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X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-MailboxType: HOSTED X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-UserPrincipalName: Jua25Nl6bPzqdI0WvJnIcA8zYiDYV4YnlYyrmw0O4hXpqev7HXSKYKp0y5RR2ydLNEDtdBIJ9gCuXAgt6nNeyw== X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: BLAPR03MB5540 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 09:43:53AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 11/21/22 02:21, Roger Pau Monne wrote: > > When running as a Xen dom0 the number of CPUs available to Linux can > > be different from the number of CPUs present on the system, but in > > order to properly fetch processor performance related data _PDC must > > be executed on all the physical CPUs online on the system. > > How is the number of CPUs available to Linux different? > > Is this a result of the ACPI tables that dom0 sees being "wrong"? Depends on the mode. This is all specific to Linux running as a Xen dom0. For PV dom0 the ACPI tables that dom0 sees are the native ones, however available CPUs are not detected based on the MADT, but using hypercalls, see xen_smp_ops struct and the x86_init.mpparse.get_smp_config hook used in smp_pv.c (_get_smp_config()). For a PVH dom0 Xen provides dom0 with a crafted MADT table that does only contain the CPUs available to dom0, and hence is likely different from the native one present on the hardware. In any case, the dynamic tables dom0 sees where the Processor objects/devices reside are not modified by Xen in any way, so the ACPI Processors are always exposed to dom0 as present on the native tables. Xen cannot parse the dynamic ACPI tables (neither should it, since then it would act as OSPM), so it relies on dom0 to provide same data present on those tables for Xen to properly manage the frequency and idle states of the CPUs on the system. > > The current checks in processor_physically_present() result in some > > processor objects not getting their _PDC methods evaluated when Linux > > is running as Xen dom0. Fix this by introducing a custom function to > > use when running as Xen dom0 in order to check whether a processor > > object matches a CPU that's online. > > What is the end user visible effect of this problem and of the solution? Without this fix _PDC is only evaluated for the CPUs online from dom0 point of view, which means that if dom0 is limited to 8 CPUs but the system has 24 CPUs, _PDC will only get evaluated for 8 CPUs, and that can have the side effect of the data then returned by _PSD method or other methods being different between CPUs where _PDC was evaluated vs CPUs where the method wasn't evaluated. Such mismatches can ultimately lead to for example the CPU frequency driver in Xen not initializing properly because the coordination methods between CPUs on the same domain don't match. Also not evaluating _PDC prevents the OS (or Xen in this case) from notifying ACPI of the features it supports. IOW this fix attempts to make sure all physically online CPUs get _PDC evaluated, and in order to to that we need to ask the hypervisor if a Processor ACPI ID matches an online CPU or not, because Linux doesn't have that information when running as dom0. Hope the above makes sense and allows to make some progress on the issue, sometimes it's hard to summarize without getting too specific, Thanks, Roger.