[Patch v8 3/7] arm,arm64,drivers:Add infrastructure to store and update instantaneous thermal pressure

From: Thara Gopinath
Date: Tue Jan 14 2020 - 14:57:52 EST


Add architecture specific APIs to update and track thermal pressure on a
per cpu basis. A per cpu variable thermal_pressure is introduced to keep
track of instantaneous per cpu thermal pressure. Thermal pressure is the
delta between maximum capacity and capped capacity due to a thermal event.

topology_get_thermal_pressure can be hooked into the scheduler specified
arch_cpu_thermal_capacity to retrieve instantaneous thermal pressure of a
cpu.

arch_set_thermal_pressure can be used to update the thermal pressure.

Considering topology_get_thermal_pressure reads thermal_pressure and
arch_set_thermal_pressure writes into thermal_pressure, one can argue for
some sort of locking mechanism to avoid a stale value. But considering
topology_get_thermal_pressure can be called from a system critical path
like scheduler tick function, a locking mechanism is not ideal. This means
that it is possible the thermal_pressure value used to calculate average
thermal pressure for a cpu can be stale for upto 1 tick period.

Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

v6->v7:
- Changed the input argument in arch_set_thermal_pressure from
capped capacity to delta capacity(thermal pressure) as per
Ionela's review comments.

arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h | 3 +++
arch/arm64/include/asm/topology.h | 3 +++
drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 11 +++++++++++
include/linux/arch_topology.h | 10 ++++++++++
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
index 8a0fae9..3a50a19 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
/* Enable topology flag updates */
#define arch_update_cpu_topology topology_update_cpu_topology

+/* Replace task scheduler's default thermal pressure retrieve API */
+#define arch_cpu_thermal_pressure topology_get_thermal_pressure
+
#else

static inline void init_cpu_topology(void) { }
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/topology.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/topology.h
index a4d945d..a70896f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/topology.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/topology.h
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ int pcibus_to_node(struct pci_bus *bus);
/* Enable topology flag updates */
#define arch_update_cpu_topology topology_update_cpu_topology

+/* Replace task scheduler's default thermal pressure retrieve API */
+#define arch_cpu_thermal_pressure topology_get_thermal_pressure
+
#include <asm-generic/topology.h>

#endif /* _ASM_ARM_TOPOLOGY_H */
diff --git a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
index 1eb81f11..c2c5f1d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
+++ b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ void topology_set_cpu_scale(unsigned int cpu, unsigned long capacity)
per_cpu(cpu_scale, cpu) = capacity;
}

+DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, thermal_pressure);
+
+void arch_set_thermal_pressure(struct cpumask *cpus,
+ unsigned long th_pressure)
+{
+ int cpu;
+
+ for_each_cpu(cpu, cpus)
+ WRITE_ONCE(per_cpu(thermal_pressure, cpu), th_pressure);
+}
+
static ssize_t cpu_capacity_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
diff --git a/include/linux/arch_topology.h b/include/linux/arch_topology.h
index 3015ecb..88a115e 100644
--- a/include/linux/arch_topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/arch_topology.h
@@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ unsigned long topology_get_freq_scale(int cpu)
return per_cpu(freq_scale, cpu);
}

+DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, thermal_pressure);
+
+static inline unsigned long topology_get_thermal_pressure(int cpu)
+{
+ return per_cpu(thermal_pressure, cpu);
+}
+
+void arch_set_thermal_pressure(struct cpumask *cpus,
+ unsigned long th_pressure);
+
struct cpu_topology {
int thread_id;
int core_id;
--
2.1.4