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Care must be taken when modifying the PARTID and PMG of a task in any
per-task structure as writing these values may race with the task being
scheduled in, and reading the modified values.
Add helpers to set the task properties, and the CPU default value. These
use WRITE_ONCE() that pairs with the READ_ONCE() in mpam_get_regval() to
avoid causing torn values.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
The MPAMSM_EL1 sets the MPAM labels, PMG and PARTID, for loads and stores
generated by a shared SMCU. Disable the traps so the kernel can use it and
set it to the same configuration as the per-EL cpu MPAM configuration.
If an SMCU is not shared with other cpus then it is implementation
defined whether the configuration from MPAMSM_EL1 is used or that from
the appropriate MPAMy_ELx. As we set the same, PMG_D and PARTID_D,
configuration for MPAM0_EL1, MPAM1_EL1 and MPAMSM_EL1 the resulting
configuration is the same regardless.
The range of valid configurations for the PARTID and PMG in MPAMSM_EL1 is
not currently specified in Arm Architectural Reference Manual but the
architect has confirmed that it is intended to be the same as that for the
cpu configuration in the MPAMy_ELx registers.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
The MPAM system registers will be lost if the CPU is reset during PSCI's
CPU_SUSPEND.
Add a PM notifier to restore them.
mpam_thread_switch(current) can't be used as this won't make any changes if
the in-memory copy says the register already has the correct value. In
reality the system register is UNKNOWN out of reset.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Requesters need to populate the MPAM fields for any traffic they send on
the interconnect. For the CPUs these values are taken from the
corresponding MPAMy_ELx register. Each requester may have a limit on the
largest PARTID or PMG value that can be used. The MPAM driver has to
determine the system-wide minimum supported PARTID and PMG values.
To do this, the driver needs to be told what each requestor's limit is.
CPUs are special, but this infrastructure is also needed for the SMMU and
GIC ITS. Call the helper to tell the MPAM driver what the CPUs can do.
The return value can be ignored by the arch code as it runs well before the
MPAM driver starts probing.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
[ morse: requestor->requester as argued by ispell ]
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
In anticipation of MPAM being useful remove the CONFIG_EXPERT restriction.
This was done to prevent the driver being enabled before the user-space
interface was wired up.
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
[ morse: Added second paragraph ]
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Now that the MPAM system registers are expected to have values that change,
reprogram them based on the previous value when a CPU is brought online.
Previously MPAM's 'default PARTID' of 0 was always used for MPAM in
kernel-space as this is the PARTID that hardware guarantees to
reset. Because there are a limited number of PARTID, this value is exposed
to user-space, meaning resctrl changes to the resctrl default group would
also affect kernel threads. Instead, use the task's PARTID value for
kernel work on behalf of user-space too. The default of 0 is kept for both
user-space and kernel-space when MPAM is not enabled.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
MPAM allows traffic in the SoC to be labeled by the OS, these labels are
used to apply policy in caches and bandwidth regulators, and to monitor
traffic in the SoC. The label is made up of a PARTID and PMG value. The x86
equivalent calls these CLOSID and RMID, but they don't map precisely.
MPAM has two CPU system registers that is used to hold the PARTID and PMG
values that traffic generated at each exception level will use. These can
be set per-task by the resctrl file system. (resctrl is the defacto
interface for controlling this stuff).
Add a helper to switch this.
struct task_struct's separate CLOSID and RMID fields are insufficient to
implement resctrl using MPAM, as resctrl can change the PARTID (CLOSID) and
PMG (sort of like the RMID) separately. On x86, the rmid is an independent
number, so a race that writes a mismatched closid and rmid into hardware is
benign. On arm64, the pmg bits extend the partid.
(i.e. partid-5 has a pmg-0 that is not the same as partid-6's pmg-0). In
this case, mismatching the values will 'dirty' a pmg value that resctrl
believes is clean, and is not tracking with its 'limbo' code.
To avoid this, the partid and pmg are always read and written as a
pair. This requires a new u64 field. In struct task_struct there are two
u32, rmid and closid for the x86 case, but as we can't use them here do
something else. Add this new field, mpam_partid_pmg, to struct thread_info
to avoid adding more architecture specific code to struct task_struct.
Always use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() when accessing this field.
Resctrl allows a per-cpu 'default' value to be set, this overrides the
values when scheduling a task in the default control-group, which has
PARTID 0. The way 'code data prioritisation' gets emulated means the
register value for the default group needs to be a variable.
The current system register value is kept in a per-cpu variable to avoid
writing to the system register if the value isn't going to change. Writes
to this register may reset the hardware state for regulating bandwidth.
Finally, there is no reason to context switch these registers unless there
is a driver changing the values in struct task_struct. Hide the whole thing
behind a static key. This also allows the driver to disable MPAM in
response to errors reported by hardware. Move the existing static key to
belong to the arch code, as in the future the MPAM driver may become a
loadable module.
All this should depend on whether there is an MPAM driver, hide it behind
CONFIG_ARM64_MPAM.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
CC: Amit Singh Tomar <amitsinght@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
The MPAMSM_EL1 register controls the MPAM labeling for an SMCU, Streaming
Mode Compute Unit. As there is no MPAM support in KVM, make sure MPAMSM_EL1
accesses trigger an UNDEF.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
When KVM enables or disables MPAM traps to EL2 it clears all other bits in
MPAM2_EL2. Notably, it clears the partition ids (PARTIDs) and performance
monitoring groups (PMGs). Avoid changing these bits in anticipation of
adding support for MPAM in the kernel. Otherwise, on a VHE system with the
host running at EL2 where MPAM2_EL2 and MPAM1_EL1 access the same register,
any attempt to use MPAM to monitor or partition resources for kernel space
would be foiled by running a KVM guest. Additionally, MPAM2_EL2.EnMPAMSM is
always set to 0 which causes MPAMSM_EL1 to always trap. Keep EnMPAMSM set
to 1 when not in a guest so that the kernel can use MPAMSM_EL1.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
The MPAMSM_EL1 register determines the MPAM configuration for an SMCU. Add
the register definition.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@oss.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
To indicate that the configuration, of the controls used by resctrl, in a
RIS need resetting to driver defaults the reset flags in mpam_config are
set. However, these flags are only ever set temporarily at RIS scope in
mpam_reset_ris() and hence mpam_cpu_online() will never reset these
controls to default. As the hardware reset is unknown this leads to unknown
configuration when the control values haven't been configured away from the
defaults.
Use the policy that an unset feature configuration bit means reset. In this
way the mpam_config in the component can encode that it should be in reset
state and mpam_reprogram_msc() will reset controls as needed.
Fixes: 09b89d2a72f3 ("arm_mpam: Allow configuration to be applied and restored during cpu online")
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
[ morse: Removed unused reset flags from config structure ]
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
The per-RIS flag, in_reset_state, indicates whether or not the MSC
registers are in reset state, and allows avoiding resetting when they are
already in reset state. However, when mpam_apply_config() updates the
configuration it doesn't update the in_reset_state flag and so even after
the configuration update in_reset_state can be true and mpam_reset_ris()
will skip the actual register restoration on subsequent resets.
Once resctrl has a MPAM backend it will use resctrl_arch_reset_all_ctrls()
to reset the MSC configuration on unmount and, if the in_reset_state flag
is bogusly true, fail to reset the MSC configuration. The resulting
non-reset MSC configuration can lead to persistent performance restrictions
even after resctrl is unmounted.
Fix by clearing in_reset_state to false immediately after successful
configuration application, ensuring that the next reset operation
properly restores MSC register defaults.
Fixes: 09b89d2a72f3 ("arm_mpam: Allow configuration to be applied and restored during cpu online")
Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
[Horgan: rewrite commit message to not be specific to resctrl unmount]
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Jesse Chick <jessechick@os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Pull EFI fix from Ard Biesheuvel:
"Fix for the x86 EFI workaround keeping boot services code and data
regions reserved until after SetVirtualAddressMap() completes:
deferred struct page initialization may result in some of this memory
being lost permanently"
* tag 'efi-fixes-for-v7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory
Pull i2c fix from Wolfram Sang:
"A revert for the i801 driver restoring old locking behaviour"
* tag 'i2c-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: i801: Revert "i2c: i801: replace acpi_lock with I2C bus lock"
efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE
and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late().
There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for
memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with
memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area().
More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y
efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the
memory map is complete.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of
RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM.
If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is
still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because
memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips
uninitialized pages.
Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because
__free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might
end up in uninitialized part of the memory map.
Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic
because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates
efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in
boot when there is concurrency.
More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services
memory.
Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services()
collects ranges that should be freed into an array then
efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ec2aaef14783869b3be6e3c253b2dcbf67dbc12a.camel@kernel.crashing.org
Fixes: 916f676f8dc0 ("x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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