sched/topology: Change behaviour of the 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl, based on the platform

The 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl is available for the admin to disable/enable
energy aware scheduling(EAS). EAS is enabled only if few conditions are
met by the platform. They are, asymmetric CPU capacity, no SMT,
schedutil CPUfreq governor, frequency invariant load tracking etc.
A platform may boot without EAS capability, but could gain such
capability at runtime. For example, changing/registering the cpufreq
governor to schedutil.

At present, though platform doesn't support EAS, this sysctl returns 1
and it ends up calling build_perf_domains on write to 1 and
NOP when writing to 0. That is confusing and un-necessary.

Desired behavior would be to have this sysctl to enable/disable the EAS
on supported platform. On non-supported platform write to the sysctl
would return not supported error and read of the sysctl would return
empty. So sched_energy_aware returns empty - EAS is not possible at this moment
This will include EAS capable platforms which have at least one EAS
condition false during startup, e.g. not using the schedutil cpufreq governor
sched_energy_aware returns 0 - EAS is supported but disabled by admin.
sched_energy_aware returns 1 - EAS is supported and enabled.

User can find out the reason why EAS is not possible by checking
info messages. sched_is_eas_possible returns true if the platform
can do EAS at this moment.

Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]>
Tested-by: Pierre Gondois <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <[e-mail]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]

Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst

···
 platforms with asymmetric CPU topologies and having an Energy
 Model available). If your platform happens to meet the
 requirements for EAS but you do not want to use it, change
-this value to 0.
+this value to 0. On Non-EAS platforms, write operation fails and
+read doesn't return anything.
 
 task_delayacct
 ===============

kernel/sched/topology.c

···
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(sched_energy_mutex);
 static bool sched_energy_update;
 
+extern struct cpufreq_governor schedutil_gov;
+static bool sched_is_eas_possible(const struct cpumask *cpu_mask)
+{
+	bool any_asym_capacity = false;
+	struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
+	struct cpufreq_governor *gov;
+	int i;
+
+	/* EAS is enabled for asymmetric CPU capacity topologies. */
+	for_each_cpu(i, cpu_mask) {
+		if (rcu_access_pointer(per_cpu(sd_asym_cpucapacity, i))) {
+			any_asym_capacity = true;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	if (!any_asym_capacity) {
+		if (sched_debug()) {
+			pr_info("rd %*pbl: Checking EAS, CPUs do not have asymmetric capacities\n",
+				cpumask_pr_args(cpu_mask));
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	/* EAS definitely does *not* handle SMT */
+	if (sched_smt_active()) {
+		if (sched_debug()) {
+			pr_info("rd %*pbl: Checking EAS, SMT is not supported\n",
+				cpumask_pr_args(cpu_mask));
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	if (!arch_scale_freq_invariant()) {
+		if (sched_debug()) {
+			pr_info("rd %*pbl: Checking EAS: frequency-invariant load tracking not yet supported",
+				cpumask_pr_args(cpu_mask));
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	/* Do not attempt EAS if schedutil is not being used. */
+	for_each_cpu(i, cpu_mask) {
+		policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(i);
+		if (!policy) {
+			if (sched_debug()) {
+				pr_info("rd %*pbl: Checking EAS, cpufreq policy not set for CPU: %d",
+					cpumask_pr_args(cpu_mask), i);
+			}
+			return false;
+		}
+		gov = policy->governor;
+		cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
+		if (gov != &schedutil_gov) {
+			if (sched_debug()) {
+				pr_info("rd %*pbl: Checking EAS, schedutil is mandatory\n",
+					cpumask_pr_args(cpu_mask));
+			}
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 void rebuild_sched_domains_energy(void)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&sched_energy_mutex);
···
 
 	if (write && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
+
+	if (!sched_is_eas_possible(cpu_active_mask)) {
+		if (write) {
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		} else {
+			*lenp = 0;
+			return 0;
+		}
+	}
 
 	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 	if (!ret && write) {
···
  *    4. schedutil is driving the frequency of all CPUs of the rd;
  *    5. frequency invariance support is present;
  */
-extern struct cpufreq_governor schedutil_gov;
 static bool build_perf_domains(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct perf_domain *pd = NULL, *tmp;
 	int cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_map);
 	struct root_domain *rd = cpu_rq(cpu)->rd;
-	struct cpufreq_policy *policy;
-	struct cpufreq_governor *gov;
 
 	if (!sysctl_sched_energy_aware)
 		goto free;
 
-	/* EAS is enabled for asymmetric CPU capacity topologies. */
-	if (!per_cpu(sd_asym_cpucapacity, cpu)) {
-		if (sched_debug()) {
-			pr_info("rd %*pbl: CPUs do not have asymmetric capacities\n",
-					cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map));
-		}
+	if (!sched_is_eas_possible(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;
-	}
-
-	if (!arch_scale_freq_invariant()) {
-		if (sched_debug()) {
-			pr_warn("rd %*pbl: Disabling EAS: frequency-invariant load tracking not yet supported",
-				cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map));
-		}
-		goto free;
-	}
 
 	for_each_cpu(i, cpu_map) {
 		/* Skip already covered CPUs. */
 		if (find_pd(pd, i))
 			continue;
-
-		/* Do not attempt EAS if schedutil is not being used. */
-		policy = cpufreq_cpu_get(i);
-		if (!policy)
-			goto free;
-		gov = policy->governor;
-		cpufreq_cpu_put(policy);
-		if (gov != &schedutil_gov) {
-			if (rd->pd)
-				pr_warn("rd %*pbl: Disabling EAS, schedutil is mandatory\n",
-						cpumask_pr_args(cpu_map));
-			goto free;
-		}
 
 		/* Create the new pd and add it to the local list. */
 		tmp = pd_init(i);