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Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2022 16:52:31 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] MIPS: Expose prid and globalnumber to sysfs
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 03:12:07PM +0100, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Some application would like to know precise model and rev of processor
> to do errata workaround or optimization.
> 
> Expose them in sysfs as:
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/prid
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/globalnumber
> 
> Reusing AArch64 CPU registers directory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
> ---
> v2: Drop static qualifier for kobj (gregkh)
> v3: Use kzalloc to allocate struct cpuregs.
>     note: When Greg mentioned about static I was thinking about
>     static qualifier of percpu variable. After reading documents
>     again it turns out kobjs should be allocated at runtime. Arm64's
>     cpuinfo kobj is also on a percpu variable... I guess that was a
>     intentional use?
> v4: Properly handle err of kobj creation. (gregkh)
> v5: Drop invalid kfree
> ---
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu      | 11 +++
>  arch/mips/kernel/topology.c                   | 99 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 110 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> index 5bf61881f012..9fdfe2de0f76 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> @@ -512,6 +512,17 @@ Description:	information about CPUs heterogeneity.
>  
>  		cpu_capacity: capacity of cpuX.
>  
> +What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/prid
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/regs/identification/globalnumber
> +Date:		October 2022
> +Contact:	Linux MIPS Kernel Mailing list <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>
> +Description:	MIPS CPU registers
> +
> +		'identification' directory exposes the Processor ID and Global Number
> +		registers for identifying model and revision of the CPU.
> +
>  What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
>  		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
>  		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/topology.c b/arch/mips/kernel/topology.c
> index 9429d85a4703..80aaaca3cfbc 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/topology.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/topology.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
>  #include <linux/node.h>
>  #include <linux/nodemask.h>
>  #include <linux/percpu.h>
> +#include <linux/seq_file.h>
> +#include <linux/smp.h>
>  
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpu, cpu_devices);
>  
> @@ -26,3 +28,100 @@ static int __init topology_init(void)
>  }
>  
>  subsys_initcall(topology_init);
> +
> +static struct kobj_type cpuregs_kobj_type = {
> +	.sysfs_ops = &kobj_sysfs_ops,
> +};
> +
> +struct cpureg {
> +	struct kobject kobj;
> +	struct cpuinfo_mips *info;
> +};
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct cpureg *, cpuregs);
> +
> +#define kobj_to_cpureg(kobj)	container_of(kobj, struct cpureg, kobj)
> +#define CPUREGS_ATTR_RO(_name, _field)						\
> +	static ssize_t _name##_show(struct kobject *kobj,			\
> +			struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)			\
> +	{									\
> +		struct cpuinfo_mips *info = kobj_to_cpureg(kobj)->info;		\
> +										\
> +		return sprintf(buf, "0x%08x\n", info->_field);	\

sysfs_emit() please.


> +	}									\
> +	static struct kobj_attribute cpuregs_attr_##_name = __ATTR_RO(_name)
> +
> +CPUREGS_ATTR_RO(prid, processor_id);
> +CPUREGS_ATTR_RO(globalnumber, globalnumber);
> +
> +static struct attribute *cpuregs_id_attrs[] = {
> +	&cpuregs_attr_prid.attr,
> +	&cpuregs_attr_globalnumber.attr,
> +	NULL
> +};
> +
> +static const struct attribute_group cpuregs_attr_group = {
> +	.attrs = cpuregs_id_attrs,
> +	.name = "identification"
> +};
> +
> +static int cpuregs_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	int rc;
> +	struct device *dev;
> +	struct cpureg *reg;
> +
> +	dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> +	if (!dev) {
> +		rc = -ENODEV;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +	reg = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cpureg), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!reg) {
> +		rc = -ENOMEM;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +	rc = kobject_init_and_add(&reg->kobj, &cpuregs_kobj_type,
> +					&dev->kobj, "regs");
> +	if (rc)
> +		goto out_kobj;
> +	rc = sysfs_create_group(&reg->kobj, &cpuregs_attr_group);
> +	if (rc)
> +		goto out_kobj;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +out_kobj:
> +	kobject_put(&reg->kobj);
> +out:
> +	return rc;
> +}
> +
> +static int cpuregs_cpu_offline(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev;
> +	struct cpureg *reg = per_cpu(cpuregs, cpu);
> +
> +	dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
> +	if (!dev || !reg)
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +	if (reg->kobj.parent) {

Why are you looking at the parent of a kobject?  Why not just always
remove the kobject if you have a reference to it now?  How does the
parent matter?

thanks,

greg k-h