Daemon Segmentation Fault on X570 + Ryzen 3

[olejon]

I updated CoreFreq a couple of days ago using my automatic script and it worked just fine.

Now I did it again, and loading the module works but the daemon does not load and the UI shows nothing.

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# corefreqd -d

CoreFreq Daemon 1.78.1  Copyright (C) 2015-2020 CYRIL INGENIERIE

Processor [AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor]

Architecture [Zen2/Matisse] 12/12 CPU Online.

SleepInterval(1000), SysGate(2000), 2326 tasks

    Thread [7fa23dc86700] Init CHILD 000
    Thread [7fa23d485700] Init CHILD 001
    Thread [7fa23cc84700] Init CHILD 002
    Thread [7fa237fff700] Init CHILD 003
    Thread [7fa22ffff700] Init CHILD 004
    Thread [7fa235ffb700] Init CHILD 008
    Thread [7fa2367fc700] Init CHILD 007
    Thread [7fa236ffd700] Init CHILD 006
    Thread [7fa234ff9700] Init CHILD 010
    Thread [7fa22f7fe700] Init CHILD 011
    Thread [7fa2377fe700] Init CHILD 005
    Thread [7fa2357fa700] Init CHILD 009

Segmentation fault

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Setup is same as before when you asked about my entire setup. I see you did some changes recently.

[cyring]

The GPU vertical mounting trend

We it see more and more. My case allows it. I started googling for extender reviews and issues. Lost in the comments jungle, I stopped at AMD

[olejon]

I'm reading you that RM may implement a CPU load minimum threshold to say: "it's sleeping" But why such dummy algorithm?

It was just observation from RM. CoreFreq shows a MHz as low as 2 MHz here so not too worried about power consumption. Even if they have C-States does it mean totally "Sleeping", meaning 100% idle? Well your MONITOR/MWAIT may suggest that.

BTW: HWMonitor suggests no such idling. They stay at the approx. 2100 MHz last I checked, like ! in CoreFreq or reading from sysfs. Weird since that tool shows so much (from RAM temperatures to all fan speeds).

Question is if this happens on Linux anyways? Still waiting for official kernel cpufreq, cpuidle drivers. I seem to recall by searching or read it on Phoronix, that the kernel developers were at least working on a cpuidle driver (probably with AMD contributing).

Maybe even some Git version of the kernel has it already but must be enabled manually as it's still experimental?

Considering AMD's contributions to the Linux kernel I kind of expect those to officially come. Mind you the radeon driver on amd.com. It's kept up to date with the Windows version. Same version number!.

Yes, you can choose to only use the open stack (just a newer version of your current, with the necessary MESA packages etc included), you'll then just get a version newer than even rolling release distros. Only can be a little hassle to roll back to the one the comes with Ubuntu if you don't use the uninstall script correctly (once I was left without a working graphics stack, but the apt log shows which packages is replaced, and 1 did not get reinstalled for some reason). And yeah it's supported on RHEL, CentOS and kind of on openSUSE because of that (it's mentioned in the docs, which are linked to from the release notes). The AUR one seemed like a hassle because of this being specific for cards, but I only checked like summer/fall 2019. The driver is specific to your card/series too.

Maybe they're waiting for the next generation of Ryzen? :man_shrugging:

GPU vertical mounting trend

Interesting. Not sure there's space now with my monster Noctua, but it was certainly possible with the 3600X + stock fan.

BUT no reason here, take a lot at this:

$ sensors

amdgpu-pci-0900
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx:       +0.72 V  
fan1:        1003 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, max = 4500 RPM)
edge:         +31.0°C  (crit = +94.0°C, hyst = -273.1°C)
power1:       30.02 W  (cap = 120.00 W)

That's just 2°C above Ambient. I've frequently seen it at Ambient Temperature too!.

Running Unigine Superposition (free download), it maxes out at 72°C, well below the 94°C critical. Windows maxes out at 73°C.

Main reason to install the driver from amd.com before was to get some more data than sensors showed before, but suddenly with a kernel and/or graphics stack update the one since like fall 2019 has included all of the data.

Maybe I'll try the latest Pro driver again to see if it gives better performance. Why not? It just installs a local apt repository, meaning the driver will not update unless you do it manually, which how it should be. If you manually install GPU drivers on Windows instead of relying on Windows Update, it never updates your driver either. There may always be regressions. Often a "Check for updates every X days" is on by default, BUT:

I've disabled such for all my very few 3rd party apps on Windows so it never does anything when idle, not even show a notification (requires service). Some I let check when opened, but IIRC none set to that. On macOS that's what I choose. Apart from the benchmark programs Blender Benchmark, Geekbench and Unigine Superposition, I only have these programs installed:

• Corsair Toolbox
  Does not run on start-up, not any service - a manual check for updates to it AND firmware updates is actually needed and confuses many dumb users as at least for new HW often an update to the tool is needed before the firmware update appears. Was the case for my 2 MP600s
• Corsair iCue
  To control my RAM chips lightning, which is apparently stored in the chips, as the settings are kept on Linux. The service it activates is disabled as it does nothing really. Just gotta start it before opening the program if I want to make changes. Maybe by default the program itself runs on start-up as a tray icon, but if so that's totally disabled, so it's totally disabled
• Bitvise SSH
  The recommended by previously popular PuTTY, as it has SFTP browser and everything. Does NOT start on start-up. Closes tray icon when exiting last terminal. Nice to have the icon visible in case you forgot a terminal is open so...
• Sublime Text 3
  Kind of need a proper editor on Windows. Comes with 2 Notepads now! At least 1 finally supports Linux newlines and then supports JSON files, but still they're useless for anything other than the basics so Sublime is set to open all text files
• VLC
  Can only check for updates at start-up but I've disabled that too. It's just there in case I need to watch a video on Linux
• Windows Search Indexer
  If you rely on searching for files, disabling it is a bad idea. But I know where all my stuff is. I do let it Index the Start Menu, but no folders. It only seems to activate then when a new program is installed/uninstalled. But the service can be disabled
• Windows Disk Trimming
  Set to be done manually. Only that dedicated disk for Windows with little activity. My partition on the NVMe has nothing on it so don't need trimming anyways. If any HDD has a Windows file system Defragmentation will be in the same place (now called "Optimize") for disks. On Linux I let systemd-fstrim.timer enabled as default, about once a week I think, at night or whatever
• Windows Update
  Set to "Pause for 7 days". Very important to check that it's paused beforr benchmarking. I just let it check to check if haven't booted for long, trigger it manually. In case there's a new build and security updates. No "Optional updates" installed. It wants to install something for the below, but I know it breaks it, so no thanks. All the above Windows services are particularly important for an idle system
• Logitech SetPoint
  Needed to map a special key on my Performance MX to something else than default, which IIRC is Zoom. I love having that button mapped to the Home keyboard button. Very practical on websites to go to the top, and certain software brings you... Home. That must be running, as a tray icon, but once it has started and mapped the key it does nothing, zero usage seen from it. Mind you I have the same setup on Linux with xbindkeys starting at desktop login. I've also set the big thumb finger button to open the GNOME list of programs like the Super button does:

