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He Rongguang 97294d480d cpupower: fix TSC MHz calculation
[ Upstream commit 9d6c0e5851 ]

Commit 'cpupower: Make TSC read per CPU for Mperf monitor' (c2adb1877b)
changes TSC counter reads per cpu, but left time diff global (from start
of all cpus to end of all cpus), thus diff(time) is too large for a
cpu's tsc counting, resulting in far less than acutal TSC_Mhz and thus
`cpupower monitor` showing far less than actual cpu realtime frequency.

/proc/cpuinfo shows frequency:
cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep -e 'processor' -e 'MHz'
...
processor : 171
cpu MHz   : 4108.498
...

before fix (System 100% busy):
    | Mperf              || Idle_Stats
 CPU| C0   | Cx   | Freq  || POLL | C1   | C2
 171|  0.77| 99.23|  2279||  0.00|  0.00|  0.00

after fix (System 100% busy):
    | Mperf              || Idle_Stats
 CPU| C0   | Cx   | Freq  || POLL | C1   | C2
 171|  0.46| 99.54|  4095||  0.00|  0.00|  0.00

Fixes: c2adb1877b ("cpupower: Make TSC read per CPU for Mperf monitor")
Signed-off-by: He Rongguang <herongguang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-02-08 09:51:52 +01:00
..
2025-02-08 09:51:52 +01:00

The cpupower package consists of the following elements:

requirements
------------

On x86 pciutils is needed at runtime (-lpci).
For compilation pciutils-devel (pci/pci.h) and a gcc version
providing cpuid.h is needed.
For both it's not explicitly checked for (yet).


libcpupower
----------

"libcpupower" is a library which offers a unified access method for userspace
tools and programs to the cpufreq core and drivers in the Linux kernel. This
allows for code reduction in userspace tools, a clean implementation of
the interaction to the cpufreq core, and support for both the sysfs and proc
interfaces [depending on configuration, see below].


compilation and installation
----------------------------

make
su
make install

should suffice on most systems. It builds libcpupower to put in
/usr/lib; cpupower, cpufreq-bench_plot.sh to put in /usr/bin; and
cpufreq-bench to put in /usr/sbin. If you want to set up the paths
differently and/or want to configure the package to your specific
needs, you need to open "Makefile" with an editor of your choice and
edit the block marked CONFIGURATION.


THANKS
------
Many thanks to Mattia Dongili who wrote the autotoolization and
libtoolization, the manpages and the italian language file for cpupower;
to Dave Jones for his feedback and his dump_psb tool; to Bruno Ducrot for his
powernow-k8-decode and intel_gsic tools as well as the french language file;
and to various others commenting on the previous (pre-)releases of 
cpupower.


        Dominik Brodowski