Documentation: amd-pstate: Add unit test introduction

Introduce the AMD P-State unit test module design and implementation.
It also talks about kselftest and how to use.

Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@amd.com>
Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 76 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst
index 83b58eb4ab4d..8f3d30c5a0d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ to the ``struct sugov_cpu`` that the utilization update belongs to.
 Then, ``amd-pstate`` updates the desired performance according to the CPU
 scheduler assigned.
 
+.. _processor_support:
 
 Processor Support
 =======================
@@ -282,6 +283,8 @@ efficiency frequency management method on AMD processors.
 Kernel Module Options for ``amd-pstate``
 =========================================
 
+.. _shared_mem:
+
 ``shared_mem``
 Use a module param (shared_mem) to enable related processors manually with
 **amd_pstate.shared_mem=1**.
@@ -393,6 +396,76 @@ about part of the output. ::
  CPU_005     712          116384        39        49        166       0.7565  9645075 2214891 38431470  25.1   11.646       469         2.496         kworker/5:0-40
  CPU_006     712          116408        39        49        166       0.6769  8950227 1839034 37192089  24.06  11.272       470         2.496         kworker/6:0-1264
 
+Unit Tests for amd-pstate
+-------------------------
+
+``amd-pstate-ut`` is a test module for testing the ``amd-pstate`` driver.
+
+ * It can help all users to verify their processor support (SBIOS/Firmware or Hardware).
+
+ * Kernel can have a basic function test to avoid the kernel regression during the update.
+
+ * We can introduce more functional or performance tests to align the result together, it will benefit power and performance scale optimization.
+
+1. Test case decriptions
+
+        +---------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+        | Index   | Functions                      | Description                                                                        |
+        +=========+================================+====================================================================================+
+        | 0       | amd_pstate_ut_acpi_cpc_valid   || Check whether the _CPC object is present in SBIOS.                                |
+        |         |                                ||                                                                                   |
+        |         |                                || The detail refer to `Processor Support <processor_support_>`_.                    |
+        +---------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+        | 1       | amd_pstate_ut_check_enabled    || Check whether AMD P-State is enabled.                                             |
+        |         |                                ||                                                                                   |
+        |         |                                || AMD P-States and ACPI hardware P-States always can be supported in one processor. |
+        |         |                                | But AMD P-States has the higher priority and if it is enabled with                 |
+        |         |                                | :c:macro:`MSR_AMD_CPPC_ENABLE` or ``cppc_set_enable``, it will respond to the      |
+        |         |                                | request from AMD P-States.                                                         |
+        +---------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+        | 2       | amd_pstate_ut_check_perf       || Check if the each performance values are reasonable.                              |
+        |         |                                || highest_perf >= nominal_perf > lowest_nonlinear_perf > lowest_perf > 0.           |
+        +---------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+        | 3       | amd_pstate_ut_check_freq       || Check if the each frequency values and max freq when set support boost mode       |
+        |         |                                | are reasonable.                                                                    |
+        |         |                                || max_freq >= nominal_freq > lowest_nonlinear_freq > min_freq > 0                   |
+        |         |                                || If boost is not active but supported, this maximum frequency will be larger than  |
+        |         |                                | the one in ``cpuinfo``.                                                            |
+        +---------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+#. How to execute the tests
+
+   We use test module in the kselftest frameworks to implement it.
+   We create amd-pstate-ut module and tie it into kselftest.(for
+   details refer to Linux Kernel Selftests [4]_).
+
+    1. Build
+
+        + open the :c:macro:`CONFIG_X86_AMD_PSTATE` configuration option.
+        + set the :c:macro:`CONFIG_X86_AMD_PSTATE_UT` configuration option to M.
+        + make project
+        + make selftest ::
+
+            $ cd linux
+            $ make -C tools/testing/selftests
+
+    #. Installation & Steps ::
+
+        $ make -C tools/testing/selftests install INSTALL_PATH=~/kselftest
+        $ sudo ./kselftest/run_kselftest.sh -c amd-pstate
+        TAP version 13
+        1..1
+        # selftests: amd-pstate: amd-pstate-ut.sh
+        # amd-pstate-ut: ok
+        ok 1 selftests: amd-pstate: amd-pstate-ut.sh
+
+    #. Results ::
+
+         $ dmesg | grep "amd_pstate_ut" | tee log.txt
+         [12977.570663] amd_pstate_ut: 1    amd_pstate_ut_acpi_cpc_valid  success!
+         [12977.570673] amd_pstate_ut: 2    amd_pstate_ut_check_enabled   success!
+         [12977.571207] amd_pstate_ut: 3    amd_pstate_ut_check_perf      success!
+         [12977.571212] amd_pstate_ut: 4    amd_pstate_ut_check_freq      success!
 
 Reference
 ===========
@@ -405,3 +478,6 @@ Reference
 
 .. [3] Processor Programming Reference (PPR) for AMD Family 19h Model 51h, Revision A1 Processors
        https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/56569-A1-PUB.zip
+
+.. [4] Linux Kernel Selftests,
+       https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kselftest.html