Documentation: Rename and update intel_rdt_ui.txt to resctrl_ui.txt

Rename intel_rdt_ui.txt to generic resctrl_ui.txt and update the
documentation for AMD.

Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
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+User Interface for Resource Control feature
+
+Intel refers to this feature as Intel Resource Director Technology(Intel(R) RDT).
+AMD refers to this feature as AMD Platform Quality of Service(AMD QoS).
+
+Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
+
+Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
+Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
+Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>
+
+This feature is enabled by the CONFIG_RESCTRL and the X86 /proc/cpuinfo
+flag bits:
+RDT (Resource Director Technology) Allocation - "rdt_a"
+CAT (Cache Allocation Technology) - "cat_l3", "cat_l2"
+CDP (Code and Data Prioritization ) - "cdp_l3", "cdp_l2"
+CQM (Cache QoS Monitoring) - "cqm_llc", "cqm_occup_llc"
+MBM (Memory Bandwidth Monitoring) - "cqm_mbm_total", "cqm_mbm_local"
+MBA (Memory Bandwidth Allocation) - "mba"
+
+To use the feature mount the file system:
+
+ # mount -t resctrl resctrl [-o cdp[,cdpl2][,mba_MBps]] /sys/fs/resctrl
+
+mount options are:
+
+"cdp": Enable code/data prioritization in L3 cache allocations.
+"cdpl2": Enable code/data prioritization in L2 cache allocations.
+"mba_MBps": Enable the MBA Software Controller(mba_sc) to specify MBA
+ bandwidth in MBps
+
+L2 and L3 CDP are controlled seperately.
+
+RDT features are orthogonal. A particular system may support only
+monitoring, only control, or both monitoring and control.  Cache
+pseudo-locking is a unique way of using cache control to "pin" or
+"lock" data in the cache. Details can be found in
+"Cache Pseudo-Locking".
+
+
+The mount succeeds if either of allocation or monitoring is present, but
+only those files and directories supported by the system will be created.
+For more details on the behavior of the interface during monitoring
+and allocation, see the "Resource alloc and monitor groups" section.
+
+Info directory
+--------------
+
+The 'info' directory contains information about the enabled
+resources. Each resource has its own subdirectory. The subdirectory
+names reflect the resource names.
+
+Each subdirectory contains the following files with respect to
+allocation:
+
+Cache resource(L3/L2)  subdirectory contains the following files
+related to allocation:
+
+"num_closids":  	The number of CLOSIDs which are valid for this
+			resource. The kernel uses the smallest number of
+			CLOSIDs of all enabled resources as limit.
+
+"cbm_mask":     	The bitmask which is valid for this resource.
+			This mask is equivalent to 100%.
+
+"min_cbm_bits": 	The minimum number of consecutive bits which
+			must be set when writing a mask.
+
+"shareable_bits":	Bitmask of shareable resource with other executing
+			entities (e.g. I/O). User can use this when
+			setting up exclusive cache partitions. Note that
+			some platforms support devices that have their
+			own settings for cache use which can over-ride
+			these bits.
+"bit_usage":		Annotated capacity bitmasks showing how all
+			instances of the resource are used. The legend is:
+			"0" - Corresponding region is unused. When the system's
+			      resources have been allocated and a "0" is found
+			      in "bit_usage" it is a sign that resources are
+			      wasted.
+			"H" - Corresponding region is used by hardware only
+			      but available for software use. If a resource
+			      has bits set in "shareable_bits" but not all
+			      of these bits appear in the resource groups'
+			      schematas then the bits appearing in
+			      "shareable_bits" but no resource group will
+			      be marked as "H".
+			"X" - Corresponding region is available for sharing and
+			      used by hardware and software. These are the
+			      bits that appear in "shareable_bits" as
+			      well as a resource group's allocation.
+			"S" - Corresponding region is used by software
+			      and available for sharing.
+			"E" - Corresponding region is used exclusively by
+			      one resource group. No sharing allowed.
+			"P" - Corresponding region is pseudo-locked. No
+			      sharing allowed.
+
+Memory bandwitdh(MB) subdirectory contains the following files
+with respect to allocation:
+
+"min_bandwidth":	The minimum memory bandwidth percentage which
+			user can request.
+
+"bandwidth_gran":	The granularity in which the memory bandwidth
+			percentage is allocated. The allocated
+			b/w percentage is rounded off to the next
+			control step available on the hardware. The
+			available bandwidth control steps are:
+			min_bandwidth + N * bandwidth_gran.
+
+"delay_linear": 	Indicates if the delay scale is linear or
+			non-linear. This field is purely informational
+			only.
+
+If RDT monitoring is available there will be an "L3_MON" directory
+with the following files:
+
+"num_rmids":		The number of RMIDs available. This is the
+			upper bound for how many "CTRL_MON" + "MON"
+			groups can be created.
+
+"mon_features":	Lists the monitoring events if
+			monitoring is enabled for the resource.
+
+"max_threshold_occupancy":
+			Read/write file provides the largest value (in
+			bytes) at which a previously used LLC_occupancy
+			counter can be considered for re-use.
+
+Finally, in the top level of the "info" directory there is a file
+named "last_cmd_status". This is reset with every "command" issued
+via the file system (making new directories or writing to any of the
+control files). If the command was successful, it will read as "ok".
+If the command failed, it will provide more information that can be
+conveyed in the error returns from file operations. E.g.
+
+	# echo L3:0=f7 > schemata
+	bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
+	# cat info/last_cmd_status
+	mask f7 has non-consecutive 1-bits
+
+Resource alloc and monitor groups
+---------------------------------
+
+Resource groups are represented as directories in the resctrl file
+system.  The default group is the root directory which, immediately
+after mounting, owns all the tasks and cpus in the system and can make
+full use of all resources.
+
+On a system with RDT control features additional directories can be
+created in the root directory that specify different amounts of each
+resource (see "schemata" below). The root and these additional top level
+directories are referred to as "CTRL_MON" groups below.
+
+On a system with RDT monitoring the root directory and other top level
+directories contain a directory named "mon_groups" in which additional
+directories can be created to monitor subsets of tasks in the CTRL_MON
+group that is their ancestor. These are called "MON" groups in the rest
+of this document.
+
+Removing a directory will move all tasks and cpus owned by the group it
+represents to the parent. Removing one of the created CTRL_MON groups
+will automatically remove all MON groups below it.
+
+All groups contain the following files:
+
+"tasks":
+	Reading this file shows the list of all tasks that belong to
+	this group. Writing a task id to the file will add a task to the
+	group. If the group is a CTRL_MON group the task is removed from
+	whichever previous CTRL_MON group owned the task and also from
+	any MON group that owned the task. If the group is a MON group,
+	then the task must already belong to the CTRL_MON parent of this
+	group. The task is removed from any previous MON group.
+
+
+"cpus":
+	Reading this file shows a bitmask of the logical CPUs owned by
+	this group. Writing a mask to this file will add and remove
+	CPUs to/from this group. As with the tasks file a hierarchy is
+	maintained where MON groups may only include CPUs owned by the
+	parent CTRL_MON group.
+	When the resouce group is in pseudo-locked mode this file will
+	only be readable, reflecting the CPUs associated with the
+	pseudo-locked region.
+
+
+"cpus_list":
+	Just like "cpus", only using ranges of CPUs instead of bitmasks.
+
+
+When control is enabled all CTRL_MON groups will also contain:
+
+"schemata":
+	A list of all the resources available to this group.
+	Each resource has its own line and format - see below for details.
+
+"size":
+	Mirrors the display of the "schemata" file to display the size in
+	bytes of each allocation instead of the bits representing the
+	allocation.
+
+"mode":
+	The "mode" of the resource group dictates the sharing of its
+	allocations. A "shareable" resource group allows sharing of its
+	allocations while an "exclusive" resource group does not. A
+	cache pseudo-locked region is created by first writing
+	"pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file before writing the cache
+	pseudo-locked region's schemata to the resource group's "schemata"
+	file. On successful pseudo-locked region creation the mode will
+	automatically change to "pseudo-locked".
+
+When monitoring is enabled all MON groups will also contain:
+
+"mon_data":
+	This contains a set of files organized by L3 domain and by
+	RDT event. E.g. on a system with two L3 domains there will
+	be subdirectories "mon_L3_00" and "mon_L3_01".	Each of these
+	directories have one file per event (e.g. "llc_occupancy",
+	"mbm_total_bytes", and "mbm_local_bytes"). In a MON group these
+	files provide a read out of the current value of the event for
+	all tasks in the group. In CTRL_MON groups these files provide
+	the sum for all tasks in the CTRL_MON group and all tasks in
+	MON groups. Please see example section for more details on usage.
+
+Resource allocation rules
+-------------------------
+When a task is running the following rules define which resources are
+available to it:
+
+1) If the task is a member of a non-default group, then the schemata
+   for that group is used.
+
+2) Else if the task belongs to the default group, but is running on a
+   CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the schemata for the
+   CPU's group is used.
+
+3) Otherwise the schemata for the default group is used.
+
+Resource monitoring rules
+-------------------------
+1) If a task is a member of a MON group, or non-default CTRL_MON group
+   then RDT events for the task will be reported in that group.
+
+2) If a task is a member of the default CTRL_MON group, but is running
+   on a CPU that is assigned to some specific group, then the RDT events
+   for the task will be reported in that group.
+
+3) Otherwise RDT events for the task will be reported in the root level
+   "mon_data" group.
+
+
+Notes on cache occupancy monitoring and control
+-----------------------------------------------
+When moving a task from one group to another you should remember that
+this only affects *new* cache allocations by the task. E.g. you may have
+a task in a monitor group showing 3 MB of cache occupancy. If you move
+to a new group and immediately check the occupancy of the old and new
+groups you will likely see that the old group is still showing 3 MB and
+the new group zero. When the task accesses locations still in cache from
+before the move, the h/w does not update any counters. On a busy system
+you will likely see the occupancy in the old group go down as cache lines
+are evicted and re-used while the occupancy in the new group rises as
+the task accesses memory and loads into the cache are counted based on
+membership in the new group.
+
+The same applies to cache allocation control. Moving a task to a group
+with a smaller cache partition will not evict any cache lines. The
+process may continue to use them from the old partition.
+
+Hardware uses CLOSid(Class of service ID) and an RMID(Resource monitoring ID)
+to identify a control group and a monitoring group respectively. Each of
+the resource groups are mapped to these IDs based on the kind of group. The
+number of CLOSid and RMID are limited by the hardware and hence the creation of
+a "CTRL_MON" directory may fail if we run out of either CLOSID or RMID
+and creation of "MON" group may fail if we run out of RMIDs.
+
+max_threshold_occupancy - generic concepts
+------------------------------------------
+
+Note that an RMID once freed may not be immediately available for use as
+the RMID is still tagged the cache lines of the previous user of RMID.
+Hence such RMIDs are placed on limbo list and checked back if the cache
+occupancy has gone down. If there is a time when system has a lot of
+limbo RMIDs but which are not ready to be used, user may see an -EBUSY
+during mkdir.
+
+max_threshold_occupancy is a user configurable value to determine the
+occupancy at which an RMID can be freed.
+
+Schemata files - general concepts
+---------------------------------
+Each line in the file describes one resource. The line starts with
+the name of the resource, followed by specific values to be applied
+in each of the instances of that resource on the system.
+
+Cache IDs
+---------
+On current generation systems there is one L3 cache per socket and L2
+caches are generally just shared by the hyperthreads on a core, but this
+isn't an architectural requirement. We could have multiple separate L3
+caches on a socket, multiple cores could share an L2 cache. So instead
+of using "socket" or "core" to define the set of logical cpus sharing
+a resource we use a "Cache ID". At a given cache level this will be a
+unique number across the whole system (but it isn't guaranteed to be a
+contiguous sequence, there may be gaps).  To find the ID for each logical
+CPU look in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/id
+
+Cache Bit Masks (CBM)
+---------------------
+For cache resources we describe the portion of the cache that is available
+for allocation using a bitmask. The maximum value of the mask is defined
+by each cpu model (and may be different for different cache levels). It
+is found using CPUID, but is also provided in the "info" directory of
+the resctrl file system in "info/{resource}/cbm_mask". X86 hardware
+requires that these masks have all the '1' bits in a contiguous block. So
+0x3, 0x6 and 0xC are legal 4-bit masks with two bits set, but 0x5, 0x9
+and 0xA are not.  On a system with a 20-bit mask each bit represents 5%
+of the capacity of the cache. You could partition the cache into four
+equal parts with masks: 0x1f, 0x3e0, 0x7c00, 0xf8000.
+
+Memory bandwidth Allocation and monitoring
+------------------------------------------
+
+For Memory bandwidth resource, by default the user controls the resource
+by indicating the percentage of total memory bandwidth.
+
+The minimum bandwidth percentage value for each cpu model is predefined
+and can be looked up through "info/MB/min_bandwidth". The bandwidth
+granularity that is allocated is also dependent on the cpu model and can
+be looked up at "info/MB/bandwidth_gran". The available bandwidth
+control steps are: min_bw + N * bw_gran. Intermediate values are rounded
+to the next control step available on the hardware.
+
+The bandwidth throttling is a core specific mechanism on some of Intel
+SKUs. Using a high bandwidth and a low bandwidth setting on two threads
+sharing a core will result in both threads being throttled to use the
+low bandwidth. The fact that Memory bandwidth allocation(MBA) is a core
+specific mechanism where as memory bandwidth monitoring(MBM) is done at
+the package level may lead to confusion when users try to apply control
+via the MBA and then monitor the bandwidth to see if the controls are
+effective. Below are such scenarios:
+
+1. User may *not* see increase in actual bandwidth when percentage
+   values are increased:
+
+This can occur when aggregate L2 external bandwidth is more than L3
+external bandwidth. Consider an SKL SKU with 24 cores on a package and
+where L2 external  is 10GBps (hence aggregate L2 external bandwidth is
+240GBps) and L3 external bandwidth is 100GBps. Now a workload with '20
+threads, having 50% bandwidth, each consuming 5GBps' consumes the max L3
+bandwidth of 100GBps although the percentage value specified is only 50%
+<< 100%. Hence increasing the bandwidth percentage will not yeild any
+more bandwidth. This is because although the L2 external bandwidth still
+has capacity, the L3 external bandwidth is fully used. Also note that
+this would be dependent on number of cores the benchmark is run on.
