Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: Expose the real mpidr value to EL0

[Robin Murphy]

On 2023-09-13 10:44, guojinhui wrote:
> > > In EL0, it can get the register midr's value to distinguish vendor.
> > > But it won't return real value of the register mpidr by using mrs
> > > in EL0. The register mpidr's value is useful to obtain the cpu
> > > topology information.
> >
> > ...except there's no guarantee that the MPIDR value is anything other
> > than a unique identifier. Proper topology information is already exposed
> > to userspace[1], as described by ACPI PPTT or Devicetree[2]. Userspace
> > should be using that.
> >
> > Not to mention that userspace fundamentally can't guarantee it won't be
> > migrated at just the wrong point and read the MPIDR of a different CPU
> > anyway. (This is why the MIDRs and REVIDRs are also reported via sysfs,
> > such that userspace has a stable and reliable source of information in
> > case it needs to consider potential errata.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robin.
> >
> > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cputopology.html
> > [2]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/cpu/cpu-topology.txt
>
> 1. If we can get the infomation of the vendor (by MIDR), i think it possible to obtain
> the die infomation from the MPIDR value. Such as the kunpeng-920,
> 4 cores per cluster, 8 clusters per die, whose MPIDR value is as follow:
>
> ```
> <DIE>.<CLUSTER>.<CORE>.<HT>
>
> cpu = 0, 81080000
> cpu = 1, 81080100
> ...
> cpu = 3, 81080300
> cpu = 4, 81090000
> ...
> cpu = 7, 81090300
> cpu = 8, 810a0000
> ...
> cpu = 11, 810a0300
> cpu = 12, 810b0000
> ...
> cpu = 15, 810b0300
> cpu = 16, 810c0000
> ...
> cpu = 19, 810c0300
> cpu = 20, 810d0000
> ...
> cpu = 31, 810f0300
> cpu = 32, 81180000
> ...
> cpu = 63, 811f0300
> ```
>
> we can get the die infomation by 0x810, 0x811.

This is very much a platform-specific assumption, though, and once 
you're assuming enough to be able to derive anything meaningful from a 
raw MPIDR, you could equally derive the same thing from existing sources 
like NUMA topology (if you know the SoC, then for sure you can know how 
nodes relate to dies).

> 2. we can bind the task to the specific cpu to obtain the MPIDR value.

...unless that CPU then gets offlined, the task is forcibly migrated 
elsewhere, and ends up obtaining the *wrong* MPIDR value :(

> 3. I have checked the sysfs interface `/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/topology/*`
> in Ampere and kunpeng-920 with the latest linux kernel before i submit the patch,
> but it doesn't provide the information of die.
>
> ```
> # ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/
> cluster_cpus  cluster_cpus_list  cluster_id  core_cpus  core_cpus_list  core_id  core_siblings  core_siblings_list  package_cpus  package_cpus_list  physical_package_id  thread_siblings  thread_siblings_list
> # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/topology/*
> 00000000,00000000,00000000,00000003
> 0-1
> 616
> 00000000,00000000,00000000,00000001
> 0
> 6656
> 00000000,00000000,ffffffff,ffffffff
> 0-63
> 00000000,00000000,ffffffff,ffffffff
> 0-63
> 0
> 00000000,00000000,00000000,00000001
> 0
>
> # uname -r
> 6.6.0-rc1
> ```
>
> Then I check the code which parses the cpu topology infomation from PPTT:
>
> ```
> int __init parse_acpi_topology(void)
> {
>          int cpu, topology_id;
>
>          if (acpi_disabled)
>                  return 0;
>
>          for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>                  topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology(cpu, 0);
>                  if (topology_id < 0)
>                          return topology_id;
>
>                  if (acpi_cpu_is_threaded(cpu)) {
>                          cpu_topology[cpu].thread_id = topology_id;
>                          topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology(cpu, 1);
>                          cpu_topology[cpu].core_id   = topology_id;
>                  } else {
>                          cpu_topology[cpu].thread_id  = -1;
>                          cpu_topology[cpu].core_id    = topology_id;
>                  }
>                  topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology_cluster(cpu);
>                  cpu_topology[cpu].cluster_id = topology_id;
>                  topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology_package(cpu);
>                  cpu_topology[cpu].package_id = topology_id;
>          }
>
>          return 0;
> }
> ```
>
> Actually, it just gives the infomation of thread, cluster and package
> though the PPTT provides the dies infomation.
>
> May be we can implement some code to obtain die information from PPTT?

I guess if any additional levels of hierarchy exist between the root 
"package" level and what we infer to be the "cluster" level, then it 
seems reasonable to me to infer the next level above "package" to be 
"die". Then it looks like pretty much just a case of wiring up 
topology_die_id() through the generic topology code.

Thanks,
Robin.