersave
 # cat cpufreq/policy2/scaling_governor
 powersave
 # echo performance &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
 # echo 94 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat cpufreq/policy0/scaling_min_freq
 2914000
 # cat cpufreq/policy1/scaling_min_freq
 2914000
 # cat cpufreq/policy2/scaling_min_freq
 800000

The are affected differently, because intel_pstate_verify_policy()
is invoked with limits set to &amp;performance_limits (left behind by
policy0) for policy1 and with limits set to &amp;powersave_limits (left
behind by policy1) for policy2.  Since perf_limits is set to the
set of limits matching the policy being updated, using it instead
of limits fixes the inconsistency.

Fixes: 1443ebbacfd7 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix sysfs limits enforcement for performance policy)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix global settings in active mode</title>
<updated>2017-03-05T23:06:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-28T23:07:36+00:00</published>
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Commit 111b8b3fe4fa (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Always keep all
limits settings in sync) changed intel_pstate to invoke
cpufreq_update_policy() for every registered CPU on global sysfs
attributes updates, but that led to undesirable effects in the
active mode if the "performance" P-state selection algorithm is
configufred for one CPU and the "powersave" one is chosen for
all of the other CPUs.

Namely, in that case, the following is possible:

 # cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/
 # cat intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
 100
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 26
 # echo performance &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
 # cat intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
 100
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 100
 # echo 94 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 26

The reason why this happens is because intel_pstate attempts to
maintain two sets of global limits in the active mode, one for
the "performance" P-state selection algorithm and one for the
"powersave"  P-state selection algorithm, but the P-state selection
algorithms are set per policy, so the global limits cannot reflect
all of them at the same time if they are different for different
policies.

In the particular situation above, the attempt to change
min_perf_pct to 94 caused cpufreq_update_policy() to be run
for a CPU with the "powersave"  P-state selection algorithm
and intel_pstate_set_policy() called by it silently switched the
global limits to the "powersave" set which finally was reflected
by the sysfs interface.

To prevent that from happening, modify intel_pstate_update_policies()
to always switch back to the set of limits that was used right before
it has been invoked.

Fixes: 111b8b3fe4fa (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Always keep all limits settings in sync)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Commit 111b8b3fe4fa (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Always keep all
limits settings in sync) changed intel_pstate to invoke
cpufreq_update_policy() for every registered CPU on global sysfs
attributes updates, but that led to undesirable effects in the
active mode if the "performance" P-state selection algorithm is
configufred for one CPU and the "powersave" one is chosen for
all of the other CPUs.

Namely, in that case, the following is possible:

 # cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/
 # cat intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
 100
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 26
 # echo performance &gt; cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor
 # cat intel_pstate/max_perf_pct
 100
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 100
 # echo 94 &gt; intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 # cat intel_pstate/min_perf_pct
 26

The reason why this happens is because intel_pstate attempts to
maintain two sets of global limits in the active mode, one for
the "performance" P-state selection algorithm and one for the
"powersave"  P-state selection algorithm, but the P-state selection
algorithms are set per policy, so the global limits cannot reflect
all of them at the same time if they are different for different
policies.

In the particular situation above, the attempt to change
min_perf_pct to 94 caused cpufreq_update_policy() to be run
for a CPU with the "powersave"  P-state selection algorithm
and intel_pstate_set_policy() called by it silently switched the
global limits to the "powersave" set which finally was reflected
by the sysfs interface.

To prevent that from happening, modify intel_pstate_update_policies()
to always switch back to the set of limits that was used right before
it has been invoked.

Fixes: 111b8b3fe4fa (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Always keep all limits settings in sync)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid triggering cpu_frequency tracepoint unnecessarily</title>
<updated>2017-03-04T00:38:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-03T22:51:31+00:00</published>
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In the passive mode the cpu_frequency trace event is already
triggered by the cpufreq core or by scaling governors, so
intel_pstate should not trigger it once again for the same
P-state updates.

In addition to that, the frequency returned by
intel_cpufreq_fast_switch() and passed via freqs.new from
intel_cpufreq_target() to cpufreq_freq_transition_end() should
reflect the P-state actually set, so make that happen.

Fixes: 001c76f05b01 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Generic governors support)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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In the passive mode the cpu_frequency trace event is already
triggered by the cpufreq core or by scaling governors, so
intel_pstate should not trigger it once again for the same
P-state updates.

In addition to that, the frequency returned by
intel_cpufreq_fast_switch() and passed via freqs.new from
intel_cpufreq_target() to cpufreq_freq_transition_end() should
reflect the P-state actually set, so make that happen.

Fixes: 001c76f05b01 (cpufreq: intel_pstate: Generic governors support)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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