Re: [PATCH 2/2][v2] x86/resctrl: Add task resctrl information display

[Yu Chen]

Hi Boris,

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:48 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 11:01:12PM +0800, Ryan Chen wrote:
> > Right, we can return 'blank' to user and let the user to parse the information.
>
> There is nothing to parse - the task doesn't belong to any groups. That's it.
>
> > And there is a similar behavior in cgroup that, for kernel thread that
> > does not belong
> > to any cgroup, /proc/{pid}/cgroup just show 'blank' without returning an error.
>
> By 'blank' I assume you mean the empty string '' ?
>
Yes, it is 'empty string'.
> > Yes, only when PROC_FS is set, /proc/{pid}/resctrl
> > can be displayed. However, CPU_RESCTRL might not
> > depend on proc fs, it is possible that the CPU_RESCTRL
> > is enabled but without PROC_FS set. If I understand correctly,
> >  CPU_RESCTRL is the 'root' config for X86_CPU_RESCTRL,
> > after reading this thread:
> > https://lists.gt.net/linux/kernel/3211659
>
> I'm not sure I know what you mean here. There's no CPU_RESCTRL option - you've
> added it in the previous patch:
>
> [ ~/kernel/linux> git grep -E CONFIG_CPU_RESCTRL
> [ ~/kernel/linux> git grep -E "\WCPU_RESCTRL"
> [ ~/kernel/linux>
>
> And if you want to use that option in proc/, then it needs
> to depend on PROC_FS, like the the example I gave you with
> CONFIG_PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS.
>
> Or do you mean something else?
>
Previously I was thinking of introducing CONFIG_CPU_RESCTRL
to the kernel, so that platform-independent resctrl code could be moved under
this config. The idea was seen in the following commit log:
commit e6d429313ea5c776d (x86/resctrl: Avoid confusion over the
new X86_RESCTRL config)
But since we only touch proc fs in this patch, I think a config named
CONFIG_PROC_CPU_RESCTRL declared in fs/proc/Kconfig
might be more appropriate(similar to CONFIG_PROC_PID_ARCH_STATUS).
> >  If this is the case, shall we add the new file at kernel/resctrl/resctrl.c?
> > And the generic proc_resctrl_show() could be put into this file. In the future
> > the generic code for resctrl could be added/moved to kernel/resctrl/resctrl.c
>
> Not worth it for a single function. Leave it in
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c where you had it.
>
Okay, got it. Let me send the v3 patch out and to see if it is suitable.
Thanks,
Chenyu
> Thx.
>
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>     Boris.
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