linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 19/49] x86/resctrl: Add resctrl_arch_is_evt

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Message-ID: <cd48b81d-43df-4d46-9fff-caf0565f6a7e@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 20:37:10 -0800
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: James Morse <james.morse@....com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
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 Donthineni <sdonthineni@...dia.com>, <fenghuay@...dia.com>, Shaopeng Tan
	<tan.shaopeng@...fujitsu.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 19/49] x86/resctrl: Add
 resctrl_arch_is_evt_configurable() to abstract BMEC

Hi James,

On 2/28/25 11:58 AM, James Morse wrote:
> When BMEC is supported the resctrl event can be configured in a number
> of ways. This depends on architecture support. rdt_get_mon_l3_config()
> modifies the struct mon_evt and calls mbm_config_rftype_init() to create
> the files that allow the configuration.
> 
> Splitting this into separate architecture and filesystem parts would
> require the struct mon_evt and mbm_config_rftype_init() to be exposed.

Same comment as for v6 [1]:
"Please replace all instances of mbm_config_rftype_init() with 
resctrl_file_fflags_init()."


> 
> Instead, add resctrl_arch_is_evt_configurable(), and use this from
> resctrl_mon_resource_init() to initialise struct mon_evt and call
> resctrl_file_fflags_init()
> resctrl_arch_is_evt_configurable() calls rdt_cpu_has() so it doesn't
> obviously benefit from being inlined. Putting it in core.c will allow
> rdt_cpu_has() to eventually become static.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
> Tested-by: Carl Worth <carl@...amperecomputing.com> # arm64
> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...fujitsu.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> ---
> Changes since v6:
>  * Fixed stale function name in the commit message.
Fixes seem to have been lost.

With changelog fixed:
| Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>

Reinette

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bbbfd020-ee0d-42db-b055-f4056d63977e@intel.com/