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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2020-08-27 14:32:12 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2020-09-01 21:14:06 +0200
commitb388eb58ce47484a330681f09d1d058fe122c744 (patch)
tree148f489a6fc50b4292df4ae9a0f0d926d4646e37 /drivers/cpufreq
parentcpufreq: intel_pstate: Update cached EPP in the active mode (diff)
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cpufreq: intel_pstate: Tweak the EPP sysfs interface
Modify the EPP sysfs interface to reject attempts to change the EPP to values different from 0 ("performance") in the active mode with the "performance" policy (ie. scaling_governor set to "performance"), to avoid situations in which the kernel appears to discard data passed to it via the EPP sysfs attribute. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/cpufreq')
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
index e540448e0bd0..b308c39b6204 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -684,6 +684,14 @@ static int intel_pstate_set_energy_pref_index(struct cpudata *cpu_data,
else if (epp == -EINVAL)
epp = epp_values[pref_index - 1];
+ /*
+ * To avoid confusion, refuse to set EPP to any values different
+ * from 0 (performance) if the current policy is "performance",
+ * because those values would be overridden.
+ */
+ if (epp > 0 && cpu_data->policy == CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE)
+ return -EBUSY;
+
ret = intel_pstate_set_epp(cpu_data, epp);
} else {
if (epp == -EINVAL)