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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 SMT4 cores can be presented by the firmware as a SMT8 core for backward compatibility reasons. powerpc allows LPARs to be live migrated from Power8 to Power9. Do note Power8 had only SMT8 cores. Existing software which has been developed/configured for Power8 would expect to see SMT8 core. Maintaining the illusion of SMT8 core is a requirement to make that work. In order to maintain above userspace backward compatibility with previous versions of processor, Power9 onwards there is option to the firmware to advertise a pair of SMT4 cores as a fused cores aka SMT8 core. 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, since its a completely independent unit of compute. Hence allow powerpc architecture to override the default cpu_smt_mask() to point to the SMT4 cores in a SMT8 mode. This will ensure the scheduler is always given the right information. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200807074517.27957-1-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.