+
+2. Same bandwidth percentage may mean different actual bandwidth
+   depending on # of threads:
+
+For the same SKU in #1, a 'single thread, with 10% bandwidth' and '4
+thread, with 10% bandwidth' can consume upto 10GBps and 40GBps although
+they have same percentage bandwidth of 10%. This is simply because as
+threads start using more cores in an rdtgroup, the actual bandwidth may
+increase or vary although user specified bandwidth percentage is same.
+
+In order to mitigate this and make the interface more user friendly,
+resctrl added support for specifying the bandwidth in MBps as well.  The
+kernel underneath would use a software feedback mechanism or a "Software
+Controller(mba_sc)" which reads the actual bandwidth using MBM counters
+and adjust the memowy bandwidth percentages to ensure
+
+	"actual bandwidth < user specified bandwidth".
+
+By default, the schemata would take the bandwidth percentage values
+where as user can switch to the "MBA software controller" mode using
+a mount option 'mba_MBps'. The schemata format is specified in the below
+sections.
+
+L3 schemata file details (code and data prioritization disabled)
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+With CDP disabled the L3 schemata format is:
+
+	L3:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
+
+L3 schemata file details (CDP enabled via mount option to resctrl)
+------------------------------------------------------------------
+When CDP is enabled L3 control is split into two separate resources
+so you can specify independent masks for code and data like this:
+
+	L3data:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
+	L3code:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
+
+L2 schemata file details
+------------------------
+L2 cache does not support code and data prioritization, so the
+schemata format is always:
+
+	L2:<cache_id0>=<cbm>;<cache_id1>=<cbm>;...
+
+Memory bandwidth Allocation (default mode)
+------------------------------------------
+
+Memory b/w domain is L3 cache.
+
+	MB:<cache_id0>=bandwidth0;<cache_id1>=bandwidth1;...
+
+Memory bandwidth Allocation specified in MBps
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Memory bandwidth domain is L3 cache.
+
+	MB:<cache_id0>=bw_MBps0;<cache_id1>=bw_MBps1;...
+
+Reading/writing the schemata file
+---------------------------------
+Reading the schemata file will show the state of all resources
+on all domains. When writing you only need to specify those values
+which you wish to change.  E.g.
+
+# cat schemata
+L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
+L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
+# echo "L3DATA:2=3c0;" > schemata
+# cat schemata
+L3DATA:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=3c0;3=fffff
+L3CODE:0=fffff;1=fffff;2=fffff;3=fffff
+
+Cache Pseudo-Locking
+--------------------
+CAT enables a user to specify the amount of cache space that an
+application can fill. Cache pseudo-locking builds on the fact that a
+CPU can still read and write data pre-allocated outside its current
+allocated area on a cache hit. With cache pseudo-locking, data can be
+preloaded into a reserved portion of cache that no application can
+fill, and from that point on will only serve cache hits. The cache
+pseudo-locked memory is made accessible to user space where an
+application can map it into its virtual address space and thus have
+a region of memory with reduced average read latency.
+
+The creation of a cache pseudo-locked region is triggered by a request
+from the user to do so that is accompanied by a schemata of the region
+to be pseudo-locked. The cache pseudo-locked region is created as follows:
+- Create a CAT allocation CLOSNEW with a CBM matching the schemata
+  from the user of the cache region that will contain the pseudo-locked
+  memory. This region must not overlap with any current CAT allocation/CLOS
+  on the system and no future overlap with this cache region is allowed
+  while the pseudo-locked region exists.
+- Create a contiguous region of memory of the same size as the cache
+  region.
+- Flush the cache, disable hardware prefetchers, disable preemption.
+- Make CLOSNEW the active CLOS and touch the allocated memory to load
+  it into the cache.
+- Set the previous CLOS as active.
+- At this point the closid CLOSNEW can be released - the cache
+  pseudo-locked region is protected as long as its CBM does not appear in
+  any CAT allocation. Even though the cache pseudo-locked region will from
+  this point on not appear in any CBM of any CLOS an application running with
+  any CLOS will be able to access the memory in the pseudo-locked region since
+  the region continues to serve cache hits.
+- The contiguous region of memory loaded into the cache is exposed to
+  user-space as a character device.
+
+Cache pseudo-locking increases the probability that data will remain
+in the cache via carefully configuring the CAT feature and controlling
+application behavior. There is no guarantee that data is placed in
+cache. Instructions like INVD, WBINVD, CLFLUSH, etc. can still evict
+“locked” data from cache. Power management C-states may shrink or
+power off cache. Deeper C-states will automatically be restricted on
+pseudo-locked region creation.
+
+It is required that an application using a pseudo-locked region runs
+with affinity to the cores (or a subset of the cores) associated
+with the cache on which the pseudo-locked region resides. A sanity check
+within the code will not allow an application to map pseudo-locked memory
+unless it runs with affinity to cores associated with the cache on which the
+pseudo-locked region resides. The sanity check is only done during the
+initial mmap() handling, there is no enforcement afterwards and the
+application self needs to ensure it remains affine to the correct cores.
