cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate powersave min_perf_pct value
On systems that initialize the intel_pstate driver with the performance governor, and then switch to the powersave governor will not transition to lower cpu frequencies until /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct is set to a low value. The behavior of governor switching changed after commit a0475992 ("[cpufreq] intel_pstate: honor user space min_perf_pct override on resume"). The commit introduced tracking of performance percentage changes via sysfs in order to restore userspace changes during suspend/resume. The problem occurs because the global values of the newly introduced max_sysfs_pct and min_sysfs_pct are not lowered on the governor change and this causes the powersave governor to inherit the performance governor's settings. A simple change would have been to reset max_sysfs_pct to 100 and min_sysfs_pct to 0 on a governor change, which fixes the problem with governor switching. However, since we cannot break userspace[1] the fix is now to give each governor its own limits storage area so that governor specific changes are tracked. I successfully tested this by booting with both the performance governor and the powersave governor by default, and switching between the two governors (while monitoring /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/ values, and looking at the output of cpupower frequency-info). Suspend/Resume testing was performed by Doug Smythies. [1] Systems which suspend/resume using the unmaintained pm-utils package will always transition to the performance governor before the suspend and after the resume. This means a system using the powersave governor will go from powersave to performance, then suspend/resume, performance to powersave. The simple change during governor changes would have been overwritten when the governor changed before and after the suspend/resume. I have submitted https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271225 against Fedora to remove the 94cpufreq file that causes the problem. It should be noted that pm-utils is obsoleted with newer versions of systemd. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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