linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 28/33] arm_mpam: Consider overflow in bandwidth counter state

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Message-ID: <58d05fba-d678-4564-beba-45f667f9e975@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:16:12 +1000
From: Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
To: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@....com>, james.morse@....com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/33] arm_mpam: Consider overflow in bandwidth counter
 state

On 11/7/25 10:34 PM, Ben Horgan wrote:
> Use the overflow status bit to track overflow on each bandwidth counter
> read and add the counter size to the correction when overflow is detected.
> 
> This assumes that only a single overflow has occurred since the last read
> of the counter. Overflow interrupts, on hardware that supports them could
> be used to remove this limitation.
> 
> Cc: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@....com>
> ---
>   drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c  | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h |  3 ++-
>   2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>