$ cat .xbindkeysrc                                                  
"sleep 0.25 && xte 'key Super_L'"
b:10

"xte 'key Home'"
b:13

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[olejon]

Didn't you say something earlier about having made CoreFreq "compatible with k10temp"?

It shows the High value for the Ryzen 3 CPUs and code for it could be used to trigger the HOT indicator?

[cyring]

Didn't you say something earlier about having made CoreFreq "compatible with k10temp"?

Yes if those k10temp Kernel prerequisites are detected and you build CoreFreq with this argument:

make HWM_CHIPSET=COMPATIBLE

...
corefreqk.c: In function ‘Core_AMD_Family_17h_Temp’:
corefreqk.c:7988:5: note: ‘#pragma message: "Building with Kernel amd_smn_read()"’
...

The pragma message above confirms that both driver use the same Kernel API (which protects SMU accesses by a mutex).

It shows the High value for the Ryzen 3 CPUs and code for it could be used to trigger the HOT indicator?

This is a hard coded value if I don't make a mistake. See its source code. As I told you I'm trying to avoid as much as possible hard coded values. I've read some docs that SMU has some sticky bits when thresholds exceeds: tbc.

[cyring]

Referring to issue #191 , can you please give a try to the develop branch with any of your hypervisors.

What I found in KVM and WSL Linux drivers source code is that they provide a virtual counter for the CPU usage. This counter is read through a MSR register. Behide the hood, it appears that this counter is relying on the Kernel computed runtime usage per CPU. Not the usual hardware counters (APERF/MPERF or Intel PMU fixed counters: they crash immediately)

The results are quiet strange:

• The max frequency ratio on a single vCPU is one bin less than the reported value by the real processor
• the computed idle state in C1 is a few percent above than bare-metal case

Don't ask for all the other sensors. Those registers are not virtualized: temperature, power, voltage, etc But we get the virtualized ISA & CPUID features capabilities and also the VM tasks scheduling.

Thanks for any help. There are some much Virtualization cases that I'm not sure CoreFreq driver is strong enough to cover them.

[olejon]

Thanks for that make option. What exactly does it do?

Yes I'm having a hard time finding that 70°C is some AMD spec. 95°C is though. Some people report seeing up to 105°C in Prime95 and such (BUT people say that tool if AVX is enabled is not made for these CPUs), and that it simply would shut off (not destroying the CPU). Others say: "No, it should not but simply downclock". Maybe because it got so hot so fast?

Many reports 80-88°C in stresstests, which I can only get with PBO = Enabled in Tweaker, not AMD's PBO, which they seem to call AutoOC, although that option does not exist in UEFI they have to refer to Ryzen Master's Auto Overclocking Mode. This article explains stuff pretty well you'll probably understand. About PPT, TDC, EDC... which is limited to the Motherboard's limits if enabled.

What's confusing is that ASUS calls it Precision Boost Overdrive both places (under AMD Overclocking and Tweaker) BOTH places in the UEFI. With the exact same Help String, but the effect is very different. The AMD one does little. The Tweaker one does increase performance, especially with All Cores stressed.

With PBO disabled we logged 11.6A multithreaded and 3.3A single threaded (139.2W/39.6W), and with PBO and AutoOC maxed we logged 14.2A multithreaded and 3.4A single threaded (170.4W/40.8W)

... and they don't see too concerned about that 170.4W reading. Also they say:

AMD intends PBO and AutoOC to be used in conjunction with each other, with the AutoOC offset benefitting single-core boost and PBO benefitting multi-core loads that bump up against power limits

... I don't really see that. I get the 4.7 GHz on single core without ANY AMD Overclocking.

Also if I understand the 3950X correctly it's supposed to manage about 1.45 V. If I enable PBO in Tweaker I get 1.28 V while I DO get the 200 MHz bump on All Cores, which must be why I'm seeing 193-203 Watts then. Otherwise never above the spec of 142 Watts.

Question: With this in mind (Temperature = OK, voltage = OK), are you still worried about the Watts?.

They use a Motherboard that, with this enabled, sets the PPT all the way to 1000 Watts BUT according to them that's just the Motherboard/BIOS and the manufacturer can very well change that to even more in a BIOS update. It SHOULDN'T matter, and for me it doesn't as it sets PPT = 395 Watts BUT never reaches that, it's just hypothetical, so CPU limits it?.

Question: People also say Manual OC is superior to any Built-In OC setting, like a drop-down. Now there are SO MANY different configs people post for their UEFI on forums. ONE THAT SEEMS TO REPEAT ITSELF = Voltage Offset DOWN with -0.05 V, for better performance. If say setting it to -0.1 V it just performs worse. What exactly does it mean to set the Voltage Offset DOWN?

PS: I set Linux governor to performance on ALL policies in sysfs (ACPI drivers) and it does the same as on Windows. All Cores ALWAYS runs at Base Clock = ~3.5 GHz. It increases CoreFreq minimum MHz with approx. 20 MHz up from 0002 to 0022. But it does perform a little better with Conic Compute. That extra MHz seen with Conic Compute is not because of the overhead, right?.

Please read. This is a VERY popular YouTube channel: https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3491-explaining-precision-boost-overdrive-benchmarks-auto-oc

[cyring]

Many questions above, I don't master the architecture enough to give a precise answer beside my observations.

