[PATCH v5 5/6] cpufreq: powernv: Report Psafe only if PMSR.psafe_mode_active bit is set

Shilpasri G Bhat shilpa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jul 16 18:04:22 AEST 2015


On a reset cycle of OCC, although the system retires from safe
frequency state the local pstate is not restored to Pmin or last
requested pstate. Now if the cpufreq governor initiates a pstate
change, the local pstate will be in Psafe and we will be reporting a
false positive when we are not throttled.

So in powernv_cpufreq_throttle_check() remove the condition which
checks if local pstate is less than Pmin while checking for Psafe
frequency. If the cpus are forced to Psafe then PMSR.psafe_mode_active
bit will be set. So, when OCCs become active this bit will be cleared.
Let us just rely on this bit for reporting throttling.

Signed-off-by: Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar at linaro.org>
---
No changes from v4

 drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 12 +++---------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
index 22f33ff..90b4293 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
 #define PMSR_PSAFE_ENABLE	(1UL << 30)
 #define PMSR_SPR_EM_DISABLE	(1UL << 31)
 #define PMSR_MAX(x)		((x >> 32) & 0xFF)
-#define PMSR_LP(x)		((x >> 48) & 0xFF)
 
 static struct cpufreq_frequency_table powernv_freqs[POWERNV_MAX_PSTATES+1];
 static bool rebooting, throttled, occ_reset;
@@ -313,7 +312,7 @@ static void powernv_cpufreq_throttle_check(void *data)
 {
 	unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
 	unsigned long pmsr;
-	int pmsr_pmax, pmsr_lp, i;
+	int pmsr_pmax, i;
 
 	pmsr = get_pmspr(SPRN_PMSR);
 
@@ -335,14 +334,9 @@ static void powernv_cpufreq_throttle_check(void *data)
 			chips[i].id, pmsr_pmax);
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Check for Psafe by reading LocalPstate
-	 * or check if Psafe_mode_active is set in PMSR.
-	 */
+	/* Check if Psafe_mode_active is set in PMSR. */
 next:
-	pmsr_lp = (s8)PMSR_LP(pmsr);
-	if ((pmsr_lp < powernv_pstate_info.min) ||
-				(pmsr & PMSR_PSAFE_ENABLE)) {
+	if (pmsr & PMSR_PSAFE_ENABLE) {
 		throttled = true;
 		pr_info("Pstate set to safe frequency\n");
 	}
-- 
1.9.3



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