linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/topology: Override cpu_smt

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Date:   Tue,  4 Aug 2020 09:03:07 +0530
From:   Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/topology: Override cpu_smt_mask

On Power9 a pair of cores can be presented by the firmware as a big-core
for backward compatibility reasons, with 4 threads per (small) core and 8
threads per big-core. cpu_smt_mask() should generally point to the cpu mask
of the (small)core.

In order to maintain userspace backward compatibility (with Power8 chips in
case of Power9) in enterprise Linux systems, the topology_sibling_cpumask
has to be set to big-core. Hence override the default cpu_smt_mask() to be
powerpc specific allowing for better scheduling behaviour on Power.

Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h |  1 -
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h        | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h
index deb99fd6e060..98c8bd155bf9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputhreads.h
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 extern int threads_per_core;
 extern int threads_per_subcore;
 extern int threads_shift;
-extern bool has_big_cores;
 extern cpumask_t threads_core_mask;
 #else
 #define threads_per_core	1
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
index 9cd0765633c5..d4bc28accb28 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
@@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ static inline struct cpumask *cpu_smallcore_mask(int cpu)
 
 extern int cpu_to_core_id(int cpu);
 
+extern bool has_big_cores;
+
+#define cpu_smt_mask cpu_smt_mask
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
+static inline const struct cpumask *cpu_smt_mask(int cpu)
+{
+	if (has_big_cores)
+		return per_cpu(cpu_smallcore_map, cpu);
+
+	return per_cpu(cpu_sibling_map, cpu);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SCHED_SMT */
+
 /* Since OpenPIC has only 4 IPIs, we use slightly different message numbers.
  *
  * Make sure this matches openpic_request_IPIs in open_pic.c, or what shows up
-- 
2.18.2