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In the absence of ACPI or DT topology data, we fallback to haphazardly
decoding *something* out of MPIDR. Sadly, the contents of that register are
mostly unusable due to the implementation leniancy and things like Aff0
having to be capped to 15 (despite being encoded on 8 bits).
Consider a simple system with a single package of 32 cores, all under the
same LLC. We ought to be shoving them in the same core_sibling mask, but
MPIDR is going to look like:
| CPU | 0 | ... | 15 | 16 | ... | 31 |
|------+---+-----+----+----+-----+----+
| Aff0 | 0 | ... | 15 | 0 | ... | 15 |
| Aff1 | 0 | ... | 0 | 1 | ... | 1 |
| Aff2 | 0 | ... | 0 | 0 | ... | 0 |
Which will eventually yield
core_sibling(0-15) == 0-15
core_sibling(16-31) == 16-31
NUMA woes
=========
If we try to play games with this and set up NUMA boundaries within those
groups of 16 cores via e.g. QEMU:
# Node0: 0-9; Node1: 10-19
$ qemu-system-aarch64 <blah> \
-smp 20 -numa node,cpus=0-9,nodeid=0 -numa node,cpus=10-19,nodeid=1
The scheduler's MC domain (all CPUs with same LLC) is going to be built via
arch_topology.c::cpu_coregroup_mask()
In there we try to figure out a sensible mask out of the topology
information we have. In short, here we'll pick the smallest of NUMA or
core sibling mask.
node_mask(CPU9) == 0-9
core_sibling(CPU9) == 0-15
MC mask for CPU9 will thus be 0-9, not a problem.
node_mask(CPU10) == 10-19
core_sibling(CPU10) == 0-15
MC mask for CPU10 will thus be 10-19, not a problem.
node_mask(CPU16) == 10-19
core_sibling(CPU16) == 16-19
MC mask for CPU16 will thus be 16-19... Uh oh. CPUs 16-19 are in two
different unique MC spans, and the scheduler has no idea what to make of
that. That triggers the WARN_ON() added by commit
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Linux kernel
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