Re: [PATCH v3] hwmon: coretemp: avoid RDMSR interruptions to isolated CPUs

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Dec 28 2022 - 10:59:45 EST


On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 05:24:08PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> The coretemp driver uses rdmsr_on_cpu calls to read
> MSR_IA32_PACKAGE_THERM_STATUS/MSR_IA32_THERM_STATUS registers,
> which contain information about current core temperature.
>
> For certain low latency applications, the RDMSR interruption exceeds
> the applications requirements.
>
> So do not create core files in sysfs, for CPUs which have
> isolation and nohz_full enabled.
>
> Temperature information from the housekeeping cores should be
> sufficient to infer die temperature.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to hwmon-next.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
> v3: do not create sysfs files for isolated CPUs (Guenter Roeck)
> v2: improve changelog to mention that an error is returned,
> and sysfs file is not disabled (Guenter Roeck)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> index 9bee4d33fbdf..619dfde7a712 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> #include <asm/msr.h>
> #include <asm/processor.h>
> #include <asm/cpu_device_id.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/isolation.h>
>
> #define DRVNAME "coretemp"
>
> @@ -458,6 +459,9 @@ static int create_core_data(struct platform_device *pdev, unsigned int cpu,
> u32 eax, edx;
> int err, index, attr_no;
>
> + if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_MISC))
> + return 0;
> +
> /*
> * Find attr number for sysfs:
> * We map the attr number to core id of the CPU