Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpufreq: CPPC: Eliminate the impact of cpc_read() latency error

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Thu Oct 26 2023 - 07:26:40 EST


On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 09:55:39AM +0800, Zeng Heng wrote:
>
> 在 2023/10/25 19:01, Mark Rutland 写道:
> > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 05:38:47PM +0800, Zeng Heng wrote:
> >
> > The previous patch added this function, and calls it with smp_call_on_cpu(),
> > where it'll run in IRQ context with IRQs disabled...
>
> smp_call_on_cpu() puts the work to the bind-cpu worker.

Ah, sorry -- I had confused this with the smp_call_function*() family, which do
this in IRQ context.

> And this function will be called in task context, and IRQs is certainly enabled.

Understood; given that, please ignore my comments below.

Mark.

>
>
> Zeng Heng
>
> > > struct fb_ctr_pair *fb_ctrs = val;
> > > int cpu = fb_ctrs->cpu;
> > > int ret;
> > > + unsigned long timeout;
> > > ret = cppc_get_perf_ctrs(cpu, &fb_ctrs->fb_ctrs_t0);
> > > if (ret)
> > > return ret;
> > > - udelay(2); /* 2usec delay between sampling */
> > > + if (likely(!irqs_disabled())) {
> > > + /*
> > > + * Set 1ms as sampling interval, but never schedule
> > > + * to the idle task to prevent the AMU counters from
> > > + * stopping working.
> > > + */
> > > + timeout = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1);
> > > + while (!time_after(jiffies, timeout))
> > > + cond_resched();
> > > +
> > > + } else {
> > ... so we'll enter this branch of the if-else ...
> >
> > > + pr_warn_once("CPU%d: Get rate in atomic context", cpu);
> > ... and pr_warn_once() for something that's apparently normal and outside of
> > the user's control?
> >
> > That doesn't make much sense to me.
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> > > + udelay(2); /* 2usec delay between sampling */
> > > + }
> > > return cppc_get_perf_ctrs(cpu, &fb_ctrs->fb_ctrs_t1);
> > > }
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >