[PATCH 1/3] powerpc/smp: Reintroduce cpu_core_mask

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Apr 16 13:21:34 AEST 2021


On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 05:39:32PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> Daniel reported that with Commit 4ca234a9cbd7 ("powerpc/smp: Stop
> updating cpu_core_mask") QEMU was unable to set single NUMA node SMP
> topologies such as:
>  -smp 8,maxcpus=8,cores=2,threads=2,sockets=2
>  i.e he expected 2 sockets in one NUMA node.

Well, strictly speaking, you can still set that toplogy in qemu but a
PAPR guest with that commit will show as having 1 socket in lscpu and
similar things.

Basically, this is because PAPR has no meaningful distinction between
cores and sockets.  So it's kind of a cosmetic problem, but it is a
user-unexpected behaviour that it would be nice to avoid if it's not
excessively difficult.

> The above commit helped to reduce boot time on Large Systems for
> example 4096 vCPU single socket QEMU instance. PAPR is silent on
> having more than one socket within a NUMA node.
> 
> cpu_core_mask and cpu_cpu_mask for any CPU would be same unless the
> number of sockets is different from the number of NUMA nodes.

Number of sockets being different from number of NUMA nodes is routine
in qemu, and I don't think it's something we should enforce.

> One option is to reintroduce cpu_core_mask but use a slightly
> different method to arrive at the cpu_core_mask. Previously each CPU's
> chip-id would be compared with all other CPU's chip-id to verify if
> both the CPUs were related at the chip level. Now if a CPU 'A' is
> found related / (unrelated) to another CPU 'B', all the thread
> siblings of 'A' and thread siblings of 'B' are automatically marked as
> related / (unrelated).
> 
> Also if a platform doesn't support ibm,chip-id property, i.e its
> cpu_to_chip_id returns -1, cpu_core_map holds a copy of
> cpu_cpu_mask().

Yeah, the other weirdness here is that ibm,chip-id isn't a PAPR
property at all - it was added for powernv.  We then added it to qemu
for PAPR guests because that was the way at the time to get the guest
to advertise the expected number of sockets.  It therefore basically
*only* exists on PAPR/qemu for that purpose, so if it's not serving it
we need to come up with something else.

> 
> Fixes: 4ca234a9cbd7 ("powerpc/smp: Stop updating cpu_core_mask")
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: qemu-ppc at nongnu.org
> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>
> Cc: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider at arm.com>
> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h |  5 +++++
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c      | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
> index 7a13bc20f0a0..47081a9e13ca 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/smp.h
> @@ -121,6 +121,11 @@ static inline struct cpumask *cpu_sibling_mask(int cpu)
>  	return per_cpu(cpu_sibling_map, cpu);
>  }
>  
> +static inline struct cpumask *cpu_core_mask(int cpu)
> +{
> +	return per_cpu(cpu_core_map, cpu);
> +}
> +
>  static inline struct cpumask *cpu_l2_cache_mask(int cpu)
>  {
>  	return per_cpu(cpu_l2_cache_map, cpu);
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> index 5a4d59a1070d..5c7ce1d50631 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -1057,17 +1057,12 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
>  				local_memory_node(numa_cpu_lookup_table[cpu]));
>  		}
>  #endif
> -		/*
> -		 * cpu_core_map is now more updated and exists only since
> -		 * its been exported for long. It only will have a snapshot
> -		 * of cpu_cpu_mask.
> -		 */
> -		cpumask_copy(per_cpu(cpu_core_map, cpu), cpu_cpu_mask(cpu));
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Init the cpumasks so the boot CPU is related to itself */
>  	cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid, cpu_sibling_mask(boot_cpuid));
>  	cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid, cpu_l2_cache_mask(boot_cpuid));
> +	cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid, cpu_core_mask(boot_cpuid));
>  
>  	if (has_coregroup_support())
>  		cpumask_set_cpu(boot_cpuid, cpu_coregroup_mask(boot_cpuid));
> @@ -1408,6 +1403,9 @@ static void remove_cpu_from_masks(int cpu)
>  			set_cpus_unrelated(cpu, i, cpu_smallcore_mask);
>  	}
>  
> +	for_each_cpu(i, cpu_core_mask(cpu))
> +		set_cpus_unrelated(cpu, i, cpu_core_mask);
> +
>  	if (has_coregroup_support()) {
>  		for_each_cpu(i, cpu_coregroup_mask(cpu))
>  			set_cpus_unrelated(cpu, i, cpu_coregroup_mask);
> @@ -1468,8 +1466,11 @@ static void update_coregroup_mask(int cpu, cpumask_var_t *mask)
>  
>  static void add_cpu_to_masks(int cpu)
>  {
> +	struct cpumask *(*submask_fn)(int) = cpu_sibling_mask;
>  	int first_thread = cpu_first_thread_sibling(cpu);
> +	int chip_id = cpu_to_chip_id(cpu);
>  	cpumask_var_t mask;
> +	bool ret;
>  	int i;
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -1485,12 +1486,36 @@ static void add_cpu_to_masks(int cpu)
>  	add_cpu_to_smallcore_masks(cpu);
>  
>  	/* In CPU-hotplug path, hence use GFP_ATOMIC */
> -	alloc_cpumask_var_node(&mask, GFP_ATOMIC, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> +	ret = alloc_cpumask_var_node(&mask, GFP_ATOMIC, cpu_to_node(cpu));
>  	update_mask_by_l2(cpu, &mask);
>  
>  	if (has_coregroup_support())
>  		update_coregroup_mask(cpu, &mask);
>  
> +	if (chip_id == -1 || !ret) {
> +		cpumask_copy(per_cpu(cpu_core_map, cpu), cpu_cpu_mask(cpu));
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (shared_caches)
> +		submask_fn = cpu_l2_cache_mask;
> +
> +	/* Update core_mask with all the CPUs that are part of submask */
> +	or_cpumasks_related(cpu, cpu, submask_fn, cpu_core_mask);
> +
> +	/* Skip all CPUs already part of current CPU core mask */
> +	cpumask_andnot(mask, cpu_online_mask, cpu_core_mask(cpu));
> +
> +	for_each_cpu(i, mask) {
> +		if (chip_id == cpu_to_chip_id(i)) {
> +			or_cpumasks_related(cpu, i, submask_fn, cpu_core_mask);
> +			cpumask_andnot(mask, mask, submask_fn(i));
> +		} else {
> +			cpumask_andnot(mask, mask, cpu_core_mask(i));
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +out:
>  	free_cpumask_var(mask);
>  }
>  

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