linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 13/21] x86/recstrl: Add per-rmid arch private storage for overflow and chunks

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Message-ID: <7d6d9455-e516-e1a7-6dad-a0f9d4936b26@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Mar 2022 14:50:42 -0700
From:   Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@....com>,
        <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>,
        Jamie Iles <jamie@...iainc.com>,
        "D Scott Phillips OS" <scott@...amperecomputing.com>,
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        <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/21] x86/recstrl: Add per-rmid arch private storage
 for overflow and chunks

Hi James,

Note the subject line: "x86/recstrl" -> "x86/resctrl"

On 2/17/2022 10:21 AM, James Morse wrote:
> A renamed __rmid_read() is intended as the function that an
> architecture agnostic resctrl filesystem driver can use to
> read a value in bytes from a counter. Currently the function returns
> the MBM values in chunks directly from hardware. For bandwidth
> counters the resctrl filesystem uses this to calculate the number of
> bytes ever seen.
> 
> MPAM's scaling of counters can be changed at runtime, reducing the
> resolution but increasing the range. When this is changed the prev_msr
> values need to be converted by the architecture code.
> 
> Add an array for per-rmid private storage. The prev_msr and chunks
> values will move here to allow resctrl_arch_rmid_read() to always
> return the number of bytes read by this counter without assistance
> from the filesystem. The values are moved in later patches when
> the overflow and correction calls are moved into __rmid_read().
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>

Reinette