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authorValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>2020-02-27 19:14:32 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-03-06 12:57:23 +0100
commit38502ab4bf3c463081bfd53356980a9ec2f32d1d (patch)
tree6c352256955a8885a816b59253cc5434ba7c289e /kernel/sched
parent0621df315402dd7bc56f7272fae9778701289825 (diff)
downloadlinux-38502ab4bf3c463081bfd53356980a9ec2f32d1d.tar.gz
sched/topology: Don't enable EAS on SMT systems
EAS already requires asymmetric CPU capacities to be enabled, and mixing
this with SMT is an aberration, but better be safe than sorry.

Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Acked-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227191433.31994-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/topology.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 00911884b7e7..8344757bba6e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -317,8 +317,9 @@ static void sched_energy_set(bool has_eas)
  * EAS can be used on a root domain if it meets all the following conditions:
  *    1. an Energy Model (EM) is available;
  *    2. the SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY flag is set in the sched_domain hierarchy.
- *    3. the EM complexity is low enough to keep scheduling overheads low;
- *    4. schedutil is driving the frequency of all CPUs of the rd;
+ *    3. no SMT is detected.
+ *    4. the EM complexity is low enough to keep scheduling overheads low;
+ *    5. schedutil is driving the frequency of all CPUs of the rd;
  *
  * The complexity of the Energy Model is defined as:
  *
@@ -360,6 +361,13 @@ static bool build_perf_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
 		goto free;
 	}
 
+	/* EAS definitely does *not* handle SMT */
+	if (sched_smt_active()) {
+		pr_warn("rd %*pbl: Disabling EAS, SMT is not supported\n",
+			cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map));
+		goto free;
+	}
+
 	for_each_cpu(i, cpu_map) {
 		/* Skip already covered CPUs. */
 		if (find_pd(pd, i))