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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] acpi/processor: fix evaluating _PDC method when running as Xen dom0
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On 16.03.23 17:42, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> In ACPI systems, the OS can direct power management, as opposed to the
> firmware. This OS-directed Power Management is called OSPM. Part of
> telling the firmware that the OS going to direct power management is
> making ACPI "_PDC" (Processor Driver Capabilities) calls. These _PDC
> methods must be evaluated for every processor object. If these _PDC
> calls are not completed for every processor it can lead to
> inconsistency and later failures in things like the CPU frequency
> driver.
>
> In a Xen system, the dom0 kernel is responsible for system-wide power
> management. The dom0 kernel is in charge of OSPM. However, the
> number of CPUs available to dom0 can be different than the number of
> CPUs physically present on the system.
>
> This leads to a problem: the dom0 kernel needs to evaluate _PDC for
> all the processors, but it can't always see them.
>
> In dom0 kernels, ignore the existing ACPI method for determining if a
> processor is physically present because it might not be accurate.
> Instead, ask the hypervisor for this information.
>
> Fix this by introducing a custom function to use when running as Xen
> dom0 in order to check whether a processor object matches a CPU that's
> online. Such checking is done using the existing information fetched
> by the Xen pCPU subsystem, extending it to also store the ACPI ID.
>
> This ensures that _PDC method gets evaluated for all physically online
> CPUs, regardless of the number of CPUs made available to dom0.
>
> Fixes: 5d554a7bb064 ('ACPI: processor: add internal processor_physically_present()')
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

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