[PATCH 2/2 SRU Raring/Quantal] x86 thermal: Disable power limit notification interrupt by default

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Aug 23 12:41:29 UTC 2013


From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu at intel.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215748

The package power limit notification interrupt is primarily for
system diagnosis, and should not be blindly enabled on every
system by default -- particuarly since Linux does nothing in the
handler except count how many times it has been called...

Add a new kernel cmdline parameter "int_pln_enable" for situations where
users want to oberve these events via existing system counters:

$ grep TRM /proc/interrupts

$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/thermal_throttle/*

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36182

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6bb2ff846f24fa6efee756e5e2a2b8433d65671e)
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt      |    2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c |   34 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9c15b4a..0a1e7bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1115,6 +1115,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 	inport.irq=	[HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
 			Format: <irq>
 
+	int_pln_enable  [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
+
 	intel_iommu=	[DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option
 		on
 			Enable intel iommu driver.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
index 68fa890..f7feb2e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/therm_throt.c
@@ -210,6 +210,15 @@ static int thresh_event_valid(int event)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static bool int_pln_enable;
+static int __init int_pln_enable_setup(char *s)
+{
+	int_pln_enable = true;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+__setup("int_pln_enable", int_pln_enable_setup);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
 /* Add/Remove thermal_throttle interface for CPU device: */
 static __cpuinit int thermal_throttle_add_dev(struct device *dev,
@@ -222,7 +231,7 @@ static __cpuinit int thermal_throttle_add_dev(struct device *dev,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN))
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN) && int_pln_enable)
 		err = sysfs_add_file_to_group(&dev->kobj,
 					      &dev_attr_core_power_limit_count.attr,
 					      thermal_attr_group.name);
@@ -230,7 +239,7 @@ static __cpuinit int thermal_throttle_add_dev(struct device *dev,
 		err = sysfs_add_file_to_group(&dev->kobj,
 					      &dev_attr_package_throttle_count.attr,
 					      thermal_attr_group.name);
-		if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN))
+		if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN) && int_pln_enable)
 			err = sysfs_add_file_to_group(&dev->kobj,
 					&dev_attr_package_power_limit_count.attr,
 					thermal_attr_group.name);
@@ -343,7 +352,7 @@ static void intel_thermal_interrupt(void)
 				CORE_LEVEL) != 0)
 		mce_log_therm_throt_event(msr_val);
 
-	if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PLN))
+	if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PLN) && int_pln_enable)
 		therm_throt_process(msr_val & THERM_STATUS_POWER_LIMIT,
 					POWER_LIMIT_EVENT,
 					CORE_LEVEL);
@@ -353,7 +362,7 @@ static void intel_thermal_interrupt(void)
 		therm_throt_process(msr_val & PACKAGE_THERM_STATUS_PROCHOT,
 					THERMAL_THROTTLING_EVENT,
 					PACKAGE_LEVEL);
-		if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PLN))
+		if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PLN) && int_pln_enable)
 			therm_throt_process(msr_val &
 					PACKAGE_THERM_STATUS_POWER_LIMIT,
 					POWER_LIMIT_EVENT,
@@ -461,9 +470,13 @@ void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	apic_write(APIC_LVTTHMR, h);
 
 	rdmsr(MSR_IA32_THERM_INTERRUPT, l, h);
-	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN))
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN) && !int_pln_enable)
+		wrmsr(MSR_IA32_THERM_INTERRUPT,
+			(l | (THERM_INT_LOW_ENABLE
+			| THERM_INT_HIGH_ENABLE)) & ~THERM_INT_PLN_ENABLE, h);
+	else if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN) && int_pln_enable)
 		wrmsr(MSR_IA32_THERM_INTERRUPT,
-		      l | (THERM_INT_LOW_ENABLE
+			l | (THERM_INT_LOW_ENABLE
 			| THERM_INT_HIGH_ENABLE | THERM_INT_PLN_ENABLE), h);
 	else
 		wrmsr(MSR_IA32_THERM_INTERRUPT,
@@ -471,9 +484,14 @@ void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 
 	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PTS)) {
 		rdmsr(MSR_IA32_PACKAGE_THERM_INTERRUPT, l, h);
-		if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN))
+		if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN) && !int_pln_enable)
 			wrmsr(MSR_IA32_PACKAGE_THERM_INTERRUPT,
-			      l | (PACKAGE_THERM_INT_LOW_ENABLE
+				(l | (PACKAGE_THERM_INT_LOW_ENABLE
+				| PACKAGE_THERM_INT_HIGH_ENABLE))
+				& ~PACKAGE_THERM_INT_PLN_ENABLE, h);
+		else if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_PLN) && int_pln_enable)
+			wrmsr(MSR_IA32_PACKAGE_THERM_INTERRUPT,
+				l | (PACKAGE_THERM_INT_LOW_ENABLE
 				| PACKAGE_THERM_INT_HIGH_ENABLE
 				| PACKAGE_THERM_INT_PLN_ENABLE), h);
 		else
-- 
1.7.9.5





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