[PATCH 5.8 010/464] x86, sched: Bail out of frequency invariance if turbo frequency is unknown

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Aug 17 2020 - 15:51:45 EST


From: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 51beea8862a3095559862df39554f05042e1195b ]

There may be CPUs that support turbo boost but don't declare any turbo
ratio, i.e. their MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT is all zeroes. In that condition
scale-invariant calculations can't be performed.

Fixes: 1567c3e3467c ("x86, sched: Add support for frequency invariance")
Suggested-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200531182453.15254-3-ggherdovich@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 18d292fc466cb..20e1cea262e4b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -2002,9 +2002,11 @@ static bool intel_set_max_freq_ratio(void)
/*
* Some hypervisors advertise X86_FEATURE_APERFMPERF
* but then fill all MSR's with zeroes.
+ * Some CPUs have turbo boost but don't declare any turbo ratio
+ * in MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT.
*/
- if (!base_freq) {
- pr_debug("Couldn't determine cpu base frequency, necessary for scale-invariant accounting.\n");
+ if (!base_freq || !turbo_freq) {
+ pr_debug("Couldn't determine cpu base or turbo frequency, necessary for scale-invariant accounting.\n");
return false;
}

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