[PATCH v5 0/6] Boot time cpupools

[PATCH v5 0/6] Boot time cpupools

[Luca Fancellu]

This serie introduces a feature for Xen to create cpu pools at boot time, the
feature is enabled using a configurable that is disabled by default.
The boot time cpupool feature relies on the device tree to describe the cpu
pools.
Another feature is introduced by the serie, the possibility to assign a
dom0less guest to a cpupool at boot time.

Here follows an example, Xen is built with CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS=y.

From the DT:

  [...]

  a72_0: cpu@0 {
    compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
    reg = <0x0 0x0>;
    device_type = "cpu";
    [...]
  };

  a72_1: cpu@1 {
    compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
    reg = <0x0 0x1>;
    device_type = "cpu";
    [...]
  };

  a53_0: cpu@100 {
    compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
    reg = <0x0 0x100>;
    device_type = "cpu";
    [...]
  };

  a53_1: cpu@101 {
    compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
    reg = <0x0 0x101>;
    device_type = "cpu";
    [...]
  };

  a53_2: cpu@102 {
    compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
    reg = <0x0 0x102>;
    device_type = "cpu";
    [...]
  };

  a53_3: cpu@103 {
    compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
    reg = <0x0 0x103>;
    device_type = "cpu";
    [...]
  };

  chosen {
    #size-cells = <0x1>;
    #address-cells = <0x1>;
    xen,dom0-bootargs = "...";
    xen,xen-bootargs = "...";

    cpupool0 {
      compatible = "xen,cpupool";
      cpupool-cpus = <&a72_0 &a72_1>;
      cpupool-sched = "credit2";
    };

    cp1: cpupool1 {
      compatible = "xen,cpupool";
      cpupool-cpus = <&a53_0 &a53_1 &a53_2 &a53_3>;
    };

    module@0 {
      reg = <0x80080000 0x1300000>;
      compatible = "multiboot,module";
    };

    domU1 {
      #size-cells = <0x1>;
      #address-cells = <0x1>;
      compatible = "xen,domain";
      cpus = <1>;
      memory = <0 0xC0000>;
      vpl011;
      domain-cpupool = <&cp1>;

      module@92000000 {
        compatible = "multiboot,kernel", "multiboot,module";
        reg = <0x92000000 0x1ffffff>;
        bootargs = "...";
      };
    };
  };

  [...]

The example DT is instructing Xen to have two cpu pools, the one with id 0
having two phisical cpus and the one with id 1 having 4 phisical cpu, the
second cpu pool uses the null scheduler and from the /chosen node we can see
that a dom0less guest will be started on that cpu pool.

In this particular case Xen must boot with different type of cpus, so the
boot argument hmp_unsafe must be enabled.

Luca Fancellu (6):
  tools/cpupools: Give a name to unnamed cpupools
  xen/sched: create public function for cpupools creation
  xen/sched: retrieve scheduler id by name
  xen/cpupool: Create different cpupools at boot time
  arm/dom0less: assign dom0less guests to cpupools
  xen/cpupool: Allow cpupool0 to use different scheduler

 docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt  |   5 +
 docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt | 136 +++++++++++++++
 tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c          |  35 +++-
 tools/libs/light/libxl_utils.c         |   3 +-
 xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c            |  14 +-
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h         |   3 +
 xen/common/Kconfig                     |   7 +
 xen/common/Makefile                    |   1 +
 xen/common/boot_cpupools.c             | 230 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/common/domain.c                    |   2 +-
 xen/common/sched/core.c                |  40 +++--
 xen/common/sched/cpupool.c             |  35 +++-
 xen/include/public/domctl.h            |   4 +-
 xen/include/xen/sched.h                |  53 ++++++
 14 files changed, 540 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
 create mode 100644 xen/common/boot_cpupools.c

-- 
2.17.1

[PATCH v5 1/6] tools/cpupools: Give a name to unnamed cpupools

[Luca Fancellu]

With the introduction of boot time cpupools, Xen can create many
different cpupools at boot time other than cpupool with id 0.

Since these newly created cpupools can't have an
entry in Xenstore, create the entry using xen-init-dom0
helper with the usual convention: Pool-<cpupool id>.

Given the change, remove the check for poolid == 0 from
libxl_cpupoolid_to_name(...).

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- no changes
Changes in v4:
- no changes
Changes in v3:
- no changes, add R-by
Changes in v2:
 - Remove unused variable, moved xc_cpupool_infofree
   ahead to simplify the code, use asprintf (Juergen)
---
 tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c  | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/libs/light/libxl_utils.c |  3 +--
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c b/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c
index c99224a4b607..84286617790f 100644
--- a/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c
+++ b/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     int rc;
     struct xs_handle *xsh = NULL;
     xc_interface *xch = NULL;
-    char *domname_string = NULL, *domid_string = NULL;
+    char *domname_string = NULL, *domid_string = NULL, *pool_path, *pool_name;
+    xc_cpupoolinfo_t *xcinfo;
+    unsigned int pool_id = 0;
     libxl_uuid uuid;
 
     /* Accept 0 or 1 argument */
@@ -114,6 +116,37 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         goto out;
     }
 
+    /* Create an entry in xenstore for each cpupool on the system */
+    do {
+        xcinfo = xc_cpupool_getinfo(xch, pool_id);
+        if (xcinfo != NULL) {
+            if (xcinfo->cpupool_id != pool_id)
+                pool_id = xcinfo->cpupool_id;
+            xc_cpupool_infofree(xch, xcinfo);
+            if (asprintf(&pool_path, "/local/pool/%d/name", pool_id) <= 0) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "cannot allocate memory for pool path\n");
+                rc = 1;
+                goto out;
+            }
+            if (asprintf(&pool_name, "Pool-%d", pool_id) <= 0) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "cannot allocate memory for pool name\n");
+                rc = 1;
+                goto out_err;
+            }
+            pool_id++;
+            if (!xs_write(xsh, XBT_NULL, pool_path, pool_name,
+                          strlen(pool_name))) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "cannot set pool name\n");
+                rc = 1;
+            }
+            free(pool_name);
+out_err:
+            free(pool_path);
+            if ( rc )
+                goto out;
+        }
+    } while(xcinfo != NULL);
+
     printf("Done setting up Dom0\n");
 
 out:
diff --git a/tools/libs/light/libxl_utils.c b/tools/libs/light/libxl_utils.c
index b91c2cafa223..81780da3ff40 100644
--- a/tools/libs/light/libxl_utils.c
+++ b/tools/libs/light/libxl_utils.c
@@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ char *libxl_cpupoolid_to_name(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t poolid)
 
     snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/local/pool/%d/name", poolid);
     s = xs_read(ctx->xsh, XBT_NULL, path, &len);
-    if (!s && (poolid == 0))
-        return strdup("Pool-0");
+
     return s;
 }
 
-- 
2.17.1

[PATCH v5 2/6] xen/sched: create public function for cpupools creation

[Luca Fancellu]

Create new public function to create cpupools, can take as parameter
the scheduler id or a negative value that means the default Xen
scheduler will be used.

