Re: [PATCH v3 13/16] arm_mpam: prepare mon_sel locking for MPAM-Fb

[Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com>]

Hi Andre,

On 7/10/26 15:45, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The MSC MON_SEL register needs to be accessed from hardirq for the overflow
> interrupt, and when taking an IPI to access these registers on platforms
> where MSC are not accesible from every CPU. This makes an irqsave
> spinlock the obvious lock to protect these registers. On systems with SCMI
> mailboxes it must be able to sleep, meaning a mutex must be used. The
> SCMI platforms can't support an overflow interrupt.
> Clearly these two can't exist for one MSC at the same time.

Is an MPAM-Fb platform using overflow interrupts definitely not possible? I would have thought that
as long as things were fast enough that threaded interrupts could be used. I do agree that it would
make things harder and the increased latency may make it unworkable.
> 
> Change the mon_sel locking wrapper function to only use a spinlock when
> the MSC is accessed directly via MMIO. In case of MPAM-Fb, we use a
> mutex, but only if we are in a sleepable context. If that's not the
> case, we return an error. This should not happen, as MPAM-Fb by design
> does not require an MSC access to happen from a specific CPU, so there
> is no need for any IPIs or preemption disabling to satisfy CPU
> constraints. 

It'd be good to mention that on the rare occasion that all cpus are no_hz_full and resctrl does the
monitor read via IPI that we already bail out early.

Thanks,

Ben

And since overflow interrupts are not supported at the moment
> anyway, we also wouldn't meet the other case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> index 04d1a59f02af..7b6e0df904f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ struct mpam_msc {
>  	 */
>  	raw_spinlock_t		_mon_sel_lock;
>  	unsigned long		_mon_sel_flags;
> +	struct mutex		mon_sel_mutex;
>  
>  	void __iomem		*mapped_hwpage;
>  	size_t			mapped_hwpage_sz;
> @@ -139,27 +140,44 @@ struct mpam_msc {
>  /* Returning false here means accesses to mon_sel must fail and report an error. */
>  static inline bool __must_check mpam_mon_sel_lock(struct mpam_msc *msc)
>  {
> -	/* Locking will require updating to support a firmware backed interface */
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(msc->iface != MPAM_IFACE_MMIO))
> +	if (msc->iface == MPAM_IFACE_MMIO) {
> +		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&msc->_mon_sel_lock, msc->_mon_sel_flags);
> +
> +		return true;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!preemptible())
>  		return false;
>  
> -	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&msc->_mon_sel_lock, msc->_mon_sel_flags);
> +	mutex_lock(&msc->mon_sel_mutex);
> +
>  	return true;
>  }
>  
>  static inline void mpam_mon_sel_unlock(struct mpam_msc *msc)
>  {
> -	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&msc->_mon_sel_lock, msc->_mon_sel_flags);
> +	if (msc->iface == MPAM_IFACE_MMIO) {
> +		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&msc->_mon_sel_lock,
> +					   msc->_mon_sel_flags);
> +
> +		return;
> +	}
> +
> +	mutex_unlock(&msc->mon_sel_mutex);
>  }
>  
>  static inline void mpam_mon_sel_lock_held(struct mpam_msc *msc)
>  {
> -	lockdep_assert_held_once(&msc->_mon_sel_lock);
> +	if (msc->iface == MPAM_IFACE_MMIO)
> +		lockdep_assert_held_once(&msc->_mon_sel_lock);
> +	else
> +		lockdep_assert_held_once(&msc->mon_sel_mutex);
>  }
>  
>  static inline void mpam_mon_sel_lock_init(struct mpam_msc *msc)
>  {
>  	raw_spin_lock_init(&msc->_mon_sel_lock);
> +	mutex_init(&msc->mon_sel_mutex);
>  }
>  
>  /* Bits for mpam features bitmaps */