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Message-Id: <20230220032856.661884-2-rui.zhang@intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:28:56 +0800
From:   Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
To:     tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        zhang.jia@...ux.alibaba.com, len.brown@...el.com,
        rui.zhang@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH V2 1/1] x86/topology: fix erroneous smp_num_siblings on Intel Hybrid platform

The SMT siblings value returned by CPUID.1F SMT level EBX differs
among CPUs on Intel Hybrid platforms like AlderLake and MeteorLake.
It returns 2 for Pcore CPUs which have SMT siblings and returns 1 for
Ecore CPUs which do not have SMT siblings.

Today, the CPU boot code sets the global variable smp_num_siblings when
every CPU thread is brought up. The last thread to boot will overwrite
it with the number of siblings of *that* thread. That last thread to
boot will "win". If the thread is a Pcore, smp_num_siblings == 2.  If it
is an Ecore, smp_num_siblings == 1.

smp_num_siblings describes if the *system* supports SMT.  It should
specify the maximum number of SMT threads among all cores.

Ensure that smp_num_siblings represents the system-wide maximum number
of siblings by always increasing its value. Never allow it to decrease.

On MeteorLake-P platform, this fixes a problem that the Ecore CPUs are
not updated in any cpu sibling map because the system is treated as an
UP system when probing Ecore CPUs.

Below shows part of the CPU topology information before and after the
fix, for both Pcore and Ecore CPU (cpu0 is Pcore, cpu 12 is Ecore).
...
-/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/package_cpus:000fff
-/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/package_cpus_list:0-11
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/package_cpus:3fffff
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/package_cpus_list:0-21
...
-/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu12/topology/package_cpus:001000
-/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu12/topology/package_cpus_list:12
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu12/topology/package_cpus:3fffff
+/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu12/topology/package_cpus_list:0-21

And this also breaks userspace tools like lscpu
-Core(s) per socket:  1
-Socket(s):           11
+Core(s) per socket:  16
+Socket(s):           1

CC: stable@...nel.org
Suggested-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/topology.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/topology.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/topology.c
index 5e868b62a7c4..0270925fe013 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/topology.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/topology.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ int detect_extended_topology_early(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	 * initial apic id, which also represents 32-bit extended x2apic id.
 	 */
 	c->initial_apicid = edx;
-	smp_num_siblings = LEVEL_MAX_SIBLINGS(ebx);
+	smp_num_siblings = max_t(int, smp_num_siblings, LEVEL_MAX_SIBLINGS(ebx));
 #endif
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ int detect_extended_topology(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	 */
 	cpuid_count(leaf, SMT_LEVEL, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
 	c->initial_apicid = edx;
-	core_level_siblings = smp_num_siblings = LEVEL_MAX_SIBLINGS(ebx);
+	core_level_siblings = LEVEL_MAX_SIBLINGS(ebx);
+	smp_num_siblings = max_t(int, smp_num_siblings, LEVEL_MAX_SIBLINGS(ebx));
 	core_plus_mask_width = ht_mask_width = BITS_SHIFT_NEXT_LEVEL(eax);
 	die_level_siblings = LEVEL_MAX_SIBLINGS(ebx);
 	pkg_mask_width = die_plus_mask_width = BITS_SHIFT_NEXT_LEVEL(eax);
-- 
2.25.1

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