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Message-ID: <20200602042340.GA2130884@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 06:23:40 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
Cc: rafael@...nel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linuxarm@...wei.com, Prime Zeng <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: platform: expose numa_node to users in sysfs
On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:01:39PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> For some platform devices like iommu, particually ARM smmu, users may
> care about the numa locality. for example, if threads and drivers run
> near iommu, they may get much better performance on dma_unmap_sg.
> For other platform devices, users may still want to know the hardware
> topology.
>
> Cc: Prime Zeng <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>
> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
> ---
> drivers/base/platform.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
> index b27d0f6c18c9..7794b9a38d82 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
> @@ -1062,13 +1062,37 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_show(struct device *dev,
> }
> static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(driver_override);
>
> +static ssize_t numa_node_show(struct device *dev,
> + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", dev_to_node(dev));
> +}
> +static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(numa_node);
> +
> +static umode_t platform_dev_attrs_visible(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *a,
> + int n)
> +{
> + struct device *dev = container_of(kobj, typeof(*dev), kobj);
> +
> + if (a == &dev_attr_numa_node.attr &&
> + dev_to_node(dev) == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> + return 0;
> +
> + return a->mode;
> +}
>
> static struct attribute *platform_dev_attrs[] = {
> &dev_attr_modalias.attr,
> + &dev_attr_numa_node.attr,
> &dev_attr_driver_override.attr,
> NULL,
> };
> -ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(platform_dev);
> +
> +static struct attribute_group platform_dev_group = {
> + .attrs = platform_dev_attrs,
> + .is_visible = platform_dev_attrs_visible,
> +};
> +__ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(platform_dev);
>
> static int platform_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
> {
Platform devices are NUMA? That's crazy, and feels like a total abuse
of platform devices and drivers that really should belong on a "real"
bus.
What drivers in the kernel today have this issue?
thanks,
greg k-h
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