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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] arm: topology: parse the topology from the dt
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> 于2021年4月14日周三 下午5:43写道:
>
> On 13/04/2021 15:26, Ruifeng Zhang wrote:
> > Thanks for your review. Patch-v2 that solve the capacity issue will be
> > uploaded as soon as possible. : )
> >
> > Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> 于2021年4月13日周二 下午7:40写道:
> >>
> >> On 13/04/21 14:13, Ruifeng Zhang wrote:
> >>> Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> 于2021年4月12日周一 下午11:33写道:
> >>>> I'm not fluent at all in armv7 (or most aarch32 compat mode stuff), but
> >>>> I couldn't find anything about MPIDR format differences:
> >>>>
> >>>> DDI 0487G.a G8.2.113
> >>>> """
> >>>> AArch32 System register MPIDR bits [31:0] are architecturally mapped to
> >>>> AArch64 System register MPIDR_EL1[31:0].
> >>>> """
> >>>>
> >>>> Peeking at some armv7 doc and arm/kernel/topology.c the layout really looks
> >>>> just the same, i.e. for both of them, with your example of:
> >>>
> >>> The cortex-a7 spec DDI0464F 4.3.5
> >>> https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0464/f/?lang=en
> >>>
> >>
> >> Ah, so that's where the core_id=bit[1:0] comes from. That does still
> >> conform to the MPIDR format, and as you point out below that's being parsed
> >> the same (aff2, aff1, aff0) == mpidr([23:16][15:8][7:0])
> >>
> >>> The current arch/arm/kernel/topology code parse the MPIDR with a armv7 format.
> >>> the parse code is:
> >>> void store_cpu_topology(unsigned int cpuid)
> >>> {
> >>> ...
> >>> cpuid_topo->thread_id = -1;
> >>> cpuid_topo->core_id = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 0);
> >>> cpuid_topo->package_id = MPIDR_AFFINITY_LEVEL(mpidr, 1);
> >>> ...
> >>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> core0: 0000000080000000
> >>>> core1: 0000000080000100
> >>>> core2: 0000000080000200
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> we'll get:
> >>>>
> >>>> | | aff2 | aff1 | aff0 |
> >>>> |-------+------+------+------|
> >>>> | Core0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
> >>>> | Core1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
> >>>> | Core2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> Now, arm64 doesn't fallback to MPIDR for topology information anymore since
> >>>>
> >>>> 3102bc0e6ac7 ("arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information")
> >>>>
> >>>> so without DT we would get:
> >>>> | | package_id | core_id |
> >>>> |-------+------------+---------|
> >>>> | Core0 | 0 | 0 |
> >>>> | Core1 | 0 | 1 |
> >>>> | Core2 | 0 | 2 |
> >>>>
> >>>> Whereas with an arm kernel we'll end up parsing MPIDR as:
> >>>> | | package_id | core_id |
> >>>> |-------+------------+---------|
> >>>> | Core0 | 0 | 0 |
> >>>> | Core1 | 1 | 0 |
> >>>> | Core2 | 2 | 0 |
> >>>>
> >>>> Did I get this right? Is this what you're observing?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, this is a problem if an armv8.2 or above cpu is running a 32-bit
> >>> kernel on EL1.
> >>
> >>
> >> With the above MPIDR(_EL1) values, you would have the same problem in
> >> aarch64 mode on any kernel predating
> >>
> >> 3102bc0e6ac7 ("arm64: topology: Stop using MPIDR for topology information")
> >>
> >> since all Aff0 values are 0. Arguably those MPIDR(_EL1) values don't
> >> make much sense (cores in the same cluster should have different Aff0
> >> values, unless SMT), but in arm64 that's usually "corrected" by DT.
> >>
> >> As you pointed out, arm doesn't currently leverage the cpu-map DT entry. I
> >> don't see any obvious problem with adding support for it, so if you can fix
> >> the capacity issue Dietmar reported, I think we could consider it.
>
> Coming back to your original patch. You want to use parse_dt_topology()
> from drivers/base/arch_topology.c to be able detect a cpu-map in dt and
> so bypassing the read of mpidr in store_cpu_topology()?

Yes
>
> Looks like sc9863a has two frequency domains (1.6 and 1.2GHz). So
> technically it's a big.LITTLE system (based only on max CPU frequency
> (not on uarch) differences).
> But the dts file doesn't contain any `capacity-dmips-mhz` entries? So
> asymmetric CPU capacity (even only based on max CPU frequency) detection
> won't kick in. Since you don't have any uarch diffs, you would have to
> specify `capacity-dmips-mhz = <1024>` for each CPU.

Yes, for capacity, the DT should have a capacity-dmips-MHz entry or a
clock-frequency entry (for A7 and A15 only).
The sc9863a dts is a vendor file, in my opinion is not appropriate to
be update with this series.
What do you think if I independently update the sc9863a dts file later?

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