Re: [PATCH v16 08/34] x86,fs/resctrl: Detect Assignable Bandwidth Monitoring feature details

From: Reinette Chatre
Date: Wed Jul 30 2025 - 15:50:21 EST


Hi Babu,

On 7/25/25 11:29 AM, Babu Moger wrote:
> ABMC feature details are reported via CPUID Fn8000_0020_EBX_x5.
> Bits Description
> 15:0 MAX_ABMC Maximum Supported Assignable Bandwidth
> Monitoring Counter ID + 1
>
> The feature details are documented in APM listed below [1].
> [1] AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming
> Publication # 24593 Revision 3.41 section 19.3.3.3 Assignable Bandwidth
> Monitoring (ABMC).
>
> Detect the feature and number of assignable counters supported. For
> backward compatibility, upon detecting the assignable counter feature,
> enable the mbm_total_bytes and mbm_local_bytes events that users are
> familiar with as part of original L3 MBM support.
>
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537
> Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@xxxxxxx>
> ---

...

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> index 267e9206a999..09cb5a70b1cb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/core.c
> @@ -883,6 +883,8 @@ static __init bool get_rdt_mon_resources(void)
> resctrl_enable_mon_event(QOS_L3_MBM_LOCAL_EVENT_ID);
> ret = true;
> }
> + if (rdt_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ABMC))
> + ret = true;
>
> if (!ret)
> return false;
> @@ -990,7 +992,8 @@ void resctrl_cpu_detect(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>

To complement the change below, shouldn't the snippet that precedes it look like:
if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CQM_LLC) && !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_ABMC)) {
...
return;
}

> if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CQM_OCCUP_LLC) ||
> cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CQM_MBM_TOTAL) ||
> - cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CQM_MBM_LOCAL)) {
> + cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_CQM_MBM_LOCAL) ||
> + cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_ABMC)) {
> u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
>
> /* QoS sub-leaf, EAX=0Fh, ECX=1 */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c
> index 2558b1bdef8b..0a695ce68f46 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/monitor.c
> @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ int __init rdt_get_mon_l3_config(struct rdt_resource *r)
> unsigned int mbm_offset = boot_cpu_data.x86_cache_mbm_width_offset;
> struct rdt_hw_resource *hw_res = resctrl_to_arch_res(r);
> unsigned int threshold;
> + u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
>
> snc_nodes_per_l3_cache = snc_get_config();
>
> @@ -368,14 +369,18 @@ int __init rdt_get_mon_l3_config(struct rdt_resource *r)
> */
> resctrl_rmid_realloc_threshold = resctrl_arch_round_mon_val(threshold);
>
> - if (rdt_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_BMEC)) {
> - u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
> -
> + if (rdt_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_BMEC) || rdt_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ABMC)) {
> /* Detect list of bandwidth sources that can be tracked */
> cpuid_count(0x80000020, 3, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
> r->mon.mbm_cfg_mask = ecx & MAX_EVT_CONFIG_BITS;

I interpret this mbm_cfg_mask initialization that an ABMC system will report which of
the memory transactions can be monitored.
In patch #15 "fs/resctrl: Introduce event configuration field in struct mon_evt"
the event configurations of memory transactions that should be monitored are hardcoded
as below without taking into account what the system supports:

resctrl_mon_resource_init() {
...
mon_event_all[QOS_L3_MBM_TOTAL_EVENT_ID].evt_cfg = MAX_EVT_CONFIG_BITS;
mon_event_all[QOS_L3_MBM_LOCAL_EVENT_ID].evt_cfg = READS_TO_LOCAL_MEM |
READS_TO_LOCAL_S_MEM |
NON_TEMP_WRITE_TO_LOCAL_MEM;
...
}

It may thus be that a system may not support all memory transactions it is configured to
monitor. It seems to me that the initialization done in resctrl_mon_resource_init() needs
to take r->mon.mbm_cfg_mask (what the system supports) into account? If so, then
the same hardcoding done by patch #32 in resctrl_mbm_assign_mode_write() should
also be changed.

Reinette