[PATCH 0/2] CPPC: reduce FFH feedback-counter sampling skew on arm64
Pengjie Zhang <[email protected]>
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The legacy CPPC feedback-counter path reads the delivered and reference performance counters separately. On arm64 systems using AMU-backed CPPC FFH counters, each FFH read is served through a cross-CPU counter read helper. Reading the counters separately therefore widens the sampling window between them and can skew the delivered/reference ratio used by cpuinfo_cur_freq. Under heavy load, the skew is observable as transient values that may exceed the platform maximum, as discussed in [1] and [2]. This series adds a small generic hook for architectures that can obtain both FFH feedback counters in one operation, while preserving the existing per-register read path as the fallback. Patch 1 adds the generic CPPC hook and uses it from cppc_get_perf_ctrs(). Patch 2 implements the hook on arm64 by sampling both AMU counters in a single operation on the target CPU. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Signed-off-by: Pengjie Zhang <[email protected]> Pengjie Zhang (2): ACPI: CPPC: add paired FFH feedback-counter read hook arm64: topology: read CPPC FFH feedback counters in one operation arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/acpi/cppc_acpi.h | 7 ++++ 3 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) -- 2.33.0