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- no changes
Changes in v4:
- no changes
Changes in v3:
- Fixed comment (Andrew)
Changes in v2:
- cpupool_create_pool doesn't check anymore for pool id uniqueness
  before calling cpupool_create. Modified commit message accordingly
---
 xen/common/sched/cpupool.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 xen/include/xen/sched.h    | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
index a6da4970506a..89a891af7076 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
@@ -1219,6 +1219,21 @@ static void cpupool_hypfs_init(void)
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_HYPFS */
 
+struct cpupool *__init cpupool_create_pool(unsigned int pool_id, int sched_id)
+{
+    struct cpupool *pool;
+
+    if ( sched_id < 0 )
+        sched_id = scheduler_get_default()->sched_id;
+
+    pool = cpupool_create(pool_id, sched_id);
+
+    BUG_ON(IS_ERR(pool));
+    cpupool_put(pool);
+
+    return pool;
+}
+
 static int __init cf_check cpupool_init(void)
 {
     unsigned int cpu;
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
index 406d9bc610a4..b07717987434 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -1147,6 +1147,22 @@ int cpupool_move_domain(struct domain *d, struct cpupool *c);
 int cpupool_do_sysctl(struct xen_sysctl_cpupool_op *op);
 unsigned int cpupool_get_id(const struct domain *d);
 const cpumask_t *cpupool_valid_cpus(const struct cpupool *pool);
+
+/*
+ * cpupool_create_pool - Creates a cpupool
+ * @pool_id: id of the pool to be created
+ * @sched_id: id of the scheduler to be used for the pool
+ *
+ * Creates a cpupool with pool_id id.
+ * The sched_id parameter identifies the scheduler to be used, if it is
+ * negative, the default scheduler of Xen will be used.
+ *
+ * returns:
+ *     pointer to the struct cpupool just created, or Xen will panic in case of
+ *     error
+ */
+struct cpupool *cpupool_create_pool(unsigned int pool_id, int sched_id);
+
 extern void cf_check dump_runq(unsigned char key);
 
 void arch_do_physinfo(struct xen_sysctl_physinfo *pi);
-- 
2.17.1

[PATCH v5 3/6] xen/sched: retrieve scheduler id by name

[Luca Fancellu]

Add a static function to retrieve the scheduler pointer using the
scheduler name.

Add a public function to retrieve the scheduler id by the scheduler
name that makes use of the new static function.

Take the occasion to replace open coded scheduler search with the
new static function in scheduler_init.

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- no changes
Changes in v4:
- no changes
Changes in v3:
- add R-by
Changes in v2:
- replace open coded scheduler search in scheduler_init (Juergen)
---
 xen/common/sched/core.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 xen/include/xen/sched.h | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/sched/core.c b/xen/common/sched/core.c
index 19ab67818106..48ee01420fb8 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched/core.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched/core.c
@@ -2947,10 +2947,30 @@ void scheduler_enable(void)
     scheduler_active = true;
 }
 
+static inline
+const struct scheduler *__init sched_get_by_name(const char *sched_name)
+{
+    unsigned int i;
+
+    for ( i = 0; i < NUM_SCHEDULERS; i++ )
+        if ( schedulers[i] && !strcmp(schedulers[i]->opt_name, sched_name) )
+            return schedulers[i];
+
+    return NULL;
+}
+
+int __init sched_get_id_by_name(const char *sched_name)
+{
+    const struct scheduler *scheduler = sched_get_by_name(sched_name);
+
+    return scheduler ? scheduler->sched_id : -1;
+}
+
 /* Initialise the data structures. */
 void __init scheduler_init(void)
 {
     struct domain *idle_domain;
+    const struct scheduler *scheduler;
     int i;
 
     scheduler_enable();
@@ -2981,25 +3001,17 @@ void __init scheduler_init(void)
                    schedulers[i]->opt_name);
             schedulers[i] = NULL;
         }
-
-        if ( schedulers[i] && !ops.name &&
-             !strcmp(schedulers[i]->opt_name, opt_sched) )
-            ops = *schedulers[i];
     }
 
-    if ( !ops.name )
+    scheduler = sched_get_by_name(opt_sched);
+    if ( !scheduler )
     {
         printk("Could not find scheduler: %s\n", opt_sched);
-        for ( i = 0; i < NUM_SCHEDULERS; i++ )
-            if ( schedulers[i] &&
-                 !strcmp(schedulers[i]->opt_name, CONFIG_SCHED_DEFAULT) )
-            {
-                ops = *schedulers[i];
-                break;
-            }
-        BUG_ON(!ops.name);
-        printk("Using '%s' (%s)\n", ops.name, ops.opt_name);
+        scheduler = sched_get_by_name(CONFIG_SCHED_DEFAULT);
+        BUG_ON(!scheduler);
+        printk("Using '%s' (%s)\n", scheduler->name, scheduler->opt_name);
     }
+    ops = *scheduler;
 
     if ( cpu_schedule_up(0) )
         BUG();
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
index b07717987434..b527f141a1d3 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -758,6 +758,17 @@ void sched_destroy_domain(struct domain *d);
 long sched_adjust(struct domain *, struct xen_domctl_scheduler_op *);
 long sched_adjust_global(struct xen_sysctl_scheduler_op *);
 int  sched_id(void);
+
+/*
+ * sched_get_id_by_name - retrieves a scheduler id given a scheduler name
+ * @sched_name: scheduler name as a string
+ *
+ * returns:
+ *     positive value being the scheduler id, on success
+ *     negative value if the scheduler name is not found.
+ */
+int sched_get_id_by_name(const char *sched_name);
+
 void vcpu_wake(struct vcpu *v);
 long vcpu_yield(void);
 void vcpu_sleep_nosync(struct vcpu *v);
-- 
2.17.1

[PATCH v5 4/6] xen/cpupool: Create different cpupools at boot time

[Luca Fancellu]

Introduce a way to create different cpupools at boot time, this is
particularly useful on ARM big.LITTLE system where there might be the
need to have different cpupools for each type of core, but also
systems using NUMA can have different cpu pools for each node.

The feature on arm relies on a specification of the cpupools from the
device tree to build pools and assign cpus to them.

Documentation is created to explain the feature.

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- Fixed wrong variable name, swapped schedulers, add scheduler info
  in the printk (Stefano)
- introduce assert in cpupool_init and btcpupools_get_cpupool_id to
  harden the code
Changes in v4:
- modify Makefile to put in *.init.o, fixed stubs and macro (Jan)
- fixed docs, fix brakets (Stefano)
- keep cpu0 in Pool-0 (Julien)
- moved printk from btcpupools_allocate_pools to
  btcpupools_get_cpupool_id
- Add to docs constraint about cpu0 and Pool-0
Changes in v3:
- Add newline to cpupools.txt and removed "default n" from Kconfig (Jan)
- Fixed comment, moved defines, used global cpu_online_map, use
  HAS_DEVICE_TREE instead of ARM and place arch specific code in header
  (Juergen)
- Fix brakets, x86 code only panic, get rid of scheduler dt node, don't
  save pool pointer and look for it from the pool list (Stefano)
- Changed data structures to allow modification to the code.
Changes in v2:
- Move feature to common code (Juergen)
- Try to decouple dtb parse and cpupool creation to allow
  more way to specify cpupools (for example command line)
- Created standalone dt node for the scheduler so it can
  be used in future work to set scheduler specific
  parameters
- Use only auto generated ids for cpupools
---
 docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt | 136 +++++++++++++++++
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h         |   3 +
 xen/common/Kconfig                     |   7 +
 xen/common/Makefile                    |   1 +
 xen/common/boot_cpupools.c             | 203 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/common/sched/cpupool.c             |  12 +-
 xen/include/xen/sched.h                |  14 ++
 7 files changed, 375 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
 create mode 100644 xen/common/boot_cpupools.c

diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5dac2b1384e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+Boot time cpupools
+==================
+
+When BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS is enabled in the Xen configuration, it is possible to
+create cpupools during boot phase by specifying them in the device tree.
+
+Cpupools specification nodes shall be direct childs of /chosen node.
+Each cpupool node contains the following properties:
+
+- compatible (mandatory)
+
+    Must always include the compatiblity string: "xen,cpupool".
+
+- cpupool-cpus (mandatory)
+
+    Must be a list of device tree phandle to nodes describing cpus (e.g. having
+    device_type = "cpu"), it can't be empty.
+
+- cpupool-sched (optional)
+
+    Must be a string having the name of a Xen scheduler. Check the sched=<...>
+    boot argument for allowed values.
+
+
+Constraints
+===========
+
+If no cpupools are specified, all cpus will be assigned to one cpupool
+implicitly created (Pool-0).
+
+If cpupools node are specified, but not every cpu brought up by Xen is assigned,
+all the not assigned cpu will be assigned to an additional cpupool.
+
+If a cpu is assigned to a cpupool, but it's not brought up correctly, Xen will
+stop.
+
+The boot cpu must be assigned to Pool-0, so the cpupool containing that core
+will become Pool-0 automatically.
+
+
+Examples
+========
+
+A system having two types of core, the following device tree specification will
+instruct Xen to have two cpupools:
+
+- The cpupool with id 0 will have 4 cpus assigned.
+- The cpupool with id 1 will have 2 cpus assigned.
+
+The following example can work only if hmp-unsafe=1 is passed to Xen boot
+arguments, otherwise not all cores will be brought up by Xen and the cpupool
+creation process will stop Xen.
+
+
+a72_1: cpu@0 {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
+        reg = <0x0 0x0>;
+        device_type = "cpu";
+        [...]
+};
+
+a72_2: cpu@1 {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
+        reg = <0x0 0x1>;
+        device_type = "cpu";
+        [...]
+};
+
+a53_1: cpu@100 {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
+        reg = <0x0 0x100>;
+        device_type = "cpu";
+        [...]
+};
+
+a53_2: cpu@101 {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
+        reg = <0x0 0x101>;
+        device_type = "cpu";
+        [...]
+};
+
+a53_3: cpu@102 {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
+        reg = <0x0 0x102>;
+        device_type = "cpu";
+        [...]
+};
+
+a53_4: cpu@103 {
+        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
+        reg = <0x0 0x103>;
+        device_type = "cpu";
+        [...]
+};
+
+chosen {
+
+    cpupool_a {
+        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
+        cpupool-cpus = <&a53_1 &a53_2 &a53_3 &a53_4>;
+    };
+    cpupool_b {
+        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
+        cpupool-cpus = <&a72_1 &a72_2>;
+        cpupool-sched = "credit2";
+    };
+
+    [...]
+
+};
+
+
+A system having the cpupools specification below will instruct Xen to have three
+cpupools:
+
+- The cpupool Pool-0 will have 2 cpus assigned.
+- The cpupool Pool-1 will have 2 cpus assigned.
+- The cpupool Pool-2 will have 2 cpus assigned (created by Xen with all the not
+  assigned cpus a53_3 and a53_4).
+
+chosen {
+
+    cpupool_a {
+        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
+        cpupool-cpus = <&a53_1 &a53_2>;
+    };
+    cpupool_b {
+        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
+        cpupool-cpus = <&a72_1 &a72_2>;
+        cpupool-sched = "null";
+    };
+
+    [...]
+
+};
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
index af5a2fe65266..83c0cd69767b 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ extern void init_secondary(void);
 extern void smp_init_cpus(void);
 extern void smp_clear_cpu_maps (void);
 extern int smp_get_max_cpus (void);
+
+#define cpu_physical_id(cpu) cpu_logical_map(cpu)
+
 #endif
 
 /*
diff --git a/xen/common/Kconfig b/xen/common/Kconfig
index d921c74d615e..70aac5220e75 100644
--- a/xen/common/Kconfig
+++ b/xen/common/Kconfig
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ config GRANT_TABLE
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
+config BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS
+	bool "Create cpupools at boot time"
+	depends on HAS_DEVICE_TREE
+	help
+	  Creates cpupools during boot time and assigns cpus to them. Cpupools
+	  options can be specified in the device tree.
+
 config ALTERNATIVE_CALL
 	bool
 
diff --git a/xen/common/Makefile b/xen/common/Makefile
index dc8d3a13f5b8..e30cd26eef70 100644
--- a/xen/common/Makefile
+++ b/xen/common/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARGO) += argo.o
 obj-y += bitmap.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS) += boot_cpupools.init.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HYPFS_CONFIG) += config_data.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CORE_PARKING) += core_parking.o
 obj-y += cpu.o
diff --git a/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97c321386879
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+/*
+ * xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
+ *
+ * Code to create cpupools at boot time.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2022 Arm Ltd.
+ */
+
+#include <xen/sched.h>
+
+/*
+ * pool_cpu_map:   Index is logical cpu number, content is cpupool id, (-1) for
+ *                 unassigned.
+ * pool_sched_map: Index is cpupool id, content is scheduler id, (-1) for
+ *                 unassigned.
+ */
+static int __initdata pool_cpu_map[NR_CPUS]   = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = -1 };
+static int __initdata pool_sched_map[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = -1 };
+static unsigned int __initdata next_pool_id;
+
+#define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_REG     (-1)
+#define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_LOG_CPU (-2)
+
+static int __init get_logical_cpu_from_hw_id(unsigned int hwid)
+{
+    unsigned int i;
+
+    for ( i = 0; i < nr_cpu_ids; i++ )
+    {
+        if ( cpu_physical_id(i) == hwid )
+            return i;
+    }
+
+    return -1;
+}
+
+static int __init
+get_logical_cpu_from_cpu_node(const struct dt_device_node *cpu_node)
+{
+    int cpu_num;
+    const __be32 *prop;
+    unsigned int cpu_reg;
+
+    prop = dt_get_property(cpu_node, "reg", NULL);
+    if ( !prop )
+        return BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_REG;
+
+    cpu_reg = dt_read_number(prop, dt_n_addr_cells(cpu_node));
+
+    cpu_num = get_logical_cpu_from_hw_id(cpu_reg);
+    if ( cpu_num < 0 )
+        return BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_LOG_CPU;
+
+    return cpu_num;
+}
+
+static int __init check_and_get_sched_id(const char* scheduler_name)
+{
+    int sched_id = sched_get_id_by_name(scheduler_name);
+
+    if ( sched_id < 0 )
+        panic("Scheduler %s does not exists!\n", scheduler_name);
+
+    return sched_id;
+}
+
+void __init btcpupools_dtb_parse(void)
+{
+    const struct dt_device_node *chosen, *node;
+
+    chosen = dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
+    if ( !chosen )
+        return;
+
+    dt_for_each_child_node(chosen, node)
+    {
+        const struct dt_device_node *phandle_node;
+        int sched_id = -1;
+        const char* scheduler_name;
+        unsigned int i = 0;
+
+        if ( !dt_device_is_compatible(node, "xen,cpupool") )
+            continue;
+
+        if ( !dt_property_read_string(node, "cpupool-sched", &scheduler_name) )
+            sched_id = check_and_get_sched_id(scheduler_name);
+
+        phandle_node = dt_parse_phandle(node, "cpupool-cpus", i++);
+        if ( !phandle_node )
+            panic("Missing or empty cpupool-cpus property!\n");
+
+        while ( phandle_node )
+        {
+            int cpu_num;
+
+            cpu_num = get_logical_cpu_from_cpu_node(phandle_node);
+
+            if ( cpu_num < 0 )
+                panic("Error retrieving logical cpu from node %s (%d)\n",
+                      dt_node_name(node), cpu_num);
+
+            if ( pool_cpu_map[cpu_num] != -1 )
+                panic("Logical cpu %d already added to a cpupool!\n", cpu_num);
+
+            pool_cpu_map[cpu_num] = next_pool_id;
+
+            phandle_node = dt_parse_phandle(node, "cpupool-cpus", i++);
+        }
+
+        /* Save scheduler choice for this cpupool id */
+        pool_sched_map[next_pool_id] = sched_id;
+
+        /* Let Xen generate pool ids */
+        next_pool_id++;
+    }
+}
+
+void __init btcpupools_allocate_pools(void)
+{
+    unsigned int i;
+    bool add_extra_cpupool = false;
+    int swap_id = -1;
+
+    /*
+     * If there are no cpupools, the value of next_pool_id is zero, so the code
+     * below will assign every cpu to cpupool0 as the default behavior.
+     * When there are cpupools, the code below is assigning all the not
+     * assigned cpu to a new pool (next_pool_id value is the last id + 1).
+     * In the same loop we check if there is any assigned cpu that is not
+     * online.
+     */
+    for ( i = 0; i < nr_cpu_ids; i++ )
+    {
+        if ( cpumask_test_cpu(i, &cpu_online_map) )
+        {
+            /* Unassigned cpu gets next_pool_id pool id value */
+            if ( pool_cpu_map[i] < 0 )
+            {
+                pool_cpu_map[i] = next_pool_id;
+                add_extra_cpupool = true;
+            }
+
+            /*
+             * Cpu0 must be in cpupool0, otherwise some operations like moving
+             * cpus between cpupools, cpu hotplug, destroying cpupools, shutdown
+             * of the host, might not work in a sane way.
+             */
+            if ( !i && (pool_cpu_map[0] != 0) )
+                swap_id = pool_cpu_map[0];
+
+            if ( swap_id != -1 )
+            {
+                if ( pool_cpu_map[i] == swap_id )
+                    pool_cpu_map[i] = 0;
+                else if ( pool_cpu_map[i] == 0 )
+                    pool_cpu_map[i] = swap_id;
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            if ( pool_cpu_map[i] >= 0 )
+                panic("Pool-%d contains cpu%u that is not online!\n",
+                      pool_cpu_map[i], i);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /* A swap happened, swap schedulers between cpupool id 0 and the other */
+    if ( swap_id != -1 )
+    {
+        int swap_sched = pool_sched_map[swap_id];
+
+        pool_sched_map[swap_id] = pool_sched_map[0];
+        pool_sched_map[0] = swap_sched;
+    }
+
+    if ( add_extra_cpupool )
+        next_pool_id++;
+
+    /* Create cpupools with selected schedulers */
+    for ( i = 0; i < next_pool_id; i++ )
+        cpupool_create_pool(i, pool_sched_map[i]);
+}
+
+unsigned int __init btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+    ASSERT((cpu < NR_CPUS) && (pool_cpu_map[cpu] >= 0));
+
+    printk(XENLOG_INFO "Logical CPU %u in Pool-%d (Scheduler id: %d).\n",
+           cpu, pool_cpu_map[cpu], pool_sched_map[pool_cpu_map[cpu]]);
+
+    return pool_cpu_map[cpu];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Local variables:
+ * mode: C
+ * c-file-style: "BSD"
+ * c-basic-offset: 4
+ * tab-width: 4
+ * indent-tabs-mode: nil
+ * End:
+ */
diff --git a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
index 89a891af7076..86a175f99cd5 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
@@ -1247,12 +1247,22 @@ static int __init cf_check cpupool_init(void)
     cpupool_put(cpupool0);
     register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_nfb);
 
