[PATCH v3 00/16] arch_topology: Updates to add socket support and fix cluster ids

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Wed May 25 01:14:00 PDT 2022


Hi All,

This version updates cacheinfo to populate and use the information from
there for all the cache topology. Sorry for posting in the middle of
merge window but better to get this tested earlier so that it is ready
for next merge window.

This series intends to fix some discrepancies we have in the CPU topology
parsing from the device tree /cpu-map node. Also this diverges from the
behaviour on a ACPI enabled platform. The expectation is that both DT
and ACPI enabled systems must present consistent view of the CPU topology.

Currently we assign generated cluster count as the physical package identifier
for each CPU which is wrong. The device tree bindings for CPU topology supports
sockets to infer the socket or physical package identifier for a given CPU.
Also we don't check if all the cores/threads belong to the same cluster before
updating their sibling masks which is fine as we don't set the cluster id yet.

These changes also assigns the cluster identifier as parsed from the device tree
cluster nodes within /cpu-map without support for nesting of the clusters.
Finally, it also add support for socket nodes in /cpu-map. With this the
parsing of exact same information from ACPI PPTT and /cpu-map DT node
aligns well.

The only exception is that the last level cache id information can be
inferred from the same ACPI PPTT while we need to parse CPU cache nodes
in the device tree.

P.S: I have not cc-ed Greg and Rafael so that all the users of arch_topology
agree with the changes first before we include them.

v2[2]->v3:
	- Dropped support to get the device node for the CPU's LLC
	- Updated cacheinfo to support calling of detect_cache_attributes
	  early in smp_prepare_cpus stage
	- Added support to check if LLC is valid and shared in the cacheinfo
	- Used the same in arch_topology

v1[1]->v2[2]:
	- Updated ID validity check include all non-negative value
	- Added support to get the device node for the CPU's last level cache
	- Added support to build llc_sibling on DT platforms

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220513095559.1034633-1-sudeep.holla@arm.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220518093325.2070336-1-sudeep.holla@arm.com

Sudeep Holla (16):
  cacheinfo: Use of_cpu_device_node_get instead cpu_dev->of_node
  cacheinfo: Add helper to access any cache index for a given CPU
  cacheinfo: Move cache_leaves_are_shared out of CONFIG_OF
  cacheinfo: Add support to check if last level cache(LLC) is valid or shared
  cacheinfo: Allow early detection and population of cache attributes
  arch_topology: Add support to parse and detect cache attributes
  arch_topology: Use the last level cache information from the cacheinfo
  arm64: topology: Remove redundant setting of llc_id in CPU topology
  arch_topology: Drop LLC identifier stash from the CPU topology
  arch_topology: Set thread sibling cpumask only within the cluster
  arch_topology: Check for non-negative value rather than -1 for IDs validity
  arch_topology: Avoid parsing through all the CPUs once a outlier CPU is found
  arch_topology: Don't set cluster identifier as physical package identifier
  arch_topology: Drop unnecessary check for uninitialised package_id
  arch_topology: Set cluster identifier in each core/thread from /cpu-map
  arch_topology: Add support for parsing sockets in /cpu-map

 arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c  |  14 -----
 drivers/base/arch_topology.c  |  92 +++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/base/cacheinfo.c      | 114 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 include/linux/arch_topology.h |   1 -
 include/linux/cacheinfo.h     |   3 +
 5 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)

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