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* [PATCH] x86/ACPI/State: Optimize C3 entry on AMD CPUs
@ 2021-08-19  0:43 Deepak Sharma
  2021-08-25 18:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
  2021-08-26 23:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Deepak Sharma @ 2021-08-19  0:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: deepak.sharma
  Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki, Len Brown, Pavel Machek, Thomas Gleixner,
	Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov,
	maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT),
	H. Peter Anvin, open list:SUSPEND TO RAM,
	open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)

AMD CPU which support C3 shares cache. Its not necessary to flush the
caches in software before entering C3. This will cause performance drop
for the cores which share some caches. ARB_DIS is not used with current
AMD C state implementation. So set related flags correctly.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Sharma <deepak.sharma@amd.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
index 7de599eba7f0..62a5986d625a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
@@ -79,6 +79,21 @@ void acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check(struct acpi_processor_flags *flags,
 		 */
 		flags->bm_control = 0;
 	}
+	if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD) {
+		/*
+		 * For all AMD CPUs that support C3, caches should not be
+		 * flushed by software while entering C3 type state. Set
+		 * bm->check to 1 so that kernel doesn't need to execute
+		 * cache flush operation.
+		 */
+		flags->bm_check = 1;
+		/*
+		 * In current AMD C state implementation ARB_DIS is no longer
+		 * used. So set bm_control to zero to indicate ARB_DIS is not
+		 * required while entering C3 type state.
+		 */
+		flags->bm_control = 0;
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_processor_power_init_bm_check);
 
-- 
2.25.1


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2021-09-01 12:45     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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