actual numbers would help debugging (also, `MSR' and `ACPI' are standard
abbreviations and thus should be properly capitalized)
- Rephrase unsupported AMD CPUs message and wrap as an overly long line:
`sorry' 1) is wrongly spelled after period (starts with a small letter)
and 2) carries emotional "tinge" that is unnecessary and even bogus in
debug message; `implemented' is not the best word as `supported' suits
better in this context
- Improve readability when reporting resulted P-state transition (debug)
Approved by: jhb
Use the same logic to calculate the nominal CPU frequency from the P-state
MSRs on family 0x12, 0x15, and 0x16 CPUs as is used for family 0x10.
Family 0x14 was included in the original patch in the PR but I left that
out as the BIOS writer's guide for family 0x14 CPUs show a different layout
for the relevant MSR and include a different formulate for calculating the
frequency.
While here, simplify a few expressions and print out the family of
unsupported CPUs in hex rather than decimal.
PR: 212020
Submitted by: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>
MFC after: 1 month
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7587
Uses of commas instead of a semicolons can easily go undetected. The comma
can serve as a statement separator but this shouldn't be abused when
statements are meant to be standalone.
Detected with devel/coccinelle following a hint from DragonFlyBSD.
MFC after: 1 month
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
Intel manual says: "If a transition is already in progress, transition to
a new value will subsequently take effect. Reads of IA32_PERF_CTL determine
the last targeted operating point." So seems it should be fine to just
trigger wanted transition and go. Linux does the same.
MFC after: 1 month
safer for i386 because it can be easily over 4 GHz now. More worse, it can
be easily changed by user with 'machdep.tsc_freq' tunable (directly) or
cpufreq(4) (indirectly). Note it is intentionally not used in performance
critical paths to avoid performance regression (but we should, in theory).
Alternatively, we may add "virtual TSC" with lower frequency if maximum
frequency overflows 32 bits (and ignore possible incoherency as we do now).
Also, add a comment mentioning _PSD - on some systems it's enough to
put one logical CPU into a particular P-state to make other CPUs in
the same domain to enter that P-state.
Also, call sched_unbind() after the loop - sched_bind() automatically
rebinds from previous CPU to a new one, and the new arrangement of code
is safer against early loop exit.
Plus one minor style nit.
MFC after: 10 days
core lower then set on other cores. Do not try to test P-states on attach
on SMP systems. It is hopeless now and will just pollute verbose logs.
If needed, check still can be forced via loader tunable.
shared and generalized between our current amd64, i386 and pc98.
This is just an initial step that should lead to a more complete effort.
For the moment, a very simple porting of cpufreq modules, BIOS calls and
the whole MD specific ISA bus part is added to the sub-tree but ideally
a lot of code might be added and more shared support should grow.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, kib, jhb, imp
Discussed on: arch
MFC: 3 weeks
