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Message-ID: <0baf690b-4ed4-4dad-9f50-e5df93d599fd@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:43:55 -0700
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
CC: James Morse <james.morse@....com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, 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>, "D Scott
 Phillips OS" <scott@...amperecomputing.com>, <carl@...amperecomputing.com>,
	<lcherian@...vell.com>, <bobo.shaobowang@...wei.com>,
	<tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>, <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>, Jamie Iles
	<quic_jiles@...cinc.com>, Xin Hao <xhao@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	<peternewman@...gle.com>, <dfustini@...libre.com>, <amitsinght@...vell.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Rex Nie <rex.nie@...uarmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 30/31] x86/resctrl: Move the filesystem bits to headers
 visible to fs/resctrl

Hi Dave,

On 4/11/2024 7:28 AM, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 08:42:00PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> On 3/21/2024 9:51 AM, James Morse wrote:
>> ..
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/resctrl_types.h b/include/linux/resctrl_types.h
>>> index 4788bd95dac6..fe0b10b589c0 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/resctrl_types.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/resctrl_types.h
>>> @@ -7,6 +7,36 @@
>>>  #ifndef __LINUX_RESCTRL_TYPES_H
>>>  #define __LINUX_RESCTRL_TYPES_H
>>>  
>>> +#define CQM_LIMBOCHECK_INTERVAL	1000
>>> +
>>> +#define MBM_CNTR_WIDTH_BASE		24
>>> +#define MBM_OVERFLOW_INTERVAL		1000
>>> +#define MAX_MBA_BW			100u
>>> +#define MBA_IS_LINEAR			0x4
>>> +
>>> +/* rdtgroup.flags */
>>> +#define	RDT_DELETED		1
>>> +
>>> +/* rftype.flags */
>>> +#define RFTYPE_FLAGS_CPUS_LIST	1
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * Define the file type flags for base and info directories.
>>> + */
>>> +#define RFTYPE_INFO			BIT(0)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_BASE			BIT(1)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_CTRL			BIT(4)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_MON			BIT(5)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_TOP			BIT(6)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_RES_CACHE		BIT(8)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_RES_MB			BIT(9)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_DEBUG			BIT(10)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_CTRL_INFO		(RFTYPE_INFO | RFTYPE_CTRL)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_MON_INFO			(RFTYPE_INFO | RFTYPE_MON)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_TOP_INFO			(RFTYPE_INFO | RFTYPE_TOP)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_CTRL_BASE		(RFTYPE_BASE | RFTYPE_CTRL)
>>> +#define RFTYPE_MON_BASE			(RFTYPE_BASE | RFTYPE_MON)
>>> +
>>>  /* Reads to Local DRAM Memory */
>>>  #define READS_TO_LOCAL_MEM		BIT(0)
>>>  
>>
>> Not all these new seem to belong in this file. Could you please confirm?
>>
>> For example:
>> Earlier in series it was mentioned that struct rdtgroup is private to the
>> fs so having RDT_DELETED is unexpected as it implies access to struct rdtgroup.
>>
>> CQM_LIMBOCHECK_INTERVAL seems private to the fs code, so too
>> RFTYPE_FLAGS_CPUS_LIST.
>>
>> Reinette
>>
> 
> I'll flag this for James to review.
> 
> These have to be moved out of the x86 private headers, but you're right
> that some of them seem logically private to the resctrl core.
> 
> I guess some of these could move to fs/resctrl/internal.h?

It looks to me that way.

> 
> OTOH, might it be preferable to keep all the flag definitions for a
> given member together for ease of maintenance, even if some are for
> resctrl internal use only?

Indeed, those RFTYPE flags really seem to be fs code but I agree that
architectures' use of RFTYPE_RES_CACHE and RFTYPE_RES_MB does make this
complicated and having these in a central place is reasonable to me.

Reinette


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