Limits Management Hardware(LMh) is a hardware infrastructure on some Qualcomm SoCs that can enforce temperature and current limits as programmed by software for certain IPs like CPU. On many newer SoCs LMh is configured by firmware/TZ and no programming is needed from the kernel side. But on certain SoCs like sdm845 the firmware does not do a complete programming of the h/w block. On such SoCs kernel software has to explicitly set up the temperature limits and turn on various monitoring and enforcing algorithms on the hardware. Introduce support for enabling and programming various limit settings and monitoring capabilities of Limits Management Hardware(LMh) associated with cpu clusters. Also introduce support in cpufreq hardware driver to monitor the interrupt associated with cpu frequency throttling so that this information can be conveyed to the schdeuler via thermal pressure interface. With this patch series following cpu performance improvement(30-70%) is observed on sdm845. The reasoning here is that without LMh being programmed properly from the kernel, the default settings were enabling thermal mitigation for CPUs at too low a temperature (around 70-75 degree C). This in turn meant that many a time CPUs were never actually allowed to hit the maximum possible/required frequencies. UnixBench whets and dhry (./Run whets dhry) System Benchmarks Index Score Without LMh Support With LMh Support 1 copy test 1353.7 1773.2 8 copy tests 4473.6 7402.3 Sysbench cpu sysbench cpu --threads=8 --time=60 --cpu-max-prime=100000 run Without LMh Support With LMh Support Events per second 355 614 Avg Latency(ms) 21.84 13.02 v3->v4: - Rebased to v5.14-rc2. v2->v3: - Included patch adding dt binding documentation for LMh nodes. - Rebased to v5.13 Thara Gopinath (6): firmware: qcom_scm: Introduce SCM calls to access LMh thermal: qcom: Add support for LMh driver cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Add dcvs interrupt support arm64: dts: qcom: sdm45: Add support for LMh node arm64: dts: qcom: sdm845: Remove cpufreq cooling devices for CPU thermal zones dt-bindings: thermal: Add dt binding for QCOM LMh .../devicetree/bindings/thermal/qcom-lmh.yaml | 100 ++++++++ arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/sdm845.dtsi | 162 ++---------- drivers/cpufreq/qcom-cpufreq-hw.c | 142 +++++++++++ drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.c | 58 +++++ drivers/firmware/qcom_scm.h | 4 + drivers/thermal/qcom/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/thermal/qcom/Makefile | 1 + drivers/thermal/qcom/lmh.c | 232 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/qcom_scm.h | 14 ++ 9 files changed, 587 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/thermal/qcom-lmh.yaml create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/qcom/lmh.c -- 2.25.1