Re: [PATCH 2/2 V9] intel_pstate: add kernel parameter to force loading.

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:28:49 PM Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:43:19 +0900
> Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > To force loading on Oracle Sun X86 servers, provide one kernel command line
> > parameter
> > 
> >   intel_pstate = force
> > 
> > For those who be aware of the risk of no power capping capabily working and
> > try to get better performance with this driver.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>
> > Tested-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Linda Knippers <linda.knippers@hp.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>

Patch applied, but I had to rebase it on top of the HWP changes from Dirk.

Please check my linux-next branch for the result and let me know if there's
anything wrong with it.

> > ---
> >  v2: change to hardware vendor specific naming parameter.
> >  v4: refine code and doc.
> >  v5&v6: fix a typo in doc.
> >  v7: change enum PCC to PPC.
> >  v8: change the name of kernel command line parameter to generic one.
> >  v9: refine doc
> > 
> >  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
> >  drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c      | 6 +++++-
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > index 479f332..7d0983e 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -1446,6 +1446,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
> >  		       disable
> >  		         Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
> >  		         scaling driver for the supported processors
> > +		       force
> > +			 Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
> > +			 in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
> > +			 instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
> > +			 as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
> > +			 P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
> > +			 should be used with caution. This option does not work with
> > +			 processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
> > +			 or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
> >  
> >  	intremap=	[X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
> >  			on	enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
> > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> > index 1bb62ca..2654e13 100644
> > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
> > @@ -866,6 +866,7 @@ static struct cpufreq_driver intel_pstate_driver = {
> >  };
> >  
> >  static int __initdata no_load;
> > +static unsigned int  force_load;
> >  
> >  static int intel_pstate_msrs_not_valid(void)
> >  {
> > @@ -1003,7 +1004,8 @@ static bool intel_pstate_platform_pwr_mgmt_exists(void)
> >  			case PSS:
> >  				return intel_pstate_no_acpi_pss();
> >  			case PPC:
> > -				return intel_pstate_has_acpi_ppc();
> > +				return intel_pstate_has_acpi_ppc() &&
> > +					(!force_load);
> >  			}
> >  	}
> >  
> > @@ -1078,6 +1080,8 @@ static int __init intel_pstate_setup(char *str)
> >  
> >  	if (!strcmp(str, "disable"))
> >  		no_load = 1;
> > +	if (!strcmp(str, "force"))
> > +		force_load = 1;
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  early_param("intel_pstate", intel_pstate_setup);
> 
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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.