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Message-ID: <20251231023549.2390630-1-atomlin@atomlin.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:35:48 -0500
From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@...mlin.com>
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Subject: [v3 PATCH 0/1] x86/resctrl: Add "*" shorthand to set io_alloc CBM for all domains

Hi Babu, Tony, Reinette,

This patch introduces a wildcard domain ID selector "*" for the
io_alloc_cbm interface. It allows a user to update the Capacity Bitmask
(CBM) across all cache domains in a single operation.

Currently, configuring io_alloc_cbm requires an explicit ID for each
domain, which is cumbersome on systems with high core counts and numerous
cache clusters. Supporting a wildcard selector simplifies automation and
management tasks.

For example, a user can now write "*=0" to the io_alloc_cbm file to program
every domain to the hardware-defined minimum CBM. Note that the value
provided must still adhere to the constraints defined in the resource's
min_cbm_bits.

Please let me know your thoughts.


Changes since v2 [1]:
 - Dropped return -EINVAL for a missing seq_show implementation
   (Reinette Chatre)
 - Dropped helpers to check io_alloc support and enabled state
   (Reinette Chatre)
 - Removed additional complexity (Babu Moger)
 - Introduced the "*" wildcard for io_alloc_cbm to allow updating all
   cache domains (Reinette Chatre)
 - Replaced goto-based line parsing with a while loop to support
   multi-domain and wildcard iterations
 - Replaced memcpy() with direct structure assignment

Changes since v1 [2]:
 - Updated each helper for consistency (Babu Moger)
 - Refactored the loop logic in function resctrl_io_alloc_parse_line()
   to improve readability
 - Added inline keyword to each helper
 - Added inline keyword to function parse_domain_cbm()

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251215230257.1798865-1-atomlin@atomlin.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251126171653.1004321-1-atomlin@atomlin.com/

Aaron Tomlin (1):
  x86/resctrl: Add "*" shorthand to set io_alloc CBM for all domains

 Documentation/filesystems/resctrl.rst |  8 ++++
 fs/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c              | 60 ++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

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