Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: topology: read CPPC FFH feedback counters in one operation

From: Beata Michalska

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 03:39:18 EST


On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 05:41:45PM +0800, Pengjie Zhang wrote:
> arm64 implements CPPC FFH feedback-counter reads using AMU counters.
> Because those counters must be sampled on the target CPU, reading the
> delivered and reference counters separately widens the observation window
> between them.
>
> Implement the paired FFH feedback-counter read hook on arm64 and sample
> both AMU counters together before decoding the requested CPC register
> values.
>
> Also factor the FFH bitfield extraction logic into a helper and reuse
> it from the existing single-counter FFH read path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pengjie Zhang <zhangpengjie2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> index b32f13358fbb..b90a767b2a1f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -50,6 +50,16 @@ struct amu_cntr_sample {
> unsigned long last_scale_update;
> };
>
> +struct amu_ffh_ctrs {
> + u64 corecnt;
> + u64 constcnt;
> +};
> +
> +enum cpc_ffh_ctr_id {
> + CPC_FFH_CTR_CORE = 0x0,
> + CPC_FFH_CTR_CONST = 0x1,
> +};
> +
Those should probably go under the #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_CPPC_LIB section.
> static DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(struct amu_cntr_sample, cpu_amu_samples);
>
> void update_freq_counters_refs(void)
> @@ -397,7 +407,7 @@ static void cpu_read_constcnt(void *val)
> }
>
> static inline
> -int counters_read_on_cpu(int cpu, smp_call_func_t func, u64 *val)
> +int counters_read_on_cpu(int cpu, smp_call_func_t func, void *val)
> {
> /*
> * Abort call on counterless CPU.
> @@ -447,24 +457,73 @@ bool cpc_ffh_supported(void)
> return true;
> }
>
> +static void amu_read_core_const_ctrs(void *val)
> +{
> + struct amu_ffh_ctrs *ctrs = val;
> +
> + cpu_read_constcnt(&ctrs->constcnt);
> + cpu_read_corecnt(&ctrs->corecnt);
> +}
> +
> +static u64 cpc_ffh_extract_bits(const struct cpc_reg *reg, u64 val)
> +{
> + val &= GENMASK_ULL(reg->bit_offset + reg->bit_width - 1,
> + reg->bit_offset);
> + val >>= reg->bit_offset;
> +
> + return val;
> +}
> +
> +static bool cpc_ffh_ctr_value(const struct cpc_reg *reg,
> + const struct amu_ffh_ctrs *ctrs, u64 *val)
> +{
> + switch ((u64)reg->address) {
> + case CPC_FFH_CTR_CORE:
> + *val = ctrs->corecnt;
> + break;
> + case CPC_FFH_CTR_CONST:
> + *val = ctrs->constcnt;
> + break;
> + default:
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> + *val = cpc_ffh_extract_bits(reg, *val);
> + return true;
> +}
> +
> +int cpc_read_ffh_fb_ctrs(int cpu, struct cpc_reg *reg1, u64 *val1,
> + struct cpc_reg *reg2, u64 *val2)
> +{
> + struct amu_ffh_ctrs ctrs;
> + int ret;
> +
> + ret = counters_read_on_cpu(cpu, amu_read_core_const_ctrs, &ctrs);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
> + if (!cpc_ffh_ctr_value(reg1, &ctrs, val1) ||
> + !cpc_ffh_ctr_value(reg2, &ctrs, val2))
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
Right, so there might be an issues with that:
If you return EOPNOTSUPP here, that would trigger reading the registers again,
this time one by one. Is that intentional ?
Also counters_read_on_cpu might also return EOPNOTSUPP, in which case trying
again to read the counters is pointless.

I'm not entirely sure I understand the condition itself though.
This will fail if either of the requested registers in not really expected.
And that should probably be verified upfront ?


---
BR
Beata
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> int cpc_read_ffh(int cpu, struct cpc_reg *reg, u64 *val)
> {
> int ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> switch ((u64)reg->address) {
> - case 0x0:
> + case CPC_FFH_CTR_CORE:
> ret = counters_read_on_cpu(cpu, cpu_read_corecnt, val);
> break;
> - case 0x1:
> + case CPC_FFH_CTR_CONST:
> ret = counters_read_on_cpu(cpu, cpu_read_constcnt, val);
> break;
> }
>
> - if (!ret) {
> - *val &= GENMASK_ULL(reg->bit_offset + reg->bit_width - 1,
> - reg->bit_offset);
> - *val >>= reg->bit_offset;
> - }
> + if (!ret)
> + *val = cpc_ffh_extract_bits(reg, *val);
>
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 2.33.0
>