On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 09:36:16AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 06:57:08 +0000 > "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao....@hisilicon.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org] > > > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 7:35 PM > > > To: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) <song.bao....@hisilicon.com> > > > Cc: tim.c.c...@linux.intel.com; catalin.mari...@arm.com; w...@kernel.org; > > > r...@rjwysocki.net; vincent.guit...@linaro.org; b...@alien8.de; > > > t...@linutronix.de; mi...@redhat.com; l...@kernel.org; > > > pet...@infradead.org; > > > dietmar.eggem...@arm.com; rost...@goodmis.org; bseg...@google.com; > > > mgor...@suse.de; msys.miz...@gmail.com; valentin.schnei...@arm.com; > > > Jonathan > > > Cameron <jonathan.came...@huawei.com>; juri.le...@redhat.com; > > > mark.rutl...@arm.com; sudeep.ho...@arm.com; aubrey...@linux.intel.com; > > > linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > > > linux-a...@vger.kernel.org; x...@kernel.org; xuwei (O) > > > <xuw...@huawei.com>; > > > Zengtao (B) <prime.z...@hisilicon.com>; guodong...@linaro.org; yangyicong > > > <yangyic...@huawei.com>; Liguozhu (Kenneth) <liguo...@hisilicon.com>; > > > linux...@openeuler.org; h...@zytor.com > > > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 1/4] topology: Represent clusters of CPUs > > > within > > > a die > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 05:16:15PM +1300, Barry Song wrote: > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > > b/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > > > index b90dafc..f9d3745 100644 > > > > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst > > > > @@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ core_id: > > > > identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is > > > > architecture and platform dependent. > > > > > > > > +cluster_id: > > > > + > > > > + the Cluster ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's > > > > + identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is > > > > + architecture and platform dependent. > > > > + > > > > book_id: > > > > > > > > the book ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's > > > > @@ -56,6 +62,14 @@ package_cpus_list: > > > > human-readable list of CPUs sharing the same > > > > physical_package_id. > > > > (deprecated name: "core_siblings_list") > > > > > > > > +cluster_cpus: > > > > + > > > > + internal kernel map of CPUs within the same cluster. > > > > + > > > > +cluster_cpus_list: > > > > + > > > > + human-readable list of CPUs within the same cluster. > > > > + > > > > die_cpus: > > > > > > > > internal kernel map of CPUs within the same die. > > > > > > Why are these sysfs files in this file, and not in a Documentation/ABI/ > > > file which can be correctly parsed and shown to userspace? > > > > Well. Those ABIs have been there for much a long time. It is like: > > > > [root@ceph1 topology]# ls > > core_id core_siblings core_siblings_list physical_package_id > > thread_siblings thread_siblings_list > > [root@ceph1 topology]# pwd > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu100/topology > > [root@ceph1 topology]# cat core_siblings_list > > 64-127 > > [root@ceph1 topology]# > > > > > > > > Any chance you can fix that up here as well? > > > > Yes. we will send a separate patch to address this, which won't > > be in this patchset. This patchset will base on that one. > > > > > > > > Also note that "list" is not something that goes in sysfs, sysfs is "one > > > value per file", and a list is not "one value". How do you prevent > > > overflowing the buffer of the sysfs file if you have a "list"? > > > > > > > At a glance, the list is using "-" rather than a real list > > [root@ceph1 topology]# cat core_siblings_list > > 64-127 > > > > Anyway, I will take a look if it has any chance to overflow. > > It could in theory be alternate CPUs as comma separated list. > So it's would get interesting around 500-1000 cpus (guessing). > > Hopefully no one has that crazy a cpu numbering scheme but it's possible > (note that cluster is fine for this, but I guess it might eventually > happen for core-siblings list (cpus within a package). > > Shouldn't crash or anything like that but might terminate early.
We have a broken sysfs api already for listing LED numbers that has had to be worked around in the past, please do not create a new one with that same problem, we should learn from them :) thanks, greg k-h
