History log of /linux-master/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/papr_platform_attributes.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# cda9c0d5 08-Dec-2022 Qiheng Lin <linqiheng@huawei.com>

powerpc/pseries: Fix potential memleak in papr_get_attr()

`buf` is allocated in papr_get_attr(), and krealloc() of `buf`
could fail. We need to free the original `buf` in the case of failure.

Fixes: 3c14b73454cf ("powerpc/pseries: Interface to represent PAPR firmware attributes")
Signed-off-by: Qiheng Lin <linqiheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20221208133449.16284-1-linqiheng@huawei.com


# 46d60bdb 06-May-2022 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

powerpc: Include asm/firmware.h in all users of firmware_has_feature()

Trying to remove asm/ppc_asm.h from all places that don't need it
leads to several failures linked to firmware_has_feature().

To fix it, include asm/firmware.h in all files using
firmware_has_feature()

All users found with:

git grep -L "firmware\.h" ` git grep -l "firmware_has_feature("`

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/11956ec181a034b51a881ac9c059eea72c679a73.1651828453.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu


# 3c14b734 17-Feb-2022 Pratik R. Sampat <psampat@linux.ibm.com>

powerpc/pseries: Interface to represent PAPR firmware attributes

Adds a syscall interface to represent the energy and frequency related
PAPR attributes on the system using the new H_CALL
"H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO".

H_GET_EM_PARMS H_CALL was previously responsible for exporting this
information in the lparcfg, however the H_GET_EM_PARMS H_CALL
will be deprecated P10 onwards.

The H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO H_CALL is of the following call format:
hcall(
uint64 H_GET_ENERGY_SCALE_INFO, // Get energy scale info
uint64 flags, // Per the flag request
uint64 firstAttributeId,// The attribute id
uint64 bufferAddress, // Guest physical address of the output buffer
uint64 bufferSize // The size in bytes of the output buffer
);
As specified in PAPR+ v2.11, section 14.14.3.

This H_CALL can query either all the attributes at once with
firstAttributeId = 0, flags = 0 as well as query only one attribute
at a time with firstAttributeId = id, flags = 1.

The output buffer consists of the following
1. number of attributes - 8 bytes
2. array offset to the data location - 8 bytes
3. version info - 1 byte
4. A data array of size num attributes, which contains the following:
a. attribute ID - 8 bytes
b. attribute value in number - 8 bytes
c. attribute name in string - 64 bytes
d. attribute value in string - 64 bytes

The new H_CALL exports information in direct string value format, hence
a new interface has been introduced in
/sys/firmware/papr/energy_scale_info to export this information to
userspace so that the firmware can add new values without the need for
the kernel to be changed.

The H_CALL returns the name, numeric value and string value (if exists)

The format of exposing the sysfs information is as follows:
/sys/firmware/papr/energy_scale_info/
|-- <id>/
|-- desc
|-- value
|-- value_desc (if exists)
|-- <id>/
|-- desc
|-- value
|-- value_desc (if exists)
...

The energy information that is exported is useful for userspace tools
such as powerpc-utils. Currently these tools infer the
"power_mode_data" value in the lparcfg, which in turn is obtained from
the to be deprecated H_GET_EM_PARMS H_CALL.

On future platforms, such userspace utilities will have to look at the
data returned from the new H_CALL being populated in this new sysfs
interface and report this information directly without the need of
interpretation.

Signed-off-by: Pratik R. Sampat <psampat@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220217105321.52941-2-psampat@linux.ibm.com