Re: [PATCH v7] acpi: Issue _OSC call for native thermal interrupt handling

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Srinivas Pandruvada
<srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. This requires some
> way to inform SMM that OS can handle thermal interrupts. This can be
> done by using _OSC/_PDC under processor scope very early in ACPI
> initialization flow.
> The bit 12 of _OSC/_PDC in processor scope defines whether OS supports
> handling of native interrupts for Collaborative Processor Performance
> Control (CPPC) notifications. Since HWP is a implementation of CPPC,
> setting this bit is equivalent to inform SMM that OS is capable of
> handling thermal interrupts.
> Refer to this document for details on _OSC/_PDC
> 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.
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I've queued it up, but I have modified the subject and the changelog
and renamed the new function.

Please have a look at
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git/commit/?h=bleeding-edge&id=42341f87ba1bee4c5be95038c24abb69cbcf361a
and let me know if it makes sense to you.

Thanks,
Rafael