steps to reproduce: boot any distro with linux kernel in r5 3550H that has a base clock of 2,1 Ghz aprox and turbo of 3,7Ghz, they are working well, but the problem is that the minimum clocks reported in linux are 1400Mhz while in windows they are 400 Mhz. I have to explain that is a mobile cpu of ryzen mobile and the battery in linux is drained double faster than windows one. output cpupower frequency-info analyzing CPU 0: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: Cannot determine or is not supported. hardware limits: 1.40 GHz - 2.10 GHz available frequency steps: 2.10 GHz, 1.70 GHz, 1.40 GHz available cpufreq governors: performance schedutil current policy: frequency should be within 1.40 GHz and 2.10 GHz. The governor "schedutil" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency: 2.10 GHz (asserted by call to hardware) boost state support: Supported: no Active: no Boost States: 0 Total States: 3 Pstate-P0: 2100MHz Pstate-P1: 1700MHz Pstate-P2: 1400MHz Expected behaviour: Havind a hardware limit of 400 Mhz-2,1Ghz for having 400Mhz frequenzy avalaible because having upper clock frequencys stop cores to enter C states more than 2 and having much power loses included in idle My asus fx505DY in windows report a power drain of 5 W in idle while in linux is 10,8 Min, average 12W
lscpu output: Arquitectura: x86_64 modo(s) de operación de las CPUs: 32-bit, 64-bit Orden de los bytes: Little Endian Tamaños de las direcciones: 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual CPU(s): 8 Lista de la(s) CPU(s) en línea: 0-7 Hilo(s) de procesamiento por núcleo: 2 Núcleo(s) por «socket»: 4 «Socket(s)» 1 Modo(s) NUMA: 1 ID de fabricante: AuthenticAMD Familia de CPU: 23 Modelo: 24 Nombre del modelo: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx Revisión: 1 Aumento de frecuencia: activada CPU MHz: 2922.948 CPU MHz máx.: 2100,0000 CPU MHz mín.: 1400,0000 BogoMIPS: 4191.95 Virtualización: AMD-V Caché L1d: 128 KiB Caché L1i: 256 KiB Caché L2: 2 MiB Caché L3: 4 MiB CPU(s) del nodo NUMA 0: 0-7 Vulnerability L1tf: Not affected Vulnerability Mds: Not affected Vulnerability Meltdown: Not affected Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Full AMD retpoline, IBPB conditional, STIBP disabled, RSB filling Indicadores: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apic id aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw skinit wdt tc e topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb hw_pstate sme ssbd sev ibpb vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves clzero irperf xsaveerptr arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif overflow_recov succor smca
cpu clocks: cpu MHz : 1396.943 cpu MHz : 1395.566 cpu MHz : 1393.907 cpu MHz : 1396.590 cpu MHz : 1265.845 cpu MHz : 1319.679 cpu MHz : 1231.136 cpu MHz : 1219.892 you can see any core entering in idle because the governor thinks that the hardware can not underclock.
Same here. I have see the 400MHz seed 1 time after CPU protection on over 85°C CPU on Fedora30 + kernel 5.2... anyone can give advise. I have the same Hardware and can patch/build kernel for testing.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203733
related: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204581
I have the same machine, this problem still exists on kernel 5.6-rc5.