Yes, my BIOS is set to lower the temperature with:

• CPU voltage minus offset down to 1.4V UEFI and measured idle 0.9V CoreFreq
• PBO disabled, CPB enabled
• NB C-States enabled
• DOCP for DDR @ 3600 MHz
• IOMMU & AMD-V enabled
• Remaining opts in AUTO

While coding, temps are 32°C Conics limited at 70°C Single Core frequency can max at 4.7 GHz

• CoreFreq build option HWM_CHIPSET=COMPATIBLE allows to run concurrently CoreFreq and lm_sensor/k10temp

[olejon]

• Then we have the same UEFI settings except I haven't touched voltage (I do things like disable the serial port + legacy USB + SMART TEST for HDDs (like why...), change Boot options, disable MB RGB, disable F1 if error at boot because server services, enable "Last state" if Power Loss" because server services and tune Fans Duty Cycles and Temperature Thresholds, manually not the stupid curve which you use the Mouse to edit, although I see overclockers using that, just changes those values)
• Mine also idles at 0.91V as I don't have any OC on except D.C.O.P. like you
• C-states are on, but IDK if you refer to the CoreFreq driver there(?)
• With AMD-V do you mean SVM? It's the option in my UEFI that says "Enable CPU Virtualization"
• IOMMU I haven't touched, what does it do exactly?
• PS: I can run sensors, updated every X milliseconds, alongside CoreFreq without compiling that way, no problem. Both show the same temperature so still don't get what it does(?)

Found some Windows discoveries yesterday:

• Use the amd.com chipset drivers, not the ones in your Motherboard's website. They're outdated. Can be uninstalled and those from amd.com installed without even rebooting
• Found that Ryzen Master's "Check for update" doesn't work. Downloaded it again. Uninstalled previous first, which removed the Power Plans (useless but luckily they're just in that package), and installed the downloaded. Immediately saw it was newer, because new Splash Screen. Some more values at top. Otherwise not much
• Windows is at least now stable at 4m27s (+/- 1 second) in Blender classroom and Linux 4m (+/- 1 second)
• Get 4.7 GHz one 1 Core but really just see the 4700 MHz+ if system has been idle for a while. Have no idea why. Otherwise about 4985 MHz which well, is basically 4.7 GHz
• On all cores, about 3850 MHz after a little while with Conic Compute. Bad? Boost of 0.35 GHz... Windows gets higher but doesn't win any tests
• Can't find an easy way to stress just 1 Thread in Windows. All tools stress 2. Although CPU-Z has 32 listed and I choose 1, it stresses 2
• Then downloaded the official ROG CPU-Z version (choose the one from CPUID's website, not the other one (Freeware site, dunno why there's 2 links) and saw there that there's no more choosing 1. There's 2, 4, 6 etc
• Anyways just choosing "Stress CPU" gets better MHz than Conic Compute but not Atomic Burn or CRC32 Compute really, BUT CPU-Z stressed the CPU more than those, seen by Temperature and Watts, so...
• You might want to check out https://rog.asus.com/downloads/
• The RealBench Tool might be interesting for you. It's all FOSS in just a ZIP file and you don't install anything. Runs like GIMP etc. Mine crashes (probably because no ROG MB?) at H.264 (or GPU?) and the "Heavy Multitasking" (think HandBrake test there fails, there's a log window with progress), but the Image one using GIMP and the one using LuxMark work

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• Installed the AMD Pro driver yesterday on Linux. So far so good
• Gives
  • Pro OpenGL
  • Pro Vulkan
  • Pro OpenCL (apart from uninstall/revert script really just a practical binary in /opt with more than the standard clinfo command
• Now possible to benchmark OpenCL in Blender like on Windows
• Sorry for having said radeon driver before, it's of course called amdgpu now. There's a cool GUI GitHub project I wanna check out (has AUR package, otherwise compile and systemd daemon if wanna run as regular user). So far only played with those values in sysfs, like Fans PWM values, but there's plenty of GPU OC settings AMD patched into the kernel in 2019
• Same here, depending on ambient, can be 32°C and max 70°C if stressed. Wonder how it would've been if there was space for the 2nd Noctua Fan. Thought about changing the chassis fan on the back to the Noctua, more silent and possibly better, basically straight behind the heatsink, but discovered the Fan Head Connector is not not possible to reach with this heatsink :disappointed:

[cyring]

• Then we have the same UEFI settings except I haven't touched voltage (I do things like disable the serial port + legacy USB + SMART TEST for HDDs (like why...), change Boot options, disable MB RGB, disable F1 if error at boot because server services, enable "Last state" if Power Loss" because server services and tune Fans Duty Cycles and Temperature Thresholds, manually not the stupid curve which you use the Mouse to edit, although I see overclockers using that, just changes those values)

Almost the same: SATA disabled but I keep Q-Code leds which display the CPU temperature on MB !

• C-states are on, but IDK if you refer to the CoreFreq driver there(?)

That's the all point. What are those BIOS NB C-States !

• With AMD-V do you mean SVM? It's the option in my UEFI that says "Enable CPU Virtualization"

Yes, SVM

• IOMMU I haven't touched, what does it do exactly?

Virtualization of devices. Such as GPU PCI pathrough

This 3950X can virtualize an EPYC 255 VCPUs with non pain

• PS: I can run sensors, updated every X milliseconds, alongside CoreFreq without compiling that way, no problem. Both show the same temperature so still don't get what it does(?)

Without the compatible Kernel API, the SMU may be flood by both drivers. It takes a variable amount of time until the concurrent access issue appears.

... it's of course called amdgpu now. There's a cool GUI GitHub project I wanna check out (has AUR package, otherwise compile and systemd daemon if wanna run as regular user).

I did some readings about the MESA stack for Radeon 5000 series: it looks well supported according to devices database. I will however wait Xmas for the next RDNA2 GPUs

... but discovered the Fan Head Connector is not not possible to reach with this heatsink disappointed You bet ! I also opened a ticket at Fractal to have a fan cables topology... 2 weeks without any answer.

[olejon]

Ah, well could've read Wikipedia about IOMMU. The UEFI Help String kind of makes sense then. Maybe it's even in the manual (much UEFI stuff isn't).