+    btcpupools_dtb_parse();
+
+    btcpupools_allocate_pools();
+
     spin_lock(&cpupool_lock);
 
     cpumask_copy(&cpupool_free_cpus, &cpu_online_map);
 
     for_each_cpu ( cpu, &cpupool_free_cpus )
-        cpupool_assign_cpu_locked(cpupool0, cpu);
+    {
+        unsigned int pool_id = btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(cpu);
+        struct cpupool *pool = cpupool_find_by_id(pool_id);
+
+        ASSERT(pool);
+        cpupool_assign_cpu_locked(pool, cpu);
+    }
 
     spin_unlock(&cpupool_lock);
 
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
index b527f141a1d3..453e98f1cba8 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -1178,6 +1178,20 @@ extern void cf_check dump_runq(unsigned char key);
 
 void arch_do_physinfo(struct xen_sysctl_physinfo *pi);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS
+void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void);
+unsigned int btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu);
+void btcpupools_dtb_parse(void);
+
+#else /* !CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS */
+static inline void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void) {}
+static inline void btcpupools_dtb_parse(void) {}
+static inline unsigned int btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* __SCHED_H__ */
 
 /*
-- 
2.17.1

[PATCH v5 5/6] arm/dom0less: assign dom0less guests to cpupools

[Luca Fancellu]

Introduce domain-cpupool property of a xen,domain device tree node,
that specifies the cpupool device tree handle of a xen,cpupool node
that identifies a cpupool created at boot time where the guest will
be assigned on creation.

Add member to the xen_domctl_createdomain public interface so the
XEN_DOMCTL_INTERFACE_VERSION version is bumped.

Add public function to retrieve a pool id from the device tree
cpupool node.

Update documentation about the property.

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
---
Changes in v5:
- no changes
Changes in v4:
- no changes
- add R-by
Changes in v3:
- Use explicitely sized integer for struct xen_domctl_createdomain
  cpupool_id member. (Stefano)
- Changed code due to previous commit code changes
Changes in v2:
- Moved cpupool_id from arch specific to common part (Juergen)
- Implemented functions to retrieve the cpupool id from the
  cpupool dtb node.
---
 docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt |  5 +++++
 xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c           | 14 +++++++++++++-
 xen/common/boot_cpupools.c            | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/common/domain.c                   |  2 +-
 xen/include/public/domctl.h           |  4 +++-
 xen/include/xen/sched.h               |  9 +++++++++
 6 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
index a94125394e35..7b4a29a2c293 100644
--- a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/booting.txt
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ with the following properties:
     An empty property to request the memory of the domain to be
     direct-map (guest physical address == physical address).
 
+- domain-cpupool
+
+    Optional. Handle to a xen,cpupool device tree node that identifies the
+    cpupool where the guest will be started at boot.
+
 Under the "xen,domain" compatible node, one or more sub-nodes are present
 for the DomU kernel and ramdisk.
 
diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
index 8be01678de05..9c67a483d4a4 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain_build.c
@@ -3172,7 +3172,8 @@ static int __init construct_domU(struct domain *d,
 void __init create_domUs(void)
 {
     struct dt_device_node *node;
-    const struct dt_device_node *chosen = dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
+    const struct dt_device_node *cpupool_node,
+                                *chosen = dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
 
     BUG_ON(chosen == NULL);
     dt_for_each_child_node(chosen, node)
@@ -3241,6 +3242,17 @@ void __init create_domUs(void)
                                          vpl011_virq - 32 + 1);
         }
 
+        /* Get the optional property domain-cpupool */
+        cpupool_node = dt_parse_phandle(node, "domain-cpupool", 0);
+        if ( cpupool_node )
+        {
+            int pool_id = btcpupools_get_domain_pool_id(cpupool_node);
+            if ( pool_id < 0 )
+                panic("Error getting cpupool id from domain-cpupool (%d)\n",
+                      pool_id);
+            d_cfg.cpupool_id = pool_id;
+        }
+
         /*
          * The variable max_init_domid is initialized with zero, so here it's
          * very important to use the pre-increment operator to call
diff --git a/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
index 97c321386879..1f940330a62d 100644
--- a/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
+++ b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ static unsigned int __initdata next_pool_id;
 
 #define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_REG     (-1)
 #define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_LOG_CPU (-2)
+#define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_WRONG_NODE      (-3)
+#define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_CORRUPTED_NODE  (-4)
 
 static int __init get_logical_cpu_from_hw_id(unsigned int hwid)
 {
@@ -55,6 +57,28 @@ get_logical_cpu_from_cpu_node(const struct dt_device_node *cpu_node)
     return cpu_num;
 }
 
+int __init btcpupools_get_domain_pool_id(const struct dt_device_node *node)
+{
+    const struct dt_device_node *phandle_node;
+    int cpu_num;
+
+    if ( !dt_device_is_compatible(node, "xen,cpupool") )
+        return BTCPUPOOLS_DT_WRONG_NODE;
+    /*
+     * Get first cpu listed in the cpupool, from its reg it's possible to
+     * retrieve the cpupool id.
+     */
+    phandle_node = dt_parse_phandle(node, "cpupool-cpus", 0);
+    if ( !phandle_node )
+        return BTCPUPOOLS_DT_CORRUPTED_NODE;
+
+    cpu_num = get_logical_cpu_from_cpu_node(phandle_node);
+    if ( cpu_num < 0 )
+        return cpu_num;
+
+    return pool_cpu_map[cpu_num];
+}
+
 static int __init check_and_get_sched_id(const char* scheduler_name)
 {
     int sched_id = sched_get_id_by_name(scheduler_name);
diff --git a/xen/common/domain.c b/xen/common/domain.c
index 351029f8b239..0827400f4f49 100644
--- a/xen/common/domain.c
+++ b/xen/common/domain.c
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ struct domain *domain_create(domid_t domid,
         if ( !d->pbuf )
             goto fail;
 
-        if ( (err = sched_init_domain(d, 0)) != 0 )
+        if ( (err = sched_init_domain(d, config->cpupool_id)) != 0 )
             goto fail;
 
         if ( (err = late_hwdom_init(d)) != 0 )
diff --git a/xen/include/public/domctl.h b/xen/include/public/domctl.h
index b85e6170b0aa..2f4cf56f438d 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/domctl.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/domctl.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 #include "hvm/save.h"
 #include "memory.h"
 
