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[v5,0/4] Support SMT control on arm64

Message ID 20240806085320.63514-1-yangyicong@huawei.com (mailing list archive)
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Series Support SMT control on arm64 | expand

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Yicong Yang Aug. 6, 2024, 8:53 a.m. UTC 
From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>

The core CPU control framework supports runtime SMT control which
is not yet supported on arm64. Besides the general vulnerabilities
concerns we want this runtime control on our arm64 server for:

- better single CPU performance in some cases
- saving overall power consumption

This patchset implements it in the following aspects:

- Provides a default topology_is_primary_thread()
- support retrieve SMT thread number on OF based system
- support retrieve SMT thread number on ACPI based system
- select HOTPLUG_SMT for arm64

Tests has been done on our real ACPI based arm64 server and on
ACPI/OF based QEMU VMs.

Change since v4:
- Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread() in the framework, Per Will
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20231121092602.47792-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/

Change since v3:
- Fix some build and kconfig error reported by kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20231114040110.54590-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/

Change since v2:
- Detect SMT thread number at topology build from ACPI/DT, avoid looping CPUs
- Split patches into ACPI/OF/arch_topology path and enable the kconfig for arm64
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20231010115335.13862-1-yangyicong@huawei.com/


Yicong Yang (4):
  cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
  arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
  arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
  arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT

 arch/arm64/Kconfig                  |  1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/topology.c        | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h     |  2 +-
 drivers/base/arch_topology.c        | 13 +++++++++++++
 include/linux/topology.h            | 14 ++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)