Is IOMMU needed for that CPU virtualization or was that just a cool demo? Haven't had problems emulating other CPUs with IOMMU disabled. Guess I'll leave it disabled unless... There's a reason for it to be enabled just running VMs (on this we're talking desktop VMs, on another headless host I have my headless VMs)

The Linus Tech Tips video where they make a Hackintosh (but fully working) using Manjaro + KVM + QEMU, and 2 GPUs, one dedicated to the macOS VM, that's a cool one. It's technically illegal but they show the whole process maybe except a part of after having downloaded macOS to a file (on a Mac which should be legal), how to make it a bootable disk for the VM (but they say something like "see the forum, user X explains it"). They have to use various patches from GitHub to QEMU and some special things in the virsh edit XML file, but IIRC the GPU they just choose from the drop-down of virt-manager. Intel of course, components known to be supported by Apple.

Whole point was to make a PC as good as the upcoming new Mac Pro. Only thing they couldn't match was the amount of RAM the model that costs the most can have. But enough slots for a lot. The Xeon they used was like 1 version older as the one to come with it, and announced, wasn't released yet.

CPU passthrough mode for sure, works fine here, then a VM shows my exact CPU.

Cool thing was: It outperformed the best iMac Pro, and those aren't bad, and they are expensive. In a Linux VM. One monitor for Linux and the other for macOS. They got iMessage and FaceTime working which as far as I know has been a thing Apple has locked Hackintosh users out of. Some patches or whatever. Long video so they show the GitHub stuff in like 16 x speed. Can always slow down with YouTube. Later they made it work on bare metal. And compared. Did better but not that much, really. Been a long time since I've seen those channels now. It was an ongoing project.

Wonder now, if they have managed a fully working "Mac Pro" (without being a Mac per se), was supposed to be fitted in an old Mac Pro chassis ("the good old one" that was a normal PC basically) that is cheaper and faster, with native macOS. But IIRC the Mac Pro, and iMac Pro, after checking a comparable HW PC build, aren't really that expensive. Can even be cheaper, if you mess up. Meaning little profit for Apple on those (but could they take even more and get customers?)

On Intel I can use host-model, but the file containing lists if CPUs didn't include Ryzen 3 last I checked, although long ago now, many QEMU updates ago, but with CPU in host-passthrough I got my 3600X recognized as that, otherwise "AMD EPYC".

My Windows 2000 shows AMD EPYC as I haven't bothered with tuning it. Just wanted to play with it. Need to change from just matching topology to passthrough and see if Windows 2000 says 3950X!

[olejon]

And duh, I should've put on those fans header extender cables that comes with both the chassis (and the Noctua) to that fan on the back before putting on the heatsink. Too trigger-happy... Was watching out it didn't touch anything. Forgot access. Also 1 NVMe is below, the CPU bound. But very satisfied so no problem...

[cyring]

• Can you subscribe to an Apple developer account within Hackintosh ? Will you be able to push apps to the store ? If not, you won't get any Apple developments support. Most of the API kits are closed sources...

• You can see IOMMU as a virtualization option, but:

VM shows my exact CPU

is not about path-through, but a Hypervisor catch and translate

[olejon]

• Don't know. Community is big so maybe ask some project in GitHub that only host some patches. Surely developer knows. If Apple ID and everything works, it thinks it's a Mac... But no guarantee. I have an account, think I created it for some more advanced forum, or iOS beta, always get invited to WWDC
• But not few years ago one could develop fine on Windows/Linux, and emulate on X physical devices, but signing and publishing had to be done on macOS
• Aha. I see some better performance with it on the Intel headless. But go for the host-model with exact and no fallback, because; only use the actual cores not HT. That CPU has a security bug with HT that apparently can't be fixed (lives in the CPU).

[cyring]

For some Zen processors, the IOMMU state can now be supplied by CoreFreq Can you give a try to issue #193

[olejon]

• Oh that I can confirm immediately. I checked it. See below points too

• I've adjusted my cfrun script, which if run with --update downloads the latest code from main branch to compile like this: make MSR_CORE_PERF_UCC=MSR_IA32_APERF MSR_CORE_PERF_URC=MSR_IA32_MPERF HWM_CHIPSET=COMPATIBLE
• Q: Since NMI Watchdog is on, is the APERF/MPERF needed on AMD? Any disadvantages at all?
• Q: Does it hurt to compile with the same command on Intel? Regarding HWM (HWMonitor?). Since I want to keep my script the same on all PCs...
• This was cryptic (probably even for OC enthusiasts and pro sysadmins):

Without the compatible Kernel API, the SMU may be flood by both drivers. It takes a variable amount of time until the concurrent access issue appears

• First of all I always unload CoreFreq completely after use, just a cfstop command. BASH alias to main script, and that script is added to the NOPASSWD list for sudo, like other tools as iotop
• Q: Is an "SMU flood" then a problem as long as k10temp is always loaded, while corefreqk only when I use the UI? What signs would an "SMU flood" show? What negative impact does it cause?
• The k10temp module will load on all AMD compatible systems just like coretemp on Intel. So, shouldn't it by default be compiled like that? At least on AMD if that's the only arch needing this? The README.md doesn't even mention this compile option, and make help says NOTHING about what it does. In fact the README.md is confusing because at first it says to compile with fixed counters, then in the instructions below that actually shows the complete procedure of cloning the code etc, it's enough with simply make? No mention of APERF/MPERF there either, just says to turn off NMI Watchdog in the kernel parameters (not everyone wants to do such things), but you said isn't necessary the way I compile with MPERF/APERF, right? And make help explains nothing about those cryptic options
• So maybe make README.md a little clearer. It's another thing with make help, kind of, but you expect actual Help, no? Just a tip to avoid questions like these :smiley:

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• Be aware: Just opening Ryzen Master with Default OC Mode sets this, without asking or anything:

• Maybe only if DCOP is found enabled, but everyone does that of course. Not that it does any harm... EXCEPT: Certain UEFI Settings under AMD Overclocking can NOT be reset by a CMOS reset and you can brick your motherboard (confirmed on a forum for ALL Ryzen motherboards)
• NOT that this particular Setting will brick anything as all values below are Auto, so
• But I saw this then clearing the CMOS with a screwdriver, that afterwards, some AMD Overclocking Settings were still set, they're stored somewhere else... Careful in that section in other words. Tweaker is then safer...
• Got my Windows 2000 VM to show "AMD Ryzen 3950X 16 Core", yes :stuck_out_tongue:

