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Li, Yifan a8b842366f powercap: intel_rapl: Sign-extend the PMU delta on counter wraparound
The RAPL PMU misreports energy when the hardware energy counter
overflows and wraps back to zero.  perf event counts are defined to
increase monotonically, but a single wraparound makes the PMU event
count jump backwards by nearly the full counter range, and consumers
that take the difference of two reads in unsigned arithmetic then
underflow and report an absurd value.

On a Panther Lake system (energy unit 61.035 uJ, counter range
262144 J) the package counter wraps every ~2.9 hours at 25 W, and
turbostat prints one bogus sample per wraparound, per domain:

  PkgTmp  PkgWatt         CorWatt GFXWatt RAMWatt SysWatt
  44      24.97           16.30   3.90    1.87    2145386370.35
  43      2145240612.10   16.13   4.02    1.91    40.46

The RAPL energy counters are 32-bit wide on every register interface:
MSR, MMIO and TPMI all describe ENERGY_COUNTER with a GENMASK(31, 0)
mask.  rapl_read_data_raw() applies that mask, so event_read_counter()
returns the counter zero-extended in a u64.

rapl_event_update() then computes

	delta = new_raw_count - prev_raw_count;

without reducing the result modulo 2^32.  While the counter does not
wrap this is correct, but once the hardware counter wraps,
new_raw_count < prev_raw_count and delta becomes (true_delta - 2^32),
a large negative value.  Declaring delta as s64 only makes that value
representable; it does not correct it.  That bogus delta is scaled and
added to event->count, which is where the backwards jump comes from.

Fix it the way arch/x86/events/rapl.c has done since the RAPL PMU was
first introduced: shift both values up so that the 64-bit subtraction
reduces modulo 2^32, then shift the difference back down with an
arithmetic shift to sign-extend it.

This is correct as long as at most one wraparound happens between two
updates, which the existing overflow hrtimer already guarantees: its
period is half of the counter range at the 200 W reference used in
rapl_package_add_pmu_locked().

The problem has been present since the powercap RAPL PMU was added, but
only affected TPMI RAPL until commit 748d6ba43a ("powercap:
intel_rapl: Enable MSR-based RAPL PMU support") routed MSR RAPL through
the same PMU, which exposed it on client platforms such as Panther Lake.

Fixes: 575024a8aa ("powercap: intel_rapl: Introduce APIs for PMU support")
Reported-by: Jyoti, Anand B <anand.b.jyoti@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li, Yifan <yifan2.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Jianfeng <jianfeng.gao@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jyoti, Anand B <anand.b.jyoti@intel.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260814031008.750911-1-yifan2.li@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Linux kernel
============

The Linux kernel is the core of any Linux operating system. It manages hardware,
system resources, and provides the fundamental services for all other software.

Quick Start
-----------

* Report a bug: See Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst
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* Join the community: https://lore.kernel.org/

Essential Documentation
-----------------------

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============

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For Specific Users
==================

New Kernel Developer
--------------------

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* Getting Started: Documentation/process/development-process.rst
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* Coding Style: Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
* Build System: Documentation/kbuild/index.rst
* Development Tools: Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
* Kernel Hacking Guide: Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst
* Core APIs: Documentation/core-api/index.rst

Academic Researcher
-------------------

Explore the kernel's architecture and internals:

* Researcher Guidelines: Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst
* Memory Management: Documentation/mm/index.rst
* Scheduler: Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
* Networking Stack: Documentation/networking/index.rst
* Filesystems: Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
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---------------

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* Security Features: Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst

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-----------------------------

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* Stable Kernel Rules: Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
* Backporting Guide: Documentation/process/backporting.rst
* Applying Patches: Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
* Subsystem Profile: Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
* Git for Maintainers: Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst

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--------------------

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Maintainer
----------

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* Maintainer Handbook: Documentation/maintainer/index.rst
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---------------

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* Device Tree Bindings: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/
* Power Management: Documentation/driver-api/pm/index.rst
* DMA API: Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst

Distribution Maintainer
-----------------------

Package and distribute the kernel:

* Stable Kernel Rules: Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
* ABI Documentation: Documentation/ABI/README
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AI Coding Assistant
-------------------

CRITICAL: If you are an LLM or AI-powered coding assistant, you MUST read and
follow the AI coding assistants documentation before contributing to the Linux
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* Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

This documentation contains essential requirements about licensing, attribution,
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=========================

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