-#define XEN_DOMCTL_INTERFACE_VERSION 0x00000014
+#define XEN_DOMCTL_INTERFACE_VERSION 0x00000015
 
 /*
  * NB. xen_domctl.domain is an IN/OUT parameter for this operation.
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ struct xen_domctl_createdomain {
     /* Per-vCPU buffer size in bytes.  0 to disable. */
     uint32_t vmtrace_size;
 
+    uint32_t cpupool_id;
+
     struct xen_arch_domainconfig arch;
 };
 
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
index 453e98f1cba8..b62315ad5e5d 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -1182,6 +1182,7 @@ void arch_do_physinfo(struct xen_sysctl_physinfo *pi);
 void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void);
 unsigned int btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu);
 void btcpupools_dtb_parse(void);
+int btcpupools_get_domain_pool_id(const struct dt_device_node *node);
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS */
 static inline void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void) {}
@@ -1190,6 +1191,14 @@ static inline unsigned int btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu)
 {
     return 0;
 }
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_DEVICE_TREE
+static inline int
+btcpupools_get_domain_pool_id(const struct dt_device_node *node)
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif
 
 #endif /* __SCHED_H__ */
-- 
2.17.1

[PATCH v5 6/6] xen/cpupool: Allow cpupool0 to use different scheduler

[Luca Fancellu]

Currently cpupool0 can use only the default scheduler, and
cpupool_create has an hardcoded behavior when creating the pool 0
that doesn't allocate new memory for the scheduler, but uses the
default scheduler structure in memory.

With this commit it is possible to allocate a different scheduler for
the cpupool0 when using the boot time cpupool.
To achieve this the hardcoded behavior in cpupool_create is removed
and the cpupool0 creation is moved.

When compiling without boot time cpupools enabled, the current
behavior is maintained (except that cpupool0 scheduler memory will be
allocated).

Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
---
Changes in v5:
- no changes
Changes in v4:
- no changes
Changes in v3:
- fix typo in commit message (Juergen)
- rebase changes
Changes in v2:
- new patch
---
 xen/common/boot_cpupools.c | 5 ++++-
 xen/common/sched/cpupool.c | 8 +-------
 xen/include/xen/sched.h    | 5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
index 1f940330a62d..a56baf3329a9 100644
--- a/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
+++ b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
@@ -201,8 +201,11 @@ void __init btcpupools_allocate_pools(void)
     if ( add_extra_cpupool )
         next_pool_id++;
 
+    /* Keep track of cpupool id 0 with the global cpupool0 */
+    cpupool0 = cpupool_create_pool(0, pool_sched_map[0]);
+
     /* Create cpupools with selected schedulers */
-    for ( i = 0; i < next_pool_id; i++ )
+    for ( i = 1; i < next_pool_id; i++ )
         cpupool_create_pool(i, pool_sched_map[i]);
 }
 
diff --git a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
index 86a175f99cd5..83112f5f04d3 100644
--- a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
+++ b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
@@ -312,10 +312,7 @@ static struct cpupool *cpupool_create(unsigned int poolid,
         c->cpupool_id = q->cpupool_id + 1;
     }
 
-    if ( poolid == 0 )
-        c->sched = scheduler_get_default();
-    else
-        c->sched = scheduler_alloc(sched_id);
+    c->sched = scheduler_alloc(sched_id);
     if ( IS_ERR(c->sched) )
     {
         ret = PTR_ERR(c->sched);
@@ -1242,9 +1239,6 @@ static int __init cf_check cpupool_init(void)
 
     cpupool_hypfs_init();
 
-    cpupool0 = cpupool_create(0, 0);
-    BUG_ON(IS_ERR(cpupool0));
-    cpupool_put(cpupool0);
     register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_nfb);
 
     btcpupools_dtb_parse();
diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
index b62315ad5e5d..e8f31758c058 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
@@ -1185,7 +1185,10 @@ void btcpupools_dtb_parse(void);
 int btcpupools_get_domain_pool_id(const struct dt_device_node *node);
 
 #else /* !CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS */
-static inline void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void) {}
+static inline void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void)
+{
+    cpupool0 = cpupool_create_pool(0, -1);
+}
 static inline void btcpupools_dtb_parse(void) {}
 static inline unsigned int btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu)
 {
-- 
2.17.1

Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] tools/cpupools: Give a name to unnamed cpupools

[Anthony PERARD]

Hi Luca,

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 09:57:36AM +0100, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> diff --git a/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c b/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c
> index c99224a4b607..84286617790f 100644
> --- a/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c
> +++ b/tools/helpers/xen-init-dom0.c
> @@ -43,7 +43,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>      int rc;
>      struct xs_handle *xsh = NULL;
>      xc_interface *xch = NULL;
> -    char *domname_string = NULL, *domid_string = NULL;
> +    char *domname_string = NULL, *domid_string = NULL, *pool_path, *pool_name;
> +    xc_cpupoolinfo_t *xcinfo;
> +    unsigned int pool_id = 0;
>      libxl_uuid uuid;
>  
>      /* Accept 0 or 1 argument */
> @@ -114,6 +116,37 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>          goto out;
>      }
>  
> +    /* Create an entry in xenstore for each cpupool on the system */
> +    do {
> +        xcinfo = xc_cpupool_getinfo(xch, pool_id);
> +        if (xcinfo != NULL) {
> +            if (xcinfo->cpupool_id != pool_id)
> +                pool_id = xcinfo->cpupool_id;
> +            xc_cpupool_infofree(xch, xcinfo);
> +            if (asprintf(&pool_path, "/local/pool/%d/name", pool_id) <= 0) {
> +                fprintf(stderr, "cannot allocate memory for pool path\n");
> +                rc = 1;
> +                goto out;
> +            }
> +            if (asprintf(&pool_name, "Pool-%d", pool_id) <= 0) {
> +                fprintf(stderr, "cannot allocate memory for pool name\n");
> +                rc = 1;
> +                goto out_err;

Could you rework this loop so that "goto out" is always the right things
to do in case of error? That is the function would always free()
"pool_path" and "pool_name" regardless of their values, and we only need
to make sure both are NULL when they are already free. This is to avoid
having several path in case of error, as this could result in mistake
later. If there's only one error path, there will be less likely to have
mistakes. This loop, at the moment, is using three different error
paths: "goto out", "goto out_err", and no goto followed by a standalone
goto.

> +            }
> +            pool_id++;
> +            if (!xs_write(xsh, XBT_NULL, pool_path, pool_name,
> +                          strlen(pool_name))) {
> +                fprintf(stderr, "cannot set pool name\n");
> +                rc = 1;
> +            }
> +            free(pool_name);
> +out_err:
> +            free(pool_path);
> +            if ( rc )
> +                goto out;
> +        }
> +    } while(xcinfo != NULL);

Thanks,

-- 
Anthony PERARD

Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] xen/cpupool: Create different cpupools at boot time

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> Introduce a way to create different cpupools at boot time, this is
> particularly useful on ARM big.LITTLE system where there might be the
> need to have different cpupools for each type of core, but also
> systems using NUMA can have different cpu pools for each node.
> 
> The feature on arm relies on a specification of the cpupools from the
> device tree to build pools and assign cpus to them.
> 
> Documentation is created to explain the feature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>

Looks good to me now:

Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>

I think we only need Juergen to take one last look at the series and it
should be good to go.


