[PATCH v3 0/5] Prefer using _OSC method over deprecated _PDC

From: Michal Wilczynski
Date: Tue Jun 13 2023 - 12:12:45 EST


ACPI 3.0 introduced a new Operating System Capabilities _OSC control
method. This method is similar to _PDC, which was marked as deprecated
in ACPI 3.0.

Prefer using _OSC method over deprecated _PDC in the acpi_bus_init(). In
case of the failure of the _OSC, try using _PDC as a fallback.

Testing done:
Tested on physical server with BIOS implementing _OSC methods. In this
case acpi_processor_osc() was executed for each CPU core. acpi_run_osc()
returned success indicating that _OSC method succeeded.

Tested on qemu VM to check whether the code would work on a SeaBios (the
default for qemu, doesn't support _OSC methods, or _PDC). This way I was
able to see how code behaves in case BIOS doesn't implement _OSC. In
that case the function
acpi_run_osc() returned failure, which propagated all the way up to
acpi_early_processor_osc(). The logic responsible for triggering _PDC
execution was triggered correctly.

Tested this using debug messages with printk.

v3:
- split into more commits to make review easier
- changed "_UID" to METHOD_NAME_UID
- changed hard-coded constant to ACPI_PDC_COLLAB_PROC_PERF
- added Suggested-by tags
- fixed style issues
- fixed whitespaces
- refactored code
v2:
- fixed compilation issues on ia64 and arm

Michal Wilczynski (5):
acpi: Move logic responsible for conveying processor OSPM capabilities
acpi: Refactor arch_acpi_set_pdc_bits()
acpi: Introduce new function callback for _OSC
acpi: Use _OSC method to convey processor OSPM capabilities
acpi: Remove acpi_hwp_native_thermal_lvt_osc()

arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h | 4 +-
arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h | 13 +--
drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c | 151 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/acpi/bus.c | 13 ++-
drivers/acpi/internal.h | 10 +--
drivers/acpi/processor_pdc.c | 82 +-----------------
include/acpi/pdc_intel.h | 1 +
include/acpi/processor.h | 2 +-
8 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)

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