[PATCH v4 0/6] arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU

Pierre Gondois pierre.gondois at arm.com
Wed Jan 4 10:30:23 PST 2023


v2:
 - Applied renaming/formatting comments from v1.
 - Check CACHE_TYPE_VALID flag in pppt.c.
v3:
 - Applied Sudeep's suggestions (for patch 5/5):
   - Renaming allocate_cache_info() -> fecth_cache_info()
   - Updated error message
   - Extract an inline allocate_cache_info() function
 - Re-run checkpatch with --strict option
v4:
 - Remove RISC-V's implementation of init_cache_level() as not
   necessary.
 - Add patch: 'cacheinfo: Check 'cache-unified' property to count
   cache leaves' to increase the number of leaves at a cache level
   when no cache-size property is found.
 - In cacheinfo: Use RISC-V's init_cache_level() [...],
   make 'levels', 'leaves' and 'level' unsigned int to match
   of_property_read_u32()'s parameters signedness.

Note:
This patchset requires the following patch to be applied first in
order to avoid the same bug described in the commit message:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221116094958.2141072-1-pierre.gondois@arm.com/

[1] and [2] build the CPU topology from the cacheinfo information for
both DT/ACPI based systems and remove (struct cpu_topology).llc_id
which was used by ACPI only.

Creating the cacheinfo for secondary CPUs is done during early boot.
Preemption and interrupts are disabled at this stage. On PREEMPT_RT
kernels, allocating memory (and parsing the PPTT table for ACPI based
systems) triggers a:
  'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context' [4]

To prevent this bug, allocate the cacheinfo from the primary CPU when
preemption and interrupts are enabled and before booting secondary
CPUs. The cache levels/leaves are computed from DT/ACPI PPTT information
only, without relying on the arm64 CLIDR_EL1 register.
If no cache information is found in the DT/ACPI PPTT, then fallback
to the current state, triggering [4] on PREEMPT_RT kernels.

Patches to update the arm64 device trees that have incomplete cacheinfo
(mostly for missing the 'cache-level' or 'cache-unified' property)
have been sent at [3].

Tested platforms:
- ACPI + PPTT: Ampere Altra, Ampere eMAG, Cavium ThunderX2,
  Kunpeng 920, Juno-r2
- DT: rb5, db845c, Juno-r2

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220704101605.1318280-1-sudeep.holla@arm.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220720-arch_topo_fixes-v3-0-43d696288e84@arm.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221107155825.1644604-1-pierre.gondois@arm.com/
[4] On an Ampere Altra, with PREEMPT_RT kernel based on v6.0.0-rc4:


[    7.560791] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
[    7.560794] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/111
[    7.560796] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[    7.560797] RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
[    7.560799] 3 locks held by swapper/111/0:
[    7.560800]  #0: ffff403e406cae98 (&pcp->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: get_page_from_freelist+0x218/0x12c8
[    7.560811]  #1: ffffc5f8ed09f8e8 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rt_spin_trylock+0x48/0xf0
[    7.560820]  #2: ffff403f400b4fd8 (&zone->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rmqueue_bulk+0x64/0xa80
[    7.560824] irq event stamp: 0
[    7.560825] hardirqs last  enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[    7.560827] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffc5f8e9f7d594>] copy_process+0x5dc/0x1ab8
[    7.560830] softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffffc5f8e9f7d594>] copy_process+0x5dc/0x1ab8
[    7.560833] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[    7.560834] Preemption disabled at:
[    7.560835] [<ffffc5f8e9fd3c28>] migrate_enable+0x30/0x130
[    7.560838] CPU: 111 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/111 Tainted: G        W          6.0.0-rc4-[...]
[    7.560841] Call trace:
[...]
[    7.560870]  __kmalloc+0xbc/0x1e8
[    7.560873]  detect_cache_attributes+0x2d4/0x5f0
[    7.560876]  update_siblings_masks+0x30/0x368
[    7.560880]  store_cpu_topology+0x78/0xb8
[    7.560883]  secondary_start_kernel+0xd0/0x198
[    7.560885]  __secondary_switched+0xb0/0xb4

Pierre Gondois (6):
  cacheinfo: Use RISC-V's init_cache_level() as generic OF
    implementation
  cacheinfo: Return error code in init_of_cache_level()
  cacheinfo: Check 'cache-unified' property to count cache leaves
  ACPI: PPTT: Remove acpi_find_cache_levels()
  ACPI: PPTT: Update acpi_find_last_cache_level() to
    acpi_get_cache_info()
  arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU

 arch/arm64/kernel/cacheinfo.c |  11 ++-
 arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c |  42 -----------
 drivers/acpi/pptt.c           |  93 +++++++++++++----------
 drivers/base/arch_topology.c  |  12 ++-
 drivers/base/cacheinfo.c      | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 include/linux/cacheinfo.h     |  11 ++-
 6 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)

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