On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 08:28:01AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 2/20/25 07:36, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
On some boots the read of MSR_PP1_ENERGY_STATUS msr returns 0, causing
perf_msr_probe() to make the power/events/energy-gpu event non-visible.
When that happens, the msr always read 0 until the graphics module (i915
for Meteor Lake, xe for Lunar Lake) is loaded. Then it starts returning
something different and re-loading the rapl module "fixes" it.
What's the root cause here? Did the kernel do something funky? Or is
this a hardware bug?
From what I can see, the kernel is reading the value and deciding that "if
it's 0, it doesn't really have that", which is not really true. For
these platforms sometimes it keeps returning 0 until the gpu is
later powered on, which only happens when xe / i915 probes.
But what I don't really understand is why the behavior changes from one
boot to another. I'm assuming it depends on some funky firmware
behavior.
Lucas De Marchi
