Re: [PATCH] x86/resctrl: Add task resctrl information display

[Yu Chen]

Hi Boris,
Thanks for looking at the patch.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 07:23:07PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 11:27:31AM +0800, Chen Yu wrote:
> > Monitoring tools that want to find out which resctrl CTRL
> > and MONITOR groups a task belongs to must currently read
> > the "tasks" file in every group until they locate the process
> > ID.
> > 
> > Add an additional file /proc/{pid}/resctrl to provide this
> > information.
> > 
> > For example:
> >  cat /proc/1193/resctrl
> > CTRL_MON:/ctrl_grp0
> > MON:/ctrl_grp0/mon_groups/mon_grp0
> > 
> > If the resctrl filesystem has not been mounted,
> > reading /proc/{pid}/resctrl returns an error:
> > cat: /proc/1193/resctrl: No such device
> > 
> > Tested-by: Jinshi Chen <jinshi.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/resctrl_sched.h   |  4 +++
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  fs/proc/base.c                         |  9 +++++
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> So you're touching this file here and yet your Cc list doesn't have
> *anyone* who might be responsible for the proc fs (yeah, you have
> linux-fsdevel but I don't think that's enough). Have you heard of
> scripts/get_maintainer.pl?
> 
> Use it in the future.
> 
> Cc-ing some more people for the generic /proc bits.
> 
Okay, thanks.
> >  3 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
> > 
> > +
> > +		if (rdtg->closid == tsk->closid) {
> 
> Save an indentation level:
> 
> 		if (rdtg->closid != tsk->closid)
> 			continue;
> 
> 		seq_printf...
>
Okay.
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL
> > +#include <asm/resctrl_sched.h>
> > +#endif
> 
> If anything, this should be abstracted nicely into an
> include/linux/resctrl.h header. Other architectures would probably wanna
> use it too, I hear ARM64 has something like resctrl.
>
Okay, created this header in the next version.
> > +#endif
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_CPU_RESCTRL
> > +	ONE("resctrl", S_IRUGO, proc_resctrl_show),
> >  #endif
> 
> Same here. proc_resctrl_show() looks like a generic function but it
> is x86-only. Need to call the x86-specific one in a real generic
> proc_resctrl_show() which other arches can add their code to, too.
> 
> Not like that.
> 
Okay, in next version proc_resctrl_show() is declared in resctrl.h.
However since there's no common c source file for resctrl currently,
different architectures might need to implement proc_resctrl_show()
accordingly - currently only x86 needs to do that.

Thanks,
Chenyu
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
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