[PATCH 01/21] arch_topology: Make register_cpu_capacity_sysctl() tolerant to late CPUs

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:43:54 +0000
Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> From: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> 
> register_cpu_capacity_sysctl() adds a property to sysfs that describes
> the CPUs capacity. This is done from a subsys_initcall() that assumes
> all possible CPUs are registered.
> 
> With CPU hotplug, possible CPUs aren't registered until they become
> present, (or for arm64 enabled). This leads to messages during boot:
> | register_cpu_capacity_sysctl: too early to get CPU1 device!
> and once these CPUs are added to the system, the file is missing.
> 
> Move this to a cpuhp callback, so that the file is created once
> CPUs are brought online. This covers CPUs that are added late by
> mechanisms like hotplug.
> One observable difference is the file is now missing for offline CPUs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>

> ---
> If the offline CPUs thing is a problem for the tools that consume
> this value, we'd need to move cpu_capacity to be part of cpu.c's
> common_cpu_attr_groups. However, attempts to discuss this just end
> up in a black hole, so this is a non-starter. Thus, if this needs
> to be done, it can be done as a separate patch.
> ---
>  drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
> index b741b5ba82bd..9ccb7daee78e 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
> @@ -220,20 +220,34 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(update_topology_flags_work, update_topology_flags_workfn);
>  
>  static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(cpu_capacity);
>  
> -static int register_cpu_capacity_sysctl(void)
> +static int cpu_capacity_sysctl_add(unsigned int cpu)
>  {
> -	int i;
> -	struct device *cpu;
> +	struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
>  
> -	for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> -		cpu = get_cpu_device(i);
> -		if (!cpu) {
> -			pr_err("%s: too early to get CPU%d device!\n",
> -			       __func__, i);
> -			continue;
> -		}
> -		device_create_file(cpu, &dev_attr_cpu_capacity);
> -	}
> +	if (!cpu_dev)
> +		return -ENOENT;
> +
> +	device_create_file(cpu_dev, &dev_attr_cpu_capacity);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int cpu_capacity_sysctl_remove(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> +
> +	if (!cpu_dev)
> +		return -ENOENT;
> +
> +	device_remove_file(cpu_dev, &dev_attr_cpu_capacity);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int register_cpu_capacity_sysctl(void)
> +{
> +	cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "topology/cpu-capacity",
> +			  cpu_capacity_sysctl_add, cpu_capacity_sysctl_remove);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }