linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 2/2] proc: add AVX-512 usage to /proc/pid/status

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Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:24:48 +0800
From:   Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...el.com>
To:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        hpa@...or.com
Cc:     ak@...ux.intel.com, tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com,
        dave.hansen@...el.com, arjan@...ux.intel.com, aubrey.li@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] proc: add AVX-512 usage to /proc/pid/status

AVX-512 components usage could cause core turbo frequency drop. So
it's useful to expose AVX-512 components usage as a heuristic hint
for the user space job scheduler to cluster the AVX-512 using tasks
together.

Example:
$ cat /proc/pid/status | grep AVX512_hint
AVX512_hint:   1

The hint number '0' indicates the task recently didn't use AVX-512
components thus unlikely has frequency drop issue. And the number '1'
indicates the task recently used AVX-512 components thus could cause
core frequency drop. User space tools may want to further check by:

$ perf stat --pid <pid> -e core_power.lvl2_turbo_license -- sleep 1

 Performance counter stats for process id '3558':

     3,251,565,961      core_power.lvl2_turbo_license

       1.004031387 seconds time elapsed

Non-zero counter value confirms that the task causes frequency drop.

Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 fs/proc/array.c              |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
index 87a57b7642d3..98baa47c97b0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/xstate.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/mman.h>
 #include <linux/pkeys.h>
+#include <linux/seq_file.h>
 
 #include <asm/fpu/api.h>
 #include <asm/fpu/internal.h>
@@ -1245,3 +1246,21 @@ int copy_user_to_xstate(struct xregs_state *xsave, const void __user *ubuf)
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Report CPU specific thread state
+ */
+void arch_task_state(struct seq_file *m, struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Check the processor and build option if AVX512 is supported.
+	 */
+	if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_AVX512F))
+		return;
+	/*
+	 * Report AVX-512 components usage:
+	 */
+	seq_put_decimal_ull(m, "AVX512_hint:\t",
+				task->thread.fpu.avx512_usage ? 1 : 0);
+	seq_putc(m, '\n');
+}
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 0ceb3b6b37e7..dd88c2219f08 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -392,6 +392,10 @@ static inline void task_core_dumping(struct seq_file *m, struct mm_struct *mm)
 	seq_putc(m, '\n');
 }
 
+void __weak arch_task_state(struct seq_file *m, struct task_struct *task)
+{
+}
+
 int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 			struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
 {
@@ -414,6 +418,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	task_cpus_allowed(m, task);
 	cpuset_task_status_allowed(m, task);
 	task_context_switch_counts(m, task);
+	arch_task_state(m, task);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1