linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 21/31] x86/resctrl: Add fourth part of telemetry event enumeration

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Message-ID: <54291845-a964-4d6a-948c-6d6b14a705dd@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 08:56:54 -0700
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@...dia.com>, "Maciej
 Wieczor-Retman" <maciej.wieczor-retman@...el.com>, Peter Newman
	<peternewman@...gle.com>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>, Babu Moger
	<babu.moger@....com>, Drew Fustini <dfustini@...libre.com>, Dave Martin
	<Dave.Martin@....com>, Anil Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>
CC: <x86@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<patches@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 21/31] x86/resctrl: Add fourth part of telemetry event
 enumeration

Hi Tony,

On 4/28/25 5:33 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> At run time when a user reads an event file the file system code
> provides the enum resctrl_event_id for the event.
> 
> Create a lookup table indexed by event id to provide the telem_entry
> structure and the event index into MMIO space.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7bb97892-16fd-49c5-90f0-223526ebdf4c@intel.com/

> 
> Enable the events marked as readable from any CPU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/intel_aet.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/intel_aet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/intel_aet.c
> index 37dd493df250..e1cb6bd4788d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/intel_aet.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/intel_aet.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,16 @@ static struct event_group *known_event_groups[] = {
>  
>  #define NUM_KNOWN_GROUPS ARRAY_SIZE(known_event_groups)
>  
> +/**
> + * struct evtinfo - lookup table from resctrl_event_id to useful information
> + * @event_group:	Pointer to the telem_entry structure for this event

What is telem_entry structure?

> + * @idx:		Counter index within each per-RMID block of counters
> + */
> +static struct evtinfo {
> +	struct event_group	*event_group;
> +	int			idx;
> +} evtinfo[QOS_NUM_EVENTS];
> +

Reinette