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Upcoming POWER8 chips support a concept called split core. This is where the core can be split into subcores that although not full cores, are able to appear as full cores to a guest. The splitting & unsplitting procedure is mildly complicated, and explained at length in the comments within the patch. One notable detail is that when splitting or unsplitting we need to pull offline cpus out of their offline state to do work as part of the procedure. The interface for changing the split mode is via a sysfs file, eg: $ echo 2 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/subcores_per_core Currently supported values are '1', '2' and '4'. And indicate respectively that the core should be unsplit, split in half, and split in quarters. These modes correspond to threads_per_subcore of 8, 4 and 2. We do not allow changing the split mode while KVM VMs are active. This is to prevent the value changing while userspace is configuring the VM, and also to prevent the mode being changed in such a way that existing guests are unable to be run. CPU hotplug fixes by Srivatsa. max_cpus fixes by Mahesh. cpuset fixes by benh. Fix for irq race by paulus. The rest by mikey and mpe. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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683 B
C
19 lines
683 B
C
/*
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* Copyright 2013, Michael Ellerman, IBM Corporation.
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*
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
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* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*/
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/* These are ordered and tested with <= */
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#define SYNC_STEP_INITIAL 0
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#define SYNC_STEP_UNSPLIT 1 /* Set by secondary when it sees unsplit */
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#define SYNC_STEP_REAL_MODE 2 /* Set by secondary when in real mode */
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#define SYNC_STEP_FINISHED 3 /* Set by secondary when split/unsplit is done */
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#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
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void split_core_secondary_loop(u8 *state);
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#endif
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