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acpi-cpufreq: Add quirk to disable _PSD usage on all AMD CPUs

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To workaround some Windows specific behavior, the ACPI _PSD table
on AMD desktop boards advertises all cores as dependent, meaning
that they all can only use the same P-state. acpi-cpufreq strictly
obeys this description, instantiating one CPU only and symlinking
the others. But the hardware can have distinct frequencies for each
core and powernow-k8 did it that way.
So, in order to use the hardware to its full potential and keep the
original powernow-k8 behavior, lets override the _PSD table setting
on AMD hardware.
We use the siblings table, as it matches the current hardware
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Andre Przywara 2012-09-04 08:28:03 +00:00 committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
parent 3dc9a633f8
commit acd3162482
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@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Paul Diefenbaugh, Dominik Brodowski");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ACPI Processor P-States Driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
#define PFX "acpi-cpufreq: "
enum {
UNDEFINED_CAPABLE = 0,
SYSTEM_INTEL_MSR_CAPABLE,
@ -586,6 +588,14 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
policy->shared_type = CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_ALL;
cpumask_copy(policy->cpus, cpu_core_mask(cpu));
}
if (check_amd_hwpstate_cpu(cpu) && !acpi_pstate_strict) {
cpumask_clear(policy->cpus);
cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, policy->cpus);
cpumask_copy(policy->related_cpus, cpu_sibling_mask(cpu));
policy->shared_type = CPUFREQ_SHARED_TYPE_HW;
pr_info_once(PFX "overriding BIOS provided _PSD data\n");
}
#endif
/* capability check */