[PATCH v2 2/2] cpufreq: powernv: Use PMCR to verify global and local pstate

Akshay Adiga akshay.adiga at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 9 00:58:31 AEDT 2016


Thanks gautham for the review.

Good point, I have made the macros more generic in the next version as 
you have mentioned.

I will post a separate patch to set pstates using these macros. :)

On 11/08/2016 09:10 AM, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 01:09:09PM +0530, Akshay Adiga wrote:
>> As fast_switch() may get called with interrupt disable mode, we cannot
>> hold a mutex to update the global_pstate_info. So currently, fast_switch()
>> does not update the global_pstate_info and it will end up with stale data
>> whenever pstate is updated through fast_switch().
>>
>> As the gpstate_timer can fire after fast_switch() has updated the pstates,
>> the timer handler cannot rely on the cached values of local and global
>> pstate and needs to read it from the PMCR.
>>
>> Only gpstate_timer_handler() is affected by the stale cached pstate data
>> beacause either fast_switch() or target_index() routines will be called
>> for a given govenor, but gpstate_timer can fire after the governor has
>> changed to schedutil.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes from v1 :
>> - Corrected Commit message
>> - Type cast pstate values read from PMCR to type s8
>> - Added Macros to get local and global pstates from PMCR
> Thanks for this. Could you also send a (separate patch) to set the
> local and global pstates to PMCR in set_pstate?
>
>>
>>   drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>   1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
>> index 4a4380d..bf4bc585 100644
>> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
>> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/powernv-cpufreq.c
>> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
>>   #define PMSR_PSAFE_ENABLE	(1UL << 30)
>>   #define PMSR_SPR_EM_DISABLE	(1UL << 31)
>>   #define PMSR_MAX(x)		((x >> 32) & 0xFF)
>> +#define PMCR_LPSTATE(x)		(((x) >> 48) & 0xFF)
>> +#define PMCR_GPSTATE(x)		(((x) >> 56) & 0xFF)
> You define:
> #define LPSTATE_SHIFT    48
> #define GPSTATE_SHIFT    56
>
> since we can use this in the set_variants.
>
> Moreover, the LPSTATE, GPSTATE retreival is applicable to both PMCR and PMSR. So
> could you rename these functions to GET_LPSTATE, GET_GPSTATE.
>
> Similarly, we might want to have a SET_LPSTATE, SET_GPSTATE and fix
> the hard coded values that we have in set_pstate.
>
>
>>   #define MAX_RAMP_DOWN_TIME				5120
>>   /*
>> @@ -592,7 +594,8 @@ void gpstate_timer_handler(unsigned long data)
>>   {
>>   	struct cpufreq_policy *policy = (struct cpufreq_policy *)data;
>>   	struct global_pstate_info *gpstates = policy->driver_data;
>> -	int gpstate_idx;
>> +	int gpstate_idx, lpstate_idx;
>> +	unsigned long val;
>>   	unsigned int time_diff = jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies)
>>   					- gpstates->last_sampled_time;
>>   	struct powernv_smp_call_data freq_data;
>> @@ -600,21 +603,36 @@ void gpstate_timer_handler(unsigned long data)
>>   	if (!spin_trylock(&gpstates->gpstate_lock))
>>   		return;
>>
>> +	/*
>> +	 * If PMCR was last updated was using fast_swtich then
>> +	 * We may have wrong in gpstate->last_lpstate_idx
>> +	 * value. Hence, read from PMCR to get correct data.
>> +	 */
>> +	val = get_pmspr(SPRN_PMCR);
>> +	freq_data.gpstate_id = (s8)PMCR_GPSTATE(val);
>> +	freq_data.pstate_id = (s8)PMCR_LPSTATE(val);
>> +	if (freq_data.gpstate_id  == freq_data.pstate_id) {
>> +		reset_gpstates(policy);
>> +		spin_unlock(&gpstates->gpstate_lock);
>> +		return;
>> +	}
>> +
>>   	gpstates->last_sampled_time += time_diff;
>>   	gpstates->elapsed_time += time_diff;
>> -	freq_data.pstate_id = idx_to_pstate(gpstates->last_lpstate_idx);
>>
>> -	if ((gpstates->last_gpstate_idx == gpstates->last_lpstate_idx) ||
>> -	    (gpstates->elapsed_time > MAX_RAMP_DOWN_TIME)) {
>> +	if (gpstates->elapsed_time > MAX_RAMP_DOWN_TIME) {
>>   		gpstate_idx = pstate_to_idx(freq_data.pstate_id);
>>   		reset_gpstates(policy);
>>   		gpstates->highest_lpstate_idx = gpstate_idx;
>>   	} else {
>> +		lpstate_idx = pstate_to_idx(freq_data.pstate_id);
>>   		gpstate_idx = calc_global_pstate(gpstates->elapsed_time,
>>   						 gpstates->highest_lpstate_idx,
>> -						 gpstates->last_lpstate_idx);
>> +						 lpstate_idx);
>>   	}
>> -
>> +	freq_data.gpstate_id = idx_to_pstate(gpstate_idx);
>> +	gpstates->last_gpstate_idx = gpstate_idx;
>> +	gpstates->last_lpstate_idx = lpstate_idx;
>>   	/*
>>   	 * If local pstate is equal to global pstate, rampdown is over
>>   	 * So timer is not required to be queued.
>> @@ -622,10 +640,6 @@ void gpstate_timer_handler(unsigned long data)
>>   	if (gpstate_idx != gpstates->last_lpstate_idx)
>>   		queue_gpstate_timer(gpstates);
>>
>> -	freq_data.gpstate_id = idx_to_pstate(gpstate_idx);
>> -	gpstates->last_gpstate_idx = pstate_to_idx(freq_data.gpstate_id);
>> -	gpstates->last_lpstate_idx = pstate_to_idx(freq_data.pstate_id);
>> -
>>   	spin_unlock(&gpstates->gpstate_lock);
>>
>>   	/* Timer may get migrated to a different cpu on cpu hot unplug */
>> -- 
>> 2.5.5
> Looks good otherwise.
>
> Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>



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