+
+Pseudo-locking is accomplished in two stages:
+1) During the first stage the system administrator allocates a portion
+   of cache that should be dedicated to pseudo-locking. At this time an
+   equivalent portion of memory is allocated, loaded into allocated
+   cache portion, and exposed as a character device.
+2) During the second stage a user-space application maps (mmap()) the
+   pseudo-locked memory into its address space.
+
+Cache Pseudo-Locking Interface
+------------------------------
+A pseudo-locked region is created using the resctrl interface as follows:
+
+1) Create a new resource group by creating a new directory in /sys/fs/resctrl.
+2) Change the new resource group's mode to "pseudo-locksetup" by writing
+   "pseudo-locksetup" to the "mode" file.
+3) Write the schemata of the pseudo-locked region to the "schemata" file. All
+   bits within the schemata should be "unused" according to the "bit_usage"
+   file.
+
+On successful pseudo-locked region creation the "mode" file will contain
+"pseudo-locked" and a new character device with the same name as the resource
+group will exist in /dev/pseudo_lock. This character device can be mmap()'ed
+by user space in order to obtain access to the pseudo-locked memory region.
+
+An example of cache pseudo-locked region creation and usage can be found below.
+
+Cache Pseudo-Locking Debugging Interface
+---------------------------------------
+The pseudo-locking debugging interface is enabled by default (if
+CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is enabled) and can be found in /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl.
+
+There is no explicit way for the kernel to test if a provided memory
+location is present in the cache. The pseudo-locking debugging interface uses
+the tracing infrastructure to provide two ways to measure cache residency of
+the pseudo-locked region:
+1) Memory access latency using the pseudo_lock_mem_latency tracepoint. Data
+   from these measurements are best visualized using a hist trigger (see
+   example below). In this test the pseudo-locked region is traversed at
+   a stride of 32 bytes while hardware prefetchers and preemption
+   are disabled. This also provides a substitute visualization of cache
+   hits and misses.
+2) Cache hit and miss measurements using model specific precision counters if
+   available. Depending on the levels of cache on the system the pseudo_lock_l2
+   and pseudo_lock_l3 tracepoints are available.
+
+When a pseudo-locked region is created a new debugfs directory is created for
+it in debugfs as /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/<newdir>. A single
+write-only file, pseudo_lock_measure, is present in this directory. The
+measurement of the pseudo-locked region depends on the number written to this
+debugfs file:
+1 -  writing "1" to the pseudo_lock_measure file will trigger the latency
+     measurement captured in the pseudo_lock_mem_latency tracepoint. See
+     example below.
+2 -  writing "2" to the pseudo_lock_measure file will trigger the L2 cache
+     residency (cache hits and misses) measurement captured in the
+     pseudo_lock_l2 tracepoint. See example below.
+3 -  writing "3" to the pseudo_lock_measure file will trigger the L3 cache
+     residency (cache hits and misses) measurement captured in the
+     pseudo_lock_l3 tracepoint.
+
+All measurements are recorded with the tracing infrastructure. This requires
+the relevant tracepoints to be enabled before the measurement is triggered.
+
+Example of latency debugging interface:
+In this example a pseudo-locked region named "newlock" was created. Here is
+how we can measure the latency in cycles of reading from this region and
+visualize this data with a histogram that is available if CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
+is set:
+# :> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+# echo 'hist:keys=latency' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/trigger
+# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/enable
+# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/newlock/pseudo_lock_measure
+# echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/enable
+# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_mem_latency/hist
+
+# event histogram
+#
+# trigger info: hist:keys=latency:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active]
+#
+
+{ latency:        456 } hitcount:          1
+{ latency:         50 } hitcount:         83
+{ latency:         36 } hitcount:         96
+{ latency:         44 } hitcount:        174
+{ latency:         48 } hitcount:        195
+{ latency:         46 } hitcount:        262
+{ latency:         42 } hitcount:        693
+{ latency:         40 } hitcount:       3204
+{ latency:         38 } hitcount:       3484
+
+Totals:
+    Hits: 8192
+    Entries: 9
+   Dropped: 0
+
+Example of cache hits/misses debugging:
+In this example a pseudo-locked region named "newlock" was created on the L2
+cache of a platform. Here is how we can obtain details of the cache hits
+and misses using the platform's precision counters.
+
+# :> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_l2/enable
+# echo 2 > /sys/kernel/debug/resctrl/newlock/pseudo_lock_measure
+# echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/resctrl/pseudo_lock_l2/enable
+# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
+
+# tracer: nop
+#
+#                              _-----=> irqs-off
+#                             / _----=> need-resched
+#                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
+#                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
+#                            ||| /     delay
+#           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
+#              | |       |   ||||       |         |
+ pseudo_lock_mea-1672  [002] ....  3132.860500: pseudo_lock_l2: hits=4097 miss=0
+
+
+Examples for RDT allocation usage:
+
+Example 1
+---------
+On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) with just four bits
+for cache bit masks, minimum b/w of 10% with a memory bandwidth
+granularity of 10%
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+# mkdir p0 p1
+# echo "L3:0=3;1=c\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
+# echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=50;1=50" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
+
+The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts
+of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f").
