[PATCH v7 01/49] x86/resctrl: Fix allocation of cleanest CLOSID on platforms with no monitors

James Morse
2025-02-28T20:00:02Z

commit 6eac36bb9eb0 ("x86/resctrl: Allocate the cleanest CLOSID by
searching closid_num_dirty_rmid") added logic that causes resctrl to
search for the CLOSID with the fewest dirty cache lines when creating a
new control group, if requested by the arch code. This depends on the
values read from the llc_occupancy counters. The logic is applicable to
architectures where the CLOSID effectively forms part of the monitoring
identifier and so do not allow complete freedom to choose an unused
monitoring identifier for a given CLOSID.

This support missed that some platforms may not have these counters.
This causes a NULL pointer dereference when creating a new control
group as the array was not allocated by dom_data_init().

As this feature isn't necessary on platforms that don't have cache
occupancy monitors, add this to the check that occurs when a new
control group is allocated.

Fixes: 6eac36bb9eb0 ("x86/resctrl: Allocate the cleanest CLOSID by searching closid_num_dirty_rmid")
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Tested-by: Carl Worth <carl@os.amperecomputing.com> # arm64
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
---
The existing code is not selected by any upstream platform, it makes
no sense to backport this patch to stable.

Changes since v1:
* [Commit message only] Reword the first paragraph to make it clear
that the issue being fixed wasn't directly associated with addition
of a Kconfig option. (Actually, the option is not in Kconfig yet,
and gets added later in this series.)
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
index 6419e04d8a7b..04b653d613e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ static int closid_alloc(void)

lockdep_assert_held(&rdtgroup_mutex);

- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RESCTRL_RMID_DEPENDS_ON_CLOSID)) {
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RESCTRL_RMID_DEPENDS_ON_CLOSID) &&
+ is_llc_occupancy_enabled()) {
cleanest_closid = resctrl_find_cleanest_closid();
if (cleanest_closid < 0)
return cleanest_closid;
--
2.39.5