Re: [PATCH v12 2/4] arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:51:41 +0800
Yicong Yang <yangyicong@huawei.com> wrote:

> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
> 
> On building the topology from the devicetree, we've already gotten the
> SMT thread number of each core. Update the largest SMT thread number
> and enable the SMT control by the end of topology parsing.
> 
> The framework's SMT control provides two interface to the users [1]
> through /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control:
> 1) enable SMT by writing "on" and disable by "off"
> 2) enable SMT by writing max_thread_number or disable by writing 1
> 
> Both method support to completely disable/enable the SMT cores so both
> work correctly for symmetric SMT platform and asymmetric platform with
> non-SMT and one type SMT cores like:
> core A: 1 thread
> core B: X (X!=1) threads
> 
> Note that for a theoretically possible multiple SMT-X (X>1) core
> platform the SMT control is also supported as expected but only
> by writing the "on/off" method.
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu#n542
> Reviewed-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>