Until recently Intel CPUs didn't support using non-contiguous 1s in Cache Allocation Technology (CAT). Writing a bitmask with non-contiguous 1s to the resctrl schemata file would fail. Intel CPUs that support non-contiguous 1s can be identified through a CPUID leaf mentioned in the "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual" document available at: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-sdm.html Add kernel support for detecting if non-contiguous 1s in Cache Allocation Technology (CAT) are supported by the hardware. Also add a new resctrl FS file to output this information to the userspace. Keep the hardcoded value for Haswell CPUs only since they do not have CPUID enumeration support for Cache allocation. Since the selftests/resctrl files are going through many rewrites and cleanups the appropriate selftest is still a work in progress. For basic selftesting capabilities use the bash script attached below this paragraph. It checks whether various bitmasks written into resctrl FS generate output consistent with reported feature support. Changelog v3: - Add Peter's tested-by and reviewed-by tags. - Change patch order to make 4th one the 1st. - Add error checking to schema_len variable. - Update cover letter since now the feature has moved from the SDM. Changelog v2: - Change git signature from Wieczor-Retman Maciej to Maciej Wieczor-Retman. - Change bitmap naming convention to bit mask. - Add patch to change arch_has_sparce_bitmaps name to match bitmask naming convention. Fenghua Yu (2): x86/resctrl: Add sparse_masks file in info Documentation/x86: Document resctrl's new sparse_masks Maciej Wieczor-Retman (2): x86/resctrl: Rename arch_has_sparse_bitmaps x86/resctrl: Enable non-contiguous CBMs in Intel CAT Documentation/arch/x86/resctrl.rst | 16 ++++++++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c | 11 +++++++---- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c | 14 ++++++++------ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/internal.h | 9 +++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/resctrl.h | 4 ++-- 6 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) base-commit: 27bbf45eae9ca98877a2d52a92a188147cd61b07 -- 2.42.0
