[PATCH 0/5] arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU

Pierre Gondois
2022-11-08T11:06:05Z

[1] and [2] build the CPU topology from the cacheinfo information for
both DT/ACPI based systems and remove (struct cpu_topology).llc_id
which was used by ACPI only.

Creating the cacheinfo for secondary CPUs is done during early boot.
Preemption and interrupts are disabled at this stage. On PREEMPT_RT
kernels, allocating memory (and parsing the PPTT table for ACPI based
systems) triggers a:
'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context' [4]

To prevent this bug, allocate the cacheinfo from the primary CPU when
preemption and interrupts are enabled and before booting secondary
CPUs. The cache levels/leaves are computed from DT/ACPI PPTT information
only, without relying on the arm64 CLIDR_EL1 register.
If no cache information is found in the DT/ACPI PPTT, then fallback
to the current state, triggering [4] on PREEMPT_RT kernels.

Patches to update the arm64 device trees that have incomplete cacheinfo
(mostly for missing the 'cache-level' or 'cache-unified' property)
have been sent at [3].

Tested platforms:
- ACPI + PPTT: Ampere Altra, Ampere eMAG, Cavium ThunderX2,
Kunpeng 920, Juno-r2
- DT: rb5, db845c, Juno-r2

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220704101605.1318280-1-sudeep.holla@arm.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220720-arch_topo_fixes-v3-0-43d696288e84@arm.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221107155825.1644604-1-pierre.gondois@arm.com/
[4] On an Ampere Altra, with PREEMPT_RT kernel based on v6.0.0-rc4:

[ 7.560791] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
[ 7.560794] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/111
[ 7.560796] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[ 7.560797] RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
[ 7.560799] 3 locks held by swapper/111/0:
[ 7.560800] #0: ffff403e406cae98 (&pcp->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: get_page_from_freelist+0x218/0x12c8
[ 7.560811] #1: ffffc5f8ed09f8e8 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rt_spin_trylock+0x48/0xf0
[ 7.560820] #2: ffff403f400b4fd8 (&zone->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rmqueue_bulk+0x64/0xa80
[ 7.560824] irq event stamp: 0
[ 7.560825] hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[ 7.560827] hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffffc5f8e9f7d594>] copy_process+0x5dc/0x1ab8
[ 7.560830] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffc5f8e9f7d594>] copy_process+0x5dc/0x1ab8
[ 7.560833] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[ 7.560834] Preemption disabled at:
[ 7.560835] [<ffffc5f8e9fd3c28>] migrate_enable+0x30/0x130
[ 7.560838] CPU: 111 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/111 Tainted: G W 6.0.0-rc4-[...]
[ 7.560841] Call trace:
[...]
[ 7.560870] __kmalloc+0xbc/0x1e8
[ 7.560873] detect_cache_attributes+0x2d4/0x5f0
[ 7.560876] update_siblings_masks+0x30/0x368
[ 7.560880] store_cpu_topology+0x78/0xb8
[ 7.560883] secondary_start_kernel+0xd0/0x198
[ 7.560885] __secondary_switched+0xb0/0xb4

Pierre Gondois (5):
cacheinfo: Use riscv's init_cache_level() as generic OF implem
cacheinfo: Return error code in init_of_cache_level()
ACPI: PPTT: Remove acpi_find_cache_levels()
ACPI: PPTT: Update acpi_find_last_cache_level() to
acpi_get_cache_info()
arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU

arch/arm64/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 9 ++-
arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 39 +------------
drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++------------
drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 10 +++-
drivers/base/cacheinfo.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
include/linux/cacheinfo.h | 10 +++-
6 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)

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