+
+Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the
+"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1.
+Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets.
+
+Similarly, tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may use a
+maximum memory b/w of 50% on socket0 and 50% on socket 1.
+Tasks in group "p1" may also use 50% memory b/w on both sockets.
+Note that unlike cache masks, memory b/w cannot specify whether these
+allocations can overlap or not. The allocations specifies the maximum
+b/w that the group may be able to use and the system admin can configure
+the b/w accordingly.
+
+If the MBA is specified in MB(megabytes) then user can enter the max b/w in MB
+rather than the percentage values.
+
+# echo "L3:0=3;1=c\nMB:0=1024;1=500" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
+# echo "L3:0=3;1=3\nMB:0=1024;1=500" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
+
+In the above example the tasks in "p1" and "p0" on socket 0 would use a max b/w
+of 1024MB where as on socket 1 they would use 500MB.
+
+Example 2
+---------
+Again two sockets, but this time with a more realistic 20-bit mask.
+
+Two real time tasks pid=1234 running on processor 0 and pid=5678 running on
+processor 1 on socket 0 on a 2-socket and dual core machine. To avoid noisy
+neighbors, each of the two real-time tasks exclusively occupies one quarter
+of L3 cache on socket 0.
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+
+First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper"
+50% of the L3 cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory b/w cannot be used by
+ordinary tasks:
+
+# echo "L3:0=3ff;1=fffff\nMB:0=50;1=100" > schemata
+
+Next we make a resource group for our first real time task and give
+it access to the "top" 25% of the cache on socket 0.
+
+# mkdir p0
+# echo "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff" > p0/schemata
+
+Finally we move our first real time task into this resource group. We
+also use taskset(1) to ensure the task always runs on a dedicated CPU
+on socket 0. Most uses of resource groups will also constrain which
+processors tasks run on.
+
+# echo 1234 > p0/tasks
+# taskset -cp 1 1234
+
+Ditto for the second real time task (with the remaining 25% of cache):
+
+# mkdir p1
+# echo "L3:0=7c00;1=fffff" > p1/schemata
+# echo 5678 > p1/tasks
+# taskset -cp 2 5678
+
+For the same 2 socket system with memory b/w resource and CAT L3 the
+schemata would look like(Assume min_bandwidth 10 and bandwidth_gran is
+10):
+
+For our first real time task this would request 20% memory b/w on socket
+0.
+
+# echo -e "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff\nMB:0=20;1=100" > p0/schemata
+
+For our second real time task this would request an other 20% memory b/w
+on socket 0.
+
+# echo -e "L3:0=f8000;1=fffff\nMB:0=20;1=100" > p0/schemata
+
+Example 3
+---------
+
+A single socket system which has real-time tasks running on core 4-7 and
+non real-time workload assigned to core 0-3. The real-time tasks share text
+and data, so a per task association is not required and due to interaction
+with the kernel it's desired that the kernel on these cores shares L3 with
+the tasks.
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+
+First we reset the schemata for the default group so that the "upper"
+50% of the L3 cache on socket 0, and 50% of memory bandwidth on socket 0
+cannot be used by ordinary tasks:
+
+# echo "L3:0=3ff\nMB:0=50" > schemata
+
+Next we make a resource group for our real time cores and give it access
+to the "top" 50% of the cache on socket 0 and 50% of memory bandwidth on
+socket 0.
+
+# mkdir p0
+# echo "L3:0=ffc00\nMB:0=50" > p0/schemata
+
+Finally we move core 4-7 over to the new group and make sure that the
+kernel and the tasks running there get 50% of the cache. They should
+also get 50% of memory bandwidth assuming that the cores 4-7 are SMT
+siblings and only the real time threads are scheduled on the cores 4-7.
+
+# echo F0 > p0/cpus
+
+Example 4
+---------
+
+The resource groups in previous examples were all in the default "shareable"
+mode allowing sharing of their cache allocations. If one resource group
+configures a cache allocation then nothing prevents another resource group
+to overlap with that allocation.
+
+In this example a new exclusive resource group will be created on a L2 CAT
+system with two L2 cache instances that can be configured with an 8-bit
+capacity bitmask. The new exclusive resource group will be configured to use
+25% of each cache instance.
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl/
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+
+First, we observe that the default group is configured to allocate to all L2
+cache:
+
+# cat schemata
+L2:0=ff;1=ff
+
+We could attempt to create the new resource group at this point, but it will
+fail because of the overlap with the schemata of the default group:
+# mkdir p0
+# echo 'L2:0=0x3;1=0x3' > p0/schemata
+# cat p0/mode
+shareable
+# echo exclusive > p0/mode
+-sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument
+# cat info/last_cmd_status
+schemata overlaps
+
+To ensure that there is no overlap with another resource group the default
+resource group's schemata has to change, making it possible for the new
+resource group to become exclusive.
