Re: [PATCH v5] acpi: Issue _OSC call for native thermal interrupt handling

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Srinivas Pandruvada
<srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are several reports of freeze on enabling HWP (Hardware PStates)
> feature on Skylake based systems by Intel P states driver. The root
> cause is identified as the HWP interrupts causing BIOS code to freeze.
> HWP interrupts uses thermal LVT.
> Linux natively handles thermal interrupts, but in Skylake based systems
> SMM will take control of thermal interrupts. This is a problem for several
> reasons:
> - It is freezing in BIOS when tries to handle thermal interrupt, which
> will require BIOS upgrade
> - With SMM handling thermal we loose all the reporting features of
> Linux arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt driver
> - Some thermal drivers like x86-package-temp driver depends on the thermal
> threshold interrupts
> - The HWP interrupts are useful for debugging and tuning performance
>
> So we need native handling of thermal interrupts. This requires some
> way to inform SMM that OS can handle thermal interrupts. This can be
> done by using _OSC/_PDC under processor scope very early in ACPI
> initialization flow.
> The bit 12 of _OSC/_PDC in processor scope defines whether OS supports
> handling of native interrupts for Collaborative Processor Performance
> Control (CPPC) notifications. Since HWP is a implementation of CPPC,
> setting this bit is equivalent to inform SMM that OS is capable of
> handling thermal interrupts.
> Refer to this document for details on _OSC/_PDC
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/standards/processor-vendor-
> specific-acpi-specification.html
>
> This change introduces a new function acpi_early_processor_set_osc(),
> which walks acpi name space and finds acpi processor object and
> set capability via _OSC method.
>
> Also this change writes HWP status bits to 0 to clear any HWP status
> bits in intel_thermal_interrupt().
>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v5:
> No code change. Changed commit message to explain HWP is a implementation
> of CPPC.
>
> v4:
> Suggestion by Boris for removing use of intermediate variable for
> clearing HWP status and using boot_cpu_has instead of static_cpu_has
>
> v3:
> - Added CONFIG_X86 around static_cpu_has() to fix compile error on
> ARCH=ia64, reported by kbuild test robot
> - return AE_CTRL_TERMINATE to terminate acpi name walk space, when _OSC
> is set already once.
> v2:
> Unnecessary newline was introduced, removed that in acpi_processor.c
>
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c |  3 ++
>  drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c            | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/acpi/bus.c                       |  3 ++
>  drivers/acpi/internal.h                  |  2 ++
>  4 files changed, 55 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> index 0b445c2..ac780ca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
> @@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ static void intel_thermal_interrupt(void)
>  {
>         __u64 msr_val;
>
> +       if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HWP))
> +               wrmsrl_safe(MSR_HWP_STATUS, 0);
> +
>         rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS, msr_val);
>
>         /* Check for violation of core thermal thresholds*/
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> index b5e54f2..52934d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c
> @@ -491,6 +491,53 @@ static void acpi_processor_remove(struct acpi_device *device)
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU */
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> +static bool acpi_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_set;
> +static acpi_status acpi_set_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_osc(acpi_handle handle,

That can be __init, can't it?

> +                                                      u32 lvl, void *context,
> +                                                      void **rv)
> +{
> +       u8 sb_uuid_str[] = "4077A616-290C-47BE-9EBD-D87058713953";
> +       u32 capbuf[2];
> +       struct acpi_osc_context osc_context = {
> +               .uuid_str = sb_uuid_str,
> +               .rev = 1,
> +               .cap.length = 8,
> +               .cap.pointer = capbuf,
> +       };
> +
> +       if (acpi_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_set)
> +               return AE_CTRL_TERMINATE;
> +
> +       capbuf[0] = 0x0000;
> +       capbuf[1] = 0x1000; /* set bit 12 */
> +
> +       if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_run_osc(handle, &osc_context))) {
> +               acpi_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_set = true;
> +               kfree(osc_context.ret.pointer);
> +       }
> +
> +       return AE_OK;
> +}
> +
> +void acpi_early_processor_set_osc(void)

And that can be __init too?

> +{
> +       if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HWP)) {
> +               acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_PROCESSOR, ACPI_ROOT_OBJECT,
> +                                   ACPI_UINT32_MAX,
> +                                   acpi_set_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_osc,
> +                                   NULL, NULL, NULL);
> +               acpi_get_devices(ACPI_PROCESSOR_DEVICE_HID,
> +                                acpi_set_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_osc,
> +                                NULL, NULL);
> +       }
> +}
> +#else
> +
> +void acpi_early_processor_set_osc(void) {}

It's better to define it in the header as a static inline IMO.

> +
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * The following ACPI IDs are known to be suitable for representing as
>   * processor devices.
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> index 0e85678..1f65eb5 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> @@ -1019,6 +1019,9 @@ static int __init acpi_bus_init(void)
>                 goto error1;
>         }
>
> +       /* Set capability bits for _OSC under processor scope */
> +       acpi_early_processor_set_osc();
> +
>         /*
>          * _OSC method may exist in module level code,
>          * so it must be run after ACPI_FULL_INITIALIZATION
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/internal.h b/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> index a37508e..0aaeef1 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/internal.h
> @@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ void acpi_early_processor_set_pdc(void);
>  static inline void acpi_early_processor_set_pdc(void) {}
>  #endif
>

#ifdef CONFIG_X86

> +void acpi_early_processor_set_osc(void);

#else
static inline void acpi_early_processor_set_osc(void) {}
#endif

> +
>  /* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                    Embedded Controller
>     -------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
> --
> 1.9.1
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