Re: [PATCH v3] acpi: Issue _OSC call for native thermal interrupt handling

From: Srinivas Pandruvada
Date: Thu Mar 17 2016 - 11:20:33 EST


On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 10:36 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 07:05:37PM -0700, Srinivas Pandruvada wrote:
> > There are several reports of freeze on enabling HWP (Hardware
> > PStates)
> > feature on Skylake based systems by Intel P states driver. The root
> > cause is identified as the HWP interrupts causing BIOS code to
> > freeze.
> > HWP interrupts uses thermal LVT.
> > Linux natively handles thermal interrupts, but in Skylake based
> > systems
> > SMM will take control of thermal interrupts. This is a problem for
> > several
> > reasons:
> > - It is freezing in BIOS when tries to handle thermal interrupt,
> > which
> > will require BIOS upgrade
> > - With SMM handling thermal we loose all the reporting features of
> > Linux arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt driver
> > - Some thermal drivers like x86-package-temp driver depends on the
> > thermal
> > threshold interrupts
> > - The HWP interrupts are useful for debugging and tuning
> > performance
> >
> > So we need native handling of thermal interrupts. To inform SMM
> > that
> > OS will handle thermal interrupts, we need to use _OSC under
> > processor
> > scope very early in ACPI initialization flow. This needs to be done
> > before SMM code path looks for _OSC capabilities. The bit 12 of
> > _OSC in processor scope defines whether OS will handle thermal
> > interrupts.
> > When bit 12 is set to 1, OS will handle thermal interrupts.
> > Refer to this document for details on _OSC
> > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/standards/processor-vendor-
> > specific-acpi-specification.html
> >
> > This change introduces a new function
> > acpi_early_processor_set_osc(),
> > which walks acpi name space and finds acpi processor object and
> > set capability via _OSC method to take over thermal LVT.
> >
> > Also this change writes HWP status bits to 0 to clear any HWP
> > status
> > bits in intel_thermal_interrupt().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > .com>
> > ---
> > v3:
> > - Added CONFIG_X86 around static_cpu_has() to fix compile error on
> > ARCH=ia64, reported by kbuild test robot
> > - return AE_CTRL_TERMINATE to terminate acpi name walk space, when
> > _OSC
> > is set already once.
> > v2:
> > Unnecessary newline was introduced, removed that in
> > acpi_processor.c
> >
> > Âarch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c |ÂÂ8 ++++++
> > Âdrivers/acpi/acpi_processor.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 47
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Âdrivers/acpi/bus.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|ÂÂ3 ++
> > Âdrivers/acpi/internal.hÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|ÂÂ2 ++
> > Â4 files changed, 60 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> > b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> > index 2c5aaf8..4599012 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> > @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ static atomic_t therm_throt_en =
> > ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> > Â
> > Âstatic u32 lvtthmr_init __read_mostly;
> > Â
> > +static bool thermal_hwp_interrupt_support;
> > +
> > Â#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
> > Â#define define_therm_throt_device_one_ro(_name)
> > \
> > Â static DEVICE_ATTR(_name, 0444,
> > \
> > @@ -385,6 +387,9 @@ static void intel_thermal_interrupt(void)
> > Â{
> > Â __u64 msr_val;
> > Â
> > + if (thermal_hwp_interrupt_support)
>
> Why the intermittent variable and not using static_cpu_has()
> directly?
If that's what you prefer, I will do that.

> > + wrmsrl_safe(MSR_HWP_STATUS, 0);
> > +
> > Â rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS, msr_val);
> > Â
> > Â /* Check for violation of core thermal thresholds*/
> > @@ -553,6 +558,9 @@ void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
> > Â rdmsr(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, l, h);
> > Â wrmsr(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, l | MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_TM1,
> > h);
> > Â
> > + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HWP))
> > + thermal_hwp_interrupt_support = true;
> > +
> > Â /* Unmask the thermal vector: */
> > Â l = apic_read(APIC_LVTTHMR);
> > Â apic_write(APIC_LVTTHMR, l & ~APIC_LVT_MASKED);
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> > b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> > index 6979186..55ad24d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> > @@ -491,6 +491,53 @@ static void acpi_processor_remove(struct
> > acpi_device *device)
> > Â}
> > Â#endif /* CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU */
> > Â
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > +static bool acpi_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_set;
> > +static acpi_status acpi_set_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_osc(acpi_handle
> > handle,
> > + ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂu32 lvl,
> > void *context,
> > + ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂvoid **rv)
> > +{
> > + u8 sb_uuid_str[] = "4077A616-290C-47BE-9EBD-D87058713953";
> > + u32 capbuf[2];
> > + struct acpi_osc_context osc_context = {
> > + .uuid_str = sb_uuid_str,
> > + .rev = 1,
> > + .cap.length = 8,
> > + .cap.pointer = capbuf,
> > + };
> > +
> > + if (acpi_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_set)
> > + return AE_CTRL_TERMINATE;
> > +
> > + capbuf[0] = 0x0000;
> > + capbuf[1] = 0x1000; /* set bit 12 */
> > +
> > + if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_run_osc(handle, &osc_context))) {
> > + acpi_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_set = true;
> > + kfree(osc_context.ret.pointer);
> > + }
> > +
> > + return AE_OK;
> > +}
> > +
> > +void acpi_early_processor_set_osc(void)
> > +{
> > + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HWP)) {
>
> This one can be boot_cpu_has().
I will give a try.

Thanks,
Srinivas