cpufreq: intel_pstate: Tweak the EPP sysfs interface

Modify the EPP sysfs interface to reject attempts to change the EPP
to values different from 0 ("performance") in the active mode with
the "performance" policy (ie. scaling_governor set to "performance"),
to avoid situations in which the kernel appears to discard data
passed to it via the EPP sysfs attribute.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>

Documentation/admin-guide/pm/intel_pstate.rst

@@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ Energy-Performance Bias (EPB) knob (otherwise), which means that the processor's
 internal P-state selection logic is expected to focus entirely on performance.
 
 This will override the EPP/EPB setting coming from the ``sysfs`` interface
-(see `Energy vs Performance Hints`_ below).
+(see `Energy vs Performance Hints`_ below).  Moreover, any attempts to change
+the EPP/EPB to a value different from 0 ("performance") via ``sysfs`` in this
+configuration will be rejected.
 
 Also, in this configuration the range of P-states available to the processor's
 internal P-state selection logic is always restricted to the upper boundary

drivers/cpufreq/intel_pstate.c

@@ -684,6 +684,14 @@ static int intel_pstate_set_energy_pref_index(struct cpudata *cpu_data,
 		else if (epp == -EINVAL)
 			epp = epp_values[pref_index - 1];
 
+		/*
+		 * To avoid confusion, refuse to set EPP to any values different
+		 * from 0 (performance) if the current policy is "performance",
+		 * because those values would be overridden.
+		 */
+		if (epp > 0 && cpu_data->policy == CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE)
+			return -EBUSY;
+
 		ret = intel_pstate_set_epp(cpu_data, epp);
 	} else {
 		if (epp == -EINVAL)