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ACPI: CPPC: add APIs and sysfs interface for perf_limited
authorSumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>
Fri, 6 Feb 2026 14:26:57 +0000 (19:56 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:50:42 +0000 (20:50 +0100)
commit13c45a26635fa51a68911aa57e6778bdad18b103
treee6a87c6c99f86323a78057973a6315d455a628a6
parentea3db45ae476889a1ba0ab3617e6afdeeefbda3d
ACPI: CPPC: add APIs and sysfs interface for perf_limited

Add sysfs interface to read/write the Performance Limited register.

The Performance Limited register indicates to the OS that an
unpredictable event (like thermal throttling) has limited processor
performance. It contains two sticky bits set by the platform:
  - Bit 0 (Desired_Excursion): Set when delivered performance is
    constrained below desired performance. Not used when Autonomous
    Selection is enabled.
  - Bit 1 (Minimum_Excursion): Set when delivered performance is
    constrained below minimum performance.

These bits remain set until OSPM explicitly clears them. The write
operation accepts a bitmask of bits to clear:
  - Write 0x1 to clear bit 0
  - Write 0x2 to clear bit 1
  - Write 0x3 to clear both bits

This enables users to detect if platform throttling impacted a workload.
Users clear the register before execution, run the workload, then check
afterward - if set, hardware throttling occurred during that time window.

The interface is exposed as:
  /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cpufreq/perf_limited

Signed-off-by: Sumit Gupta <sumitg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lifeng Zheng <zhenglifeng1@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206142658.72583-7-sumitg@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/cppc_acpi.c
drivers/cpufreq/cppc_cpufreq.c
include/acpi/cppc_acpi.h