[PATCH] ARM: Update SMP_ON_UP code to detect A9MPCore with 1 CPU devices
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Aug 2 05:53:50 EDT 2013
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:17:13PM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> From: Vaibhav Bedia <vaibhav.bedia at ti.com>
>
> The generic code is well equipped to differentiate between
> SMP and UP configurations.However, there are some devices which
> use Cortex-A9 MP core IP with 1 CPU as configuration. To let
> these SOCs to co-exist in a CONFIG_SMP=y build by leveraging
> the SMP_ON_UP support, we need to additionally check the
> number the cores in Cortex-A9 MPCore configuration. Without
> such a check in place, the startup code tries to execute
> ALT_SMP() set of instructions which lead to CPU faults.
>
> The issue was spotted on TI's Aegis device and this patch
> makes now the device work with omap2plus_defconfig which
> enables SMP by default. The change is kept limited to only
> Cortex-A9 MPCore detection code.
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
>
> Acked-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Bedia <vaibhav.bedia at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/kernel/head.S | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> index 9cf6063..4924b11 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S
> @@ -486,7 +486,23 @@ __fixup_smp:
> mrc p15, 0, r0, c0, c0, 5 @ read MPIDR
> and r0, r0, #0xc0000000 @ multiprocessing extensions and
> teq r0, #0x80000000 @ not part of a uniprocessor system?
> - moveq pc, lr @ yes, assume SMP
> + bne __fixup_smp_on_up @ no, assume UP
> +
> + @ Core indicates it is SMP. Check for Aegis SOC where a single
> + @ Cortex-A9 CPU is present but SMP operations fault.
> + mov r4, #0x41000000
> + orr r4, r4, #0x0000c000
> + orr r4, r4, #0x00000090
> + teq r3, r4 @ Check for ARM Cortex-A9
> + movne pc, lr @ Not ARM Cortex-A9,
> +
> + mrc p15, 4, r0, c15, c0 @ get SCU base address
> + teq r0, #0x0 @ '0' on actual UP A9 hardware
> + beq __fixup_smp_on_up @ So its an A9 UP
What if somebody builds an MP A9 with the private peripheral base address at
0x0?
Will
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