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<title>docs: ABI: drop two duplicate symbols</title>
<updated>2025-02-13T16:23:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mauro Carvalho Chehab</name>
<email>mchehab+huawei@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-02-12T21:08:01+00:00</published>
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As warned by get_abi.py, there are two symbols that are
defined twice:

WARNING: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id is defined 2 times: \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:27; \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:70
WARNING: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/ppin is defined 2 times: \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:89; \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:70

As the documentation at testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu, drop
the duplicated one from stable.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c3dce809f577584cf9aedafc6c2a0d5a9ca909ac.1739394480.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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As warned by get_abi.py, there are two symbols that are
defined twice:

WARNING: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id is defined 2 times: \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:27; \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:70
WARNING: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/ppin is defined 2 times: \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:89; \
	/new_devel/v4l/docs/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu:70

As the documentation at testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu, drop
the duplicated one from stable.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+huawei@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c3dce809f577584cf9aedafc6c2a0d5a9ca909ac.1739394480.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>topology/sysfs: Add PPIN in sysfs under cpu topology</title>
<updated>2022-02-01T15:36:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-31T23:01:11+00:00</published>
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PPIN is the Protected Processor Identification Number.
This is used to identify the socket as a Field Replaceable Unit (FRU).

Existing code only displays this when reporting errors. But this makes
it inconvenient for large clusters to use it for its intended purpose
of inventory control.

Add ppin to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology to make what
is already available using RDMSR more easily accessible. Make
the file read only for root in case there are still people
concerned about making a unique system "serial number" available.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131230111.2004669-6-tony.luck@intel.com
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PPIN is the Protected Processor Identification Number.
This is used to identify the socket as a Field Replaceable Unit (FRU).

Existing code only displays this when reporting errors. But this makes
it inconvenient for large clusters to use it for its intended purpose
of inventory control.

Add ppin to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology to make what
is already available using RDMSR more easily accessible. Make
the file read only for root in case there are still people
concerned about making a unique system "serial number" available.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131230111.2004669-6-tony.luck@intel.com
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<entry>
<title>topology: Represent clusters of CPUs within a die</title>
<updated>2021-10-15T09:25:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Cameron</name>
<email>Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-24T08:51:02+00:00</published>
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Both ACPI and DT provide the ability to describe additional layers of
topology between that of individual cores and higher level constructs
such as the level at which the last level cache is shared.
In ACPI this can be represented in PPTT as a Processor Hierarchy
Node Structure [1] that is the parent of the CPU cores and in turn
has a parent Processor Hierarchy Nodes Structure representing
a higher level of topology.

For example Kunpeng 920 has 6 or 8 clusters in each NUMA node, and each
cluster has 4 cpus. All clusters share L3 cache data, but each cluster
has local L3 tag. On the other hand, each clusters will share some
internal system bus.

+-----------------------------------+                          +---------+
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  | CPU0 |    | cpu1 |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|                                   +----+    L3     |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+   cluster   |    |    tag    |         |         |
|  | CPU2 |    | CPU3 |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|                                   |    |    L3     |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +----+    tag    |         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |   L3    |
                                                               |   data  |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +----+    L3     |         |         |
|                                   |    |    tag    |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
+-----------------------------------|                          |         |
+-----------------------------------|                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|                                   +----+    L3     |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |    tag    |         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |   +-----------+          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |   |           |          |         |
|                                   |   |    L3     |          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +---+    tag    |          |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |   |           |          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |   +-----------+          |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |  +-----------+           |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |  |           |           |         |
|                                   |  |    L3     |           |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--+    tag    |           |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |  |           |           |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |  +-----------+           |         |
|                                   |                          +---------+
+-----------------------------------+

That means spreading tasks among clusters will bring more bandwidth
while packing tasks within one cluster will lead to smaller cache
synchronization latency. So both kernel and userspace will have
a chance to leverage this topology to deploy tasks accordingly to
achieve either smaller cache latency within one cluster or an even
distribution of load among clusters for higher throughput.

This patch exposes cluster topology to both kernel and userspace.
Libraried like hwloc will know cluster by cluster_cpus and related
sysfs attributes. PoC of HWLOC support at [2].

Note this patch only handle the ACPI case.

Special consideration is needed for SMT processors, where it is
necessary to move 2 levels up the hierarchy from the leaf nodes
(thus skipping the processor core level).