> ---
> Changes in v5:
> - Fixed wrong variable name, swapped schedulers, add scheduler info
>   in the printk (Stefano)
> - introduce assert in cpupool_init and btcpupools_get_cpupool_id to
>   harden the code
> Changes in v4:
> - modify Makefile to put in *.init.o, fixed stubs and macro (Jan)
> - fixed docs, fix brakets (Stefano)
> - keep cpu0 in Pool-0 (Julien)
> - moved printk from btcpupools_allocate_pools to
>   btcpupools_get_cpupool_id
> - Add to docs constraint about cpu0 and Pool-0
> Changes in v3:
> - Add newline to cpupools.txt and removed "default n" from Kconfig (Jan)
> - Fixed comment, moved defines, used global cpu_online_map, use
>   HAS_DEVICE_TREE instead of ARM and place arch specific code in header
>   (Juergen)
> - Fix brakets, x86 code only panic, get rid of scheduler dt node, don't
>   save pool pointer and look for it from the pool list (Stefano)
> - Changed data structures to allow modification to the code.
> Changes in v2:
> - Move feature to common code (Juergen)
> - Try to decouple dtb parse and cpupool creation to allow
>   more way to specify cpupools (for example command line)
> - Created standalone dt node for the scheduler so it can
>   be used in future work to set scheduler specific
>   parameters
> - Use only auto generated ids for cpupools
> ---
>  docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt | 136 +++++++++++++++++
>  xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h         |   3 +
>  xen/common/Kconfig                     |   7 +
>  xen/common/Makefile                    |   1 +
>  xen/common/boot_cpupools.c             | 203 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  xen/common/sched/cpupool.c             |  12 +-
>  xen/include/xen/sched.h                |  14 ++
>  7 files changed, 375 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
>  create mode 100644 xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
> 
> diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..5dac2b1384e0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
> +Boot time cpupools
> +==================
> +
> +When BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS is enabled in the Xen configuration, it is possible to
> +create cpupools during boot phase by specifying them in the device tree.
> +
> +Cpupools specification nodes shall be direct childs of /chosen node.
> +Each cpupool node contains the following properties:
> +
> +- compatible (mandatory)
> +
> +    Must always include the compatiblity string: "xen,cpupool".
> +
> +- cpupool-cpus (mandatory)
> +
> +    Must be a list of device tree phandle to nodes describing cpus (e.g. having
> +    device_type = "cpu"), it can't be empty.
> +
> +- cpupool-sched (optional)
> +
> +    Must be a string having the name of a Xen scheduler. Check the sched=<...>
> +    boot argument for allowed values.
> +
> +
> +Constraints
> +===========
> +
> +If no cpupools are specified, all cpus will be assigned to one cpupool
> +implicitly created (Pool-0).
> +
> +If cpupools node are specified, but not every cpu brought up by Xen is assigned,
> +all the not assigned cpu will be assigned to an additional cpupool.
> +
> +If a cpu is assigned to a cpupool, but it's not brought up correctly, Xen will
> +stop.
> +
> +The boot cpu must be assigned to Pool-0, so the cpupool containing that core
> +will become Pool-0 automatically.
> +
> +
> +Examples
> +========
> +
> +A system having two types of core, the following device tree specification will
> +instruct Xen to have two cpupools:
> +
> +- The cpupool with id 0 will have 4 cpus assigned.
> +- The cpupool with id 1 will have 2 cpus assigned.
> +
> +The following example can work only if hmp-unsafe=1 is passed to Xen boot
> +arguments, otherwise not all cores will be brought up by Xen and the cpupool
> +creation process will stop Xen.
> +
> +
> +a72_1: cpu@0 {
> +        compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
> +        reg = <0x0 0x0>;
> +        device_type = "cpu";
> +        [...]
> +};
> +
> +a72_2: cpu@1 {
> +        compatible = "arm,cortex-a72";
> +        reg = <0x0 0x1>;
> +        device_type = "cpu";
> +        [...]
> +};
> +
> +a53_1: cpu@100 {
> +        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
> +        reg = <0x0 0x100>;
> +        device_type = "cpu";
> +        [...]
> +};
> +
> +a53_2: cpu@101 {
> +        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
> +        reg = <0x0 0x101>;
> +        device_type = "cpu";
> +        [...]
> +};
> +
> +a53_3: cpu@102 {
> +        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
> +        reg = <0x0 0x102>;
> +        device_type = "cpu";
> +        [...]
> +};
> +
> +a53_4: cpu@103 {
> +        compatible = "arm,cortex-a53";
> +        reg = <0x0 0x103>;
> +        device_type = "cpu";
> +        [...]
> +};
> +
> +chosen {
> +
> +    cpupool_a {
> +        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
> +        cpupool-cpus = <&a53_1 &a53_2 &a53_3 &a53_4>;
> +    };
> +    cpupool_b {
> +        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
> +        cpupool-cpus = <&a72_1 &a72_2>;
> +        cpupool-sched = "credit2";
> +    };
> +
> +    [...]
> +
> +};
> +
> +
> +A system having the cpupools specification below will instruct Xen to have three
> +cpupools:
> +
> +- The cpupool Pool-0 will have 2 cpus assigned.
> +- The cpupool Pool-1 will have 2 cpus assigned.
> +- The cpupool Pool-2 will have 2 cpus assigned (created by Xen with all the not
> +  assigned cpus a53_3 and a53_4).
> +
> +chosen {
> +
> +    cpupool_a {
> +        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
> +        cpupool-cpus = <&a53_1 &a53_2>;
> +    };
> +    cpupool_b {
> +        compatible = "xen,cpupool";
> +        cpupool-cpus = <&a72_1 &a72_2>;
> +        cpupool-sched = "null";
> +    };
> +
> +    [...]
> +
> +};
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
> index af5a2fe65266..83c0cd69767b 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/include/asm/smp.h
> @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ extern void init_secondary(void);
>  extern void smp_init_cpus(void);
>  extern void smp_clear_cpu_maps (void);
>  extern int smp_get_max_cpus (void);
> +
> +#define cpu_physical_id(cpu) cpu_logical_map(cpu)
> +
>  #endif
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/xen/common/Kconfig b/xen/common/Kconfig
> index d921c74d615e..70aac5220e75 100644
> --- a/xen/common/Kconfig
> +++ b/xen/common/Kconfig
> @@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ config GRANT_TABLE
>  
>  	  If unsure, say Y.
>  
> +config BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS
> +	bool "Create cpupools at boot time"
> +	depends on HAS_DEVICE_TREE
> +	help
> +	  Creates cpupools during boot time and assigns cpus to them. Cpupools
> +	  options can be specified in the device tree.
> +
>  config ALTERNATIVE_CALL
>  	bool
>  
> diff --git a/xen/common/Makefile b/xen/common/Makefile
> index dc8d3a13f5b8..e30cd26eef70 100644
> --- a/xen/common/Makefile
> +++ b/xen/common/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ARGO) += argo.o
>  obj-y += bitmap.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS) += boot_cpupools.init.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HYPFS_CONFIG) += config_data.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_CORE_PARKING) += core_parking.o
>  obj-y += cpu.o
> diff --git a/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..97c321386879
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/*
> + * xen/common/boot_cpupools.c
> + *
> + * Code to create cpupools at boot time.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2022 Arm Ltd.
> + */
> +
> +#include <xen/sched.h>
> +
> +/*
> + * pool_cpu_map:   Index is logical cpu number, content is cpupool id, (-1) for
> + *                 unassigned.
> + * pool_sched_map: Index is cpupool id, content is scheduler id, (-1) for
> + *                 unassigned.
> + */
