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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300
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@@ -20,48 +20,70 @@ to /proc/cpuinfo output of some architectures:
identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is
architecture and platform dependent.
-4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
+4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/drawer_id:
+
+ the drawer ID of cpuX. Typically it is the hardware platform's
+ identifier (rather than the kernel's). The actual value is
+ architecture and platform dependent.
+
+5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
core as cpuX.
-5) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list:
+6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list:
human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
core as cpuX.
-6) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
+7) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
physical_package_id.
-7) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list:
+8) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list:
human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
physical_package_id.
-8) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings:
+9) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings:
internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
book_id.
-9) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings_list:
+10) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/book_siblings_list:
human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
book_id.
+11) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/drawer_siblings:
+
+ internal kernel map of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+ drawer_id.
+
+12) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/drawer_siblings_list:
+
+ human-readable list of cpuX's hardware threads within the same
+ drawer_id.
+
To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
-drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 6 or 9 attributes. The three book
-related sysfs files will only be created if CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK is selected.
+drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 6 to 12 attributes. The book
+and drawer related sysfs files will only be created if CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK
+and CONFIG_SCHED_DRAWER are selected.
+
+CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK and CONFIG_DRAWER are currently only used on s390, where
+they reflect the cpu and cache hierarchy.
For an architecture to support this feature, it must define some of
these macros in include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
#define topology_physical_package_id(cpu)
#define topology_core_id(cpu)
#define topology_book_id(cpu)
+#define topology_drawer_id(cpu)
#define topology_sibling_cpumask(cpu)
#define topology_core_cpumask(cpu)
#define topology_book_cpumask(cpu)
+#define topology_drawer_cpumask(cpu)
The type of **_id macros is int.
The type of **_cpumask macros is (const) struct cpumask *. The latter
@@ -78,6 +100,8 @@ not defined by include/asm-XXX/topology.h:
For architectures that don't support books (CONFIG_SCHED_BOOK) there are no
default definitions for topology_book_id() and topology_book_cpumask().
+For architectures that don't support drawes (CONFIG_SCHED_DRAWER) there are
+no default definitions for topology_drawer_id() and topology_drawer_cpumask().
Additionally, CPU topology information is provided under
/sys/devices/system/cpu and includes these files. The internal