Note that arm64 / ACPI does not provide any means of identifying
a die level in the topology but that may be unrelate to the cluster
level.

[1] ACPI Specification 6.3 - section 5.2.29.1 processor hierarchy node
    structure (Type 0)
[2] https://github.com/hisilicon/hwloc/tree/linux-cluster

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao &lt;tiantao6@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Barry Song &lt;song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210924085104.44806-2-21cnbao@gmail.com
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Both ACPI and DT provide the ability to describe additional layers of
topology between that of individual cores and higher level constructs
such as the level at which the last level cache is shared.
In ACPI this can be represented in PPTT as a Processor Hierarchy
Node Structure [1] that is the parent of the CPU cores and in turn
has a parent Processor Hierarchy Nodes Structure representing
a higher level of topology.

For example Kunpeng 920 has 6 or 8 clusters in each NUMA node, and each
cluster has 4 cpus. All clusters share L3 cache data, but each cluster
has local L3 tag. On the other hand, each clusters will share some
internal system bus.

+-----------------------------------+                          +---------+
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  | CPU0 |    | cpu1 |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|                                   +----+    L3     |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+   cluster   |    |    tag    |         |         |
|  | CPU2 |    | CPU3 |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|                                   |    |    L3     |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +----+    tag    |         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |   L3    |
                                                               |   data  |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +----+    L3     |         |         |
|                                   |    |    tag    |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
+-----------------------------------|                          |         |
+-----------------------------------|                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    +-----------+         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |           |         |         |
|                                   +----+    L3     |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    |    tag    |         |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |    |           |         |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |    +-----------+         |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |   +-----------+          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |   |           |          |         |
|                                   |   |    L3     |          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +---+    tag    |          |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |   |           |          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |   +-----------+          |         |
|                                   |                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
+-----------------------------------+                          |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--------------------------+         |
|  |      |    |      |             |  +-----------+           |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |  |           |           |         |
|                                   |  |    L3     |           |         |
|  +------+    +------+             +--+    tag    |           |         |
|  |      |    |      |             |  |           |           |         |
|  +------+    +------+             |  +-----------+           |         |
|                                   |                          +---------+
+-----------------------------------+

That means spreading tasks among clusters will bring more bandwidth
while packing tasks within one cluster will lead to smaller cache
synchronization latency. So both kernel and userspace will have
a chance to leverage this topology to deploy tasks accordingly to
achieve either smaller cache latency within one cluster or an even
distribution of load among clusters for higher throughput.

This patch exposes cluster topology to both kernel and userspace.
Libraried like hwloc will know cluster by cluster_cpus and related
sysfs attributes. PoC of HWLOC support at [2].

Note this patch only handle the ACPI case.

Special consideration is needed for SMT processors, where it is
necessary to move 2 levels up the hierarchy from the leaf nodes
(thus skipping the processor core level).

Note that arm64 / ACPI does not provide any means of identifying
a die level in the topology but that may be unrelate to the cluster
level.

[1] ACPI Specification 6.3 - section 5.2.29.1 processor hierarchy node
    structure (Type 0)
[2] https://github.com/hisilicon/hwloc/tree/linux-cluster

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao &lt;tiantao6@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Barry Song &lt;song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210924085104.44806-2-21cnbao@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>docs: cputopology: move the sysfs ABI description to right place</title>
<updated>2021-06-14T22:04:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tian Tao</name>
<email>tiantao6@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-11T05:22:49+00:00</published>
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Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst is the wrong place to describe
sysfs ABI. So move the cputopology ABI things to
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu and add a reference to
ABI doc in Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319041618.14316-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao &lt;tiantao6@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Barry Song &lt;song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611052249.25776-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst is the wrong place to describe
sysfs ABI. So move the cputopology ABI things to
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-system-cpu and add a reference to
ABI doc in Documentation/admin-guide/cputopology.rst.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210319041618.14316-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao &lt;tiantao6@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Barry Song &lt;song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611052249.25776-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface</title>
<updated>2014-05-28T03:35:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-21T06:32:39+00:00</published>
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Add some documentation about ...

/sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/dscr

... to Documentation/ABI/stable.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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Add some documentation about ...

/sys/devices/system/cpu/dscr_default
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/dscr

... to Documentation/ABI/stable.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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