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author | Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> | 2020-05-05 15:36:16 -0700 |
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committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2020-05-06 18:00:35 +0200 |
commit | 46637d4570e108d1f6721cfa2cca1d078882761a (patch) | |
tree | a1f111536d4d336a62704668a0922a37b3d1c6e2 /kernel/kexec.c | |
parent | 923f3a2b48bdccb6a1d1f0dd48de03de7ad936d9 (diff) |
x86/resctrl: Maintain MBM counter width per resource
The original Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM) architectural
definition defines counters of up to 62 bits in the IA32_QM_CTR MSR,
and the first-generation MBM implementation uses 24 bit counters.
Software is required to poll at 1 second or faster to ensure that
data is retrieved before a counter rollover occurs more than once
under worst conditions.
As system bandwidths scale the software requirement is maintained with
the introduction of a per-resource enumerable MBM counter width.
In preparation for supporting hardware with an enumerable MBM counter
width the current globally static MBM counter width is moved to a
per-resource MBM counter width. Currently initialized to 24 always
to result in no functional change.
In essence there is one function, mbm_overflow_count() that needs to
know the counter width to handle rollovers. The static value
used within mbm_overflow_count() will be replaced with a value
discovered from the hardware. Support for learning the MBM counter
width from hardware is added in the change that follows.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e36743b9800f16ce600f86b89127391f61261f23.1588715690.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com
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