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author | Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-04-20 10:32:58 +0530 |
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committer | Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2015-05-22 15:12:30 +1000 |
commit | 5703d2f4a1da6d23b3be896947ce255226fc4295 (patch) | |
tree | 1ccff1655f657ff13c7f1a24fb6756b273db324d /arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h | |
parent | d405a98c70ebbaa6ef276d7307d034a682321b95 (diff) | |
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powerpc/powernv: Introduce sysfs control for fastsleep workaround behavior
Fastsleep is one of the idle state which cpuidle subsystem currently
uses on power8 machines. In this state L2 cache is brought down to a
threshold voltage. Therefore when the core is in fastsleep, the
communication between L2 and L3 needs to be fenced. But there is a bug
in the current power8 chips surrounding this fencing.
OPAL provides a workaround which precludes the possibility of hitting
this bug. But running with this workaround applied causes checkstop
if any correctable error in L2 cache directory is detected. Hence OPAL
also provides a way to undo the workaround.
In the existing implementation, workaround is applied by the last thread
of the core entering fastsleep and undone by the first thread waking up.
But this has a performance cost. These OPAL calls account for roughly
4000 cycles everytime the core has to enter or wakeup from fastsleep.
This patch introduces a sysfs attribute (fastsleep_workaround_applyonce)
to choose the behavior of this workaround.
By default, fastsleep_workaround_applyonce = 0. In this case, workaround
is applied/undone everytime the core enters/exits fastsleep.
fastsleep_workaround_applyonce = 1. In this case the workaround is
applied once on all the cores and never undone. This can be triggered by
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/fastsleep_workaround_applyonce
For simplicity this attribute can be modified only once. Implying, once
fastsleep_workaround_applyonce is changed to 1, it cannot be reverted
to the default state.
Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h index 042af1abfc4d..9a4781357fa6 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/opal.h @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ int64_t opal_handle_hmi(void); int64_t opal_register_dump_region(uint32_t id, uint64_t start, uint64_t end); int64_t opal_unregister_dump_region(uint32_t id); int64_t opal_slw_set_reg(uint64_t cpu_pir, uint64_t sprn, uint64_t val); +int64_t opal_config_cpu_idle_state(uint64_t state, uint64_t flag); int64_t opal_pci_set_phb_cxl_mode(uint64_t phb_id, uint64_t mode, uint64_t pe_number); int64_t opal_ipmi_send(uint64_t interface, struct opal_ipmi_msg *msg, uint64_t msg_len); |