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From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 20:43:56 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] ZEN: intel-pstate: Implement "enable" parameter
If intel-pstate is compiled into the kernel, it will preempt the loading
of acpi-cpufreq so you can take advantage of hardware p-states without
any friction.
However, intel-pstate is not completely superior to cpufreq's ondemand
for one reason. There's no concept of an up_threshold property.
In ondemand, up_threshold essentially reduces the maximum utilization to
compare against, allowing you to hit max frequencies and turbo boost
from a much lower core utilization.
With intel-pstate, you have the concept of minimum and maximum
performance, but no tunable that lets you define, maximum frequency
means 50% core utilization. For just this oversight, there's reasons
you may want ondemand.
Lets support setting "enable" in kernel boot parameters. This lets
kernel maintainers include "intel_pstate=disable" statically in the
static boot parameters, but let users of the kernel override this
selection.
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 3f1cc5e317ed4a5ad001082c9c589b6008f68db9..3b43975427fca63c3403d10003059a482f3b0420 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2026,6 +2026,9 @@
disable
Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
scaling driver for the supported processors
+ enable
+ Enable intel_pstate in-case "disable" was passed
+ previously in the kernel boot parameters
passive
Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
index 846bb3a7878803344bd9b916a046071ff0957620..3eac15cb57c5ecd671713198dda5e28a42282fef 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c
@@ -3538,6 +3538,8 @@ static int __init intel_pstate_setup(char *str)
if (!strcmp(str, "disable"))
no_load = 1;
+ else if (!strcmp(str, "enable"))
+ no_load = 0;
else if (!strcmp(str, "active"))
default_driver = &intel_pstate;
else if (!strcmp(str, "passive"))
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