Re: [PATCH 0/4] ACPI: CPPC: Fixes to limit actions to online CPUs
From: Mario Limonciello (AMD) (kernel.org)
Date: Wed Nov 05 2025 - 11:00:28 EST
On 11/5/2025 8:38 AM, Gautham R. Shenoy wrote:
Hello,
Christopher Harris reported a regression between v6.10 to v6.11 that
the amd-pstate driver failed to load even when the commandline had
"amd_pstate=passive"
(https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAM+eXpdDT7KjLV0AxEwOLkSJ2QtrsvGvjA2cCHvt1d0k2_C4Cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/)
On debugging the issue it was observed that when the commandline
contains "nosmt=force", the CPPC code fails when performing certain
checks such as checking for the presence of preferred cores and
validity of the _CPC object since it iterates through all "present"
CPUs while the object state was populated only for "online" CPUs.
This patchset contains fixes to address this issue.
The first two patches in the series address the issue reported by
Chris.
Patches 3 and 4 harden the code in a couple of more functions which
iterated through the present CPUs when it is more apt to restrict the
operations to online CPUs
Gautham R. Shenoy (4):
ACPI: CPPC: Detect preferred core availability on online CPUs
ACPI: CPPC: Check _CPC validity for only the online CPUs
ACPI: CPPC: Perform fast check switch only for online CPUs
ACPI: CPPC: Limit perf ctrs in PCC check only to online CPUs
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cppc.c | 2 +-
drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
The series looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@xxxxxxxxxx>
But I would say I noticed we are also using for_each_present_cpu() in amd-pstate with amd_pstate_change_mode_without_dvr_change().
Should that also get a similar change?