arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information
In the absence of ACPI or DT topology data, we fallback to haphazardly decoding *something* out of MPIDR. Sadly, the contents of that register are mostly unusable due to the implementation leniancy and things like Aff0 having to be capped to 15 (despite being encoded on 8 bits). Consider a simple system with a single package of 32 cores, all under the same LLC. We ought to be shoving them in the same core_sibling mask, but MPIDR is going to look like: | CPU | 0 | ... | 15 | 16 | ... | 31 | |------+---+-----+----+----+-----+----+ | Aff0 | 0 | ... | 15 | 0 | ... | 15 | | Aff1 | 0 | ... | 0 | 1 | ... | 1 | | Aff2 | 0 | ... | 0 | 0 | ... | 0 | Which will eventually yield core_sibling(0-15) == 0-15 core_sibling(16-31) == 16-31 NUMA woes ========= If we try to play games with this and set up NUMA boundaries within those groups of 16 cores via e.g. QEMU: # Node0: 0-9; Node1: 10-19 $ qemu-system-aarch64 <blah> \ -smp 20 -numa node,cpus=0-9,nodeid=0 -numa node,cpus=10-19,nodeid=1 The scheduler's MC domain (all CPUs with same LLC) is going to be built via arch_topology.c::cpu_coregroup_mask() In there we try to figure out a sensible mask out of the topology information we have. In short, here we'll pick the smallest of NUMA or core sibling mask. node_mask(CPU9) == 0-9 core_sibling(CPU9) == 0-15 MC mask for CPU9 will thus be 0-9, not a problem. node_mask(CPU10) == 10-19 core_sibling(CPU10) == 0-15 MC mask for CPU10 will thus be 10-19, not a problem. node_mask(CPU16) == 10-19 core_sibling(CPU16) == 16-19 MC mask for CPU16 will thus be 16-19... Uh oh. CPUs 16-19 are in two different unique MC spans, and the scheduler has no idea what to make of that. That triggers the WARN_ON() added by commit ccf74128 ("sched/topology: Assert non-NUMA topology masks don't (partially) overlap") Fixing MPIDR-derived topology ============================= We could try to come up with some cleverer scheme to figure out which of the available masks to pick, but really if one of those masks resulted from MPIDR then it should be discarded because it's bound to be bogus. I was hoping to give MPIDR a chance for SMT, to figure out which threads are in the same core using Aff1-3 as core ID, but Sudeep and Robin pointed out to me that there are systems out there where *all* cores have non-zero values in their higher affinity fields (e.g. RK3288 has "5" in all of its cores' MPIDR.Aff1), which would expose a bogus core ID to userspace. Stop using MPIDR for topology information. When no other source of topology information is available, mark each CPU as its own core and its NUMA node as its LLC domain. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200829130016.26106-1-valentin.schneider@arm.comSigned-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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