kernel/linux.git/fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c, branch v7.2-rc1

fs/resctrl: Disallow the software controller when MBM counters are assignable

2026-05-06T17:06:57+00:00

The software controller requires that there is one MBM counter per monitor group that is assigned to the event backing the software controller, as per mba_MBps_event. When mbm_event mode is in use, it is not guaranteed that any particular event will have an assigned counter. Currently, only AMD systems support counter assignment, but the MBA delay is non-linear and so the software controller is never supported anyway. On MPAM systems, the MBA delay is linear and so the software controller could be supported. The MPAM driver, unless a need arises, will not support the 'default' mbm_assign_mode and will always use the 'mbm_event' mode for memory bandwidth monitoring. Rather than develop a way to guarantee the counter assignment requirements needed by the software controller, take the pragmatic approach. Don't allow the software controller to be used at the same time as 'mbm_event' mode. As MPAM is the only relevant architecture and it will use 'mbm_event' mode whenever there are assignable MBM counters, for simplicity's sake, don't allow the software controller when the MBM counters are assignable. Implement this by failing the mount if the user requests the software controller, the mba_MBps option, and the MBM counters are assignable. Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Reviewed-by: Babu Moger Tested-by: Babu Moger Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260506082855.3694761-1-ben.horgan@arm.com

x86,fs/resctrl: Create 'event_filter' files read only if they're not configurable

2026-05-06T17:06:57+00:00

When the counter assignment mode is mbm_event resctrl assumes the MBM events are configurable and exposes the 'event_filter' files. These files live at info/L3_MON/event_configs//event_filter and are used to display and set the event configuration. The MPAM architecture has support for configuring the memory bandwidth utilization (MBWU) counters to only count reads or only count writes. However, in MPAM, this event filtering support is optional in the hardware (and not yet implemented in the MPAM driver) but MBM counter assignment is always possible for MPAM MBWU counters. In order to support mbm_event mode with MPAM, create the 'event_filter' files read only if the event configuration can't be changed. A user can still chmod the file and so also return early with an error from event_filter_write(). Introduce a new monitor property, mbm_cntr_configurable, to indicate whether or not assignable MBM counters are configurable. On x86, set this to true whenever mbm_cntr_assignable is true to keep existing behaviour. Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Reviewed-by: Babu Moger Tested-by: Babu Moger Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260506082855.3694761-1-ben.horgan@arm.com

fs/resctrl: Tidy up the error path in resctrl_mkdir_event_configs()

2026-05-06T17:06:52+00:00

The error path in resctrl_mkdir_event_configs() is unnecessarily complicated. Simplify it to just return directly on error. Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Reviewed-by: Babu Moger Tested-by: Babu Moger Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260506082855.3694761-1-ben.horgan@arm.com

fs/resctrl: Add missing return value descriptions

2026-04-07T19:01:22+00:00

Using the stricter "./tools/docs/kernel-doc -Wall -v" to verify proper formatting of documentation comments includes warnings related to return markup on functions that are omitted during the default verification checks. This stricter verification reports a couple of missing return descriptions in resctrl: Warning: .../fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c:1536 No description found for return value of 'rdtgroup_cbm_to_size' Warning: .../fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c:3131 No description found for return value of 'mon_get_kn_priv' Warning: .../fs/resctrl/rdtgroup.c:3523 No description found for return value of 'cbm_ensure_valid' Warning: .../fs/resctrl/monitor.c:238 No description found for return value of 'resctrl_find_cleanest_closid' Add the missing return descriptions. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1c50b9f7c73251c007133590986f127e1af57780.1775576382.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

