Intel pstate has ...disappeared?

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Hello, I have a haswell refresh cpu…
The weird thing that I noticed today is that I’m using acpu-cpufreq driver. I was using intel_pstate instead, may be is a default behaviour that have changed … or not… because if I search for the drivers I find these:
acpi-cpufreq.ko.xz amd_pstate.ko.xz pcc-cpufreq.ko.xz speedstep-lib.ko.xz
amd_freq_sensitivity.ko.xz p4-clockmod.ko.xz powernow-k8.ko.xz

and the same for the another jernel that I have that is the LTS one… someone can help me a little bit with this?
why intel_pstate is not showed?
why not using intel_pstate like before?
may be I’m losing an important detail or something

System:
  Kernel: 5.19.0-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.19-x86_64
    root=UUID=8b6962e7-fbf6-479e-81bd-03c73ce83628 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 sysrq_always_enabled=1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 2
    dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: H97 Anniversary
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.70
    date: 03/07/2018
Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.46 GiB used: 5.6 GiB (75.0%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-4690 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell gen: core 4
    built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3
    microcode: 0x28
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
    desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2134 high: 3898 min/max: 800/3900 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3898 2: 2692 3: 800
    4: 1149 bogomips: 28015
  Flags: abm acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2
    bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
    dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu
    fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce
    md_clear mmx monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid
    pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand
    rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
    stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx
    vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    disabled
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-5.75 process: Intel 45nm
    built: 2010 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0412 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4 code: Arctic Islands
    process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2,
    DP-3, DVI-D-1, HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Creative Live! Cam Chat HD [VF0700] type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-12:5
    chip-ID: 041e:4097 class-ID: 0300
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915,amdgpu display-ID: 0
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 res: 1680x1050 size: N/A modes: N/A
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.1.4
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASRock
    driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 3-12:5 v: kernel chip-ID: 041e:4097
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0 class-ID: 0300 chip-ID: 8086:8ca0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1
    chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Creative Live! Cam Chat HD [VF0700] type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.0-2-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) type: USB
    driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down
    bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
    address: <filter>
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.02 TiB used: 453.26 GiB (43.4%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 120GB
    size: 111.79 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10EZEX-60M2NA0 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A03 scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 57.85 GiB size: 56.64 GiB (97.91%) used: 18.66 GiB (32.9%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
    uuid: 8b6962e7-fbf6-479e-81bd-03c73ce83628
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 150 MiB size: 147.7 MiB (98.45%) used: 285 KiB
    (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: N/A uuid: 9CE5-EF0F
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 602.95 GiB size: 593.3 GiB (98.40%) used: 434.58 GiB
    (73.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: N/A
    uuid: b4824f99-fce6-4b58-b153-adec37a89d55
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 4.01 GiB used: 20.8 MiB (0.5%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: swap
    uuid: eb208d9d-c62c-4796-a41d-518ab4a1c65a
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 529 MiB fs: ntfs
    label: Recuperaci\xc3\xb3n uuid: FE380AEB380AA2AF
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A
    uuid: 4A0B-6CDF
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
    label: N/A uuid: N/A
  ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 53.17 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A
    uuid: D4EE0C9FEE0C7C4C
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 8087:8009 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    chip-ID: 8087:8001 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 14 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
    type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 0a12:0001 class-ID: e001
  Device-2: 3-2:3 info: Pixart Imaging Gaming Mouse type: Mouse,Keyboard
    driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 093a:2532 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: 3-4:4 info: Novatek Micro Keyboard (Labtec Ultra Flat Keyboard)
    type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1
    speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0603:00f1 class-ID: 0300
  Device-4: 3-12:5 info: Creative Live! Cam Chat HD [VF0700]
    type: Video,Audio,HID driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo
    interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 041e:4097
    class-ID: 0300
  Hub-6: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 6 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: 34.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 43.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 1013 fan-2: 0 gpu: amdgpu fan: 2049
  Power: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.36 vbat: 3.28 gpu: amdgpu watts: 6.07
Info:
  Processes: 242 Uptime: 2h 4m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 251
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 clang: 14.0.6
  Packages: pacman: 1712 lib: 505 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.20

Fixed, i have read the arch wiki page that says that intel_cpufreq is selected since 5.7 kernel because there is no such compatibily with soemthing, so passive mode here or something like this

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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

  1. Please read this:
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    Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies… :grin:
  2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
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it’s done, and thanks

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Sufficient?

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Starting with kernel 5.7, the intel_pstate scaling driver selects “passive mode” aka intel_cpufreq for CPUs that do not support hardware-managed P-states (HWP), i.e. Intel Core i 5th generation or older.

refer; CPU frequency scaling - ArchWiki

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Just to add a little bit more that koshikas has said, the important part is this:

"The intel_pstate CPU power scaling driver is used automatically for modern Intel CPUs instead of the other drivers below. This driver takes priority over other drivers and is built-in as opposed to being a module. "

So there is no file to be found.

You can check your system is using intel_pstate with the command cpupower frequency-info

PS: Can I also add a personal note? I can’t be sure, but it seems that you are using your birthdate in your forum’s username. I would advise against it. Don’t reveal such a personal detail about you to the world.

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Thanks both of you

Yeah I know but I wanted to change that when I realized the problem of that and I didn’t find the way to change my usernames. Is that possible?

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It doesn’t seem so, but you can ask in the forum’s support forum. Maybe a forum admin can do that

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