Re: Fwd: Abnormal battery drain with kernel 6.5 (Ryzen 5500u)

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Thu Nov 02 2023 - 04:05:19 EST


On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 12:41:14PM +0800, Huang Rui wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 05:42:22PM +0800, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I notice a regression report on Bugzilla [1] that have been already handled
> > there. Quoting from it:
> >
> > > After switching from 6.4.x kernel to 6.5 I experienced an abnormal battery drain since my laptop is actually never idle.
> > > I accepted default CPUfreq to schedutil and AMD Processor P-State mode is 3 (active).
> > >
> > > I expected a different behaviour, but am I missing something?
> > > In my boot configuration I had "amd_pstate.shared_mem=1" and tried to remove this switch, but did not affect my power consuption.
> > >
> > > Is there something changed from 6.4.x to 6.5 that requires a different configuration to get an optimal power consumption?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for your attention
> >
> > See Bugzilla for the full thread.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm adding it to regzbot:
> >
> > #regzbot introduced: v6.4..v6.5 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217853
> >
>
> + Meng Li/Perry,
>
> May we know which CPU type are you using? Try "lscpu"?
>

Sorry for the replying just now.

The reporter (on Bugzilla) had bisected to commit c8afaa1b0f8bc9 ("locking:
remove spin_lock_prefetch"). Telling regzbot:

#regzbot introduced: c8afaa1b0f8bc9
#regzbot title: spin_lock_prefetch() removal causes abnormal battery drain on Ryzen 5500u

Thanks.

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