Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] x86/resctrl: Miscellaneous resctrl features

[Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

Hi Babu,

On 5/5/2023 8:43 AM, Moger, Babu wrote:
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> Hi Reinette,
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>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] x86/resctrl: Miscellaneous resctrl features
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>>>     Tried to address Reinette's comment on patch 7. But due to current code
>> design
>>>     I could not do it exact way. But changed it little bit to make it easy debug
>>>     file additions in the future.
>>
>> Could you please elaborate? It actually looks like you may be headed there next
>> according to:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/933d8ae2-d8b7-7436-5918-
>> f639405c9ecb@amd.com/
> 
> Sorry, I was talking about this comment.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/fef12c9e-7d6f-bcd4-f92e-e776eb9e673b@intel.com/
> 
> I tried to address it here. 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/168177451010.1758847.568218491528297451.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu/
> 
> This may not be the exact way you mentioned.  Reason is, adding the
> flags before rdtgroup_add_files cannot be done. It does not update
> the resctrl root filesystem. These files have to added by calling
> rdtgroup_add_file and kernfs_activate in rdt_enable_ctx.
I think what you are referring to is files not appearing in the default
resource group? From what I can tell the files should appear when new resource
groups are created. Could the default resource group's files not also
be added on resctrl mount (moved from rdtgroup_setup_root() to rdt_get_tree())?
I do not see why the files belonging to the default group are required to be
added before resctrl mount and with the move the resctrl_debug flag can
continue to be set in rdt_enable_ctx() and available to rdtgroup_add_files()
when adding the default resource group's files.

To me this sounds simpler since there is no duplicate file add/remove code,
and the debug files are just another file type.

Reinette