On 1/31/2024 02:50, Perry Yuan wrote:
> to be more clear what is wrong with CPPC when pstate driver failed to
> load which has dependency on the CPPC capabilities.
>
> Add one more debug message to notify user if CPPC is not supported by
> the CPU, then it will be easy to find out what need to fix for pstate
> driver loading issue.
>
> [ 0.477523] amd_pstate: the _CPC object is not present in SBIOS or ACPI disabled
>
> Above message is not clear enough to verify whether CPPC is not supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> index 7ff269a78c20..217c11c12b57 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
> @@ -676,8 +676,10 @@ int acpi_cppc_processor_probe(struct acpi_processor *pr)
>
> if (!osc_sb_cppc2_support_acked) {
> pr_debug("CPPC v2 _OSC not acked\n");
> - if (!cpc_supported_by_cpu())
> - return -ENODEV;
> + if (!cpc_supported_by_cpu()) {
> + pr_debug("CPPC is not supported\n");
I would argue this doesn't add any value to a user. To help a user it
should be "CPPC is not supported by the CPU".
> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
This whitespace is wrong
> }
>
> /* Parse the ACPI _CPC table for this CPU. */