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• Yet to try the develop branch. What do you have in mind? Try say Manjaro in KVM + QEMU with passthrough and see how CoreFreq works? I'm gonna install Manjaro XFCE anyways... Others in mind like VirtualBox? Even on Windows? Or even the Ubuntu Windows subsystem?
• Yet to make a .deb. Will convert my script to use systemd first. Better for my way to load/unload CoreFreq (that includes the daemon) anyways. Per now it's basic BASH
• Q: Any possible disadvantages of having corefreqk and/or the daemon loaded all the time? Just curious. Don't like to have any module not installed by apt or kernel default loaded all the time, simple as that. And the daemon starts processes to... Maybe I'm paranoid...
• Suggestion: Please-Please move ~/.corefreq.cfg to ~/.config/, as per Freedesktop standards. Even pure proprietary CLI software you wouldn't expect to do so, does that now, and best if it's in its own folder, that way, no file extension needed, say ~/.config/corefreq/config
• And the other, add (W) and (J) behind the values at the bottom at the W view... It's just not logical that it's only behind the last one there, for say a new user

[cyring]

NMI_Watchdog, MSR_CORE_PERF_UCC, MSR_CORE_PERF_URC, all of them concern only Intel processor. Building for AMD, there are no other registers choice than APERF/MPERF with which NMI_WATCHDOG has no impact.

True, documentation needs improvements.

.corefreq.cfg is supposed to be XDG compliant but code is buggy. I also want it to be in .config directory and home as a fallback location: sign that XDG environment variable is not detected.

[olejon]

Thanks! Did I understand you correctly that compiling with APERF/MPERF doesn't do ANYTHING on AMD then and I can keep it in my build function in the script?

And HWM, on Intel is it OK to compile it with COMPATIBLE although it's Intel?

[cyring]

• Intel: you can choose among MSR_IA32_APERF, MSR_IA32_MPERF, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR1, MSR_CORE_PERF_FIXED_CTR2, and MSR_PPERF

• AMD: MSR_IA32_APERF and MSR_IA32_MPERF

[cyring]

HWM_CHIPSET can be equalled to W83627 (SuperIO for various sensors, time of Intel X58) or COMPATIBLE (for AMD SMU within Northbridge)

• As default: CoreFreq accesses SMU on its own. COMPATIBLE build directive will make my driver goes to the SMU through a protected Kernel function.

[olejon]

1. Ok, so I keep APERF/MPERF on both Intel and AMD without problems? Yes/No
2. APERF/MPERF basically required on AMD? Yes/No
3. So COMPATIBLE only for AMD? Yes/No

Still unsure: Which of those counters does simply running make use? Is it smart and detects? Seems like compiling with COMPATIBLE is recommended on AMD but not default, if I understand you correctly?

[cyring]

1. Ok, so I keep APERF/MPERF on both Intel and AMD without problems? Yes/No

YES

2. APERF/MPERF basically required on AMD? Yes/No

YES

3. So COMPATIBLE only for AMD? Yes/No

YES

Still unsure: Which of those counters does simply running make use? Is it smart and detects?

YES, a plain make will find all definitions to build CoreFreq but not the processor architecture.

Seems like compiling with COMPATIBLE is recommended on AMD but not default, if I understand you correctly?

True ( without COMPATIBLE, the default, the instructions path to reach the SMU is shorten. )

[cyring]

Fyi: Among the last develop changes, the unit is now added to the power domains.

[olejon]

• Thanks! Then I will remove COMPATIBLE from my Intel PCs script and rebuild, although it's unclear still if it may cause problems on Intel (don't see any)? Yes/No
• If APERF/MPERF is required to add to make for AMD I suggest you Highlight that in README.md, or you make make a little smarter and it does it "automagically"
• Cool. That's a more clear UI, like other tools, always show measurement unit
• This because on AMD CoreFreq was the only tool to see temperatures until k10temp added Tdie: X°C and Tctl: X°C

• Both those show the same, and the same as in CoreFreq, although it has 1 decimal and CoreFreq rounds that value Up*

• Still I think CoreFreq can become a go-to tool for many on both Intel and AMD if instructions are clear for regular users! Especially monitoring but stresstests are good, HOT indicators are good, and tweaking surely someone will use!
• Documentation is crucial. A clear README.md with links to the Wiki instead of a long list of stuff. Say one link to installation (divided into Intel and AMD sections) and one link for FAQ. Regular users don't understand things like registers and counters. This might be under "Advanced Tweaking" documentation, for example
• Use the GitHub pages to create a simple website for it so you get github.io/corefreq? To promote it better, with screenshots of latest version on Intel and AMD. Very easy, just creates 1 HTML + CSS, in a standard branch so can be edited just on GitHub without cloning and pushing for small tweaks
• Are you enough satisfied with it now for a Debian/Ubuntu package? Yes/No
• Or still consider it too experimental? Yes/No

Imagine if someone uses the JSON to implement it into GNOME System Monitor and others, for instance... Windows Task Manager has gotten pretty good if you use the Performance tab it has Usage (in MHz not just a graph), Temperatures and Watts for CPU/GPU, and more readings. Adding GPU and more CPU readings like temperature and Watts lack (only that for a monitor).

Add your PayPal email to the About View. Just a humble thing, so you can buy more HW, and a text like "Thank you. Donations will be used to improve CoreFreq and ensure compatibility with New Hardware". Nothing more... I'd happily donate. Can I? Which email?.

[cyring]

• Suggestion: Please-Please move ~/.corefreq.cfg to ~/.config/, as per Freedesktop standards. Even pure proprietary CLI software you wouldn't expect to do so, does that now, and best if it's in its own folder, that way, no file extension needed, say ~/.config/corefreq/config

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config
corefreq-cli

[CTRL]+[x]

cat $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/corefreq.cfg
61,14,7
70,3,5

Don't you get the same location ?

[cyring]

• [WiP] Some changes in the Power footer:

[olejon]

• Nice. I see this is in the develop branch, so I'll wait
• Kind of don't want to export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config every time. I mean even htop uses ~/.config/htop/htoprc and has for a long-long time (no XDG needed)

Just checked on VM as root (sudo -i as su) without any XDG set, then, running env:

• In fact if the directory does not exist, htop creates ~/.config/htop/htoprc (as if mkdir -p)
• Don't know how htop does it, but see source code, or do it your own way, detect at least if directory exists, or even create as htop if does not exist.

