[RFC PATCH v1 1/4] arm_mpam: resctrl: Pre-allocate assignable monitors

Ben Horgan ben.horgan at arm.com
Wed Feb 25 12:54:33 PST 2026


From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>

When there are not enough monitors, MPAM is able to emulate ABMC by making
a smaller number of monitors assignable. These monitors still need to be
allocated from the driver, and mapped to whichever control/monitor group
resctrl wants to use them with.

Add a second array to hold the monitor values indexed by resctrl's cntr_id.

When CDP is in use, two monitors are needed so the available number of
counters halves. Platforms with one monitor will have zero monitors when
CDP is in use.

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan at arm.com>
---
Changes since rfc:
Move __free
kmalloc -> kcalloc

Changes since v2:
kcalloc -> kmalloc_array
sizeof(*rmid_array)
Return error from resctrl_arch_mbm_cntr_assign_set()
---
 drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h |  7 +++
 drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c  | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
index 195ab821cc52..9c4dc0684f6d 100644
--- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
+++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
@@ -417,6 +417,13 @@ struct mpam_resctrl_mon {
 
 	/* Array of allocated MBWU monitors, indexed by (closid, rmid). */
 	int			*mbwu_idx_to_mon;
+
+	/*
+	 * Array of assigned MBWU monitors, indexed by idx argument.
+	 * When ABMC is not in use, this array can be NULL. Otherwise
+	 * it maps idx to the allocated monitor.
+	 */
+	int			*assigned_counters;
 };
 
 static inline int mpam_alloc_csu_mon(struct mpam_class *class)
diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c
index afe43034a516..58fd3ee10fd2 100644
--- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_resctrl.c
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(wait_cacheinfo_ready);
  */
 static bool resctrl_enabled;
 
+/*
+ * L3 local/total may come from different classes - what is the number of MBWU
+ * 'on L3'?
+ */
+static unsigned int l3_num_allocated_mbwu = ~0;
+
 /* Whether this num_mbw_mon could result in a free_running system */
 static int __mpam_monitors_free_running(u16 num_mbwu_mon)
 {
@@ -83,6 +89,15 @@ static int __mpam_monitors_free_running(u16 num_mbwu_mon)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * If l3_num_allocated_mbwu is forced below PARTID * PMG, then the counters
+ * are not free running, and ABMC's user-interface must be used to assign them.
+ */
+static bool mpam_resctrl_abmc_enabled(void)
+{
+	return l3_num_allocated_mbwu < resctrl_arch_system_num_rmid_idx();
+}
+
 bool resctrl_arch_alloc_capable(void)
 {
 	struct mpam_resctrl_res *res;
@@ -143,7 +158,10 @@ int resctrl_arch_cntr_read(struct rdt_resource *r, struct rdt_l3_mon_domain *d,
 
 bool resctrl_arch_mbm_cntr_assign_enabled(struct rdt_resource *r)
 {
-	return false;
+	if (r != &mpam_resctrl_controls[RDT_RESOURCE_L3].resctrl_res)
+		return false;
+
+	return mpam_resctrl_abmc_enabled();
 }
 
 int resctrl_arch_mbm_cntr_assign_set(struct rdt_resource *r, bool enable)
@@ -188,9 +206,26 @@ static void resctrl_reset_task_closids(void)
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 }
 
+static void mpam_resctrl_monitor_sync_abmc_vals(struct rdt_resource *l3)
+{
+	l3->mon.num_mbm_cntrs = l3_num_allocated_mbwu;
+	if (cdp_enabled)
+		l3->mon.num_mbm_cntrs /= 2;
+
+	if (l3->mon.num_mbm_cntrs) {
+		l3->mon.mbm_cntr_assignable = mpam_resctrl_abmc_enabled();
+		l3->mon.mbm_assign_on_mkdir = mpam_resctrl_abmc_enabled();
+	} else {
+		l3->mon.mbm_cntr_assignable = false;
+		l3->mon.mbm_assign_on_mkdir = false;
+	}
+}
+
 int resctrl_arch_set_cdp_enabled(enum resctrl_res_level rid, bool enable)
 {
 	u32 partid_i = RESCTRL_RESERVED_CLOSID, partid_d = RESCTRL_RESERVED_CLOSID;
+	struct mpam_resctrl_res *res = &mpam_resctrl_controls[RDT_RESOURCE_L3];
+	struct rdt_resource *l3 = &res->resctrl_res;
 	int cpu;
 