+# echo 'L2:0=0xfc;1=0xfc' > schemata
+# echo exclusive > p0/mode
+# grep . p0/*
+p0/cpus:0
+p0/mode:exclusive
+p0/schemata:L2:0=03;1=03
+p0/size:L2:0=262144;1=262144
+
+A new resource group will on creation not overlap with an exclusive resource
+group:
+# mkdir p1
+# grep . p1/*
+p1/cpus:0
+p1/mode:shareable
+p1/schemata:L2:0=fc;1=fc
+p1/size:L2:0=786432;1=786432
+
+The bit_usage will reflect how the cache is used:
+# cat info/L2/bit_usage
+0=SSSSSSEE;1=SSSSSSEE
+
+A resource group cannot be forced to overlap with an exclusive resource group:
+# echo 'L2:0=0x1;1=0x1' > p1/schemata
+-sh: echo: write error: Invalid argument
+# cat info/last_cmd_status
+overlaps with exclusive group
+
+Example of Cache Pseudo-Locking
+-------------------------------
+Lock portion of L2 cache from cache id 1 using CBM 0x3. Pseudo-locked
+region is exposed at /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock that can be provided to
+application for argument to mmap().
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl/
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+
+Ensure that there are bits available that can be pseudo-locked, since only
+unused bits can be pseudo-locked the bits to be pseudo-locked needs to be
+removed from the default resource group's schemata:
+# cat info/L2/bit_usage
+0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSSS
+# echo 'L2:1=0xfc' > schemata
+# cat info/L2/bit_usage
+0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSS00
+
+Create a new resource group that will be associated with the pseudo-locked
+region, indicate that it will be used for a pseudo-locked region, and
+configure the requested pseudo-locked region capacity bitmask:
+
+# mkdir newlock
+# echo pseudo-locksetup > newlock/mode
+# echo 'L2:1=0x3' > newlock/schemata
+
+On success the resource group's mode will change to pseudo-locked, the
+bit_usage will reflect the pseudo-locked region, and the character device
+exposing the pseudo-locked region will exist:
+
+# cat newlock/mode
+pseudo-locked
+# cat info/L2/bit_usage
+0=SSSSSSSS;1=SSSSSSPP
+# ls -l /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock
+crw------- 1 root root 243, 0 Apr  3 05:01 /dev/pseudo_lock/newlock
+
+/*
+ * Example code to access one page of pseudo-locked cache region
+ * from user space.
+ */
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <sched.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+
+/*
+ * It is required that the application runs with affinity to only
+ * cores associated with the pseudo-locked region. Here the cpu
+ * is hardcoded for convenience of example.
+ */
+static int cpuid = 2;
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	cpu_set_t cpuset;
+	long page_size;
+	void *mapping;
+	int dev_fd;
+	int ret;
+
+	page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
+
+	CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
+	CPU_SET(cpuid, &cpuset);
+	ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpuset), &cpuset);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		perror("sched_setaffinity");
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	dev_fd = open("/dev/pseudo_lock/newlock", O_RDWR);
+	if (dev_fd < 0) {
+		perror("open");
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	mapping = mmap(0, page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
+		       dev_fd, 0);
+	if (mapping == MAP_FAILED) {
+		perror("mmap");
+		close(dev_fd);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	/* Application interacts with pseudo-locked memory @mapping */
+
+	ret = munmap(mapping, page_size);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		perror("munmap");
+		close(dev_fd);
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+
+	close(dev_fd);
+	exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+}
+
+Locking between applications
+----------------------------
+
+Certain operations on the resctrl filesystem, composed of read/writes
+to/from multiple files, must be atomic.
+
+As an example, the allocation of an exclusive reservation of L3 cache
+involves:
+
+  1. Read the cbmmasks from each directory or the per-resource "bit_usage"
+  2. Find a contiguous set of bits in the global CBM bitmask that is clear
+     in any of the directory cbmmasks
+  3. Create a new directory
+  4. Set the bits found in step 2 to the new directory "schemata" file
+
+If two applications attempt to allocate space concurrently then they can
+end up allocating the same bits so the reservations are shared instead of
+exclusive.
+
+To coordinate atomic operations on the resctrlfs and to avoid the problem
+above, the following locking procedure is recommended:
+
+Locking is based on flock, which is available in libc and also as a shell
+script command
+
+Write lock:
+
+ A) Take flock(LOCK_EX) on /sys/fs/resctrl
+ B) Read/write the directory structure.
+ C) funlock
+
+Read lock:
+
+ A) Take flock(LOCK_SH) on /sys/fs/resctrl
+ B) If success read the directory structure.