Only see these are set logged into desktop, so:

$ env|grep -i xdg
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
XDG_VTNR=2
XDG_SESSION_ID=64
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg

[cyring]

• Nice. I see this is in the develop branch, so I'll wait

Thanks. yes, putting other UI things before commit ...

• Kind of don't want to export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config every time. I mean even htop uses ~/.config/htop/htoprc and has for a long-long time (no XDG needed)

Just checked on VM as root (sudo -i as su) without any XDG set, then, running env:

• In fact if the directory does not exist, htop creates ~/.config/htop/htoprc (as if mkdir -p)
• Don't know how htop does it, but see source code, or do it your own way, detect at least if directory exists, or even create as htop if does not exist.

Only see these are set logged into desktop, so:

$ env|grep -i xdg
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
XDG_VTNR=2
XDG_SESSION_ID=64
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=gnome
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg

At the time, I have to decide a saving strategy and I found common among major software to follow XDG; even if, most of them use workarounds when XDG is insufficiently configured by distribution. Chromium is part of them (for instance)

[cyring]

develop released The new label CCX means that the C-States are enabled. Not sure if changing C-State in BIOS is well reported by CoreFreq ?

[cyring]

Hello, Could you please give a try to the latest develop commit.

https://github.com/cyring/CoreFreq/issues/195#issuecomment-654290433

[olejon]

Thanks for Watts now showing!

Another suggestion if possible:

• It is very practical to be able to stress a specific Core, to check best cores performances
• But CoreFreq can only stress 1 or all
• Is it possible to add an option to Tools > Turbo Select CPUs... (notice the plural)
• Like X (check) Cores to stress. Stressing 2 of the best on same CCX should give better than stress -c 2 as then Linux choses and they may change on the fly

• My PC must be on 24/7 now without time for any system "locks" as you asked me to test... No freezing thanks. It has never happened in fact

• Haven't bothered to search for such a tool on Windows, little annoying that CPU-Z doesn't stress 1 Thread when told so, BUT latest changelog says "Added support for Ryzen 3900X" so seems it lacks 3950X still. Surely there is a tool
• Another thing noticed, then using Single Core stress, say CPU-Z set to 1 Thread which stresses 2, the AMD Chipset drivers seem to be intelligent and choose the 2 best Cores on same CCX! (I strongly suggest to download from AMD directly, not Windows update nor your MB's website, works on any X570 MB, Direct Link to download site, not download file)
• Installing these drivers fixed the "problem" of 4 "Unknown devices" listed in Device manager in Windows. Not ASUS nor Windows Update ones fixed that. Though I have no idea what they were, didn't take screenshot before/after, forgot it

XDG is insufficiently configured by distribution

Which ones? Ubuntu has it perfectly. Say changing language would change content of ~/.config/[user-dirs.dirs|user-dirs.locale] Google Chrome certainly does it correctly, and not much is different from Chromium on Linux apart from DRM playback. Was a hassle to fix this on Arch, find right package(s), heck even getting~/.config/autostartto run.desktop` files. Say Dropbox relies on that.

• Config to ~/.config/google-chrome/
• Cache to ~/.cache/google-chrome/
• Any app installed, and chosen to open as window (right click), or website added (like Twitter is ideal for this for me) added as Menu > More tools > Create shortcut, .desktop files + icons added to ~/.local/share/[applications|icons]. Also added to Desktop folder by these in case such a DE, but can be deleted. And if GNOME, ~/.gnome/apps (not sure what that's about but think it has to do with integration into Notifications etc, maybe being fased out, as they're identical, or for backwards compat.)
• Only big "sinner" is Firefox, probably for legacy reasons, puts config in /.mozilla, but cache correctly in ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/. SURELY legacy/backwards compat. reasons
• Several CLI-tools, including proprietary use these, heck even speedtest.net's official CLI tool. A few recently installed program that do too (talking about the 3 directories): Wireshark, Skype, Blender Benchmark, Unigine Superposition

[cyring]

Yes, adding CPU to a running stress is definitely something I want to do. Impacts on the Daemon threads scheduler, I'll go carefully on these changes... Since I built my Ryzen setup, I've tons of tiny features to develop: most of them can be a few hundreds of C & asm instructions which also required specs research. I also have to test for non regressions on any processor I can access to. For example I noticed that K8 is not enough covered... I'm lacking Bulldozer: I still don't know how CoreFreq works with them... Lot of server MP processors need to be completed...

In answer to your previous post about donations , what I need in fact is man power: a team of system programmers to help with other architectures and their specific features...

[olejon]

• So it's possible to add "Stress 1 and 2" only?

---

Hmm, ok. That will be hard I guess. Maybe some subreddit has people with the knowledge? I've seen post deep into stuff. Also you know about projects also reading stuff CoreFreq does.

I can donate for that too, meaning if they want some money to help you. And as said new HW. Let's say you had no Ryzen 3rd Gen CPU. I would've sent you enough by PayPal to buy the 3600 (not X-version), which basically works the same. OR I would have sent you my 3600X :package:

... although nice to have a spare CPU. More I need a spare GPU. Since no iGPU, system won't work without one, at all. Can always go to a physical store the same day, but... won't necessarily have the card I want. Guess they have more the top of the shelf ones.

[cyring]

• So it's possible to add "Stress 1 and 2" only?

Yes possible

Hmm, ok. That will be hard I guess. Maybe some subreddit has people with the knowledge? I've seen post deep into stuff. Also you know about projects also reading stuff CoreFreq does.

I can donate for that too, meaning if they want some money to help you. And as said new HW. Let's say you had no Ryzen 3rd Gen CPU. I would've sent you enough by PayPal to buy the 3600 (not X-version), which basically works the same. OR I would have sent you my 3600X

... although nice to have a spare CPU. More I need a spare GPU. Since no iGPU, system won't work without one, at all. Can always go to a physical store the same day, but... won't necessarily have the card I want. Guess they have more the top of the shelf ones.

For the rest, don't worry, I'll handle. Up to now I've been able to cover hardware with just their specifications. It will just go slowly...

