[CPUFREQ][8/8] acpi-cpufreq: Add support for freq feedback from hardware

Enable ondemand governor and acpi-cpufreq to use IA32_APERF and IA32_MPERF MSR
to get active frequency feedback for the last sampling interval. This will
make ondemand take right frequency decisions when hardware coordination of
frequency is going on.

Without APERF/MPERF, ondemand can take wrong decision at times due
to underlying hardware coordination or TM2.
Example:
* CPU 0 and CPU 1 are hardware cooridnated.
* CPU 1 running at highest frequency.
* CPU 0 was running at highest freq. Now ondemand reduces it to
  some intermediate frequency based on utilization.
* Due to underlying hardware coordination with other CPU 1, CPU 0 continues to
  run at highest frequency (as long as other CPU is at highest).
* When ondemand samples CPU 0 again next time, without actual frequency
  feedback from APERF/MPERF, it will think that previous frequency change
  was successful and can go to wrong target frequency. This is because it
  thinks that utilization it has got this sampling interval is when running at
  intermediate frequency, rather than actual highest frequency.

More information about IA32_APERF IA32_MPERF MSR:
Refer to IA-32 Intel® Architecture Software Developer's Manual at
http://developer.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 106 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
index 8b0c7db85a4..f8a8e46acb7 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
@@ -58,10 +58,12 @@ enum {
 };
 
 #define INTEL_MSR_RANGE		(0xffff)
+#define CPUID_6_ECX_APERFMPERF_CAPABILITY	(0x1)
 
 struct acpi_cpufreq_data {
 	struct acpi_processor_performance *acpi_data;
 	struct cpufreq_frequency_table *freq_table;
+	unsigned int max_freq;
 	unsigned int resume;
 	unsigned int cpu_feature;
 };
@@ -258,6 +260,100 @@ static u32 get_cur_val(cpumask_t mask)
 	return cmd.val;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Return the measured active (C0) frequency on this CPU since last call
+ * to this function.
+ * Input: cpu number
+ * Return: Average CPU frequency in terms of max frequency (zero on error)
+ *
+ * We use IA32_MPERF and IA32_APERF MSRs to get the measured performance
+ * over a period of time, while CPU is in C0 state.
+ * IA32_MPERF counts at the rate of max advertised frequency
+ * IA32_APERF counts at the rate of actual CPU frequency
+ * Only IA32_APERF/IA32_MPERF ratio is architecturally defined and
+ * no meaning should be associated with absolute values of these MSRs.
+ */
+static unsigned int get_measured_perf(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	union {
+		struct {
+			u32 lo;
+			u32 hi;
+		} split;
+		u64 whole;
+	} aperf_cur, mperf_cur;
+
+	cpumask_t saved_mask;
+	unsigned int perf_percent;
+	unsigned int retval;
+
+	saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed;
+	set_cpus_allowed(current, cpumask_of_cpu(cpu));
+	if (get_cpu() != cpu) {
+		/* We were not able to run on requested processor */
+		put_cpu();
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	rdmsr(MSR_IA32_APERF, aperf_cur.split.lo, aperf_cur.split.hi);
+	rdmsr(MSR_IA32_MPERF, mperf_cur.split.lo, mperf_cur.split.hi);
+
+	wrmsr(MSR_IA32_APERF, 0,0);
+	wrmsr(MSR_IA32_MPERF, 0,0);
+
+#ifdef __i386__
+	/*
+	 * We dont want to do 64 bit divide with 32 bit kernel
+	 * Get an approximate value. Return failure in case we cannot get
+	 * an approximate value.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(aperf_cur.split.hi || mperf_cur.split.hi)) {
+		int shift_count;
+		u32 h;
+
+		h = max_t(u32, aperf_cur.split.hi, mperf_cur.split.hi);
+		shift_count = fls(h);
+
+		aperf_cur.whole >>= shift_count;
+		mperf_cur.whole >>= shift_count;
+	}
+
+	if (((unsigned long)(-1) / 100) < aperf_cur.split.lo) {
+		int shift_count = 7;
+		aperf_cur.split.lo >>= shift_count;
+		mperf_cur.split.lo >>= shift_count;
+	}
+
+	if (aperf_cur.split.lo && mperf_cur.split.lo) {
+		perf_percent = (aperf_cur.split.lo * 100) / mperf_cur.split.lo;
+	} else {
+		perf_percent = 0;
+	}
+
+#else
+	if (unlikely(((unsigned long)(-1) / 100) < aperf_cur.whole)) {
+		int shift_count = 7;
+		aperf_cur.whole >>= shift_count;
+		mperf_cur.whole >>= shift_count;
+	}
+
+	if (aperf_cur.whole && mperf_cur.whole) {
+		perf_percent = (aperf_cur.whole * 100) / mperf_cur.whole;
+	} else {
+		perf_percent = 0;
+	}
+
+#endif
+
+	retval = drv_data[cpu]->max_freq * perf_percent / 100;
+
+	put_cpu();
+	set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask);
+
+	dprintk("cpu %d: performance percent %d\n", cpu, perf_percent);
+	return retval;
+}
+
 static unsigned int get_cur_freq_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct acpi_cpufreq_data *data = drv_data[cpu];
@@ -497,7 +593,6 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	unsigned int valid_states = 0;
 	unsigned int cpu = policy->cpu;
 	struct acpi_cpufreq_data *data;
-	unsigned int l, h;
 	unsigned int result = 0;
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data[policy->cpu];
 	struct acpi_processor_performance *perf;
@@ -591,6 +686,7 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	}
 	policy->governor = CPUFREQ_DEFAULT_GOVERNOR;
 
+	data->max_freq = perf->states[0].core_frequency * 1000;
 	/* table init */
 	for (i = 0; i < perf->state_count; i++) {
 		if (i > 0 && perf->states[i].core_frequency ==
@@ -625,6 +721,15 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
 	/* notify BIOS that we exist */
 	acpi_processor_notify_smm(THIS_MODULE);
 
+	/* Check for APERF/MPERF support in hardware */
+	if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL && c->cpuid_level >= 6) {
+		unsigned int ecx;
+		ecx = cpuid_ecx(6);
+		if (ecx & CPUID_6_ECX_APERFMPERF_CAPABILITY) {
+			acpi_cpufreq_driver.getavg = get_measured_perf;
+		}
+	}
+
 	dprintk("CPU%u - ACPI performance management activated.\n", cpu);
 	for (i = 0; i < perf->state_count; i++)
 		dprintk("     %cP%d: %d MHz, %d mW, %d uS\n",