+ C) funlock
+
+Example with bash:
+
+# Atomically read directory structure
+$ flock -s /sys/fs/resctrl/ find /sys/fs/resctrl
+
+# Read directory contents and create new subdirectory
+
+$ cat create-dir.sh
+find /sys/fs/resctrl/ > output.txt
+mask = function-of(output.txt)
+mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/
+echo mask > /sys/fs/resctrl/newres/schemata
+
+$ flock /sys/fs/resctrl/ ./create-dir.sh
+
+Example with C:
+
+/*
+ * Example code do take advisory locks
+ * before accessing resctrl filesystem
+ */
+#include <sys/file.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+void resctrl_take_shared_lock(int fd)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	/* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */
+	ret = flock(fd, LOCK_SH);
+	if (ret) {
+		perror("flock");
+		exit(-1);
+	}
+}
+
+void resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(int fd)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	/* release lock on resctrl filesystem */
+	ret = flock(fd, LOCK_EX);
+	if (ret) {
+		perror("flock");
+		exit(-1);
+	}
+}
+
+void resctrl_release_lock(int fd)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	/* take shared lock on resctrl filesystem */
+	ret = flock(fd, LOCK_UN);
+	if (ret) {
+		perror("flock");
+		exit(-1);
+	}
+}
+
+void main(void)
+{
+	int fd, ret;
+
+	fd = open("/sys/fs/resctrl", O_DIRECTORY);
+	if (fd == -1) {
+		perror("open");
+		exit(-1);
+	}
+	resctrl_take_shared_lock(fd);
+	/* code to read directory contents */
+	resctrl_release_lock(fd);
+
+	resctrl_take_exclusive_lock(fd);
+	/* code to read and write directory contents */
+	resctrl_release_lock(fd);
+}
+
+Examples for RDT Monitoring along with allocation usage:
+
+Reading monitored data
+----------------------
+Reading an event file (for ex: mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy) would
+show the current snapshot of LLC occupancy of the corresponding MON
+group or CTRL_MON group.
+
+
+Example 1 (Monitor CTRL_MON group and subset of tasks in CTRL_MON group)
+---------
+On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket) with just four bits
+for cache bit masks
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+# mkdir p0 p1
+# echo "L3:0=3;1=c" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p0/schemata
+# echo "L3:0=3;1=3" > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/schemata
+# echo 5678 > p1/tasks
+# echo 5679 > p1/tasks
+
+The default resource group is unmodified, so we have access to all parts
+of all caches (its schemata file reads "L3:0=f;1=f").
+
+Tasks that are under the control of group "p0" may only allocate from the
+"lower" 50% on cache ID 0, and the "upper" 50% of cache ID 1.
+Tasks in group "p1" use the "lower" 50% of cache on both sockets.
+
+Create monitor groups and assign a subset of tasks to each monitor group.
+
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_groups
+# mkdir m11 m12
+# echo 5678 > m11/tasks
+# echo 5679 > m12/tasks
+
+fetch data (data shown in bytes)
+
+# cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
+16234000
+# cat m11/mon_data/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
+14789000
+# cat m12/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
+16789000
+
+The parent ctrl_mon group shows the aggregated data.
+
+# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_l3_00/llc_occupancy
+31234000
+
+Example 2 (Monitor a task from its creation)
+---------
+On a two socket machine (one L3 cache per socket)
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+# mkdir p0 p1
+
+An RMID is allocated to the group once its created and hence the <cmd>
+below is monitored from its creation.
+
+# echo $$ > /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/tasks
+# <cmd>
+
+Fetch the data
+
+# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_l3_00/llc_occupancy
+31789000
+
+Example 3 (Monitor without CAT support or before creating CAT groups)
+---------
+
+Assume a system like HSW has only CQM and no CAT support. In this case
+the resctrl will still mount but cannot create CTRL_MON directories.
+But user can create different MON groups within the root group thereby
+able to monitor all tasks including kernel threads.
+
+This can also be used to profile jobs cache size footprint before being
+able to allocate them to different allocation groups.
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+# mkdir mon_groups/m01
+# mkdir mon_groups/m02
+
+# echo 3478 > /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/tasks
+# echo 2467 > /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/tasks
+
+Monitor the groups separately and also get per domain data. From the
+below its apparent that the tasks are mostly doing work on
+domain(socket) 0.
+
+# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
+31234000
+# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m01/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
+34555
+# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
+31234000
+# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/mon_groups/m02/mon_L3_01/llc_occupancy
+32789
+
+
+Example 4 (Monitor real time tasks)
+-----------------------------------
+
+A single socket system which has real time tasks running on cores 4-7
+and non real time tasks on other cpus. We want to monitor the cache
+occupancy of the real time threads on these cores.
+
+# mount -t resctrl resctrl /sys/fs/resctrl
+# cd /sys/fs/resctrl
+# mkdir p1
+
+Move the cpus 4-7 over to p1
+# echo f0 > p1/cpus
+
+View the llc occupancy snapshot
+
+# cat /sys/fs/resctrl/p1/mon_data/mon_L3_00/llc_occupancy
+11234000