RE: [REGRESSION] amd-pstate doesn't work since v5.18.11

From: Yuan, Perry
Date: Tue Jul 12 2022 - 13:49:55 EST


[AMD Official Use Only - General]

Hi Oleksandr:

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> From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: [REGRESSION] amd-pstate doesn't work since v5.18.11
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> Hello Mario.
>
> The following commits were pulled into v5.18.11:
>
> ```
> $ git log --oneline --no-merges v5.18.10..v5.18.11 | grep ACPI
> 2783414e6ef7 ACPI: CPPC: Don't require _OSC if X86_FEATURE_CPPC is
> supported
> 3068cfeca3b5 ACPI: CPPC: Only probe for _CPC if CPPC v2 is acked
> 8beb71759cc8 ACPI: bus: Set CPPC _OSC bits for all and when CPPC_LIB is
> supported
> 13bb696dd2f3 ACPI: CPPC: Check _OSC for flexible address space ```
>
> and now this happens:
>
> ```
> $ sudo modprobe amd-pstate shared_mem=1
> modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'amd_pstate': No such device ```
>
> With v5.18.10 this worked just fine.
>
> In your upstream commit 8b356e536e69f3a4d6778ae9f0858a1beadabb1f
> you write:
>
> ```
> If there is additional breakage on the shared memory designs also missing
> this _OSC, additional follow up changes may be needed.
> ```
>
> So the question is what else should be pulled into the stable tree to
> unbreak amd-pstate?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
>

Could you share the lscpu output ?

Perry.