linux/tools/power, branch v3.5

tools/power turbostat: fix IVB support

2012-06-04T03:47:49Z

Initial IVB support went into turbostat in Linux-3.1: 553575f1ae048aa44682b46b3c51929a0b3ad337 (tools turbostat: recognize and run properly on IVB) However, when running on IVB, turbostat would fail to report the new couters added with SNB, c7, pc2 and pc7. So in scenarios where these counters are non-zero on IVB, turbostat would report erroneous residencey results. In particular c7 time would be added to c1 time, since c1 time is calculated as "that which is left over". Also, turbostat reports MHz capabilities when passed the "-v" option, and it would incorrectly report 133MHz bclk instead of 100MHz bclk for IVB, which would inflate GHz reported with that option. This patch is a backport of a fix already included in turbostat v2. Signed-off-by: Len Brown

tools/power turbostat: fix un-intended affinity of forked program

2012-06-04T03:24:00Z

Linux 3.4 included a modification to turbostat to lower cross-call overhead by using scheduler affinity: 15aaa34654831e98dd76f7738b6c7f5d05a66430 (tools turbostat: reduce measurement overhead due to IPIs) In the use-case where turbostat forks a child program, that change had the un-intended side-effect of binding the child to the last cpu in the system. This change removed the binding before forking the child. This is a back-port of a fix already included in turbostat v2. Signed-off-by: Len Brown

sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs

2012-05-17T11:48:56Z

It's been broken forever (i.e. it's not scheduling in a power aware fashion), as reported by Suresh and others sending patches, and nobody cares enough to fix it properly ... so remove it to make space free for something better. There's various problems with the code as it stands today, first and foremost the user interface which is bound to topology levels and has multiple values per level. This results in a state explosion which the administrator or distro needs to master and almost nobody does. Furthermore large configuration state spaces aren't good, it means the thing doesn't just work right because it's either under so many impossibe to meet constraints, or even if there's an achievable state workloads have to be aware of it precisely and can never meet it for dynamic workloads. So pushing this kind of decision to user-space was a bad idea even with a single knob - it's exponentially worse with knobs on every node of the topology. There is a proposal to replace the user interface with a single 3 state knob: sched_balance_policy := { performance, power, auto } where 'auto' would be the preferred default which looks at things like Battery/AC mode and possible cpufreq state or whatever the hw exposes to show us power use expectations - but there's been no progress on it in the past many months. Aside from that, the actual implementation of the various knobs is known to be broken. There have been sporadic attempts at fixing things but these always stop short of reaching a mergable state. Therefore this wholesale removal with the hopes of spurring people who care to come forward once again and work on a coherent replacement. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Suresh Siddha Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1326104915.2442.53.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux

2012-03-30T23:45:39Z

Pull ACPI & Power Management changes from Len Brown: - ACPI 5.0 after-ripples, ACPICA/Linux divergence cleanup - cpuidle evolving, more ARM use - thermal sub-system evolving, ditto - assorted other PM bits Fix up conflicts in various cpuidle implementations due to ARM cpuidle cleanups (ARM at91 self-refresh and cpu idle code rewritten into "standby" in asm conflicting with the consolidation of cpuidle time keeping), trivial SH include file context conflict and RCU tracing fixes in generic code. * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux: (77 commits) ACPI throttling: fix endian bug in acpi_read_throttling_status() Disable MCP limit exceeded messages from Intel IPS driver ACPI video: Don't start video device until its associated input device has been allocated ACPI video: Harden video bus adding. ACPI: Add support for exposing BGRT data ACPI: export acpi_kobj ACPI: Fix logic for removing mappings in 'acpi_unmap' CPER failed to handle generic error records with multiple sections ACPI: Clean redundant codes in scan.c ACPI: Fix unprotected smp_processor_id() in acpi_processor_cst_has_changed() ACPI: consistently use should_use_kmap() PNPACPI: Fix device ref leaking in acpi_pnp_match ACPI: Fix use-after-free in acpi_map_lsapic ACPI: processor_driver: add missing kfree ACPI, APEI: Fix incorrect APEI register bit width check and usage Update documentation for parameter *notrigger* in einj.txt ACPI, APEI, EINJ, new parameter to control trigger action ACPI, APEI, EINJ, limit the range of einj_param ACPI, APEI, Fix ERST header length check cpuidle: power_usage should be declared signed integer ...

tools turbostat: harden against cpu online/offline

2012-03-30T02:27:19Z

Sometimes users have turbostat running in interval mode when they take processors offline/online. Previously, turbostat would survive, but not gracefully. Tighten up the error checking so turbostat notices changesn sooner, and print just 1 line on change: turbostat: re-initialized with num_cpus %d Signed-off-by: Len Brown

tools turbostat: reduce measurement overhead due to IPIs

2012-03-30T02:04:58Z

turbostat uses /dev/cpu/*/msr interface to read MSRs. For modern systems, it reads 10 MSR/CPU. This can be observed as 10 "Function Call Interrupts" per CPU per sample added to /proc/interrupts. This overhead is measurable on large idle systems, and as Yoquan Song pointed out, it can even trick cpuidle into thinking the system is busy. Here turbostat re-schedules itself in-turn to each CPU so that its MSR reads will always be local. This replaces the 10 "Function Call Interrupts" with a single "Rescheduling interrupt" per sample per CPU. On an idle 32-CPU system, this shifts some residency from the shallow c1 state to the deeper c7 state: # ./turbostat.old -s %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 0.27 1.29 2.29 0.95 0.02 0.00 98.77 20.23 0.00 77.41 0.00 0.25 1.24 2.29 0.98 0.02 0.00 98.75 20.34 0.03 77.74 0.00 0.27 1.22 2.29 0.54 0.00 0.00 99.18 20.64 0.00 77.70 0.00 0.26 1.22 2.29 1.22 0.00 0.00 98.52 20.22 0.00 77.74 0.00 0.26 1.38 2.29 0.78 0.02 0.00 98.95 20.51 0.05 77.56 0.00 ^C i# ./turbostat.new -s %c0 GHz TSC %c1 %c3 %c6 %c7 %pc2 %pc3 %pc6 %pc7 0.27 1.20 2.29 0.24 0.01 0.00 99.49 20.58 0.00 78.20 0.00 0.27 1.22 2.29 0.25 0.00 0.00 99.48 20.79 0.00 77.85 0.00 0.27 1.20 2.29 0.25 0.02 0.00 99.46 20.71 0.03 77.89 0.00 0.28 1.26 2.29 0.25 0.01 0.00 99.46 20.89 0.02 77.67 0.00 0.27 1.20 2.29 0.24 0.01 0.00 99.48 20.65 0.00 78.04 0.00 cc: Youquan Song Signed-off-by: Len Brown

tools turbostat: add summary option

2012-03-29T17:22:06Z

turbostat -s cuts down on the amount of output, per user request. also treak some output whitespace and the man page. Signed-off-by: Len Brown

cpupower tools: add install target to the debug tools' makefiles

2012-03-03T13:40:11Z

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

cpupower tools: allow to build debug tools in a separate directory too

2012-03-03T13:40:11Z

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

cpupower: Fix broken mask values

2012-03-03T13:40:11Z

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger Tested-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski