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2/3 Add Xen support for AMD Turbo/Boost

PATCH New Mark Langsdorf 1 participant 1 message Apr 8, 2010

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PATCH 1/1 2/3 Add Xen support for AMD Turbo/Boost

# HG changeset patch
# User [email protected]
# Date 1270762694 18000
# Node ID 5a13dbfb4b7d7d5514dd91708a0f4f96f9a50cbe
# Parent eb2bb327c7d33a3a2f2ed2ab56e1fa1045733f97
Add support for disabling AMD's Boost feature. Boost is similar to Intel's Turbo and uses the same high level interface. The low level implementation is different and encapsulated in the powernow driver for cpufreq.

xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpufreq/powernow.c +23 -1
diff -r eb2bb327c7d3 -r 5a13dbfb4b7d xen/arch/x86/acpi/cpufreq/powernow.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <acpi/cpufreq/cpufreq.h>
 
 #define CPUID_FREQ_VOLT_CAPABILITIES    0x80000007
+#define CPB_CAPABLE             0x00000200
 #define USE_HW_PSTATE           0x00000080
 #define HW_PSTATE_MASK          0x00000007
 #define HW_PSTATE_VALID_MASK    0x80000000
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
 #define MSR_PSTATE_STATUS       0xc0010063 /* Pstate Status MSR */
 #define MSR_PSTATE_CTRL         0xc0010062 /* Pstate control MSR */
 #define MSR_PSTATE_CUR_LIMIT    0xc0010061 /* pstate current limit MSR */
+#define MSR_HWCR_CPBDIS_MASK    0x02000000
 
 struct powernow_cpufreq_data {
     struct processor_performance *acpi_data;
@@ -62,8 +64,8 @@
 struct drv_cmd {
     unsigned int type;
     cpumask_t mask;
-    u64 addr;
     u32 val;
+    int turbo;
 };
 
 static void transition_pstate(void *drvcmd)
@@ -71,6 +73,15 @@
     struct drv_cmd *cmd;
     cmd = (struct drv_cmd *) drvcmd;
 
+    if (cmd->turbo != CPUFREQ_TURBO_UNSUPPORTED) {
+        u32 lo, hi;
+        rdmsr(MSR_K8_HWCR, lo, hi);
+        if (cmd->turbo == CPUFREQ_TURBO_ENABLED)
+            lo &= ~MSR_HWCR_CPBDIS_MASK;
+        else
+            lo |= MSR_HWCR_CPBDIS_MASK; 
+        wrmsr(MSR_K8_HWCR, lo, hi);
+    }
     wrmsr(MSR_PSTATE_CTRL, cmd->val, 0);
 }
 
@@ -121,6 +132,7 @@
     freqs.new = data->freq_table[next_state].frequency;
 
     cmd.val = next_perf_state;
+    cmd.turbo = policy->turbo;
 
     on_selected_cpus(&cmd.mask, transition_pstate, &cmd, 0);
 
@@ -159,6 +171,7 @@
     unsigned int result = 0;
     struct processor_performance *perf;
     u32 max_hw_pstate, hi = 0, lo = 0;
+    struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data[policy->cpu];
 
     data = xmalloc(struct powernow_cpufreq_data);
     if (!data)
@@ -234,6 +247,15 @@
     if (result)
         goto err_freqfree;
 
+    if (c->cpuid_level >= 6) {
+        unsigned int edx;
+        edx = cpuid_edx(CPUID_FREQ_VOLT_CAPABILITIES);
+        if ((edx & CPB_CAPABLE) == CPB_CAPABLE) {
+            policy->turbo = CPUFREQ_TURBO_ENABLED;
+            printk(XENLOG_INFO "Core Boost/Turbo detected and enabled\n");
+        }
+    }
+      
     /*
      * the first call to ->target() should result in us actually
      * writing something to the appropriate registers.