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2021-12-07topology/sysfs: get rid of htmldoc warningHeiko Carstens
Stephen Rothwell reported the following warning caused by commit f1045056c726 ("topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology ifdefery"): Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst:49: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. To fix this remove the extra indentation again. Fixes: f1045056c726 ("topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology ifdefery") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Ya4Ht2K9x2+lUtuR@osiris Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-12-03topology/sysfs: rework book and drawer topology ifdeferyHeiko Carstens
Provide default defines for the topology_book_[id|cpumask] and topology_drawer_[id|cpumask] macros just like for each other topology level. This way all topology levels are handled in a similar way. Still the the book and drawer levels are only used on s390, and also the sysfs attributes are only created on s390. However other architectures may opt in if wanted. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-4-hca@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-12-03topology/sysfs: export cluster attributes only if an architectures has supportHeiko Carstens
The cluster_id and cluster_cpus topology sysfs attributes have been added with commit c5e22feffdd7 ("topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die"). They are currently only used for x86, arm64, and riscv (via generic arch topology), however they are still present with bogus default values for all other architectures. Instead of enforcing such new sysfs attributes to all architectures, make them only optional visible if an architecture opts in by defining both the topology_cluster_id and topology_cluster_cpumask attributes. This is similar to what was done when the book and drawer topology levels were introduced: avoid useless and therefore confusing sysfs attributes for architectures which cannot make use of them. This should not break any existing applications, since this is a new interface introduced with the v5.16 merge window. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-3-hca@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-12-03topology/sysfs: export die attributes only if an architectures has supportHeiko Carstens
The die_id and die_cpus topology sysfs attributes have been added with commit 0e344d8c709f ("cpu/topology: Export die_id") and commit 2e4c54dac7b3 ("topology: Create core_cpus and die_cpus sysfs attributes"). While they are currently only used and useful for x86 they are still present with bogus default values for all architectures. Instead of enforcing such new sysfs attributes to all architectures, make them only optional visible if an architecture opts in by defining both the topology_die_id and topology_die_cpumask attributes. This is similar to what was done when the book and drawer topology levels were introduced: avoid useless and therefore confusing sysfs attributes for architectures which cannot make use of them. This should not break any existing applications, since this is a rather new interface and applications should be able to handle also older kernel versions without such attributes - besides that they contain only useful information for x86. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129130309.3256168-2-hca@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-10-15topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a dieJonathan Cameron
Both ACPI and DT provide the ability to describe additional layers of topology between that of individual cores and higher level constructs such as the level at which the last level cache is shared. In ACPI this can be represented in PPTT as a Processor Hierarchy Node Structure [1] that is the parent of the CPU cores and in turn has a parent Processor Hierarchy Nodes Structure representing a higher level of topology. For example Kunpeng 920 has 6 or 8 clusters in each NUMA node, and each cluster has 4 cpus. All clusters share L3 cache data, but each cluster has local L3 tag. On the other hand, each clusters will share some internal system bus. +-----------------------------------+ +---------+ | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ | | | CPU0 | | cpu1 | | +-----------+ | | | +------+ +------+ | | | | | | +----+ L3 | | | | +------+ +------+ cluster | | tag | | | | | CPU2 | | CPU3 | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | | | | | | +-----------------------------------+ | | +-----------------------------------+ | | | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ | | | | | | | +-----------+ | | | +------+ +------+ | | | | | | | | L3 | | | | +------+ +------+ +----+ tag | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | | | | | | +-----------------------------------+ | L3 | | data | +-----------------------------------+ | | | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ +----+ L3 | | | | | | tag | | | | +------+ +------+ | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------+ | | | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ | +-----------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------| | | | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ | | | | | | | +-----------+ | | | +------+ +------+ | | | | | | +----+ L3 | | | | +------+ +------+ | | tag | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | | | | | | +-----------------------------------+ | | +-----------------------------------+ | | | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ | | | | | | | +-----------+ | | | +------+ +------+ | | | | | | | | L3 | | | | +------+ +------+ +---+ tag | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | | | | | | +-----------------------------------+ | | +-----------------------------------+ | | | +------+ +------+ +--------------------------+ | | | | | | | +-----------+ | | | +------+ +------+ | | | | | | | | L3 | | | | +------+ +------+ +--+ tag | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +------+ | +-----------+ | | | | +---------+ +-----------------------------------+ That means spreading tasks among clusters will bring more bandwidth while packing tasks within one cluster will lead to smaller cache synchronization latency. So both kernel and userspace will have a chance to leverage this topology to deploy tasks accordingly to achieve either smaller cache latency within one cluster or an even distribution of load among clusters for higher throughput. This patch exposes cluster topology to both kernel and userspace. Libraried like hwloc will know cluster by cluster_cpus and related sysfs attributes. PoC of HWLOC support at [2]. Note this patch only handle the ACPI case. Special consideration is needed for SMT processors, where it is necessary to move 2 levels up the hierarchy from the leaf nodes (thus skipping the processor core level). Note that arm64 / ACPI does not provide any means of identifying a die level in the topology but that may be unrelate to the cluster level. [1] ACPI Specification 6.3 - section 5.2.29.1 processor hierarchy node structure (Type 0) [2] https://github.com/hisilicon/hwloc/tree/linux-cluster Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210924085104.44806-2-21cnbao@gmail.com
2021-07-25admin-guide/cputopology.rst: Remove non-existed cpu-hotplug.txtYang Xu
Since kernel commit ff58fa7f556c ("Documentation: Update CPU hotplug and move it to core-api"), cpu_hotplug.txt has been removed. We should update it in here. Signed-off-by: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1624412269-13155-1-git-send-email-xuyang2018.jy@fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-14docs: cputopology: move the sysfs ABI description to right placeTian Tao
Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst is the wrong place to describe sysfs ABI. So move the cputopology ABI things to Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu and add a reference to ABI doc in Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319041618.14316-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611052249.25776-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-07-15docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documentsMauro Carvalho Chehab
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but are on random places (most under Documentation root dir). Move them to the admin guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>