Andreas reports in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51741
that with his Gentoo config, acpi-cpufreq wasn't enabled and
powernow-k8 couldn't handoff properly to acpi-cpufreq leading to
running without P-state support (i.e., cores are constantly in P0).
To alleaviate that, we need to make powernow-k8 depend on acpi-cpufreq
so that acpi-cpufreq is always present.
References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51741
Reported-by: Andreas <linuxuser330250@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: 3.7+ <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
The powernow-k8 driver supported a sysfs knob called "cpb", which was
instantiated per CPU, but actually acted globally for the whole
system. To keep some compatibility with this feature, we re-introduce
this behavior here, but:
a) only enable it on AMD CPUs and
b) protect it with a Kconfig switch
I'd like to consider this feature obsolete. Lets keep it around for
some kernel versions and then phase it out.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
cpufreq modules are often loaded from init scripts that assume that
all recent AMD systems will use powernow-k8.
To inform the user of the change of support and ease the transition
to acpi-cpufreq, emit a warning message.
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
The programming model for P-states on modern AMD CPUs is very similar to
that of Intel and VIA. It makes sense to consolidate this support into one
driver rather than duplicating functionality between two of them. This
patch adds support for AMDs with hardware P-state control to acpi-cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, cpu: Fix detection of Celeron Covington stepping A1 and B0
Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix L3 cache index disable checks
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix fallout caused by max3 conversion
x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs
x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure
x86, percpu: Use ASM_NOP4 instead of hardcoding P6_NOP4
x86, cpu: Move AMD Elan Kconfig under "Processor family"
Fix up trivial conflicts in alternative handling (commit dc326fca2b
"x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure" removed
some hacky 5-byte instruction stuff, while commit d430d3d7e6 "jump
label: Introduce static_branch() interface" renamed HAVE_JUMP_LABEL to
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL in the code that went away)
Borislav Petkov