Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] x86/apic/x2apic: Fix parallel handling of cluster_mask

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Feb 07 2023 - 15:59:00 EST


On Tue, Feb 07 2023 at 19:53, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-02-07 at 15:24 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Thanks. I've reworked and I think I've caught everything. Didn't want
> to elide the credit where Usama had done some of the forward-porting
> work, so I've left those notes and the SoB intact on those patches, on
> the assumption that they will be reposting the series after proper
> testing on hardware again anyway (I'm only spawning it in qemu right
> now).
>
> https://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/linux.git/shortlog/refs/heads/parallel-6.2-rc7
>
> The only real code change other than what we've discussed here is to
> implement what we talked about for CPUID 0xb vs. 0x1 etc:
>
> /*
> * We can do 64-bit AP bringup in parallel if the CPU reports
> * its APIC ID in CPUID (either leaf 0x0B if we need the full
> * APIC ID in X2APIC mode, or leaf 0x01 if 8 bits are
> * sufficient). Otherwise it's too hard. And not for SEV-ES
> * guests because they can't use CPUID that early.
> */
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_32) || boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level < 1 ||
> (x2apic_mode && boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level < 0xb) ||
> cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_GUEST_STATE_ENCRYPT))
> do_parallel_bringup = false;
>
> if (do_parallel_bringup && x2apic_mode) {
> unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
>
> /*
> * To support parallel bringup in x2apic mode, the AP will need
> * to obtain its APIC ID from CPUID 0x0B, since CPUID 0x01 has
> * only 8 bits. Check that it is present and seems correct.
> */
> cpuid_count(0xb, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>
> /*
> * AMD says that if executed with an umimplemented level in
> * ECX, then it will return all zeroes in EAX. Intel says it
> * will return zeroes in both EAX and EBX. Checking only EAX
> * should be sufficient.
> */
> if (eax) {
> smpboot_control = STARTUP_SECONDARY | STARTUP_APICID_CPUID_0B;
> } else {
> pr_info("Disabling parallel bringup because CPUID 0xb looks untrustworthy\n");
> do_parallel_bringup = false;
> }
> } else if (do_parallel_bringup) {
> /* Without X2APIC, what's in CPUID 0x01 should suffice. */
> smpboot_control = STARTUP_SECONDARY | STARTUP_APICID_CPUID_01;
> }

Looks good to me!

Thanks,

tglx