> +static int __initdata pool_cpu_map[NR_CPUS]   = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = -1 };
> +static int __initdata pool_sched_map[NR_CPUS] = { [0 ... NR_CPUS-1] = -1 };
> +static unsigned int __initdata next_pool_id;
> +
> +#define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_REG     (-1)
> +#define BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_LOG_CPU (-2)
> +
> +static int __init get_logical_cpu_from_hw_id(unsigned int hwid)
> +{
> +    unsigned int i;
> +
> +    for ( i = 0; i < nr_cpu_ids; i++ )
> +    {
> +        if ( cpu_physical_id(i) == hwid )
> +            return i;
> +    }
> +
> +    return -1;
> +}
> +
> +static int __init
> +get_logical_cpu_from_cpu_node(const struct dt_device_node *cpu_node)
> +{
> +    int cpu_num;
> +    const __be32 *prop;
> +    unsigned int cpu_reg;
> +
> +    prop = dt_get_property(cpu_node, "reg", NULL);
> +    if ( !prop )
> +        return BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_REG;
> +
> +    cpu_reg = dt_read_number(prop, dt_n_addr_cells(cpu_node));
> +
> +    cpu_num = get_logical_cpu_from_hw_id(cpu_reg);
> +    if ( cpu_num < 0 )
> +        return BTCPUPOOLS_DT_NODE_NO_LOG_CPU;
> +
> +    return cpu_num;
> +}
> +
> +static int __init check_and_get_sched_id(const char* scheduler_name)
> +{
> +    int sched_id = sched_get_id_by_name(scheduler_name);
> +
> +    if ( sched_id < 0 )
> +        panic("Scheduler %s does not exists!\n", scheduler_name);
> +
> +    return sched_id;
> +}
> +
> +void __init btcpupools_dtb_parse(void)
> +{
> +    const struct dt_device_node *chosen, *node;
> +
> +    chosen = dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
> +    if ( !chosen )
> +        return;
> +
> +    dt_for_each_child_node(chosen, node)
> +    {
> +        const struct dt_device_node *phandle_node;
> +        int sched_id = -1;
> +        const char* scheduler_name;
> +        unsigned int i = 0;
> +
> +        if ( !dt_device_is_compatible(node, "xen,cpupool") )
> +            continue;
> +
> +        if ( !dt_property_read_string(node, "cpupool-sched", &scheduler_name) )
> +            sched_id = check_and_get_sched_id(scheduler_name);
> +
> +        phandle_node = dt_parse_phandle(node, "cpupool-cpus", i++);
> +        if ( !phandle_node )
> +            panic("Missing or empty cpupool-cpus property!\n");
> +
> +        while ( phandle_node )
> +        {
> +            int cpu_num;
> +
> +            cpu_num = get_logical_cpu_from_cpu_node(phandle_node);
> +
> +            if ( cpu_num < 0 )
> +                panic("Error retrieving logical cpu from node %s (%d)\n",
> +                      dt_node_name(node), cpu_num);
> +
> +            if ( pool_cpu_map[cpu_num] != -1 )
> +                panic("Logical cpu %d already added to a cpupool!\n", cpu_num);
> +
> +            pool_cpu_map[cpu_num] = next_pool_id;
> +
> +            phandle_node = dt_parse_phandle(node, "cpupool-cpus", i++);
> +        }
> +
> +        /* Save scheduler choice for this cpupool id */
> +        pool_sched_map[next_pool_id] = sched_id;
> +
> +        /* Let Xen generate pool ids */
> +        next_pool_id++;
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +void __init btcpupools_allocate_pools(void)
> +{
> +    unsigned int i;
> +    bool add_extra_cpupool = false;
> +    int swap_id = -1;
> +
> +    /*
> +     * If there are no cpupools, the value of next_pool_id is zero, so the code
> +     * below will assign every cpu to cpupool0 as the default behavior.
> +     * When there are cpupools, the code below is assigning all the not
> +     * assigned cpu to a new pool (next_pool_id value is the last id + 1).
> +     * In the same loop we check if there is any assigned cpu that is not
> +     * online.
> +     */
> +    for ( i = 0; i < nr_cpu_ids; i++ )
> +    {
> +        if ( cpumask_test_cpu(i, &cpu_online_map) )
> +        {
> +            /* Unassigned cpu gets next_pool_id pool id value */
> +            if ( pool_cpu_map[i] < 0 )
> +            {
> +                pool_cpu_map[i] = next_pool_id;
> +                add_extra_cpupool = true;
> +            }
> +
> +            /*
> +             * Cpu0 must be in cpupool0, otherwise some operations like moving
> +             * cpus between cpupools, cpu hotplug, destroying cpupools, shutdown
> +             * of the host, might not work in a sane way.
> +             */
> +            if ( !i && (pool_cpu_map[0] != 0) )
> +                swap_id = pool_cpu_map[0];
> +
> +            if ( swap_id != -1 )
> +            {
> +                if ( pool_cpu_map[i] == swap_id )
> +                    pool_cpu_map[i] = 0;
> +                else if ( pool_cpu_map[i] == 0 )
> +                    pool_cpu_map[i] = swap_id;
> +            }
> +        }
> +        else
> +        {
> +            if ( pool_cpu_map[i] >= 0 )
> +                panic("Pool-%d contains cpu%u that is not online!\n",
> +                      pool_cpu_map[i], i);
> +        }
> +    }
> +
> +    /* A swap happened, swap schedulers between cpupool id 0 and the other */
> +    if ( swap_id != -1 )
> +    {
> +        int swap_sched = pool_sched_map[swap_id];
> +
> +        pool_sched_map[swap_id] = pool_sched_map[0];
> +        pool_sched_map[0] = swap_sched;
> +    }
> +
> +    if ( add_extra_cpupool )
> +        next_pool_id++;
> +
> +    /* Create cpupools with selected schedulers */
> +    for ( i = 0; i < next_pool_id; i++ )
> +        cpupool_create_pool(i, pool_sched_map[i]);
> +}
> +
> +unsigned int __init btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +    ASSERT((cpu < NR_CPUS) && (pool_cpu_map[cpu] >= 0));
> +
> +    printk(XENLOG_INFO "Logical CPU %u in Pool-%d (Scheduler id: %d).\n",
> +           cpu, pool_cpu_map[cpu], pool_sched_map[pool_cpu_map[cpu]]);
> +
> +    return pool_cpu_map[cpu];
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Local variables:
> + * mode: C
> + * c-file-style: "BSD"
> + * c-basic-offset: 4
> + * tab-width: 4
> + * indent-tabs-mode: nil
> + * End:
> + */
> diff --git a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
> index 89a891af7076..86a175f99cd5 100644
> --- a/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
> +++ b/xen/common/sched/cpupool.c
> @@ -1247,12 +1247,22 @@ static int __init cf_check cpupool_init(void)
>      cpupool_put(cpupool0);
>      register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_nfb);
>  
> +    btcpupools_dtb_parse();
> +
> +    btcpupools_allocate_pools();
> +
>      spin_lock(&cpupool_lock);
>  
>      cpumask_copy(&cpupool_free_cpus, &cpu_online_map);
>  
>      for_each_cpu ( cpu, &cpupool_free_cpus )
> -        cpupool_assign_cpu_locked(cpupool0, cpu);
> +    {
> +        unsigned int pool_id = btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(cpu);
> +        struct cpupool *pool = cpupool_find_by_id(pool_id);
> +
> +        ASSERT(pool);
> +        cpupool_assign_cpu_locked(pool, cpu);
> +    }
>  
>      spin_unlock(&cpupool_lock);
>  
> diff --git a/xen/include/xen/sched.h b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
> index b527f141a1d3..453e98f1cba8 100644
> --- a/xen/include/xen/sched.h
> +++ b/xen/include/xen/sched.h
> @@ -1178,6 +1178,20 @@ extern void cf_check dump_runq(unsigned char key);
>  
>  void arch_do_physinfo(struct xen_sysctl_physinfo *pi);
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS
> +void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void);
> +unsigned int btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu);
> +void btcpupools_dtb_parse(void);
> +
> +#else /* !CONFIG_BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS */
> +static inline void btcpupools_allocate_pools(void) {}
> +static inline void btcpupools_dtb_parse(void) {}
> +static inline unsigned int btcpupools_get_cpupool_id(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif /* __SCHED_H__ */
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] xen/sched: create public function for cpupools creation

