linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/18] x86/resctrl: Queue mon_event

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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2023 11:32:43 +0000
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     "Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     "Chatre, Reinette" <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>,
        Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@....com>,
        "shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com" 
        <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>,
        D Scott Phillips OS <scott@...amperecomputing.com>,
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        Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@...cinc.com>,
        Xin Hao <xhao@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        "peternewman@...gle.com" <peternewman@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/18] x86/resctrl: Queue mon_event_read() instead of
 sending an IPI

Hi Fenghua,

On 17/01/2023 18:29, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
>> x86 is blessed with an abundance of monitors, one per RMID, that can be read
>> from any CPU in the domain. MPAMs monitors reside in the MMIO MSC, the
>> number implemented is up to the manufacturer. This means when there are
>> fewer monitors than needed, they need to be allocated and freed.
>>
>> Worse, the domain may be broken up into slices, and the MMIO accesses for
>> each slice may need performing from different CPUs.
>>
>> These two details mean MPAMs monitor code needs to be able to sleep, and IPI
>> another CPU in the domain to read from a resource that has been sliced.
>>
>> mon_event_read() already invokes mon_event_count() via IPI, which means this
>> isn't possible.
>>
>> Change mon_event_read() to schedule mon_event_count() on a remote CPU
>> and wait, instead of sending an IPI. This function is only used in response to a
>> user-space filesystem request (not the timing sensitive overflow code).

> But mkdir mon group needs mon_event_count() to reset RMID state.
> If mon_event_count() is called much later, the RMID state may be used
> before it's reset. E.g. prev_msr might be non-0 value. That will cause
> overflow code failure.
> 
> Seems this may happen on both x86 and arm64. At least need to make sure
> RMID state reset happens before it's used.

On the architecture side, there is a patch from Peter that records the MSR value on the
architecture side when an RMID is reset/re-allocated. 2a81160d29d6 ("x86/resctrl: Fix
event counts regression in reused RMIDs")

For the filesystem, the 'first' value is passed through and handled by the CPU that reads
the MSR. I don't see what problem any extra delay due to scheduling would cause.


Thanks,

James