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authorLinus Torvalds2018-06-05 10:08:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2018-06-05 10:08:27 -0700
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Merge tag 'acpi-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20180508 upstream revision and make it support the RT patch, add CPPC v3 support to the ACPI CPPC library, add a WDAT-based watchdog quirk to prevent clashes with the RTC, add quirks to the ACPI AC and battery drivers, and update the ACPI SoC drivers. Specifics: - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20180508 upstream revision including: * iASL -tc option enhancement (Bob Moore). * Debugger improvements (Bob Moore). * Support for tables larger than 1 MB in acpidump/acpixtract (Bob Moore). * Minor fixes and cleanups (Colin Ian King, Toomas Soome). - Make the ACPICA code in the kernel support the RT patch (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Steven Rostedt). - Add a kmemleak annotation to the ACPICA code (Larry Finger). - Add CPPC v3 support to the ACPI CPPC library and fix two issues related to CPPC (Prashanth Prakash, Al Stone). - Add an ACPI WDAT-based watchdog quirk to prefer iTCO_wdt on systems where WDAT clashes with the RTC SRAM (Mika Westerberg). - Add some quirks to the ACPI AC and battery drivers (Carlo Caione, Hans de Goede). - Update the ACPI SoC drivers for Intel (LPSS) and AMD (APD) platforms (Akshu Agrawal, Hans de Goede). - Fix up some assorted minor issues (Al Stone, Laszlo Toth, Mathieu Malaterre)" * tag 'acpi-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (32 commits) ACPICA: Mark acpi_ut_create_internal_object_dbg() memory allocations as non-leaks ACPI / watchdog: Prefer iTCO_wdt always when WDAT table uses RTC SRAM mailbox: PCC: erroneous error message when parsing ACPI PCCT ACPICA: Update version to 20180508 ACPICA: acpidump/acpixtract: Support for tables larger than 1MB ACPI: APD: Add AMD misc clock handler support clk: x86: Add ST oscout platform clock ACPICA: Update version to 20180427 ACPICA: Debugger: Removed direct support for EC address space in "Test Objects" ACPICA: Debugger: Add Package support for "test objects" command ACPICA: Improve error messages for the namespace root node ACPICA: Fix potential infinite loop in acpi_rs_dump_byte_list ACPICA: vsnprintf: this statement may fall through ACPICA: Tables: Fix spelling mistake in comment ACPICA: iASL: Enhance the -tc option (create AML hex file in C) ACPI: Add missing prototype_for arch_post_acpi_subsys_init() ACPI / tables: improve comments regarding acpi_parse_entries_array() ACPICA: Convert acpi_gbl_hardware lock back to an acpi_raw_spinlock ACPICA: provide abstraction for raw_spinlock_t ACPI / CPPC: Fix invalid PCC channel status errors ...
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+
+ Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC)
+
+CPPC defined in the ACPI spec describes a mechanism for the OS to manage the
+performance of a logical processor on a contigious and abstract performance
+scale. CPPC exposes a set of registers to describe abstract performance scale,
+to request performance levels and to measure per-cpu delivered performance.
+
+For more details on CPPC please refer to the ACPI specification at:
+
+http://uefi.org/specifications
+
+Some of the CPPC registers are exposed via sysfs under:
+
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/acpi_cppc/
+
+for each cpu X
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+$ ls -lR /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/acpi_cppc/
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/acpi_cppc/:
+total 0
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 feedback_ctrs
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 highest_perf
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 lowest_freq
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 lowest_nonlinear_perf
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 lowest_perf
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 nominal_freq
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 nominal_perf
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 reference_perf
+-r--r--r-- 1 root root 65536 Mar 5 19:38 wraparound_time
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* highest_perf : Highest performance of this processor (abstract scale).
+* nominal_perf : Highest sustained performance of this processor (abstract scale).
+* lowest_nonlinear_perf : Lowest performance of this processor with nonlinear
+ power savings (abstract scale).
+* lowest_perf : Lowest performance of this processor (abstract scale).
+
+* lowest_freq : CPU frequency corresponding to lowest_perf (in MHz).
+* nominal_freq : CPU frequency corresponding to nominal_perf (in MHz).
+ The above frequencies should only be used to report processor performance in
+ freqency instead of abstract scale. These values should not be used for any
+ functional decisions.
+
+* feedback_ctrs : Includes both Reference and delivered performance counter.
+ Reference counter ticks up proportional to processor's reference performance.
+ Delivered counter ticks up proportional to processor's delivered performance.
+* wraparound_time: Minimum time for the feedback counters to wraparound (seconds).
+* reference_perf : Performance level at which reference performance counter
+ accumulates (abstract scale).
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ Computing Average Delivered Performance
+
+Below describes the steps to compute the average performance delivered by taking
+two different snapshots of feedback counters at time T1 and T2.
+
+T1: Read feedback_ctrs as fbc_t1
+ Wait or run some workload
+T2: Read feedback_ctrs as fbc_t2
+
+delivered_counter_delta = fbc_t2[del] - fbc_t1[del]
+reference_counter_delta = fbc_t2[ref] - fbc_t1[ref]
+
+delivered_perf = (refernce_perf x delivered_counter_delta) / reference_counter_delta