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cpufreq: powernv: Return the actual CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo

Message ID 1507274648-14221-1-git-send-email-shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series cpufreq: powernv: Return the actual CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo | expand

Commit Message

Shriya Oct. 6, 2017, 7:24 a.m. UTC
Make /proc/cpuinfo read the frequency of the CPU it is running at
instead of reading the cached value of the last requested frequency.
In conditions like WOF/throttle CPU can be running at a different
frequency than the requested frequency.

Signed-off-by: Shriya <shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Michael Ellerman Oct. 6, 2017, 10:30 a.m. UTC | #1
Shriya <shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> Make /proc/cpuinfo read the frequency of the CPU it is running at
> instead of reading the cached value of the last requested frequency.
> In conditions like WOF/throttle CPU can be running at a different
> frequency than the requested frequency.

Sounds like a bug fix to me ?

cheers

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
> index 897aa14..55ea4bf 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static unsigned long pnv_get_proc_freq(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
>  	unsigned long ret_freq;
>  
> -	ret_freq = cpufreq_quick_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
> +	ret_freq = cpufreq_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If the backend cpufreq driver does not exist,
> -- 
> 1.9.1
Shriya Oct. 6, 2017, 11:22 a.m. UTC | #2
On 2017-10-06 16:00, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Shriya <shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> Make /proc/cpuinfo read the frequency of the CPU it is running at
>> instead of reading the cached value of the last requested frequency.
>> In conditions like WOF/throttle CPU can be running at a different
>> frequency than the requested frequency.
> 
> Sounds like a bug fix to me ?
> 
> cheers
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c 
>> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
>> index 897aa14..55ea4bf 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
>> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static unsigned long pnv_get_proc_freq(unsigned 
>> int cpu)
>>  {
>>  	unsigned long ret_freq;
>> 
>> -	ret_freq = cpufreq_quick_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
>> +	ret_freq = cpufreq_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
>> 
>>  	/*
>>  	 * If the backend cpufreq driver does not exist,
>> --
>> 1.9.1

Yes, its a bug fix.

Thanks.
Nicholas Piggin Nov. 16, 2017, 3:14 p.m. UTC | #3
On Fri,  6 Oct 2017 12:54:08 +0530
Shriya <shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Make /proc/cpuinfo read the frequency of the CPU it is running at
> instead of reading the cached value of the last requested frequency.
> In conditions like WOF/throttle CPU can be running at a different
> frequency than the requested frequency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shriya <shriyak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This causes the following:

[    7.203270] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /home/npiggin/linux/kernel/locking/rwsem.c:23
[    7.203323] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1, name: systemd
[    7.203352] 1 lock held by systemd/1:
[    7.203367]  #0:  (&p->lock){+.+.}, at: [<c0000000003e12f8>] seq_read+0x78/0x5c0
[    7.203416] CPU: 164 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.14.0-00345-g8fb6e339cdf5 #33
[    7.203452] Call Trace:
[    7.203463] [c000000ff55039d0] [c000000000be4f24] dump_stack+0x104/0x190 (unreliable)
[    7.203502] [c000000ff5503a10] [c0000000001297d0] ___might_sleep+0x2e0/0x320
[    7.203539] [c000000ff5503a90] [c000000000c049fc] down_read+0x3c/0xc0
[    7.203569] [c000000ff5503ad0] [c0000000009f7c70] cpufreq_get+0x50/0xc0
[    7.203600] [c000000ff5503b20] [c000000000093618] pnv_get_proc_freq+0x28/0x60
[    7.203637] [c000000ff5503b50] [c00000000002bfc0] show_cpuinfo+0x1b0/0x460
[    7.203667] [c000000ff5503c00] [c0000000003e14b8] seq_read+0x238/0x5c0
[    7.203698] [c000000ff5503ca0] [c000000000441e80] proc_reg_read+0xb0/0x110
[    7.203729] [c000000ff5503cf0] [c0000000003a16cc] __vfs_read+0x6c/0x1c0
[    7.203759] [c000000ff5503d90] [c0000000003a18dc] vfs_read+0xbc/0x1b0
[    7.203788] [c000000ff5503de0] [c0000000003a20cc] SyS_read+0x6c/0x110
[    7.203819] [c000000ff5503e30] [c00000000000b82c] system_call+0x58/0x6c

>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
> index 897aa14..55ea4bf 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ static unsigned long pnv_get_proc_freq(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
>  	unsigned long ret_freq;
>  
> -	ret_freq = cpufreq_quick_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
> +	ret_freq = cpufreq_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * If the backend cpufreq driver does not exist,
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
index 897aa14..55ea4bf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@  static unsigned long pnv_get_proc_freq(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	unsigned long ret_freq;
 
-	ret_freq = cpufreq_quick_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
+	ret_freq = cpufreq_get(cpu) * 1000ul;
 
 	/*
 	 * If the backend cpufreq driver does not exist,