3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> commit d40a63c45b506b0681918d7c62a15cc9d48c8681 upstream. Setting the P state of the core to max at init time is a hold over from early implementation of intel_pstate where intel_pstate disabled cpufreq and loaded VERY early in the boot sequence. This was to ensure that intel_pstate did not affect boot time. This in not needed now that intel_pstate is a cpufreq driver. Removing this covers the case where a CPU has gone through a manual CPU offline/online cycle and the P state is set to MAX on init and the CPU immediately goes idle. Due to HW coordination the P state request on the idle CPU will drag all cores to MAX P state until the load is reevaluated when to core goes non-idle. Reported-by: Patrick Marlier <patrick.marlier@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.j.brandewie@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 13 +------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c @@ -555,12 +555,7 @@ static void intel_pstate_get_cpu_pstates if (pstate_funcs.get_vid) pstate_funcs.get_vid(cpu); - - /* - * goto max pstate so we don't slow up boot if we are built-in if we are - * a module we will take care of it during normal operation - */ - intel_pstate_set_pstate(cpu, cpu->pstate.max_pstate); + intel_pstate_set_pstate(cpu, cpu->pstate.min_pstate); } static inline void intel_pstate_calc_busy(struct cpudata *cpu, @@ -706,11 +701,6 @@ static int intel_pstate_init_cpu(unsigne cpu = all_cpu_data[cpunum]; intel_pstate_get_cpu_pstates(cpu); - if (!cpu->pstate.current_pstate) { - all_cpu_data[cpunum] = NULL; - kfree(cpu); - return -ENODATA; - } cpu->cpu = cpunum; @@ -721,7 +711,6 @@ static int intel_pstate_init_cpu(unsigne cpu->timer.expires = jiffies + HZ/100; intel_pstate_busy_pid_reset(cpu); intel_pstate_sample(cpu); - intel_pstate_set_pstate(cpu, cpu->pstate.max_pstate); add_timer_on(&cpu->timer, cpunum); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html