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Message-ID: <20190130195621.GA30653@cmpxchg.org>
Date:   Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:56:21 -0500
From:   Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: avoid confusion over the new RESCTRL config prompt

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:19:33PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:46:26AM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > This is still awefully close to the cgroup CPU resource
> > controller. Since it's more hardware-specific, and the config symbol
> > also has the x86 in it, how about "x86 CPU resource control support"?
> 
> Fine by me.
> 
> What about
> 
> s/X86_RESCTRL/X86_CPU_RESCTRL/g

Good idea.

Tony, Babu, that look okay to you guys as well?

---

>From 9ca5fa615f9f5d270c141266c454059a3de2cd39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:44:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] x86: avoid confusion over the new X86_RESCTRL config

"Resource Control" is a very broad term for this CPU feature, and a
term that is also associated with containers, cgroups etc. This can
easily cause confusion.

Make the user prompt more specific. Match the config symbol name.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt     | 2 +-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                     | 6 +++---
 arch/x86/include/asm/resctrl_sched.h | 4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile         | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/Makefile | 4 ++--
 include/linux/sched.h                | 2 +-
 6 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt b/Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt
index e8e8d14d3c4e..c1f95b59e14d 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/resctrl_ui.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
 Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
 Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...el.com>
 
-This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL and the x86 /proc/cpuinfo
+This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL and the x86 /proc/cpuinfo
 flag bits:
 RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation - "rdt_a"
 CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) - "cat_l3", "cat_l2"
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 26387c7bf305..68261430fe6e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -446,12 +446,12 @@ config RETPOLINE
 	  branches. Requires a compiler with -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern
 	  support for full protection. The kernel may run slower.
 
-config X86_RESCTRL
-	bool "Resource Control support"
+config X86_CPU_RESCTRL
+	bool "x86 CPU resource control support"
 	depends on X86 && (CPU_SUP_INTEL || CPU_SUP_AMD)
 	select KERNFS
 	help
-	  Enable Resource Control support.
+	  Enable x86 CPU resource control support.
 
 	  Provide support for the allocation and monitoring of system resources
 	  usage by the CPU.
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/resctrl_sched.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/resctrl_sched.h
index 40ebddde6ac2..f6b7fe2833cc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/resctrl_sched.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/resctrl_sched.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_X86_RESCTRL_SCHED_H
 #define _ASM_X86_RESCTRL_SCHED_H
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL
 
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/jump_label.h>
@@ -88,6 +88,6 @@ static inline void resctrl_sched_in(void)
 
 static inline void resctrl_sched_in(void) {}
 
-#endif /* CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL */
+#endif /* CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL */
 
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_RESCTRL_SCHED_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
index b6fa0869f7aa..cfd24f9f7614 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/Makefile
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_SUP_UMC_32)		+= umc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_MCE)			+= mce/
 obj-$(CONFIG_MTRR)			+= mtrr/
 obj-$(CONFIG_MICROCODE)			+= microcode/
-obj-$(CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL)		+= resctrl/
+obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL)		+= resctrl/
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC)		+= perfctr-watchdog.o
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/Makefile
index 1cabe6fd8e11..4a06c37b9cf1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-obj-$(CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL)	+= core.o rdtgroup.o monitor.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL)	+= ctrlmondata.o pseudo_lock.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL)	+= core.o rdtgroup.o monitor.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL)	+= ctrlmondata.o pseudo_lock.o
 CFLAGS_pseudo_lock.o = -I$(src)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d2f90fa92468..bba3afb4e9bf 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 	/* cg_list protected by css_set_lock and tsk->alloc_lock: */
 	struct list_head		cg_list;
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL
 	u32				closid;
 	u32				rmid;
 #endif
-- 
2.20.1