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    ACPI: Do cpufreq clamping for throttling per package v2 · 2815ab92
    Andi Kleen authored
    On Intel CPUs the processor typically uses the highest frequency
    set by any logical CPU. When the system overheats
    Linux first forces the frequency to the lowest available one
    to lower the temperature.
    
    However this was done only per logical CPU, which means all
    logical CPUs in a package would need to go through this before
    the frequency is actually lowered.
    
    Worse this delay actually prevents real throttling, because
    the real throttle code only proceeds when the lowest frequency
    is already reached.
    
    So when a throttle event happens force the lowest frequency
    for all CPUs in the package where it happened. The per CPU
    state is now kept per package, not per logical CPU. An alternative
    would be to do it per cpufreq unit, but since we want to bring
    down the temperature of the complete chip it's better
    to do it for all.
    
    In principle it may even make sense to do it for all CPUs,
    but I kept it on the package for now.
    
    With this change the frequency is actually lowered, which
    in terms also allows real throttling to proceed.
    
    I also removed an unnecessary per cpu variable initialization.
    
    v2: Fix package mapping
    
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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