To workaround some Windows specific behavior, the ACPI _PSD table
on AMD desktop boards advertises all cores as dependent, meaning
that they all can only use the same P-state. acpi-cpufreq strictly
obeys this description, instantiating one CPU only and symlinking
the others. But the hardware can have distinct frequencies for each
core and powernow-k8 did it that way.
So, in order to use the hardware to its full potential and keep the
original powernow-k8 behavior, lets override the _PSD table setting
on AMD hardware.
We use the siblings table, as it matches the current hardware
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
The programming model for P-states on modern AMD CPUs is very similar to
that of Intel and VIA. It makes sense to consolidate this support into one
driver rather than duplicating functionality between two of them. This
patch adds support for AMDs with hardware P-state control to acpi-cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
acpi-cpufreq checks each CPU for aperf/mperf support, but only sets a
global flag. This will cause errors if some CPUs in the system don't
support the feature. Check boot_cpu_has() instead in order to make sure
that all CPUs support it.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
I came across a memory leak during a cyclic cpu-online-offline test.
Signed-off-by: Yu Luming <luming.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Andre Przywara