[olejon]

Yes possible

• Great, really looking forward to it! Would make it a much more powerful tool than standard Windows ones, although I'm 100% sure there is software for Windows for this
• Partly because it seems like my :star: on my CCX 2 performs worse than the "Grey Dot" on my CCX 1, and "Grey Dot" pretty much equal to "Grey Star" on CCX 1. Having THAT functionality in CoreFreq would allow me to confirm, meaning stressing say 2 Cores and see the Frequency the CPU manages then compared to 2 other selections. Of course this would be great on Intel as well
• Of course the Best Cores I have to find in Ryzen Master but those don't change so it's just to write it down or screenshot it
• As said, seems like Windows handles Single Core(s) stress better than Linux, using those exact mentioned Cores (Good Star + Grey Dot). Probably the mentioned AMD Chipset drivers
• BTW on all forums people say you definitely want the latest of those, they don't even require a reboot and the installer is dead simple but nice, and also BIOS for latest AGESA. I'm waiting for a new one, and will try if it doesn't say it's impossible to revert, which ASUS writes in the Changelog if that's the case. Still on April one although maybe the new kernel updates have fixed the "BIOS bug" messages I got, as the June one basically only lists an update to exactly AGESA, which I had to Google Search to find WTH it is. It's on Wikipedia even. Did partly understand it
• I've found, on AMD, using stress -c 32 to be better than any Conic Compute. It stresses the CPU as hard as seen by Temperature it reaches, which is the main point, and Frequency stays higher meaning higher Turbo % as well (rounded to 113% instead of 111-112%). Say Atomic Burn/CRC32 of course gets even higher Frequency and then Turbo %, but really no stress, nowhere close on Temperature
• This was NOT the case on Intel. Is Conic optimized for Intel? Would love to see another or a refined Conic that's harder on AMD
• PS: Forget one UEFI Setting in my latest Benchmark. There's Zero reason to set AMD OC PBO Scalar = 10X. Let it stay at 1X. Default is 2X. Saw a post about it. Decided to check and indeed no difference. It might even be bad but that seemed more speculation by the poster. Most OC testing web pages about PBO simply set it to 10X. I don't think it hurts. The CPU handles AMD OC just fine, because remember, these settings are AMD OC in UEFI, NOT Tweaker

[cyring]

Yes possible

• Great, really looking forward to it! ...

Work in Progress ;-)

[cyring]

Yes possible

It is available in the develop branch and applies to the Turbo Select CPU...

Basically, when all CPUs are added, you get the same as Atomic Burn

Because Conic algorithm has been made for parallelism, it is not part of this delivery. EDIT: neither the others

Have fun

EDIT: If threads get stuck stressing, kill -9 $(pidof corefreqd-ring1) and please let me know.

EDIT:

• CoreFreq provides same features for both Intel and AMD, except architectural specifications. Thus, the stress tools apply to all brands.
• I don't spend much time on Windows and its software ecosystem. Beside WSL, b/c I had hoped I could port CoreFreq to Windows for free. Lol
• I'm a new player in this field of performance applications, so I believe you that other Windows software are stressing better. However, the less I look at others, the more added value and creativity I hope to bring. CoreFreq users are also of a great help: ideas and synergy will help to make some unique features.
• Notice in the Roadmap issue that AVX is something to do because those instructions have a huge impact on the Processor operating work.

[cyring]

• Last commit, you're getting the scheduled state of each CPU
• This sticky window allows to add CPU when Turbo Select CPU.. is the current stress tool
• Only [F10] or STOP can remove CPU(s) from the scheduler
• The shared memory is changed: you must fully rebuild and reload CoreFreq

[olejon]

Awesome :clap: I'll wait until in stable. Just can't afford any system freezes now.

[cyring]

With [Turbo Select CPU...] you can now add or remove CPU(s) as will. This develop version is stable.

[olejon]

• Great. I'll wait until it's in Stable even so, in case you add other stuff that may freeze the system
• Little lazy and use my script, but as said have other things to do
• Made this quick systemd service to set the governor to performance at boot (just enable it, and use start/stop as usual). The sleep is needed because if not the service runs before the driver sets it to ondemand. It does exactly the same as using the "Ryzen Performance" Power Plan on Windows. All Cores run at 3.5 GHz all the time. I lose some 15 MHz on Single Core Stress but nothing at All Cores Stress. In fact it improves Geekbench scores somewhat, mainly on Linux!
• I've created these Side-by-Side screenshots for new benchmarks. All Blender Benchmark renders at once. The last render is really long and really shows how Linux outperforms Windows. Both totally idle. Not even running a monitor tool...

[Unit]
Description=Governor

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set -g performance
ExecStop=/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set -g ondemand
RemainAfterExit=yes
TimeoutSec=60

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

FYI: New version of Ryzen Master. Had a weird simplified UI but clicking Advanced opened the standard. ALSO NEW JULY BIOS, NOT TRIED YET.

[cyring]

FYI: New version of Ryzen Master. Had a weird simplified UI but clicking Advanced opened the standard. ALSO NEW JULY BIOS, NOT TRIED YET.

I did but I don't understand those Vcore:

• Windows Balanced Plan

• Windows Eco Plan

With Eco, I'm getting a Vcore closed to CoreFreq measurement but Balanced shows Vcore can go as low as 0.4 V . A Vcore value I don't even read in BIOS

EDIT: In French Vcore is "Tension CPU" then you see current value at "Actuels"

[olejon]

• I've said it before, Voltage on Windows hovers at 0.32 on my system
• But jeez choose the Advanced Mode and see the standard window you're known to from before, or "Affichage avancé' for you...
• Seriously you don't use your OS in English? I use ALL systems in English... because otherwise they suck, and a good mishmash of languages (and in some instances on mobile devices from Android to iOS you get less features, or they're pushed out later from say Google Play Services)
• Use English (GB) if you can't set Region Formats, but that's totally possible on Android and iOS and Linux and Windows (meaning no stupid Fahrenheit and the imperial system), and on Ubuntu it's dead simple through GNOME Control Center, but it really it does it automatically when you set timezone and keyboard layout during install, it gets it, downloading and setting Region Formats to Norwegian ones (basically the metric system, and well some places like in LibreOffice currency sets itself to NOK but that can be changed on right there and then in that software just like autocorrection/spell check)

[cyring]

I use both languages: W10Pro license is French. Linux with no locale. All these reasons which make CoreFreq available in English and French. Have you noticed that ? If not, just press capital L I need translations in German and Spanish. Others not excluded.

Any one in will to translate CoreFreq will have to work on the UI resources file; using the corefreq-cli-rsc-en.h as a template.

