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Message-ID: <Zh6kDStUw8AThV4s@e133380.arm.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:15:09 +0100
From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
To: "Moger, Babu" <babu.moger@....com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 02/31] x86/resctrl: Add a helper to avoid reaching
 into the arch code resource list

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:28:18PM -0500, Moger, Babu wrote:
> Hi James/Dave,
> 
> On 3/21/24 11:50, James Morse wrote:
> > Resctrl occasionally wants to know something about a specific resource,
> > in these cases it reaches into the arch code's rdt_resources_all[]
> > array.
> > 
> > Once the filesystem parts of resctrl are moved to /fs/, this means it
> > will need visibility of the architecture specific struct
> > resctrl_hw_resource definition, and the array of all resources.
> > All architectures would also need a r_resctrl member in this struct.
> > 
> > Instead, abstract this via a helper to allow architectures to do
> > different things here. Move the level enum to the resctrl header and
> > add a helper to retrieve the struct rdt_resource by 'rid'.
> > 
> > resctrl_arch_get_resource() should not return NULL for any value in
> > the enum, it may instead return a dummy resource that is
> > !alloc_enabled && !mon_enabled.
> 
> Nit.
> You may want to drop the second half of the statement. We don't have a
> dummy resource.

I guess not, but MPAM will, although I haven't fully understood the
logic.  See:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/morse/linux.git/tree/drivers/platform/mpam/mpam_resctrl.c?h=mpam/snapshot/v6.7-rc2

(Search for "dummy".)


In any case, the statement above is part of the definition of the new
interface: the resctrl core code is going to explicitly need to cope
with a dummy resource being returned, and the arch code is required
to return a pointer to something and not NULL.

So I would say that it is appropriate (or, at the very least, harmless)
to keep that statement here?

> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c        | 10 +++++++++-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c |  2 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h    | 10 ----------
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c     |  8 ++++----
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c    | 15 +++++++--------
> >  include/linux/resctrl.h                   | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> >  6 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> > 

[...]

> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
> > index 1767c1affa60..45372b6a6215 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c

[...]

> > @@ -2625,10 +2625,10 @@ static void schemata_list_destroy(void)
> >  
> >  static int rdt_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
> >  {
> > +	struct rdt_resource *l3 = resctrl_arch_get_resource(RDT_RESOURCE_L3);
> 
> Its is probably best to keep the resource name as r here to be consistent
> with other changes.
> 
> >  	struct rdt_fs_context *ctx = rdt_fc2context(fc);
> >  	unsigned long flags = RFTYPE_CTRL_BASE;
> >  	struct rdt_domain *dom;
> > -	struct rdt_resource *r;
> >  	int ret;
> >  
> >  	cpus_read_lock();
> > @@ -2701,8 +2701,7 @@ static int rdt_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
> >  		resctrl_mounted = true;
> >  
> >  	if (is_mbm_enabled()) {
> > -		r = &rdt_resources_all[RDT_RESOURCE_L3].r_resctrl;
> > -		list_for_each_entry(dom, &r->domains, list)
> > +		list_for_each_entry(dom, &l3->domains, list)
> >  			mbm_setup_overflow_handler(dom, MBM_OVERFLOW_INTERVAL,
> >  						   RESCTRL_PICK_ANY_CPU);
> >  	}
> > @@ -3878,7 +3877,7 @@ static int rdtgroup_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct kernfs_root *kf)

[...]

> Thanks
> Babu Moger

[...]

Yes, this does look a bit odd.

This looks like a no-op change to me -- I think that
resctrl_arch_get_resource() is supposed to be without side-effects,
so I would have expected this to be a one-line change at the assignment
to r, with no particular need for renaming r.

Does that make sense to you, or is there some complexity I'm not
noticing here?

Cheers
---Dave