Bug 208569 - Problems with Cool'n'Quiet on Ryzen CPUs
Summary: Problems with Cool'n'Quiet on Ryzen CPUs
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: ACPI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Power-Processor (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86-64 Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: acpi_power-processor
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Reported: 2020-07-15 13:31 UTC by Tiago Silva
Modified: 2020-07-15 13:31 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 5.4.0-40-generic
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Regression: No
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Description Tiago Silva 2020-07-15 13:31:22 UTC
Hi everyone,

I am wondering if anybody else is experiencing some random reboots of computers with Ryzen processors. Specially when in idle (with no processor demand). This reboots are either followed by an MCE hardware error in the log files or no message is displayed. Both situations alternate.

I found a thread here relating this with some power management issue with amdgpu module driver. But I can confirm that the issue still persists with nvidia module drivers. Tested by me with RX550 and GTX1030.

The issue stops if the Cool'n'Quiet feature is turned off in the BIOS. In a search, the powernow-k8 does not support Ryzen processors and are not loaded in my system.

This solution is bad since the processor works at the maximum frequency all the time. In my case, for example, a Ryzen 7 2700 runs at 3200 MHz all the time. With Cool'n'Quiet it should run at 1500 MHz and rump up only on demand.

Please, if some additional information is necessary, give me instructions on how obtain it.

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