fs/resctrl: Move RMID initialization to first mount

2026-01-10T10:46:48+00:00

L3 monitor features are enumerated during resctrl initialization and rmid_ptrs[] that tracks all RMIDs and depends on the number of supported RMIDs is allocated during this time. Telemetry monitor features are enumerated during first resctrl mount and may support a different number of RMIDs compared to L3 monitor features. Delay allocation and initialization of rmid_ptrs[] until first mount. Since the number of RMIDs cannot change on later mounts, keep the same set of rmid_ptrs[] until resctrl_exit(). This is required because the limbo handler keeps running after resctrl is unmounted and needs to access rmid_ptrs[] as it keeps tracking busy RMIDs after unmount. Rename routines to match what they now do: dom_data_init() -> setup_rmid_lru_list() dom_data_exit() -> free_rmid_lru_list() Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251217172121.12030-1-tony.luck@intel.com

x86,fs/resctrl: Compute number of RMIDs as minimum across resources

2026-01-10T10:43:58+00:00

resctrl assumes that only the L3 resource supports monitor events, so it simply takes the rdt_resource::num_rmid from RDT_RESOURCE_L3 as the system's number of RMIDs. The addition of telemetry events in a different resource breaks that assumption. Compute the number of available RMIDs as the minimum value across all mon_capable resources (analogous to how the number of CLOSIDs is computed across alloc_capable resources). Note that mount time enumeration of the telemetry resource means that this number can be reduced. If this happens, then some memory will be wasted as the allocations for rdt_l3_mon_domain::mbm_states[] and rdt_l3_mon_domain::rmid_busy_llc created during resctrl initialization will be larger than needed. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251217172121.12030-1-tony.luck@intel.com

x86/resctrl: Handle number of RMIDs supported by RDT_RESOURCE_PERF_PKG

2026-01-10T10:20:14+00:00

There are now three meanings for "number of RMIDs": 1) The number for legacy features enumerated by CPUID leaf 0xF. This is the maximum number of distinct values that can be loaded into MSR_IA32_PQR_ASSOC. Note that systems with Sub-NUMA Cluster mode enabled will force scaling down the CPUID enumerated value by the number of SNC nodes per L3-cache. 2) The number of registers in MMIO space for each event. This is enumerated in the XML files and is the value initialized into event_group::num_rmid. 3) The number of "hardware counters" (this isn't a strictly accurate description of how things work, but serves as a useful analogy that does describe the limitations) feeding to those MMIO registers. This is enumerated in telemetry_region::num_rmids returned by intel_pmt_get_regions_by_feature(). Event groups with insufficient "hardware counters" to track all RMIDs are difficult for users to use, since the system may reassign "hardware counters" at any time. This means that users cannot reliably collect two consecutive event counts to compute the rate at which events are occurring. Disable such event groups by default. The user may override this with a command line "rdt=" option. In this case limit an under-resourced event group's number of possible monitor resource groups to the lowest number of "hardware counters". Scan all enabled event groups and assign the RDT_RESOURCE_PERF_PKG resource "num_rmid" value to the smallest of these values as this value will be used later to compare against the number of RMIDs supported by other resources to determine how many monitoring resource groups are supported. N.B. Change type of resctrl_mon::num_rmid to u32 to match its usage and the type of event_group::num_rmid so that min(r->num_rmid, e->num_rmid) won't complain about mixing signed and unsigned types. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251217172121.12030-1-tony.luck@intel.com

x86,fs/resctrl: Handle domain creation/deletion for RDT_RESOURCE_PERF_PKG

2026-01-09T22:36:41+00:00

The L3 resource has several requirements for domains. There are per-domain structures that hold the 64-bit values of counters, and elements to keep track of the overflow and limbo threads. None of these are needed for the PERF_PKG resource. The hardware counters are wide enough that they do not wrap around for decades. Define a new rdt_perf_pkg_mon_domain structure which just consists of the standard rdt_domain_hdr to keep track of domain id and CPU mask. Update resctrl_online_mon_domain() for RDT_RESOURCE_PERF_PKG. The only action needed for this resource is to create and populate domain directories if a domain is added while resctrl is mounted. Similarly resctrl_offline_mon_domain() only needs to remove domain directories. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251217172121.12030-1-tony.luck@intel.com