Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system

[Pierre Gondois]

Hello Yicong,
IIUC we are looking for the maximum number of threads a CPU can have
in the platform. But is is actually possible to have a platform with
CPUs not having the same number of threads ?

For instance kernel/cpu.c::cpu_smt_num_threads_valid() will check
that the number of threads is either 1 or cpu_smt_max_threads (as
CONFIG_SMT_NUM_THREADS_DYNAMIC is not enabled for arm64). However
a (hypothetical) platform with:
- CPU0: 2 threads
- CPU1: 4 threads
should not be able to set the number of threads to 2, as
1 < 2 < cpu_smt_max_threads (cf. cpu_smt_num_threads_valid()).

So if there is an assumption that all the CPUs have the same number of
threads, it should be sufficient to count the number of threads for one
CPU right ?

In the other (unlikely) case (i.e. CPUs can have various number of threads),
I think we should either:
- use your method and check that all the CPUs have the same number of threads
- get the number of threads for one CPU and check that all the CPUs are
   identical using the ACPI_PPTT_ACPI_IDENTICAL tag
- have a per-cpu cpu_smt_max_threads value ?

Same comment for the DT patch. If there is an assumption that all CPUs have
the same number of threads, then update_smt_num_threads() could only be called
once I suppose,

Regards,
Pierre


On 8/6/24 10:53, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For ACPI we'll build the topology from PPTT and we cannot directly
> get the SMT number of each core. Instead using a temporary xarray
> to record the SMT number of each core when building the topology
> and we can know the largest SMT number in the system. Then we can
> enable the support of SMT control.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> index 1a2c72f3e7f8..f72e1e55b05e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -15,8 +15,10 @@
>   #include <linux/arch_topology.h>
>   #include <linux/cacheinfo.h>
>   #include <linux/cpufreq.h>
> +#include <linux/cpu_smt.h>
>   #include <linux/init.h>
>   #include <linux/percpu.h>
> +#include <linux/xarray.h>
>   
>   #include <asm/cpu.h>
>   #include <asm/cputype.h>
> @@ -43,11 +45,16 @@ static bool __init acpi_cpu_is_threaded(int cpu)
>    */
>   int __init parse_acpi_topology(void)
>   {
> +	int thread_num, max_smt_thread_num = 1;
> +	struct xarray core_threads;
>   	int cpu, topology_id;
> +	void *entry;
>   
>   	if (acpi_disabled)
>   		return 0;
>   
> +	xa_init(&core_threads);
> +
>   	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>   		topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology(cpu, 0);
>   		if (topology_id < 0)
> @@ -57,6 +64,20 @@ int __init parse_acpi_topology(void)
>   			cpu_topology[cpu].thread_id = topology_id;
>   			topology_id = find_acpi_cpu_topology(cpu, 1);
>   			cpu_topology[cpu].core_id   = topology_id;
> +
> +			entry = xa_load(&core_threads, topology_id);
> +			if (!entry) {
> +				xa_store(&core_threads, topology_id,
> +					 xa_mk_value(1), GFP_KERNEL);
> +			} else {
> +				thread_num = xa_to_value(entry);
> +				thread_num++;
> +				xa_store(&core_threads, topology_id,
> +					 xa_mk_value(thread_num), GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +				if (thread_num > max_smt_thread_num)
> +					max_smt_thread_num = thread_num;
> +			}
>   		} else {
>   			cpu_topology[cpu].thread_id  = -1;
>   			cpu_topology[cpu].core_id    = topology_id;
> @@ -67,6 +88,9 @@ int __init parse_acpi_topology(void)
>   		cpu_topology[cpu].package_id = topology_id;
>   	}
>   
> +	cpu_smt_set_num_threads(max_smt_thread_num, max_smt_thread_num);
> +
> +	xa_destroy(&core_threads);
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   #endif