Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] arm64: topology: add MPIDR-based detection

From: Lorenzo Pieralisi
Date: Fri Apr 25 2014 - 07:19:02 EST


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:18:42AM +0100, Zi Shen Lim wrote:
> Create cpu topology based on MPIDR. When hardware sets MPIDR to sane
> values, this method will always work. Therefore it should also work well
> as the fallback method. [1]

It has to be implemented as fallback, so you have to rebase this patch
on top of Mark's series.

> When we have multiple processing elements in the system, we create
> the cpu topology by mapping each affinity level (from lowest to highest)
> to threads (if they exist), cores, and clusters.
>
> We combine data from all higher affinity levels into cluster_id
> so we don't lose any information from MPIDR. [2]
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg317445.html
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/23/703
>
> Signed-off-by: Zi Shen Lim <zlim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1->v2: Addressed comments from Mark Brown.
> - Reduce noise. Use pr_debug instead of pr_info.
> - Don't ignore higher affinity levels.
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 2 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h
> index c404fb0..7639e8b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
>
> #define INVALID_HWID ULONG_MAX
>
> +#define MPIDR_UP_BITMASK (0x1 << 30)
> +#define MPIDR_MT_BITMASK (0x1 << 24)
> #define MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK 0xff00ffffff
>
> #define MPIDR_LEVEL_BITS_SHIFT 3
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> index 3e06b0b..7dbf981 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
> #include <linux/nodemask.h>
> #include <linux/sched.h>
>
> +#include <asm/cputype.h>
> +#include <asm/smp_plat.h>
> #include <asm/topology.h>
>
> /*
> @@ -71,6 +73,38 @@ static void update_siblings_masks(unsigned int cpuid)
>
> void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
> {
> + struct cpu_topology *cpuid_topo = &cpu_topology[cpuid];
> + u64 mpidr;
> +
> + mpidr = read_cpuid_mpidr();
> +
> + /* Create cpu topology mapping based on MPIDR. */
> + if (mpidr & MPIDR_UP_BITMASK) {
> + /* Uniprocessor system */
> + cpuid_topo->thread_id = -1;
> + cpuid_topo->core_id = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 0);
> + cpuid_topo->cluster_id = -1;
> + } else if (mpidr & MPIDR_MT_BITMASK) {
> + /* Multiprocessor system : Multi-threads per core */
> + cpuid_topo->thread_id = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 0);
> + cpuid_topo->core_id = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 1);
> + cpuid_topo->cluster_id =
> + MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 2) |
> + MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 3) << mpidr_hash.shift_aff[3];

That's probably not what you want, even though you still end up with a
unique cluster identifier (but insanely large) if you get lucky and it
does not overflow an int. The shift is the amount of bits the level must be
shift _right_ to create the hash value.

I am wondering whether it is time for me to add those as macros.

> + } else {
> + /* Multiprocessor system : Single-thread per core */
> + cpuid_topo->thread_id = -1;
> + cpuid_topo->core_id = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 0);
> + cpuid_topo->cluster_id =
> + MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 1) |
> + MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 2) << mpidr_hash.shift_aff[2] |
> + MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 3) << mpidr_hash.shift_aff[3];

Ditto.

> + }
> +
> + pr_debug("CPU%u: cluster %d core %d thread %d mpidr %llx\n",
> + cpuid, cpuid_topo->cluster_id, cpuid_topo->core_id,
> + cpuid_topo->thread_id, mpidr);
> +
> update_siblings_masks(cpuid);

That's why I object. With this implementation MPIDR_EL1 takes over DT,
and we do not want that. It has to work the other way around.

What you should do, in update_sibling_masks(), check if the topology has
been reset (ie it is not set-up), and parse the MPIDR if that's the case.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

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