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Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 12:46:15 -0500
From: Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 07/10] x86/resctrl: Add arch_needs_linear to explain
AMD/Intel MBA difference
Looks good.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 8:19 AM
> To: x86@...nel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>; Reinette Chatre
> <reinette.chatre@...el.com>; Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>; Ingo
> Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>; Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>; H Peter Anvin
> <hpa@...or.com>; Moger, Babu <Babu.Moger@....com>; James Morse
> <james.morse@....com>
> Subject: [PATCH v3 07/10] x86/resctrl: Add arch_needs_linear to explain
> AMD/Intel MBA difference
>
> The configuration values user-space provides to the resctrl filesystem
> are ABI. To make this work on another architecture we want to move all
> the ABI bits out of /arch/x86 and under /fs.
>
> To do this, the differences between AMD and Intel CPUs needs to be
> explained to resctrl via resource properties, instead of function
> pointers that let the arch code accept subtly different values on
> different platforms/architectures.
>
> For MBA, Intel CPUs reject configuration attempts for non-linear
> resources, whereas AMD ignore this field as its MBA resource is never
> linear. To merge the parse/validate functions we need to explain
> this difference.
>
> Add arch_needs_linear to indicate the arch code needs the linear
> property to be true to configure this resource. AMD can set this
> and delay_linear to false. Intel can set arch_needs_linear
> to true to keep the existing "No support for non-linear MB domains"
> error message for affected platforms.
>
> CC: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@....com>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>
>
> ---
> An alternative to this is for Intel non-linear MBA resources to
> clear alloc_capable as they can't be configured anyway.
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c | 3 +++
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c | 8 +++++++-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> index e1fed3928b59..c6b73b0ee070 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> @@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ static bool __get_mem_config_intel(struct rdt_resource
> *r)
> r->num_closid = edx.split.cos_max + 1;
> max_delay = eax.split.max_delay + 1;
> r->default_ctrl = MAX_MBA_BW;
> + r->membw.arch_needs_linear = true;
> if (ecx & MBA_IS_LINEAR) {
> r->membw.delay_linear = true;
> r->membw.min_bw = MAX_MBA_BW - max_delay;
> @@ -267,6 +268,7 @@ static bool __get_mem_config_intel(struct rdt_resource
> *r)
> } else {
> if (!rdt_get_mb_table(r))
> return false;
> + r->membw.arch_needs_linear = false;
> }
> r->data_width = 3;
>
> @@ -288,6 +290,7 @@ static bool __rdt_get_mem_config_amd(struct
> rdt_resource *r)
>
> /* AMD does not use delay */
> r->membw.delay_linear = false;
> + r->membw.arch_needs_linear = false;
>
> r->membw.min_bw = 0;
> r->membw.bw_gran = 1;
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
> index 934c8fb8a64a..e3bcd77add2b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ static bool bw_validate_amd(char *buf, unsigned long
> *data,
> unsigned long bw;
> int ret;
>
> + /* temporary: always false on AMD */
> + if (!r->membw.delay_linear && r->membw.arch_needs_linear) {
> + rdt_last_cmd_puts("No support for non-linear MB domains\n");
> + return false;
> + }
> +
> ret = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &bw);
> if (ret) {
> rdt_last_cmd_printf("Non-decimal digit in MB value %s\n", buf);
> @@ -82,7 +88,7 @@ static bool bw_validate(char *buf, unsigned long *data,
> struct rdt_resource *r)
> /*
> * Only linear delay values is supported for current Intel SKUs.
> */
> - if (!r->membw.delay_linear) {
> + if (!r->membw.delay_linear && r->membw.arch_needs_linear) {
> rdt_last_cmd_puts("No support for non-linear MB domains\n");
> return false;
> }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
> index dd51e23e346b..0b288b6fefd9 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h
> @@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ struct rdt_cache {
> * struct rdt_membw - Memory bandwidth allocation related data
> * @min_bw: Minimum memory bandwidth percentage user can
> request
> * @bw_gran: Granularity at which the memory bandwidth is allocated
> + * @arch_needs_linear: True if we can't configure non-linear resources
> * @delay_linear: True if memory B/W delay is in linear scale
> * @mba_sc: True if MBA software controller(mba_sc) is enabled
> * @mb_map: Mapping of memory B/W percentage to memory B/W
> delay
> @@ -378,6 +379,7 @@ struct rdt_membw {
> u32 min_bw;
> u32 bw_gran;
> u32 delay_linear;
> + bool arch_needs_linear;
> bool mba_sc;
> u32 *mb_map;
> };
> --
> 2.19.1
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