 	/* This resctrl hook is only called with enable set to false on error */
@@ -217,6 +252,7 @@ int resctrl_arch_set_cdp_enabled(enum resctrl_res_level rid, bool enable)
 	WRITE_ONCE(arm64_mpam_global_default, mpam_get_regval(current));
 
 	resctrl_reset_task_closids();
+	mpam_resctrl_monitor_sync_abmc_vals(l3);
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
 		mpam_set_cpu_defaults(cpu, partid_d, partid_i, 0, 0);
@@ -667,7 +703,10 @@ static bool class_has_usable_mbwu(struct mpam_class *class)
 		return true;
 	}
 
-	pr_debug("Insufficient monitors for free-running mode\n");
+	if (cprops->num_mbwu_mon) {
+		pr_debug("monitors usable via ABMC assignment\n");
+		return true;
+	}
 
 	return false;
 }
@@ -1010,6 +1049,8 @@ static int __alloc_mbwu_mon(struct mpam_class *class, int *array,
 		array[i] = mbwu_mon;
 	}
 
+	l3_num_allocated_mbwu = min(l3_num_allocated_mbwu, num_mbwu_mon);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1214,9 +1255,46 @@ static int mpam_resctrl_pick_domain_id(int cpu, struct mpam_component *comp)
 	return comp->comp_id;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This must run after all event counters have been picked so that any free
+ * running counters have already been allocated.
+ */
+static int mpam_resctrl_monitor_init_abmc(struct mpam_resctrl_mon *mon)
+{
+	struct mpam_resctrl_res *res = &mpam_resctrl_controls[RDT_RESOURCE_L3];
+	struct rdt_resource *l3 = &res->resctrl_res;
+	struct mpam_class *class = mon->class;
+	u16 num_mbwu_mon;
+
+	if (mon->mbwu_idx_to_mon) {
+		pr_debug("monitors free running\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	int *rmid_array __free(kfree) =
+		kmalloc_array(resctrl_arch_system_num_rmid_idx(), sizeof(*rmid_array), GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	if (!rmid_array) {
+		pr_debug("Failed to allocate RMID array\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	memset(rmid_array, -1, resctrl_arch_system_num_rmid_idx() * sizeof(int));
+
+	num_mbwu_mon = class->props.num_mbwu_mon;
+	mon->assigned_counters = __alloc_mbwu_array(mon->class, num_mbwu_mon);
+	if (IS_ERR(mon->assigned_counters))
+		return PTR_ERR(mon->assigned_counters);
+	mon->mbwu_idx_to_mon = no_free_ptr(rmid_array);
+
+	mpam_resctrl_monitor_sync_abmc_vals(l3);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int mpam_resctrl_monitor_init(struct mpam_resctrl_mon *mon,
 				     enum resctrl_event_id type)
 {
+	int err = 0;
 	struct mpam_resctrl_res *res = &mpam_resctrl_controls[RDT_RESOURCE_L3];
 	struct rdt_resource *l3 = &res->resctrl_res;
 
@@ -1259,8 +1337,15 @@ static int mpam_resctrl_monitor_init(struct mpam_resctrl_mon *mon,
 	 */
 	l3->mon.num_rmid = resctrl_arch_system_num_rmid_idx();
 
-	if (resctrl_enable_mon_event(type, false, 0, NULL))
-		l3->mon_capable = true;
+	if (type == QOS_L3_MBM_TOTAL_EVENT_ID)
+		err = mpam_resctrl_monitor_init_abmc(mon);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	if (!resctrl_enable_mon_event(type, false, 0, NULL))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	l3->mon_capable = true;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.43.0




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