cpu_smt_mask tracks topology_sibling_cpumask. This would be good for
most architectures. One of the users of cpu_smt_mask(), would be to
identify idle-cores. On Power9, a pair of cores can be presented by the
firmware as a big-core for backward compatibility reasons.
In order to maintain userspace backward compatibility with previous
versions of processor, (since Power8 had SMT8 cores), Power9 onwards there
is option to the firmware to advertise a pair of SMT4 cores as a fused
cores (referred to as the big_core mode in the Linux Kernel). On Power9
this pair shares the L2 cache as well. However, from the scheduler's point
of view, a core should be determined by SMT4. The load-balancer already
does this. Hence allow PowerPc architecture to override the default
cpu_smt_mask() to point to the SMT4 cores in a big_core mode.
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <e...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schnei...@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggem...@arm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guit...@linaro.org>
Cc: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <sva...@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <sri...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/topology.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/topology.h b/include/linux/topology.h
index 608fa4aadf0e..ad03df1cc266 100644
--- a/include/linux/topology.h
+++ b/include/linux/topology.h
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static inline int cpu_to_mem(int cpu)
#define topology_die_cpumask(cpu) cpumask_of(cpu)
#endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
+#if defined(CONFIG_SCHED_SMT) && !defined(cpu_smt_mask)
static inline const struct cpumask *cpu_smt_mask(int cpu)
{
return topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu);
--
2.18.2
