4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

commit 79a8b9aa388b0620cc1d525d7c0f0d9a8a85e08e upstream.

Commit:

  a33d331761bc ("x86/CPU/AMD: Fix Bulldozer topology")

restored the initial approach we had with the Fam15h topology of
enumerating CU (Compute Unit) threads as cores. And this is still
correct - they're beefier than HT threads but still have some
shared functionality.

Our current approach has a problem with the Mad Max Steam game, for
example. Yves Dionne reported a certain "choppiness" while playing on
v4.9.5.

That problem stems most likely from the fact that the CU threads share
resources within one CU and when we schedule to a thread of a different
compute unit, this incurs latency due to migrating the working set to a
different CU through the caches.

When the thread siblings mask mirrors that aspect of the CUs and
threads, the scheduler pays attention to it and tries to schedule within
one CU first. Which takes care of the latency, of course.

Reported-by: Yves Dionne <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Yazen Ghannam <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c        |    9 ++++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c     |    1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c        |   12 +++++++++---
 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ struct cpuinfo_x86 {
        __u8                    x86_phys_bits;
        /* CPUID returned core id bits: */
        __u8                    x86_coreid_bits;
+       __u8                    cu_id;
        /* Max extended CPUID function supported: */
        __u32                   extended_cpuid_level;
        /* Maximum supported CPUID level, -1=no CPUID: */
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -309,8 +309,15 @@ static void amd_get_topology(struct cpui
 
        /* get information required for multi-node processors */
        if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_TOPOEXT)) {
+               u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
 
-               node_id = cpuid_ecx(0x8000001e) & 7;
+               cpuid(0x8000001e, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
+
+               node_id  = ecx & 0xff;
+               smp_num_siblings = ((ebx >> 8) & 0xff) + 1;
+
+               if (c->x86 == 0x15)
+                       c->cu_id = ebx & 0xff;
 
                /*
                 * We may have multiple LLCs if L3 caches exist, so check if we
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1015,6 +1015,7 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_
        c->x86_model_id[0] = '\0';  /* Unset */
        c->x86_max_cores = 1;
        c->x86_coreid_bits = 0;
+       c->cu_id = 0xff;
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
        c->x86_clflush_size = 64;
        c->x86_phys_bits = 36;
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -423,9 +423,15 @@ static bool match_smt(struct cpuinfo_x86
                int cpu1 = c->cpu_index, cpu2 = o->cpu_index;
 
                if (c->phys_proc_id == o->phys_proc_id &&
-                   per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu1) == per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu2) &&
-                   c->cpu_core_id == o->cpu_core_id)
-                       return topology_sane(c, o, "smt");
+                   per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu1) == per_cpu(cpu_llc_id, cpu2)) {
+                       if (c->cpu_core_id == o->cpu_core_id)
+                               return topology_sane(c, o, "smt");
+
+                       if ((c->cu_id != 0xff) &&
+                           (o->cu_id != 0xff) &&
+                           (c->cu_id == o->cu_id))
+                               return topology_sane(c, o, "smt");
+               }
 
        } else if (c->phys_proc_id == o->phys_proc_id &&
                   c->cpu_core_id == o->cpu_core_id) {


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