Add paravirt file in /sys/devices/system/cpu.
This offers
- User can quickly check which CPUs are marked as paravirt.
- Userspace algorithm such as sched_ext or with isolcpus could
use the mask and make decision.
- daemon such as irqbalance could use this mask and don't spread
irq's into paravirt CPUs.
For example:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/paravirt
600-719 <<< arch marked these are paravirt.
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/paravirt
<<< No paravirt CPUs at the moment.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 9 +++++++++
drivers/base/cpu.c | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index ab8cd337f43a..6701e97d3f8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -776,3 +776,12 @@ Date: Nov 2022
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description:
(RO) the list of CPUs that can be brought online.
+
+What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/paravirt
+Date: Sep 2025
+Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+ (RO) the list of CPUs that are current marked as paravirt CPUs.
+ These CPUs are not meant to be used at the moment due to
+ contention of underlying physical CPU resource. Dynamically
+ changes to reflect the current situation.
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index efc575a00edd..902747ff4988 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -374,6 +374,15 @@ static int cpu_uevent(const struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
}
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+static ssize_t print_paravirt_cpus(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(cpu_paravirt_mask));
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR(paravirt, 0444, print_paravirt_cpus, NULL);
+#endif
+
const struct bus_type cpu_subsys = {
.name = "cpu",
.dev_name = "cpu",
@@ -513,6 +522,9 @@ static struct attribute *cpu_root_attrs[] = {
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
&dev_attr_modalias.attr,
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+ &dev_attr_paravirt.attr,
#endif
NULL
};
--
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