[PATCH 1/1 v2] ARM: only call smp_send_stop() on SMP

Javier Martinez Canillas javier at dowhile0.org
Sun Jun 24 06:28:10 EDT 2012


On reboot or poweroff (machine_shutdown()) a call to smp_send_stop() is
made (to stop the others CPU's) when CONFIG_SMP=y.

arch/arm/kernel/process.c:

void machine_shutdown(void)
{
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
       smp_send_stop();
 #endif
}

smp_send_stop() calls the function pointer smp_cross_call(), which is set
on the smp_init_cpus() function for OMAP processors.

arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-smp.c:

void __init smp_init_cpus(void)
{
...
	set_smp_cross_call(gic_raise_softirq);
...
}

But the ARM setup_arch() function only calls smp_init_cpus()
if CONFIG_SMP=y && is_smp().

arm/kernel/setup.c:

void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
{
...
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
	if (is_smp())
		smp_init_cpus();
 #endif
...
}

Newer OMAP CPU's are SMP machines so omap2plus_defconfig sets
CONFIG_SMP=y. Unfortunately on an OMAP UP machine is_smp()
returns false and smp_init_cpus() is never called and the
smp_cross_call() function remains NULL.

If the machine is rebooted or powered off, smp_send_stop() will
be called (since CONFIG_SMP=y) leading to the following error:

[   42.815551] Restarting system.
[   42.819030] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[   42.827667] pgd = d7a74000
[   42.830566] [00000000] *pgd=96ce7831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
[   42.837249] Internal error: Oops: 80000007 [#1] SMP ARM
[   42.842773] Modules linked in:
[   42.846008] CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.5.0-rc3-next-20120622-00002-g62e87ba-dirty #44)
[   42.854278] PC is at 0x0
[   42.856994] LR is at smp_send_stop+0x4c/0xe4
[   42.861511] pc : [<00000000>]    lr : [<c00183a4>]    psr: 60000013
[   42.861511] sp : d6c85e70  ip : 00000000  fp : 00000000
[   42.873626] r10: 00000000  r9 : d6c84000  r8 : 00000002
[   42.879150] r7 : c07235a0  r6 : c06dd2d0  r5 : 000f4241  r4 : d6c85e74
[   42.886047] r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000000  r1 : 00000006  r0 : d6c85e74
[   42.892944] Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment user
[   42.900482] Control: 10c5387d  Table: 97a74019  DAC: 00000015
[   42.906555] Process reboot (pid: 1166, stack limit = 0xd6c842f8)
[   42.912902] Stack: (0xd6c85e70 to 0xd6c86000)
[   42.917510] 5e60:                                     c07235a0 00000000 00000000 d6c84000
[   42.926177] 5e80: 01234567 c00143d0 4321fedc c00511bc d6c85ebc 00000168 00000460 00000000
[   42.934814] 5ea0: c1017950 a0000013 c1017900 d8014390 d7ec3858 c0498e48 c1017950 00000000
[   42.943481] 5ec0: d6ddde10 d6c85f78 00000003 00000000 d6ddde10 d6c84000 00000000 00000000
[   42.952117] 5ee0: 00000002 00000000 00000000 c0088c88 00000002 00000000 00000000 c00f4b90
[   42.960784] 5f00: 00000000 d6c85ebc d8014390 d7e311c8 60000013 00000103 00000002 d6c84000
[   42.969421] 5f20: c00f3274 d6e00a00 00000001 60000013 d6c84000 00000000 00000000 c00895d4
[   42.978057] 5f40: 00000002 d8007c80 d781f000 c00f6150 d8010cc0 c00f3274 d781f000 d6c84000
[   42.986694] 5f60: c0013020 d6e00a00 00000001 20000010 0001257c ef000000 00000000 c00895d4
[   42.995361] 5f80: 00000002 00000001 00000003 00000000 00000001 00000003 00000000 00000058
[   43.003997] 5fa0: c00130c8 c0012f00 00000001 00000003 fee1dead 28121969 01234567 00000002
[   43.012634] 5fc0: 00000001 00000003 00000000 00000058 00012584 0001257c 00000001 00000000
[   43.021270] 5fe0: 000124bc bec5cc6c 00008f9c 4a2f7c40 20000010 fee1dead 00000000 00000000
[   43.029968] [<c00183a4>] (smp_send_stop+0x4c/0xe4) from [<c00143d0>] (machine_restart+0xc/0x4c)
[   43.039154] [<c00143d0>] (machine_restart+0xc/0x4c) from [<c00511bc>] (sys_reboot+0x144/0x1f0)
[   43.048278] [<c00511bc>] (sys_reboot+0x144/0x1f0) from [<c0012f00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c)
[   43.057464] Code: bad PC value
[   43.060760] ---[ end trace c3988d1dd0b8f0fb ]---

Add a check so smp_cross_call() is only called when there is more than one CPU on-line.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier at dowhile0.org>
---

Changes since v1:

- check for cpumask_empty() on arch/arm/kernel/smp.c instead for
  is_smp() on arch/arm/kernel/process.c

 arch/arm/kernel/smp.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
index 2c7217d..ea73045 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c
@@ -563,7 +563,8 @@ void smp_send_stop(void)
 
 	cpumask_copy(&mask, cpu_online_mask);
 	cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &mask);
-	smp_cross_call(&mask, IPI_CPU_STOP);
+	if (!cpumask_empty(&mask))
+		smp_cross_call(&mask, IPI_CPU_STOP);
 
 	/* Wait up to one second for other CPUs to stop */
 	timeout = USEC_PER_SEC;
-- 
1.7.7.6




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