Re: [PATCH v4] i386/cpu: fixup number of addressable IDs for logical processors in the physical package

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Mon,  7 Oct 2024 16:13:44 +0800
Chuang Xu <xuchuangxclwt@bytedance.com> wrote:

> When QEMU is started with:
> -cpu host,migratable=on,host-cache-info=on,l3-cache=off
> -smp 180,sockets=2,dies=1,cores=45,threads=2
> 
> Try to execute "cpuid -1 -l 1 -r" in guest, we'll obtain a value of 90 for
> CPUID.01H.EBX[23:16], while the expected value is 128. And Try to
> execute "cpuid -1 -l 4 -r" in guest, we'll obtain a value of 63 for
> CPUID.04H.EAX[31:26] as expected.
> 
> As (1+CPUID.04H.EAX[31:26]) round up to the nearest power-of-2 integer,
> we'd beter round up CPUID.01H.EBX[23:16] to the nearest power-of-2
> integer too. Otherwise we may encounter unexpected results in guest.
> 
> For example, when QEMU is started with CLI above and xtopology is disabled,
> guest kernel 5.15.120 uses CPUID.01H.EBX[23:16]/(1+CPUID.04H.EAX[31:26]) to
> calculate threads-per-core in detect_ht(). Then guest will get "90/(1+63)=1"
> as the result, even though theads-per-core should actually be 2.
> 
> So let us round up CPUID.01H.EBX[23:16] to the nearest power-of-2 integer
> to solve the unexpected result.
> 
> In addition, we introduce max_thread_number_in_package() instead of
> using pow2ceil() to be compatible with smp and hybrid.

though I'm still worried that we can't use pow2ceil() to match spec closer.
Probably we are doing something wrong if bit shift works while pow2ceil()
as described in spec doesn't.


Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Guixiong Wei <weiguixiong@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yipeng Yin <yinyipeng@bytedance.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chuang Xu <xuchuangxclwt@bytedance.com>
> ---
>  target/i386/cpu.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
> index 85ef7452c0..1b4e3b6931 100644
> --- a/target/i386/cpu.c
> +++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
> @@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ static uint32_t max_thread_ids_for_cache(X86CPUTopoInfo *topo_info,
>      return num_ids - 1;
>  }
>  
> +static uint32_t max_thread_number_in_package(X86CPUTopoInfo *topo_info)
> +{
> +    uint32_t num_threads = 1 << apicid_pkg_offset(topo_info);
> +    return num_threads;
> +}
> +
>  static uint32_t max_core_ids_in_package(X86CPUTopoInfo *topo_info)
>  {
>      uint32_t num_cores = 1 << (apicid_pkg_offset(topo_info) -
> @@ -6462,7 +6468,7 @@ void cpu_x86_cpuid(CPUX86State *env, uint32_t index, uint32_t count,
>          }
>          *edx = env->features[FEAT_1_EDX];
>          if (threads_per_pkg > 1) {
> -            *ebx |= threads_per_pkg << 16;
> +            *ebx |= max_thread_number_in_package(&topo_info) << 16;
>              *edx |= CPUID_HT;
>          }
>          if (!cpu->enable_pmu) {