Hi James,
On 9/10/25 21:42, James Morse wrote:
> The MSC MON_SEL register needs to be accessed from hardirq for the overflow
> interrupt, and when taking an IPI to access these registers on platforms
> where MSC are not accesible from every CPU. This makes an irqsave
> spinlock the obvious lock to protect these registers. On systems with SCMI
> mailboxes it must be able to sleep, meaning a mutex must be used. The
> SCMI platforms can't support an overflow interrupt.
>
> Clearly these two can't exist for one MSC at the same time.
>
> Add helpers for the MON_SEL locking. The outer lock must be taken in a
> pre-emptible context before the inner lock can be taken. On systems with
> SCMI mailboxes where the MON_SEL accesses must sleep - the inner lock
> will fail to be 'taken' if the caller is unable to sleep. This will allow
> callers to fail without having to explicitly check the interface type of
> each MSC.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Change since v1:
> * Made accesses to outer_lock_held READ_ONCE() for torn values in the failure
> case.
> ---
> drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c | 3 +--
> drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
> index 24dc81c15ec8..a26b012452e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_devices.c
> @@ -748,8 +748,7 @@ static int mpam_msc_drv_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> mutex_init(&msc->probe_lock);
> mutex_init(&msc->part_sel_lock);
> - mutex_init(&msc->outer_mon_sel_lock);
> - raw_spin_lock_init(&msc->inner_mon_sel_lock);
> + mpam_mon_sel_lock_init(msc);
> msc->id = pdev->id;
> msc->pdev = pdev;
> INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(&msc->all_msc_list);
> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> index 828ce93c95d5..4cc44d4e21c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> @@ -70,12 +70,17 @@ struct mpam_msc {
>
> /*
> * mon_sel_lock protects access to the MSC hardware registers that are
> - * affected by MPAMCFG_MON_SEL.
> + * affected by MPAMCFG_MON_SEL, and the mbwu_state.
> + * Access to mon_sel is needed from both process and interrupt contexts,
> + * but is complicated by firmware-backed platforms that can't make any
> + * access unless they can sleep.
> + * Always use the mpam_mon_sel_lock() helpers.
> + * Accessed to mon_sel need to be able to fail if they occur in the wrong
> + * context.
> * If needed, take msc->probe_lock first.
> */
> - struct mutex outer_mon_sel_lock;
> - raw_spinlock_t inner_mon_sel_lock;
> - unsigned long inner_mon_sel_flags;
> + raw_spinlock_t _mon_sel_lock;
> + unsigned long _mon_sel_flags;
>
These stale variables can be removed in the patch that introduced them,
outer_mon_sel_lock, inner_mon_sel_lock, inner_mon_sel_flags. Jonathan
has already pointed out the stale comment and paragraph in the commit
message.
Thanks,
Ben
