-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-05-25 11:47:53 -0400, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 25/05/2012 17:36 Yamagi Burmeister said the following: >> Hello, a user at BSDForen.de had the same problem and I helped >> him to track it down. While I was unable to find a solution I >> found the cause of the problems. The problem is (all files and >> line numbers relative to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE): >> >> 1. When a new p-state is requested (by powerd or by changing the >> sysctl) in kern/kern_cpu.c the function cf_set_method() is >> invoked. 2. In line 335 the driver depended function is called. >> For newer AMD CPU it's hwpstate_set() in x86/cpufreq/hwpstate.c >> 3. In x86/cpufreq/hwpstate.c line 227 hwpstate_goto_pstate() is >> called which does the actual magic. 4. In line 199 "if (msr != >> id)" triggers, returns ENXIO. The error is send back to >> cf_set_method(), which prints the "hwpstate0: set freq failed". >> powerd translates the error to "Device not configured" >> >> After some further investigation and looking at the linux driver >> [0] I changed the loop at x86/cpufreq/hwpstate.c 188ff from 100 >> iterations to 250. It lessend the problem but didn't solve it. >> The next step was to rewrite the logic between line 183 and 203 >> and adding a lot of debug printf. The patch (non style(9) >> compliant) is attached. With the new logic every 100 usec the new >> p-state is set again, until it's accepted. After 100 tries ENXIO >> is returned. >> >> This lessend the problem even more and showed that - On an old >> Phenom II X4 940 (K10 / Deneb) the new p-state is always accepted >> at the first try. At a test run for about 3 hours there was not a >> single failure. - On the Bulldozer CPU in about 9 in 10 times the >> new p-state is accepted at the first try. At most other times the >> new p-state is accepted after 1 to 10 tries. And there is a >> ~0,25% chance that the new p-state is never accepted, leading to >> "hwpstate0: set freq failed". At the next call to cf_set_method() >> (about 500ms to 1s later) the new p-state it's most likely set >> successfull. This can be seen at the log (full log attached): >> >> # First call, failed after 102 iterations hwpstate0: MSR: 0 ID: >> 1 hwpstate0: Setting failed! hwpstate0: Iterations: 102 >> >> # Second call, successfull hwpstate0: setting P1-state on cpu1 >> hwpstate0: MSR: 1 ID: 1 hwpstate0: Iterations: 1 >> >> So the big question is: Why is the new p-state sometimes not >> accepted? And why does this only happen on Bulldozer CPUs and not >> at the old K10 (Barcelona, Deneb), etc? Reading the "BIOS and >> kernel developer guide" for Bulldozer didn't show anything, but I >> may have overlooked it. One solution may be to change hwpstate >> not to set p-states but "Frequency IDs" (FID) and "Voltage ID" >> (VID) like the linux driver does. > > I think that you misread their code a little bit. The vid/fid > transition is used for K8 processors, for newer ones they do the > same P-state transitioning. The secret of their success seems to be > that they just write the MSR without any post-write checks. > > As to your questions about hardware behavior - yes, they are quite > interesting, but perhaps irrelevant. The BKDG never specifies the > OS P-state transition command sequence and timings, it just says > "write the MSR" (exactly what Linux does). There could be > different reasons why a core could be in a different P-state > (mostly I suspect interactions between cores in a Bulldozer compute > unit). When BKDG does specify the P-state transitioning sequence > (for BIOS) it suggest a different one from what we do - first write > the MSR on al processors, only then check the result (and the way > of checking the result is also a bit different - using MSR xxx71). I just looked through the BKDG and I think you should definitely check MSRC001_0071[18:16]. MSRC001_0063[2:0] is "SharedC" but MSRC001_0062[2:0] and MSRC001_0071[18:15] are "Not-same-for-all". I think this means writing a P-state to MSRC001_0062[2:0] will be reflected in MSRC001_0070[18:16] first, then MSRC001_0071[18:16] gets updated when the P-state transition is complete. MSRC001_0063[2:0] will only change when all cores in a compute unit is in sync., which may be too late. > But as I've said, these details are probably not really useful in > practice. We should just quit worrying and double-checking the > hardware :-) I think we should check. Jung-uk Kim >> 0: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c;h=c0e816468e300f242735f4825d09b9d291a9b522;hb=HEAD >> >> >> 1: >> http://support.amd.com/us/Processor_TechDocs/42301_15h_Mod_00h-0Fh_BKDG.pdf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+/vTkACgkQmlay1b9qnVPY9QCgqcEvUHKKQ3U0Rec5Kzdlrw3L kSkAnj6ofOf8PVkEHlxNrgGZAHJ2so1p =GQw9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
