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The > counters of any other RMIDs which are no longer being tracked will be reset > to zero. The MBM event counters return "Unavailable" for the RMIDs that are > not tracked by hardware. So, there can be only limited number of groups > that can give guaranteed monitoring numbers. With ever changing > configurations there is no way to definitely know which of these groups are > being tracked for certain point of time. Users do not have the option to > monitor a group or set of groups for certain period of time without > worrying about RMID being reset in between. > > The ABMC feature provides an option to the user to assign a hardware > counter to an RMID, event pair and monitor the bandwidth as long as it is > assigned. The assigned RMID will be tracked by the hardware until the user > unassigns it manually. There is no need to worry about counters being reset > during this period. Additionally, the user can specify a bitmask > identifying the specific bandwidth types from the given source to track > with the counter. > > Without ABMC enabled, monitoring will work in current mode without > assignment option. > > Linux resctrl subsystem provides the interface to count maximum of two > memory bandwidth events per group, from a combination of available total > and local events. Keeping the current interface, users can enable a maximum > of 2 ABMC counters per group. User will also have the option to enable only > one counter to the group. If the system runs out of assignable ABMC > counters, kernel will display an error. Users need to disable an already > enabled counter to make space for new assignments. The above paragraph sounds like it is still talking about the original global assignment of counters. > > The feature can be detected via CPUID_Fn80000020_EBX_x00 bit 5. > Bits Description > 5 ABMC (Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring Counters) > > The feature details are documented in APM listed below [1]. > [1] AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming > Publication # 24593 Revision 3.41 section 19.3.3.3 Assignable Bandwidth > Monitoring (ABMC). > > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537 > Signed-off-by: Babu Moger > --- > > Note: Checkpatch checks/warnings are ignored to maintain coding style. > > v12: Removed the dependancy on X86_FEATURE_BMEC. Considering this removal it is not clear to me how the BMEC and ABMC features are managed on a platform. Since this dependency existed I assume platforms that support both ABMC and BMEC exist and after previous discussion [1] I expected to see that BMEC support will be disabled when ABMC is detected but I do not see this done in this series. From what I can tell, looking at patch "x86/resctrl: Detect Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring feature details" BMEC and ABMC are both detected and enabled while I do not see any interactions handled. For example, a user modifying the BMEC appears to have no impact on existing ABMC assigned counters. Could you please clarify how event configuration works on platforms that support both ABMC and BMEC? Reinette [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/4b66ea1c-2f76-4218-a67b-2232b2be6990@amd.com/