linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 16/24] x86/resctrl: Make resctrl

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Message-ID: <45ac8c02-5188-9599-ad5a-380197ce7251@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2023 14:19:08 -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>,
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        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 16/24] x86/resctrl: Make resctrl_mounted checks
 explicit

Hi James,

On 9/14/2023 10:21 AM, James Morse wrote:
> The rdt_enable_key is switched when resctrl is mounted, and used to
> prevent a second mount of the filesystem. It also enables the
> architecture's context switch code.
> 
> This requires another architecture to have the same set of static-keys,
> as resctrl depends on them too. The existing users of these static-keys
> are implicitly also checking if the filesystem is mounted.
> 
> Make the resctrl_mounted checks explicit: resctrl can keep track of
> whether it has been mounted once. This doesn't need to be combined with
> whether the arch code is context switching the CLOSID.
> 
> rdt_mon_enable_key is never used just to test that resctrl is mounted,
> but does also have this implication. Add a resctrl_mounted to all uses
> of rdt_mon_enable_key. This will allow rdt_mon_enable_key to be swapped
> with a helper in a subsequent patch.
> 
> This will allow the static-key changing to be moved behind resctrl_arch_
> calls.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>
> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>
> Tested-By: Peter Newman <peternewman@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> 
> ---

Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>

Reinette