[PATCH] intel_pstate: Update cpu_frequency tracepoint every time

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jul 19 2016 - 09:05:51 EST


From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>

Currently, intel_pstate only updates the cpu_frequency tracepoint
if the new P-state to set is different from the current one, but
that causes powertop to report 100% idle on an 100% loaded system
sometimes.

Prevent that from happening by updating the cpu_frequency tracepoint
every time intel_pstate_update_pstate() is called.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
===================================================================
--- linux-pm.orig/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ linux-pm/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -1134,17 +1134,12 @@ static void intel_pstate_get_min_max(str
*min = clamp_t(int, min_perf, cpu->pstate.min_pstate, max_perf);
}

-static inline void intel_pstate_record_pstate(struct cpudata *cpu, int pstate)
-{
- trace_cpu_frequency(pstate * cpu->pstate.scaling, cpu->cpu);
- cpu->pstate.current_pstate = pstate;
-}
-
static void intel_pstate_set_min_pstate(struct cpudata *cpu)
{
int pstate = cpu->pstate.min_pstate;

- intel_pstate_record_pstate(cpu, pstate);
+ trace_cpu_frequency(pstate * cpu->pstate.scaling, cpu->cpu);
+ cpu->pstate.current_pstate = pstate;
/*
* Generally, there is no guarantee that this code will always run on
* the CPU being updated, so force the register update to run on the
@@ -1304,10 +1299,11 @@ static inline void intel_pstate_update_p

intel_pstate_get_min_max(cpu, &min_perf, &max_perf);
pstate = clamp_t(int, pstate, min_perf, max_perf);
+ trace_cpu_frequency(pstate * cpu->pstate.scaling, cpu->cpu);
if (pstate == cpu->pstate.current_pstate)
return;

- intel_pstate_record_pstate(cpu, pstate);
+ cpu->pstate.current_pstate = pstate;
wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_PERF_CTL, pstate_funcs.get_val(cpu, pstate));
}