On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 03:51:42PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: > From: Yicong Yang <yangyic...@hisilicon.com> > > For ACPI we'll build the topology from PPTT and we cannot directly > get the SMT number of each core. Instead using a temporary xarray > to record the heterogeneous information (from ACPI_PPTT_ACPI_IDENTICAL) > and SMT information of the first core in its heterogeneous CPU cluster > when building the topology. Then we can know the largest SMT number > in the system. If a homogeneous system's using ACPI 6.2 or later, > all the CPUs should be under the root node of PPTT. There'll be > only one entry in the xarray and all the CPUs in the system will > be assumed identical. > > The framework's SMT control provides two interface to the users [1] > through /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control: > 1) enable SMT by writing "on" and disable by "off" > 2) enable SMT by writing max_thread_number or disable by writing 1 > > Both method support to completely disable/enable the SMT cores so both > work correctly for symmetric SMT platform and asymmetric platform with > non-SMT and one type SMT cores like: > core A: 1 thread > core B: X (X!=1) threads > > Note that for a theoretically possible multiple SMT-X (X>1) core > platform the SMT control is also supported as expected but only > by writing the "on/off" method. > > [1] > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu#n542
Ditto, just path please. Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.ho...@arm.com> -- Regards, Sudeep
