[PATCH v6 2/2] powerpc: Use cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask at SMT level on bigcores

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Aug 9 23:26:57 AEST 2018


* Gautham R. Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2018-08-09 11:02:08]:

> 
> 3) ppc64_cpu --smt=2
>    SMT domain ceases to exist as each domain consists of just one
>    group.
> 

When seen in isolation, the above looks as if ppc64_cpu --smt=2 o/p says
" SMT domain ceases to exist...."

> @@ -999,7 +1012,17 @@ static void add_cpu_to_masks(int cpu)
>  {
>  	int first_thread = cpu_first_thread_sibling(cpu);
>  	int chipid = cpu_to_chip_id(cpu);
> -	int i;
> +
> +	struct thread_groups tg;
> +	int i, cpu_group_start = -1;
> +
> +	if (has_big_cores) {
> +		struct device_node *dn = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);
> +

Not checking for validity of dn and no of_node_puts?

> +		parse_thread_groups(dn, &tg);
> +		cpu_group_start = get_cpu_thread_group_start(cpu, &tg);
> +		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpu_smallcore_sibling_mask(cpu));
> +	}
> 
>  	/*
>  	 * This CPU will not be in the online mask yet so we need to manually

The rest looks good



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