What I have not improved yet, is the ascents support. UTF is the standard, but for low latency purposes, the UI layers are mode of 7-bits characters and color attributes, thus ASCII. UTF-8 would be a solution but I'm not sure it will be enough to cover the 4 major languages: en, de, fr, sp

[olejon]

• I can do Spanish. After all I have an international diploma (Institutio Cervantes, Madrid) for most work and national diploma for level needed for being a doctor or lawyer etc. And I've teached Norwegian to Spanish speaking people from all over the world, explained their own grammar to them first as most don't know it, AND of course, got a Spanish GF, talk more in Spanish than any other language, think in Spanish mostly except when having watched a lot of English TV or especially communicated a lot in English like here (though more like really long emails making me think about a follow-up). And of course almost half of my adult life I've lived in Spain and studied a total of 4 years there...
• Shouldn't be too much for the CoreFreq UI. Haven't checked the template but I guess it doesn't translate technicalities that shouldn't be
• Just don't except anything ASAP
• But yeah, it's the 2nd biggest mother tongue on Earth after Mandarin, with English as number 3, while more people talk English of course...

[cyring]

• Great ! Let me know when you are starting the translation because I have to explain you all the resources constraints you'll face to; such as the string or array length which must be strickly equaled to the English reference statement (but can be blank padded)
• True, many anachronisms have been invented by Intel, and it does not make sense to translate them.
• Can Spanish be written without accents ? Will it be readable ? If not then I've to implement first a solution to the accents issue.
• Mandarin would also be a great addition. However I have no idea if Linux supports it. I have been noticed that among CoreFreq users, some are coming from China. I presume they are easily understanding English to come to my software.

[olejon]

• First of all, NEVER EVER translate the Language List itself. NOBODY does that. Makes it hard to find back to your language of you change it accidentally. I changed to French and suddenly it listed "English" translated to French! Like Anglais IIRC
• Normal procedure is either list the languages how their called in that language, like this. Notice the lowercase as only English writes languages in uppercase of these:
  • English
  • español
  • français
• Other normal procedure is to show them in English, or system locale but most ignore that because can cause problems for new users, and show them ALL in English, so:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
• Yes, it's possible to avoid accents, I assume that includes tildes like writing español as espanol for instance. People will get that. Most of the stuff in CoreFreq won't need accents. Some words kind of require it, but many, ma y Spanish speaking people don't use them when texting etc, and many are added only in questions, like Que and Qué have different meanings
• Well can't help you with Mandarin other than Google Translate so... I do have a friend, though, maybe. But again, VERY important if you manage to set it to Mandarin, that the Language List is NOT ALSO translated to Mandarin... Hard to find back to say Spanish then!
• If it supports Mandarin, then it supports UTF-8 right? Then accents etc shouldn't be a problem, so I guess there is some other constraint?
• Remember all accents in Spanish are above letters and don't make them "taller". Like Que/Qué or Energía IS correct and doesn't make it taller while Energia is incorrect but understandable. There are no letters in making it "lower" in Spanish, like ç as in French, and exclamation and interrogation marks like ¡ ¿ are not necessary. Most Spanish speaking people never use them except official texts
• OK. I guess I can just translate it into Spanish and you'll tell me if I've broken some constraint and I'll try to fix it? Some stuff is indeed longer in Spanish than English, and vica-versa, but mostly the Spanish words longer

[cyring]

Thanks for these advices. What I will do first is to prepare the resources file and the necessary code to toggle in Spanish. This will be available in future develop release.

[cyring]

I tend to check the ASUS website if there is a BIOS update. Saw there was one from June 17 published. Probably one for you too?

• After installing it, Linux boots fine, but see these and journalctl shows the IRQ stuff in Red

juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 1.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #2
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 2.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #3
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 3.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #4
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 4.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #5
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 5.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #6
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 6.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #7
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 7.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #8
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 8.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:   #9
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 9.55 No irq handler for vector
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel:  #10
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: do_IRQ: 10.55 No irq handler for vector

...

juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.PCI0.GPP8._DSM], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20190703/dswload2-327)
juni 24 00:52:21 tux kernel: ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20190703/psobject-221)

• Any ideas?
• The BIOS update seems to be AMD only stuff. You know what this is?
• After install it said it was updating the "Led firmware" and nothing more before booting
• Changelog:

PRIME X570-PRO BIOS 2203
Update AMD AM4 AGESA PI 1.0.0.1

Damn, I should have searched among our exchanges before upgrading my BIOS. I'm now stopped to downgrade at version 2206: Kernel is logging those interrupt handlers errors. The only workaround is the legacy IRQ way.

Those firmware guys, probably at ASUS; aren't they testing their work with Linux ! At least, take one minute to run Linux from any live media (which will not mess up with their Windows Gamers OS)

What kind of Q&A is made of their department ?

[olejon]

I noticed exact same "irq handler" logged after the very first 2XXX BIOS. I then could downgrade the the previous 1407. I tried that just for curiosity some days back. Says the file isn't a BIOS file. What I have not tried yet is to revert back to a previous 2XXX BIOS (if it allows it), either straight to the first or gradually, then to 1407 again.

Though I don't see any problems, I'm hoping with every kernel/firmware/microcode update it will go away. So far not.

I see what's out now is Versjon 2812 Beta (highlighted in Red so I won't try that), which has the AGESA V2 PI 1.1.0.0 Patch C.

I might try the mentioned gradually going back 2XXX if it allows it, if you haven't already?

Though I don't see any problems with it for actual use, not CoreFreq either, so 🤷‍♂️ for me. Just possibly better CPU performance. Also, when I updated to the current 2802 I noticed that strangely the possibility of doing so by Internet in UEFI was gone, no matter if I enabled the Network Stack myself which it always previously did before a reboot into UEFI again and directly into the EZ Flash. And then mountain of new tuning Settings was the real surprise.

I haven't bothered to search but since this appear as a kernel message even with boot parameter quiet it kinda must be reported to kernel devs months ago. First that caused this was first 2XXX which was 2203 for my Motherboard back in June.

On another topic the latest (pretty recent) firmware upgrade to my MP600 NMVes now gives a very steady 5.5 GB/s. Well above specs.

[cyring]

With 2311 (patch B), it was so unstable, that I don't give a chance to 2402

I also have to gradually downgrade, version per version.

Interrupt errors are also affecting FreeBSD, according to its mailing list.