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Commit 5d902ee5 authored by Perry Yuan's avatar Perry Yuan Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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platform/x86: hfi: Introduce AMD Hardware Feedback Interface Driver



The AMD Heterogeneous core design and Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI)
provide behavioral classification and a dynamically updated ranking table
for the scheduler to use when choosing cores for tasks.

There are two CPU core types defined: Classic and Dense. Classic cores are
the standard performance cores, while Dense cores are optimized for area and
efficiency.

Heterogeneous compute refers to CPU implementations that are comprised
of more than one architectural class, each with two capabilities. This
means each CPU reports two separate capabilities: "perf" and "eff".

Each capability lists all core ranking numbers between 0 and 255, where
a higher number represents a higher capability.

Heterogeneous systems can also extend to more than two architectural
classes.

The purpose of the scheduling feedback mechanism is to provide information
to the operating system scheduler in real time, allowing the scheduler to
direct threads to the optimal core during task scheduling.

All core ranking data are provided by the PMFW via a shared memory ranking
table, which the driver reads and uses to update core capabilities to the
scheduler. When the hardware updates the table, it generates a platform
interrupt to notify the OS to read the new ranking table.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPerry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGautham R. Shenoy <gautham.shenoy@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShyam Sundar S K <Shyam-sundar.S-k@amd.com>
Acked-by: default avatarIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250609200518.3616080-5-superm1@kernel.org
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