Re: [PATCH v12 3/4] arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:51:42PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
> 
> For ACPI we'll build the topology from PPTT and we cannot directly
> get the SMT number of each core. Instead using a temporary xarray
> to record the heterogeneous information (from ACPI_PPTT_ACPI_IDENTICAL)
> and SMT information of the first core in its heterogeneous CPU cluster
> when building the topology. Then we can know the largest SMT number
> in the system. If a homogeneous system's using ACPI 6.2 or later,
> all the CPUs should be under the root node of PPTT. There'll be
> only one entry in the xarray and all the CPUs in the system will
> be assumed identical.
> 
> 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

Ditto, just path please.

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

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Sudeep