[PATCHv8 2/5] powerpc/setup: Loosen the mapping between cpu logical id and its seq in dt

Pingfan Liu piliu at redhat.com
Tue Oct 10 20:11:02 PDT 2023


On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 04:07:00PM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/10/23 5:00 pm, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> > *** Idea ***
> > For kexec -p, the boot cpu can be not the cpu0, this causes the problem
> > of allocating memory for paca_ptrs[]. However, in theory, there is no
> > requirement to assign cpu's logical id as its present sequence in the
> > device tree. But there is something like cpu_first_thread_sibling(),
> > which makes assumption on the mapping inside a core. Hence partially
> > loosening the mapping, i.e. unbind the mapping of core while keep the
> > mapping inside a core.
> > 
> > *** Implement ***
> > At this early stage, there are plenty of memory to utilize. Hence, this
> > patch allocates interim memory to link the cpu info on a list, then
> > reorder cpus by changing the list head. As a result, there is a rotate
> > shift between the sequence number in dt and the cpu logical number.
> > 
> > *** Result ***
> > After this patch, a boot-cpu's logical id will always be mapped into the
> > range [0,threads_per_core).
> > 
> > Besides this, at this phase, all threads in the boot core are forced to
> > be onlined. This restriction will be lifted in a later patch with
> > extra effort.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <piliu at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> > Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> > Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Wen Xiong <wenxiong at us.ibm.com>
> > Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
> > Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei at redhat.com>
> > Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
> > To: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> > ---
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c         | 25 +++++----
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >   2 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > index ec82f5bda908..87272a2d8c10 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
> > @@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ u64 ppc64_rma_size;
> >   unsigned int boot_cpu_node_count __ro_after_init;
> >   #endif
> >   static phys_addr_t first_memblock_size;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >   static int __initdata boot_cpu_count;
> > +#endif
> >   static int __init early_parse_mem(char *p)
> >   {
> > @@ -331,8 +333,7 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
> >   	const __be32 *intserv;
> >   	int i, nthreads;
> >   	int len;
> > -	int found = -1;
> > -	int found_thread = 0;
> > +	bool found = false;
> >   	/* We are scanning "cpu" nodes only */
> >   	if (type == NULL || strcmp(type, "cpu") != 0)
> > @@ -355,8 +356,15 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
> >   	for (i = 0; i < nthreads; i++) {
> >   		if (be32_to_cpu(intserv[i]) ==
> >   			fdt_boot_cpuid_phys(initial_boot_params)) {
> > -			found = boot_cpu_count;
> > -			found_thread = i;
> > +			/*
> > +			 * always map the boot-cpu logical id into the
> > +			 * range of [0, thread_per_core)
> > +			 */
> > +			boot_cpuid = i;
> > +			found = true;
> > +			/* This works around the hole in paca_ptrs[]. */
> > +			if (nr_cpu_ids < nthreads)
> > +				set_nr_cpu_ids(nthreads);
> >   		}
> >   #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >   		/* logical cpu id is always 0 on UP kernels */
> > @@ -365,14 +373,13 @@ static int __init early_init_dt_scan_cpus(unsigned long node,
> >   	}
> >   	/* Not the boot CPU */
> > -	if (found < 0)
> > +	if (!found)
> >   		return 0;
> > -	DBG("boot cpu: logical %d physical %d\n", found,
> > -	    be32_to_cpu(intserv[found_thread]));
> > -	boot_cpuid = found;
> > +	DBG("boot cpu: logical %d physical %d\n", boot_cpuid,
> > +	    be32_to_cpu(intserv[boot_cpuid]));
> > -	boot_cpu_hwid = be32_to_cpu(intserv[found_thread]);
> > +	boot_cpu_hwid = be32_to_cpu(intserv[boot_cpuid]);
> >   	/*
> >   	 * PAPR defines "logical" PVR values for cpus that
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
> > index 1b19a9815672..81291e13dec0 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
> > @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
> >   #include <linux/of_platform.h>
> >   #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
> >   #include <linux/pgtable.h>
> > +#include <linux/list.h>
> >   #include <asm/io.h>
> >   #include <asm/paca.h>
> >   #include <asm/processor.h>
> > @@ -425,6 +426,13 @@ static void __init cpu_init_thread_core_maps(int tpc)
> >   u32 *cpu_to_phys_id = NULL;
> > +struct interrupt_server_node {
> > +	struct list_head node;
> > +	bool	avail;
> > +	int	len;
> > +	__be32 *intserv;
> > +};
> > +
> >   /**
> >    * setup_cpu_maps - initialize the following cpu maps:
> >    *                  cpu_possible_mask
> > @@ -446,11 +454,16 @@ u32 *cpu_to_phys_id = NULL;
> >   void __init smp_setup_cpu_maps(void)
> >   {
> >   	struct device_node *dn;
> > -	int cpu = 0;
> > -	int nthreads = 1;
> > +	int shift = 0, cpu = 0;
> > +	int j, nthreads = 1;
> > +	int len;
> > +	struct interrupt_server_node *intserv_node, *n;
> > +	struct list_head *bt_node, head;
> > +	bool avail, found_boot_cpu = false;
> >   	DBG("smp_setup_cpu_maps()\n");
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head);
> >   	cpu_to_phys_id = memblock_alloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(u32),
> >   					__alignof__(u32));
> >   	if (!cpu_to_phys_id)
> > @@ -460,7 +473,6 @@ void __init smp_setup_cpu_maps(void)
> >   	for_each_node_by_type(dn, "cpu") {
> >   		const __be32 *intserv;
> >   		__be32 cpu_be;
> > -		int j, len;
> >   		DBG("  * %pOF...\n", dn);
> > @@ -480,29 +492,68 @@ void __init smp_setup_cpu_maps(void)
> >   			}
> >   		}
> > -		nthreads = len / sizeof(int);
> > +		avail = of_device_is_available(dn);
> > +		if (!avail)
> > +			avail = !of_property_match_string(dn,
> > +					"enable-method", "spin-table");
> > -		for (j = 0; j < nthreads && cpu < nr_cpu_ids; j++) {
> > -			bool avail;
> > -			DBG("    thread %d -> cpu %d (hard id %d)\n",
> > -			    j, cpu, be32_to_cpu(intserv[j]));
> > -
> > -			avail = of_device_is_available(dn);
> > -			if (!avail)
> > -				avail = !of_property_match_string(dn,
> > -						"enable-method", "spin-table");
> > +		intserv_node = memblock_alloc(sizeof(struct interrupt_server_node) + len,
> > +					__alignof__(u32));
> > +		if (!intserv_node)
> > +			panic("%s: Failed to allocate %zu bytes align=0x%zx\n",
> > +				__func__,
> > +				sizeof(struct interrupt_server_node) + len,
> > +				__alignof__(u32));
> 
> > +		intserv_node->intserv = (__be32 *)((char *)intserv_node +
> > +						sizeof(struct interrupt_server_node));
> 
> This initialization won't be needed if the member was:
> 
> 	__be32 intserv[];
> 

Thank you, I will use your suggestion.

> > +		intserv_node->len = len;
> > +		memcpy(intserv_node->intserv, intserv, len);
> > +		intserv_node->avail = avail;
> 
> > +		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&intserv_node->node);
> > +		list_add_tail(&intserv_node->node, &head);
> 
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&intserv_node->node); is not needed as list_add_tail()
> initializes both next & prev anyway.
> 

You are right. I will remove the unnecessary initialization in the next
version.


Thanks,

Pingfan




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