[PATCH 04/23] resctrl: Expose per-control status in resource_schemata
From: Fenghua Yu
Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 17:04:21 EST
Emulated MB controls can be individually present or absent depending on
what the underlying MSC advertises, but user space has no way to tell
which controls under resource_schemata are actually backed by hardware.
Track this per control and expose it as a read-only "status" file for
scalar controls, reporting "enabled" or "disabled". The state is stored
as resctrl_membw::no_mbw_hw, which defaults to false so every control is
reported "enabled" (hardware-backed) unless an architecture explicitly
marks it as lacking MBW hardware of its own. This keeps the common case
correct on all architectures with no per-arch initialization code.
This commit only adds the generic field, the "status" file, and the
default (hardware-backed) reporting. No architecture writes no_mbw_hw
yet, so every control reports "enabled" until a backend sets it. On
MPAM the field is assigned for the emulated, hardware-less MB control in
a later patch that adds the node-scoped MB_NODE control.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/linux/resctrl.h | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
index 6b1f24c6a1f2..a3aad9b1ff6e 100644
--- a/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
+++ b/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
@@ -2318,6 +2318,16 @@ static int resctrl_ctrl_unit_show(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
return 0;
}
+static int resctrl_ctrl_status_show(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
+ struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
+{
+ struct resctrl_ctrl *ctrl = rdt_kn_parent_priv(of->kn);
+
+ seq_printf(seq, "%s\n", ctrl->membw.no_mbw_hw ? "disabled" : "enabled");
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static struct rftype ctrl_files[] = {
{
.name = "scope",
@@ -2375,6 +2385,13 @@ static struct rftype ctrl_files[] = {
.seq_show = resctrl_ctrl_unit_show,
.fflags = BIT(RESCTRL_CTRL_SCALAR),
},
+ {
+ .name = "status",
+ .mode = 0444,
+ .kf_ops = &rdtgroup_kf_single_ops,
+ .seq_show = resctrl_ctrl_status_show,
+ .fflags = BIT(RESCTRL_CTRL_SCALAR),
+ },
};
static int resctrl_add_ctrl_files(struct kernfs_node *kn, struct resctrl_ctrl *ctrl)
diff --git a/include/linux/resctrl.h b/include/linux/resctrl.h
index 4fc41e269d0b..5d8ea12ae16b 100644
--- a/include/linux/resctrl.h
+++ b/include/linux/resctrl.h
@@ -289,6 +289,9 @@ enum resctrl_ctrl_mode {
* "all" for a proportional schema. Base unit of an
* absolute control, for example "GBps".
* @mba_sc: True if MBA software controller(mba_sc) is enabled
+ * @no_mbw_hw: True if the control has no MBW (mbw_max) hardware of its
+ * own. Defaults to false (hardware-backed); architectures
+ * set this for emulated controls that lack hardware.
*
* With a control value "C" written to the schemata file, min_bw <= C <= max_bw,
* the amount of resource allocated by this control is:
@@ -303,6 +306,7 @@ struct resctrl_membw {
u32 scale;
enum resctrl_ctrl_unit unit;
bool mba_sc;
+ bool no_mbw_hw;
};
enum resctrl_scope {
--
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