Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] powerpc: Use cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask at SMT level on bigcores

From: Srikar Dronamraju
Date: Thu Aug 09 2018 - 09:27:10 EST


* Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2018-08-09 11:02:08]:

>
> 3) ppc64_cpu --smt=2
> SMT domain ceases to exist as each domain consists of just one
> group.
>

When seen in isolation, the above looks as if ppc64_cpu --smt=2 o/p says
" SMT domain ceases to exist...."

> @@ -999,7 +1012,17 @@ static void add_cpu_to_masks(int cpu)
> {
> int first_thread = cpu_first_thread_sibling(cpu);
> int chipid = cpu_to_chip_id(cpu);
> - int i;
> +
> + struct thread_groups tg;
> + int i, cpu_group_start = -1;
> +
> + if (has_big_cores) {
> + struct device_node *dn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
> +

Not checking for validity of dn and no of_node_puts?

> + parse_thread_groups(dn, &tg);
> + cpu_group_start = get_cpu_thread_group_start(cpu, &tg);
> + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask(cpu));
> + }
>
> /*
> * This CPU will not be in the online mask yet so we need to manually

The rest looks good