[PATCH 2/4] x86, sched: Account for CPUs with less than 4 cores in freq. invariance

From: Giovanni Gherdovich
Date: Thu Apr 16 2020 - 01:48:41 EST


If a CPU has less than 4 physical cores, MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT will
rightfully report that the 4C turbo ratio is zero. In such cases, use the
1C turbo ratio instead for frequency invariance calculations.

Reported-by: Neil Rickert <nwr10cst-oslnx@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: 1567c3e3467c ("x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance")
---
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 3a318ec9bc17..5d346b70844b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1945,18 +1945,23 @@ static bool skx_set_max_freq_ratio(u64 *base_freq, u64 *turbo_freq, int size)

static bool core_set_max_freq_ratio(u64 *base_freq, u64 *turbo_freq)
{
+ u64 msr;
int err;

err = rdmsrl_safe(MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, base_freq);
if (err)
return false;

- err = rdmsrl_safe(MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT, turbo_freq);
+ err = rdmsrl_safe(MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT, &msr);
if (err)
return false;

- *base_freq = (*base_freq >> 8) & 0xFF; /* max P state */
- *turbo_freq = (*turbo_freq >> 24) & 0xFF; /* 4C turbo */
+ *base_freq = (*base_freq >> 8) & 0xFF; /* max P state */
+ *turbo_freq = (msr >> 24) & 0xFF; /* 4C turbo */
+
+ /* The CPU may have less than 4 cores */
+ if (!*turbo_freq)
+ *turbo_freq = msr & 0xFF; /* 1C turbo */

return true;
}
--
2.16.4