Re: RE: [PATCH v2 0/7] x86/resctrl : Support L3 Smart Data Cache Injection Allocation Enforcement (SDCIAE)

From: Moger, Babu
Date: Mon Jan 27 2025 - 13:25:56 EST


Hi Tony,

Thanks for testing..

On 12/18/24 17:27, Luck, Tony wrote:
> I don't have an AMD system, so I added a couple of hacks to the code to pretend I did.
> My hacks might have missed something, so the below test may not fail for you.
>
> My test:
>
> # echo 1 > info/L3/io_alloc
> # cat info/L3/bit_usage
>
> This gave me a console splat starting with:
>
> [ 163.801078] invalid mode for closid 14

I recreated the issue.

1124.714954] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 1124.714955] invalid mode for closid 15
[ 1124.714956] WARNING: CPU: 71 PID: 3553 at
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c:1082 rdt_bit_usage_show+0x238/0x2d0


>
> That happened because in rdt_bit_usage_show()
>
> for (i = 0; i < closids_supported(); i++) {
> if (!closid_allocated(i))
> continue;
> ctrl_val = resctrl_arch_get_config(r, dom, i,
> s->conf_type);
> mode = rdtgroup_mode_by_closid(i);
>
> CLOSID 14 is my highest. It's supported, and allocated.
>
> rdtgroup_mode_by_closid() searches rdt_all_groups to find
> one using CLOSID 14, but there isn't one. So it returns
> RDT_NUM_MODES
>
> Maybe RDT_NUM_MODES isn't invalid in the switch()
> Looks like it should be same action as RDT_MODE_SHAREABLE?

Yes. That is correct. Will take care of this in next revision.
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Thanks
Babu Moger