Re: [PATCH v3] sched/topology: Enable topology_span_sane check only for debug builds

Naman Jain
2025-02-06T17:18:18Z

On 2/6/2025 8:54 PM, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 06/02/25 14:40, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
>> What topology_span_sane() does is, it iterates over all the CPUs at a
>> given topology level and makes sure that the cpumask for a CPU at
>> that domain is same as the cpumask of every other CPU set on that mask
>> for that topology level.
>>
>> If two CPUs are set on a mask, they should have the same mask. If CPUs
>> are not set on each other's mask, the masks should be disjoint.
>>
>> On x86, the way set_cpu_sibling_map() works, CPUs are set on each other's
>> shared masks iff match_*() returns true:
>>
>> o For SMT, this means:
>>
>> - If X86_FEATURE_TOPOEXT is set:
>> - pkg_id must match.
>> - die_id must match.
>> - amd_node_id must match.
>> - llc_id must match.
>> - Either core_id or cu_id must match. (*)
>> - NUMA nodes must match.
>>
>> - If !X86_FEATURE_TOPOEXT:
>> - pkg_id must match.
>> - die_id must match.
>> - core_id must match.
>> - NUMA nodes must match.
>>
>> o For CLUSTER this means:
>>
>> - If l2c_id is not populated (== BAD_APICID)
>> - Same conditions as SMT.
>>
>> - If l2c_id is populated (!= BAD_APICID)
>> - l2c_id must match.
>> - NUMA nodes must match.
>>
>> o For MC it means:
>>
>> - llc_id must be populated (!= BAD_APICID) and must match.
>> - If INTEL_SNC: pkg_id must match.
>> - If !INTEL_SNC: NUMA nodes must match.
>>
>> o For PKG domain:
>>
>> - Inserted only if !x86_has_numa_in_package.
>> - CPUs should be in same NUMA node.
>>
>> All in all, other that the one (*) decision point, everything else has
>> to strictly match for CPUs to be set in each other's CPU mask. And if
>> they match with one CPU, they should match will all other CPUs in mask
>> and it they mismatch with one, they should mismatch with all leading
>> to link_mask() never being called.
>>
>
> Nice summary, thanks for that - I'm not that familiar with the x86 topology
> faff.
>
>
>> This is why I think that the topology_span_sane() check is redundant
>> when the x86 bits have already ensured masks cannot overlap in all
>> cases except for potentially in the (*) case.
>>
>> So circling back to my original question around "SDTL_ARCH_VERIFIED",
>> would folks be okay to an early bailout from topology_span_sane() on:
>>
>> if (!sched_debug() && (tl->flags & SDTL_ARCH_VERIFIED))
>> return;
>>
>> and more importantly, do folks care enough about topology_span_sane()
>> to have it run on other architectures and not just have it guarded
>> behind just "sched_debug()" which starts off as false by default?
>>
>
> If/when possible I prefer to have sanity checks run unconditionally, as
> long as they don't noticeably impact runtime. Unfortunately this does show
> up in the boot time, though Steve had a promising improvement for that.
>
> Anyway, if someone gets one of those hangs on a
>
> do { } while (group != sd->groups)
>
> they'll quickly turn on sched_verbose (or be told to) and the sanity check
> will holler at them, so I'm not entirely against it.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Regards,
Naman