[PATCH v5 0/4] cpufreq: CPPC: Preserve OSPM-set registers across hotplug and unload
From: Sumit Gupta
Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 07:15:23 EST
This series keeps the CPPC cpufreq policy alive across CPU hotplug and
preserves the OSPM-set CPPC registers (Energy Performance Preference,
Autonomous Activity Window, Autonomous Selection - set via sysfs).
Without online()/offline() callbacks, the core tears a policy down when
its last CPU goes offline and rebuilds it on the way back, re-reading the
CPPC capabilities each time. The values written to these registers can
be lost:
- Across CPU hotplug or suspend/resume: the platform may reset them
while the CPU is offline.
- On driver unload: the driver-written value is left in the register
instead of returning to its pre-driver state.
Handle these with:
- Patch 1: adds online()/offline() callbacks so the core keeps policy
alive across CPU hotplug instead of tearing it down and rebuilding it.
- Patch 2: makes the autonomous selection register helpers take a u64.
- Patch 3: adds a table-driven mechanism that captures each register's
firmware value at init(), restores it from offline(), and reapplies
the OSPM-set value from online().
- Patch 4: extends the same save/restore to system suspend/resume.
v4[4] -> v5:
- Patch 1:
- offline() stops the frequency invariance updates and online()
restarts them, replacing the resync that raced with tick. (Sashiko)
- reorder the functions to match cppc_cpufreq_driver. (Jie Zhan)
- Patch 3:
- reapply the OSPM-set registers even when the performance control
write fails. (Sashiko)
- Patch 4:
- suspend() stops the frequency invariance updates too, completing the
patch 1 change for a policy whose CPUs stay online.
Sumit Gupta (4):
cpufreq: CPPC: Keep the policy across CPU hotplug
ACPI: CPPC: Make autonomous selection helpers take a u64
cpufreq: CPPC: Preserve OSPM-set registers across hotplug and unload
cpufreq: CPPC: Preserve OSPM-set registers across suspend/resume
drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 20 +-
drivers/cpufreq/amd-pstate.c | 2 +-
drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c | 378 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
include/acpi/cppc_acpi.h | 8 +-
4 files changed, 381 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
[1] v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260623095403.3407436-1-sumitg@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260716153820.2007095-1-sumitg@xxxxxxxxxx/
[3] v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260724215937.3368276-1-sumitg@xxxxxxxxxx/
[4] v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260806200857.601152-1-sumitg@xxxxxxxxxx/
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