[PATCH mvebu v2 00/10] Armada 37xx: Fix cpufreq changing base CPU speed to 800 MHz from 1000 MHz

[Pali Rohár]

On Tuesday 09 February 2021 18:07:41 nnet wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, at 5:51 PM, nnet wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, at 5:31 PM, nnet wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021, at 3:26 PM, Marek Behún wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:16:45 -0800
> > > > nnet <nnet at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I've two of these and I've just swapped them (and re-pasted the heat sinks).
> > > > > 
> > > > > The second one ran under load for awhile and now has frozen as well.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Under a moderate load `wget -O /dev/null <large.bin>` @X00Mbits they are fine.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Under a 1 min speed test of load ~200Mbits routed WireGuard they freeze.
> > > > > 
> > > > > They fine with both those workloads @1000_800.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Perhaps it's heat? Unfortunately I don't have any numbers on that ATM.
> > > > 
> > > > Try disabling cpufreq in kernel completely, compile boot image at
> > > > 1200 MHz. If it continues freezing, then I fear we can't help you with
> > > > 1200 MHz :(
> > > 
> > > cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_available_frequencies 
> > > 200000 300000 600000 1200000 
> > > 
> > > I'm not getting any freezes with 1.2GHz fixed after 20 minutes of load:
> > > 
> > > echo 1200000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_min_freq
> > > 
> > > Setting it back to min 200MHz I get a freeze within a minute:
> > > 
> > > echo 200000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_min_freq

Hello! Could you please enable userspace governor during kernel
compilation?

    CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y

It can be activated via command:

    echo userspace > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_governor

After that you can "force" CPU frequency to specific value, e.g.:

    echo 1000000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_setspeed

I need to know which switch (from --> to freq) cause this system hang.

This patch series (via MIN_VOLT_MV_FOR_L0_L1_1GHZ) is fixing only
switching from 500 MHz to 1000 MHz on 1 GHz variant. As only this switch
is causing issue.

I have used following simple bash script to check that switching between
500 MHz and 1 GHz is stable:

    while true; do
        echo 1000000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_setspeed;
        echo 500000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_setspeed;
        echo 1000000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_setspeed;
        echo 500000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_setspeed;
    done

(of course on 1.2 GHz variant you need to adjust values as only
following frequencies 200000 300000 600000 1200000 are supported)

> > > > Marek
> > > >
> > 
> > > +#define MIN_VOLT_MV_FOR_L0_L1_1GHZ 1108
> > 
> > Based on the below at boot time might an equivalent of the above need 
> > to be 1225 for 1.2GHz?
> > 
> > 1200_750
> > SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.225V
> > 
> > 1000_800
> > SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.108V

This value is printed in WTMI avs.c by following code:

    shift = OTP_SVC_SPEED_1000_OFF;
    (OR)
    shift = OTP_SVC_SPEED_1200_OFF;

    vdd_otp = ((otp_data[OTP_DATA_SVC_SPEED_ID] >> shift) +
                AVS_VDD_BASE) & AVS_VDD_MASK;
    regval |= (vdd_otp << HIGH_VDD_LIMIT_OFF);
    regval |= (vdd_otp << LOW_VDD_LIMIT_OFF);
    printf("SVC REV: %d, CPU VDD voltage: %s\n", svc_rev,
            avis_dump[vdd_otp].desc);

So voltage value is read from the OTP memory.

But I do not know what this value means.

> I did this for a quick test for 1.2GHz:
> 
> +#define MIN_VOLT_MV_FOR_L0_L1_1GHZ 1225
> 
> This is working well so far. Frequency is shifting up/down with load applied/stopped.