From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEC5C433E7 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:52:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE37A20678 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726895AbgIBKw1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2020 06:52:27 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:35528 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726124AbgIBKwU (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2020 06:52:20 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B65D6E; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 03:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e113632-lin (e113632-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.194.46]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A36653F66F; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 03:52:18 -0700 (PDT) References: <20200829130016.26106-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com> <678F3D1BB717D949B966B68EAEB446ED482417F4@DGGEMM506-MBX.china.huawei.com> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.17; emacs 26.3 From: Valentin Schneider To: "Zengtao \(B\)" Cc: "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org" , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Sudeep Holla , Robin Murphy , Jeremy Linton , Dietmar Eggemann , Morten Rasmussen Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information In-reply-to: <678F3D1BB717D949B966B68EAEB446ED482417F4@DGGEMM506-MBX.china.huawei.com> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:52:16 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/09/20 04:24, B wrote: > Hi Valentin: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Valentin Schneider [mailto:valentin.schneider@arm.com] >> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2020 9:00 PM >> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org >> Cc: Catalin Marinas; Will Deacon; Sudeep Holla; Robin Murphy; Jeremy >> Linton; Dietmar Eggemann; Morten Rasmussen; Zengtao (B) >> Subject: [PATCH] arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology >> information >> >> In the absence of ACPI or DT topology data, we fallback to haphazardly >> decoding *something* out of MPIDR. Sadly, the contents of that register >> are >> mostly unusable due to the implementation leniancy and things like Aff0 >> having to be capped to 15 (despite being encoded on 8 bits). >> >> Consider a simple system with a single package of 32 cores, all under the >> same LLC. We ought to be shoving them in the same core_sibling mask, >> but >> MPIDR is going to look like: >> >> | CPU | 0 | ... | 15 | 16 | ... | 31 | >> |------+---+-----+----+----+-----+----+ >> | Aff0 | 0 | ... | 15 | 0 | ... | 15 | >> | Aff1 | 0 | ... | 0 | 1 | ... | 1 | >> | Aff2 | 0 | ... | 0 | 0 | ... | 0 | >> >> Which will eventually yield >> >> core_sibling(0-15) == 0-15 >> core_sibling(16-31) == 16-31 >> >> NUMA woes >> ========= >> >> If we try to play games with this and set up NUMA boundaries within those >> groups of 16 cores via e.g. QEMU: >> >> # Node0: 0-9; Node1: 10-19 >> $ qemu-system-aarch64 \ >> -smp 20 -numa node,cpus=0-9,nodeid=0 -numa >> node,cpus=10-19,nodeid=1 >> >> The scheduler's MC domain (all CPUs with same LLC) is going to be built via >> >> arch_topology.c::cpu_coregroup_mask() >> >> In there we try to figure out a sensible mask out of the topology >> information we have. In short, here we'll pick the smallest of NUMA or >> core sibling mask. >> >> node_mask(CPU9) == 0-9 >> core_sibling(CPU9) == 0-15 >> >> MC mask for CPU9 will thus be 0-9, not a problem. >> >> node_mask(CPU10) == 10-19 >> core_sibling(CPU10) == 0-15 >> >> MC mask for CPU10 will thus be 10-19, not a problem. >> >> node_mask(CPU16) == 10-19 >> core_sibling(CPU16) == 16-19 >> >> MC mask for CPU16 will thus be 16-19... Uh oh. CPUs 16-19 are in two >> different unique MC spans, and the scheduler has no idea what to make of >> that. That triggers the WARN_ON() added by commit >> >> ccf74128d66c ("sched/topology: Assert non-NUMA topology masks >> don't (partially) overlap") >> >> Fixing MPIDR-derived topology >> ============================= >> >> We could try to come up with some cleverer scheme to figure out which of >> the available masks to pick, but really if one of those masks resulted from >> MPIDR then it should be discarded because it's bound to be bogus. >> >> I was hoping to give MPIDR a chance for SMT, to figure out which threads >> are >> in the same core using Aff1-3 as core ID, but Sudeep and Robin pointed out >> to me that there are systems out there where *all* cores have non-zero >> values in their higher affinity fields (e.g. RK3288 has "5" in all of its >> cores' MPIDR.Aff1), which would expose a bogus core ID to userspace. >> >> Stop using MPIDR for topology information. When no other source of >> topology >> information is available, mark each CPU as its own core and its NUMA >> node >> as its LLC domain. > > I agree with your idea to remove the topology functionality of MPIDR , > but I think we need also consider ARM32 and GIC. > Could you please elaborate? This change doesn't impact arch_topology, so only arm64 is affected. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A81EC433E2 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:53:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from merlin.infradead.org (merlin.infradead.org [205.233.59.134]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E745720829 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 10:53:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lists.infradead.org header.i=@lists.infradead.org header.b="TG1lmMqN" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org E745720829 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=merlin.20170209; h=Sender:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:Cc:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post:List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:In-reply-to:Subject:To: From:References:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=ZTGwoh78mIvC9MU9Bdj3R1iEIt/HjoYkPBmw43q0Ztg=; b=TG1lmMqNgdgyhQJgwZurwLTcb e6/5jtjz7Ezw+QeCFIa51yh4sHDOESRmp1fkLulVVxU6kaL8sCiOIMzn4GFuQ48dewEA++XK64i9m sN/6oG7Ce3Hpll8VX/LqTSxFtQHDIm43eyG45uf2JRhnd/CHxdM4p1mSJwm743LWtRV4JKslAKsnF Ocp8TncvbhpiSUvxkCGElaVyBYbMiS8uX/3Mqrq1Hjno/ALOhB138C6w/42AReSelaV6x9SUFLA8z pPN3/ogH+Qd78dSgh/2JId+W8Won53MruKVVVRagCo5NEmvOy/6WArHLat76cKfyX33pnozh+9Vtf c0tN+b5QA==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=merlin.infradead.org) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kDQNM-0007qL-BO; Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:52:24 +0000 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kDQNJ-0007pX-PX for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:52:22 +0000 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B65D6E; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 03:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e113632-lin (e113632-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.194.46]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A36653F66F; Wed, 2 Sep 2020 03:52:18 -0700 (PDT) References: <20200829130016.26106-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com> <678F3D1BB717D949B966B68EAEB446ED482417F4@DGGEMM506-MBX.china.huawei.com> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.17; emacs 26.3 From: Valentin Schneider To: "Zengtao \(B\)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information In-reply-to: <678F3D1BB717D949B966B68EAEB446ED482417F4@DGGEMM506-MBX.china.huawei.com> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 11:52:16 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20200902_065221_916407_6E8EE80A X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 18.95 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Will Deacon , Catalin Marinas , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Jeremy Linton , Morten Rasmussen , Sudeep Holla , Robin Murphy , Dietmar Eggemann , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 02/09/20 04:24, B wrote: > Hi Valentin: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Valentin Schneider [mailto:valentin.schneider@arm.com] >> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2020 9:00 PM >> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org >> Cc: Catalin Marinas; Will Deacon; Sudeep Holla; Robin Murphy; Jeremy >> Linton; Dietmar Eggemann; Morten Rasmussen; Zengtao (B) >> Subject: [PATCH] arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology >> information >> >> In the absence of ACPI or DT topology data, we fallback to haphazardly >> decoding *something* out of MPIDR. Sadly, the contents of that register >> are >> mostly unusable due to the implementation leniancy and things like Aff0 >> having to be capped to 15 (despite being encoded on 8 bits). >> >> Consider a simple system with a single package of 32 cores, all under the >> same LLC. We ought to be shoving them in the same core_sibling mask, >> but >> MPIDR is going to look like: >> >> | CPU | 0 | ... | 15 | 16 | ... | 31 | >> |------+---+-----+----+----+-----+----+ >> | Aff0 | 0 | ... | 15 | 0 | ... | 15 | >> | Aff1 | 0 | ... | 0 | 1 | ... | 1 | >> | Aff2 | 0 | ... | 0 | 0 | ... | 0 | >> >> Which will eventually yield >> >> core_sibling(0-15) == 0-15 >> core_sibling(16-31) == 16-31 >> >> NUMA woes >> ========= >> >> If we try to play games with this and set up NUMA boundaries within those >> groups of 16 cores via e.g. QEMU: >> >> # Node0: 0-9; Node1: 10-19 >> $ qemu-system-aarch64 \ >> -smp 20 -numa node,cpus=0-9,nodeid=0 -numa >> node,cpus=10-19,nodeid=1 >> >> The scheduler's MC domain (all CPUs with same LLC) is going to be built via >> >> arch_topology.c::cpu_coregroup_mask() >> >> In there we try to figure out a sensible mask out of the topology >> information we have. In short, here we'll pick the smallest of NUMA or >> core sibling mask. >> >> node_mask(CPU9) == 0-9 >> core_sibling(CPU9) == 0-15 >> >> MC mask for CPU9 will thus be 0-9, not a problem. >> >> node_mask(CPU10) == 10-19 >> core_sibling(CPU10) == 0-15 >> >> MC mask for CPU10 will thus be 10-19, not a problem. >> >> node_mask(CPU16) == 10-19 >> core_sibling(CPU16) == 16-19 >> >> MC mask for CPU16 will thus be 16-19... Uh oh. CPUs 16-19 are in two >> different unique MC spans, and the scheduler has no idea what to make of >> that. That triggers the WARN_ON() added by commit >> >> ccf74128d66c ("sched/topology: Assert non-NUMA topology masks >> don't (partially) overlap") >> >> Fixing MPIDR-derived topology >> ============================= >> >> We could try to come up with some cleverer scheme to figure out which of >> the available masks to pick, but really if one of those masks resulted from >> MPIDR then it should be discarded because it's bound to be bogus. >> >> I was hoping to give MPIDR a chance for SMT, to figure out which threads >> are >> in the same core using Aff1-3 as core ID, but Sudeep and Robin pointed out >> to me that there are systems out there where *all* cores have non-zero >> values in their higher affinity fields (e.g. RK3288 has "5" in all of its >> cores' MPIDR.Aff1), which would expose a bogus core ID to userspace. >> >> Stop using MPIDR for topology information. When no other source of >> topology >> information is available, mark each CPU as its own core and its NUMA >> node >> as its LLC domain. > > I agree with your idea to remove the topology functionality of MPIDR , > but I think we need also consider ARM32 and GIC. > Could you please elaborate? This change doesn't impact arch_topology, so only arm64 is affected. _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel