On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:37:59 +0000
James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> register_cpu_capacity_sysctl() adds a property to sysfs that describes
> the CPUs capacity. This is done from a subsys_initcall() that assumes
> all possible CPUs are registered.
>
> With CPU hotplug, possible CPUs aren't registered until they become
> present, (or for arm64 enabled). This leads to messages during boot:
> | register_cpu_capacity_sysctl: too early to get CPU1 device!
> and once these CPUs are added to the system, the file is missing.
>
> Move this to a cpuhp callback, so that the file is created once
> CPUs are brought online. This covers CPUs that are added late by
> mechanisms like hotplug.
> One observable difference is the file is now missing for offline CPUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> If the offline CPUs thing is a problem for the tools that consume
> this value, we'd need to move cpu_capacity to be part of cpu.c's
> common_cpu_attr_groups.
I think we should do that anyway and then use an is_visible() if we want to
change whether it is visible in offline cpus.
Dynamic sysfs file creation is horrible - particularly when done
from an totally different file from where the rest of the attributes
are registered. I'm curious what the history behind that is.
Whilst here, why is there a common_cpu_attr_groups which is
identical to the hotpluggable_cpu_attr_groups in base/cpu.c?
+CC GregKH
Given changes in drivers/base/
> ---
> drivers/base/arch_topology.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
> index b741b5ba82bd..9ccb7daee78e 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/arch_topology.c
> @@ -220,20 +220,34 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(update_topology_flags_work, update_topology_flags_workfn);
>
> static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(cpu_capacity);
>
> +static int cpu_capacity_sysctl_add(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> + struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> +
> + if (!cpu_dev)
> + return -ENOENT;
> +
> + device_create_file(cpu_dev, &dev_attr_cpu_capacity);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static int cpu_capacity_sysctl_remove(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> + struct device *cpu_dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> +
> + if (!cpu_dev)
> + return -ENOENT;
> +
> + device_remove_file(cpu_dev, &dev_attr_cpu_capacity);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static int register_cpu_capacity_sysctl(void)
> {
> - int i;
> - struct device *cpu;
> -
> - for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> - cpu = get_cpu_device(i);
> - if (!cpu) {
> - pr_err("%s: too early to get CPU%d device!\n",
> - __func__, i);
> - continue;
> - }
> - device_create_file(cpu, &dev_attr_cpu_capacity);
> - }
> + cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "topology/cpu-capacity",
> + cpu_capacity_sysctl_add, cpu_capacity_sysctl_remove);
>
> return 0;
> }