[Juergen Gross]

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On 05.04.22 10:57, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> Create new public function to create cpupools, can take as parameter
> the scheduler id or a negative value that means the default Xen
> scheduler will be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
> ---
> Changes in v5:
> - no changes
> Changes in v4:
> - no changes
> Changes in v3:
> - Fixed comment (Andrew)
> Changes in v2:
> - cpupool_create_pool doesn't check anymore for pool id uniqueness
>    before calling cpupool_create. Modified commit message accordingly

I gave you my "Reviewed-by:" in V2 already.


Juergen

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Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] xen/cpupool: Create different cpupools at boot time

[Juergen Gross]

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On 05.04.22 10:57, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> Introduce a way to create different cpupools at boot time, this is
> particularly useful on ARM big.LITTLE system where there might be the
> need to have different cpupools for each type of core, but also
> systems using NUMA can have different cpu pools for each node.
> 
> The feature on arm relies on a specification of the cpupools from the
> device tree to build pools and assign cpus to them.
> 
> Documentation is created to explain the feature.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> # xen/common/sched

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Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] xen/cpupool: Allow cpupool0 to use different scheduler

[Juergen Gross]

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On 05.04.22 10:57, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> Currently cpupool0 can use only the default scheduler, and
> cpupool_create has an hardcoded behavior when creating the pool 0
> that doesn't allocate new memory for the scheduler, but uses the
> default scheduler structure in memory.
> 
> With this commit it is possible to allocate a different scheduler for
> the cpupool0 when using the boot time cpupool.
> To achieve this the hardcoded behavior in cpupool_create is removed
> and the cpupool0 creation is moved.
> 
> When compiling without boot time cpupools enabled, the current
> behavior is maintained (except that cpupool0 scheduler memory will be
> allocated).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>


Juergen

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Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] xen/sched: create public function for cpupools creation

[Luca Fancellu]

> On 7 Apr 2022, at 07:07, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
> 
> On 05.04.22 10:57, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>> Create new public function to create cpupools, can take as parameter
>> the scheduler id or a negative value that means the default Xen
>> scheduler will be used.
>> Signed-off-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v5:
>> - no changes
>> Changes in v4:
>> - no changes
>> Changes in v3:
>> - Fixed comment (Andrew)
>> Changes in v2:
>> - cpupool_create_pool doesn't check anymore for pool id uniqueness
>> before calling cpupool_create. Modified commit message accordingly
> 
> I gave you my "Reviewed-by:" in V2 already.
> 

Oh ok, I thought I had to drop it because of the change, I will retain it in next
serie.

Cheers,
Luca

> 
> Juergen
> <OpenPGP_0xB0DE9DD628BF132F.asc>

Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] tools/cpupools: Give a name to unnamed cpupools

[Luca Fancellu]

> Could you rework this loop so that "goto out" is always the right things
> to do in case of error? That is the function would always free()
> "pool_path" and "pool_name" regardless of their values, and we only need
> to make sure both are NULL when they are already free. This is to avoid
> having several path in case of error, as this could result in mistake
> later. If there's only one error path, there will be less likely to have
> mistakes. This loop, at the moment, is using three different error
> paths: "goto out", "goto out_err", and no goto followed by a standalone
> goto.

Hi Anthony,

Yes I will rework it and send v6. Thanks for your review.

Cheers,
Luca

> 
>> +            }
>> +            pool_id++;
>> +            if (!xs_write(xsh, XBT_NULL, pool_path, pool_name,
>> +                          strlen(pool_name))) {
>> +                fprintf(stderr, "cannot set pool name\n");
>> +                rc = 1;
>> +            }
>> +            free(pool_name);
>> +out_err:
>> +            free(pool_path);
>> +            if ( rc )
>> +                goto out;
>> +        }
>> +    } while(xcinfo != NULL);
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Anthony PERARD

Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] xen/cpupool: Create different cpupools at boot time

[Julien Grall]

Hi Luca,

On 05/04/2022 09:57, Luca Fancellu wrote:
> Introduce a way to create different cpupools at boot time, this is
> particularly useful on ARM big.LITTLE system where there might be the
> need to have different cpupools for each type of core, but also
> systems using NUMA can have different cpu pools for each node.
> 
> The feature on arm relies on a specification of the cpupools from the
> device tree to build pools and assign cpus to them.

How will this work for ACPI? Note that I am not suggesting to add suport 
right now. However, we probably want to clarify that this is not yet 
supported.

[...]

> diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..5dac2b1384e0
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
> +Boot time cpupools
> +==================
> +
> +When BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS is enabled in the Xen configuration, it is possible to
> +create cpupools during boot phase by specifying them in the device tree.

How about ACPI?

> +
> +Cpupools specification nodes shall be direct childs of /chosen node.
> +Each cpupool node contains the following properties:
> +
> +- compatible (mandatory)
> +
> +    Must always include the compatiblity string: "xen,cpupool".
> +
> +- cpupool-cpus (mandatory)
> +
> +    Must be a list of device tree phandle to nodes describing cpus (e.g. having
> +    device_type = "cpu"), it can't be empty.
> +
> +- cpupool-sched (optional)
> +
> +    Must be a string having the name of a Xen scheduler. Check the sched=<...>
> +    boot argument for allowed values.

I would clarify what would be the scheduler if cpupool-sched is not 
specified.

Also, I would give a pointer to xen-command-line.pandoc so it is easier 
to know where 'sched' is described.

[...]

> +void __init btcpupools_dtb_parse(void)
> +{
> +    const struct dt_device_node *chosen, *node;
> +
> +    chosen = dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
> +    if ( !chosen )
> +        return;
Aside when using ACPI, the chosen node should always be there. So I 
think we should throw/print an error if chosen is not present.

Also, I would check that we haven't booted using ACPI rather than 
relying on dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen") to return NULL.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] xen/cpupool: Create different cpupools at boot time

[Luca Fancellu]

> On 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Julien Grall <julien@xen.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Luca,
> 
> On 05/04/2022 09:57, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>> Introduce a way to create different cpupools at boot time, this is
>> particularly useful on ARM big.LITTLE system where there might be the
>> need to have different cpupools for each type of core, but also
>> systems using NUMA can have different cpu pools for each node.
>> The feature on arm relies on a specification of the cpupools from the
>> device tree to build pools and assign cpus to them.
> 
> How will this work for ACPI? Note that I am not suggesting to add suport right now. However, we probably want to clarify that this is not yet supported.

Ok I will add a note saying ACPI is not supported in v6

> 
> [...]
> 
>> diff --git a/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..5dac2b1384e0
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/docs/misc/arm/device-tree/cpupools.txt
>> @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
>> +Boot time cpupools
>> +==================
>> +
>> +When BOOT_TIME_CPUPOOLS is enabled in the Xen configuration, it is possible to
>> +create cpupools during boot phase by specifying them in the device tree.
> 
> How about ACPI?

Same as above

> 
>> +
>> +Cpupools specification nodes shall be direct childs of /chosen node.
>> +Each cpupool node contains the following properties:
>> +
>> +- compatible (mandatory)
>> +
>> +    Must always include the compatiblity string: "xen,cpupool".
>> +
>> +- cpupool-cpus (mandatory)
>> +
>> +    Must be a list of device tree phandle to nodes describing cpus (e.g. having
>> +    device_type = "cpu"), it can't be empty.
>> +
>> +- cpupool-sched (optional)
>> +
>> +    Must be a string having the name of a Xen scheduler. Check the sched=<...>
>> +    boot argument for allowed values.
> 
> I would clarify what would be the scheduler if cpupool-sched is not specified.
> 
> Also, I would give a pointer to xen-command-line.pandoc so it is easier to know where 'sched' is described.

Good point, I think the info got missed through the series, I’ll add and put the link.

> 
> [...]
> 
>> +void __init btcpupools_dtb_parse(void)
>> +{
>> +    const struct dt_device_node *chosen, *node;
>> +
>> +    chosen = dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
>> +    if ( !chosen )
>> +        return;
> Aside when using ACPI, the chosen node should always be there. So I think we should throw/print an error if chosen is not present.

When you say error, do you mean like a panic or just a printk XENLOG_ERR and return?

> 
> Also, I would check that we haven't booted using ACPI rather than relying on dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen") to return NULL.

Ok I will add a check on acpi_disabled to return if it is false.

Cheers,
Luca

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Julien Grall

Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] xen/cpupool: Create different cpupools at boot time

[Julien Grall]

Hi Luca,

On 07/04/2022 10:52, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>>> +void __init btcpupools_dtb_parse(void)
>>> +{
>>> +    const struct dt_device_node *chosen, *node;
>>> +
>>> +    chosen = dt_find_node_by_path("/chosen");
>>> +    if ( !chosen )
>>> +        return;
>> Aside when using ACPI, the chosen node should always be there. So I think we should throw/print an error if chosen is not present.
> 
> When you say error, do you mean like a panic or just a printk XENLOG_ERR and return?

You seem to use panic() below. So I would also use panic() here as this 
shouldn't be expected.

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall