Re: [PATCH v2 08/18] x86/resctrl: Queue mon_event_read() instead of sending an IPI

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

Hi James,

On 1/13/2023 9:54 AM, James Morse wrote:
> x86 is blessed with an abundance of monitors, one per RMID, that can be
> read from any CPU in the domain. MPAMs monitors reside in the MMIO MSC,
> the number implemented is up to the manufacturer. This means when there are
> fewer monitors than needed, they need to be allocated and freed.
> 
> Worse, the domain may be broken up into slices, and the MMIO accesses
> for each slice may need performing from different CPUs.
> 
> These two details mean MPAMs monitor code needs to be able to sleep, and
> IPI another CPU in the domain to read from a resource that has been sliced.
> 
> mon_event_read() already invokes mon_event_count() via IPI, which means
> this isn't possible.
> 
> Change mon_event_read() to schedule mon_event_count() on a remote CPU and
> wait, instead of sending an IPI. This function is only used in response to
> a user-space filesystem request (not the timing sensitive overflow code).
> 
> This allows MPAM to hide the slice behaviour from resctrl, and to keep
> the monitor-allocation in monitor.c.
> 
> Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c | 7 +++++--
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h    | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c     | 6 ++++--
>  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
> index 1df0e3262bca..4ee3da6dced7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
> @@ -532,8 +532,11 @@ void mon_event_read(struct rmid_read *rr, struct rdt_resource *r,
>  		    struct rdt_domain *d, struct rdtgroup *rdtgrp,
>  		    int evtid, int first)
>  {
> +	/* When picking a cpu from cpu_mask, ensure it can't race with cpuhp */

Please consistently use CPU instead of cpu.

> +	lockdep_assert_held(&rdtgroup_mutex);
> +
>  	/*
> -	 * setup the parameters to send to the IPI to read the data.
> +	 * setup the parameters to pass to mon_event_count() to read the data.
>  	 */
>  	rr->rgrp = rdtgrp;
>  	rr->evtid = evtid;
> @@ -542,7 +545,7 @@ void mon_event_read(struct rmid_read *rr, struct rdt_resource *r,
>  	rr->val = 0;
>  	rr->first = first;
>  
> -	smp_call_function_any(&d->cpu_mask, mon_event_count, rr, 1);
> +	smp_call_on_cpu(cpumask_any(&d->cpu_mask), mon_event_count, rr, false);

This would be problematic for the use cases where single tasks are run on
adaptive-tick CPUs. If an adaptive-tick CPU is chosen to run the function then
it may never run. Real-time environments are target usage of resctrl (with examples
in the documentation).

Reinette