Re: [PATCH] x86/ACPI/State: Optimize C3 entry on AMD CPUs

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Sep 01 2021 - 08:50:03 EST


On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 4:14 AM Deepak Sharma <deesharm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 8/25/21 11:07 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 2:43 AM Deepak Sharma <deepak.sharma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> AMD CPU which support C3 shares cache. Its not necessary to flush the
> >> caches in software before entering C3. This will cause performance drop
> >> for the cores which share some caches. ARB_DIS is not used with current
> >> AMD C state implementation. So set related flags correctly.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Deepak Sharma <deepak.sharma@xxxxxxx>
> > Applied as 5.15 material under the edited subject "x86: ACPI: cstate:
> > Optimize C3 entry on AMD CPUs", thanks!
>
> I might need to send subsequent patch for this. Can you please point me
> to git and branch where this has been merged.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git linux-next

> >> ---
> >> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
> >> index 7de599eba7f0..62a5986d625a 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
> >> @@ -79,6 +79,21 @@ void acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check(struct acpi_processor_flags *flags,
> >> */
> >> flags->bm_control = 0;
> >> }
> >> + if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD) {
> >> + /*
> >> + * For all AMD CPUs that support C3, caches should not be
> >> + * flushed by software while entering C3 type state. Set
> >> + * bm->check to 1 so that kernel doesn't need to execute
> >> + * cache flush operation.
> >> + */
> >> + flags->bm_check = 1;
> >> + /*
> >> + * In current AMD C state implementation ARB_DIS is no longer
> >> + * used. So set bm_control to zero to indicate ARB_DIS is not
> >> + * required while entering C3 type state.
> >> + */
> >> + flags->bm_control = 0;
> >> + }
> >> }
> >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check);
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.25.1
> >>